Dell’s attempt to establish itself as a go-to supplier of cloud storage infrastructure is hanging in the balance this morning as the market waits to see if it will continue to bid against HP for control of 3PAR. Dell must decide today if it will counter HP’s latest bid $30 per share offer for 3PAR, but financial analysts expect it to back down in the face of HP’s deeper financial resources. Continue Reading

As the UK’s premier IT infrastructure technology conference and exhibition IP EXPO has always been the ‘go to’ event for state-of-the-art virtualization technology. This year’s show will be no exception, not least because IP EXPO 2010 is set to be the first UK event to showcase VMware’s latest infrastructure technology – a network hypervisor. Continue Reading

As other parts of the IT industry begin to see the light at the end of the recent recessionary tunnel, server vendors in general and Oracle in particular should brace themselves for more pain, according to new data from TheInfoPro.

The new study, based on data gathered from 252 Fortune 1000 company executives, finds that 38% companies plan to reduce the server budgets this year, whilst only 25% plan to increase them. Continue Reading

Dell’s credentials as a potential single-source of data centre infrastructure were boosted earlier this month when the PC maker announced its pending acquisition of Scalent Systems.

Scalent’s V/OE (virtual operating environment) is a set of standards-based interfaces for automating and remotely managing the provisioning and reconfiguring of data centre resources from a single web-based console. Continue Reading

The presentation from Richard Scannell – Senior Vice President of Glasshouse Technologies at IP Expo 2009 was one of the best attended and subsequently most viewed presentations covering data centers at the event. You can view this ondemand here Richards comments still resonate and hold true one year on.

The evolution of the data centre can be simplified into a small number of major computing shifts – the invention of the mainframe and therefore the data centre, the client server revolution, the adoption of the internet and most recently, Virtual insanity… Continue Reading