One of the great things about my job is that I get to visit with customers and see how they solve problems. People are so creative! When faced with difficult challenges, tight […]
Liz Goldsmith
Storage Fabric Options with NVMe
The SCSI protocol has been the bedrock foundation of all storage for more than three decades and it has served (and will continue to serve) customers admirably. SCSI protocol stacks are ubiquitous […]
A Look at Fibre Channel’s Legacy – And Future
Fibre Channel was not the first storage protocol solution but it did change the nature of how Data Centers worked. It could be argued that Fibre Channel was the first widely-adopted open […]
Corning’s multiuse platform supports mix of fiber-optic network architectures
Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) has launched its multiuse platform, billed as the industry’s first solution to offer a combination of multifiber and single-fiber connection points, making it easier for carriers, operators, and […]
PoE-related amendments proposed to the 2017 NEC
The TIAs—tentative interim amendments—aim to ease the Code’s usability related to Power over Ethernet. Read the source article at cablinginstall.com
Cloud services demand edge computing
Over the last 10 years, the internet has crept into nearly every aspect of our lives, both inside and outside the office. Not so long ago, businesses and consumers were delighted by […]
The Connected Car IoT/Big Data Opportunity for Automakers
The exponential growth of in-vehicle connected devices is a driving force behind automakers’ interest in collecting, storing, distributing and analyzing the volumes of diverse data sets being collect… Tweeted by @Equinix https://twitter.com/Equinix/status/891426879600832512 […]
Why The Modern Data Center Is the Foundation of Your Entire Operation
Data center construction across the United States is expected to grow about 21% between now and the end of 2018 – data centers are massive sources of disruption in the best possible way, changing […]
Schneider Buys Vertiv’s Transfer Switch Business for $1.25B | Data Center Knowledge
Schneider Electric has agreed to acquire ASCO, the automatic transfer switch business of Vertiv, formerly Emerson Network Power. Vertiv said in a statement that the $1.25 billion deal will allow the … […]
400-Gbps switch ports to ramp strongly by 2019: Analyst
Dell’Oro Group predicts in its recently released ‘Ethernet Switch & Data Center Five Year Forecast Report’ that 400-Gbps switch ports will begin to ramp strongly in 2019. Meanwhile, more than half of […]