It’s no secret that Cisco Systems sees data center management in it’s future, beyond simply being a hub-router-switch vendor. Cisco’s strategy for the past few years has to promote the idea of moving intelligence off the server and out onto the network. For example, Cisco has been promoting its Service Oriented Network Architecture (that’s SONA, [...]

Last May, I posted details on a novel approach to data center flexibility — offering data centers-in-a-box, in the form of fully loaded and equipped portable trailers that could be pulled right up into corporate parking lots and plugged in. IBM, Sun, and even Microsoft were talking up such mobile approaches. Kind of a neat [...]

Brian Cinque, data center architect for Sun Microsystems, intends to put himself out of a job. By 2013, he said in a recent blog post, Sun intends to consolidate 50 percent of its data center footprint, and end up with no data centers within the two years that follow. Along with SaaS, Sun will employ [...]