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Network functions virtualization (NFV) is an initiative driven by several dozen large (Communications Service Providers) CSPs that dramatically increases the use of virtualization and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) systems in their networks. Telecom infrastructure has long been a bastion of proprietary software running on purposebuilt hardware. NFV leverages IT technologies – including virtualization, standard servers, and open software – so

Symantec has established the most comprehensive source of Internet threat data in the world through the Symantec™ Global Intelligence Network, which is made up of more than 41.5 million attack sensors and records thousands of events per second. This network monitors threat activity in over 157 countries and territories through a combination of Symantec products

Cisco UCS™ Manager provides unified, embedded management of all software and hardware components of the Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS) across multiple chassis and rack-mount servers and thousands of virtual machines. Cisco UCS Manager manages Cisco UCS as a single entity through an intuitive GUI, a command-line interface (CLI), or an XML API for

In small and midsize organizations, IT staff often wears many hats. This means that the same administrator who provisions the servers for a new environment also has to configure the required networking resources, as well as carve out storage volumes and configure the hypervisor.

To increase operating efficiency and business agility, chief information officers (CIOs) and IT managers are seeking to simplify their data centers and manage them more easily. Cisco UCS® Director automates end-to-end IT processes across virtualization, server, computing, network, and storage resources to help achieve these business goals.

MySQL, the most popular open source database in the world, is frequently used to support Web 2.0 applications and cloud deployments. Scaling MySQL can be a challenge when workload demand starts to strain the database. One option is to scale up by upgrading to a more powerful server, which works well to a certain point

Today’s IT departments are faced with ever increasing demands on their applications as the number of users and underlying databases continue to expand. Application performance has not been able to keep up with this exponential growth. The first thing an IT organization tries to do when performance drops is to add incremental CPU and memory

Increasing the I/O performance of next-generation data centers and cloud computing environments is essential for supporting enterprise e-commerce, database, and email applications. To successfully deploy high-performance storage, it is essential for storage appliance software to be flash-aware and exploit solidstate drives (SSDs) for high random I/O performance and hard disk drives (HDDs) for capacity (cost

Enterprise storage continues to demand higher performance to meet rising workload levels and higher reliability to push down total cost of ownership. At the same time, IT departments remain budget-constrained. Storage tiering provides an efficient approach to meeting these three, occasionally conflicting, goals. While buyers often discuss such factors as media technology (solid state drive

Solid-state drive (SSD) endurance is an important factor in system design. Due to characteristics of flash media, repeated write cycles eventually wear out an SSD. Solid-state drive (SSD) endurance is an important factor in system design. Due to characteristics of flash media, repeated write cycles eventually wear out an SSD. Drive replacement is more frequent