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SandForce announces new 500MBps controller for solid-state drive

SandForce, one of the leading makers of controller chips for solid-state drives (SSD) has announced a new generation of controllers that offer double the performance of legacy models. It also sports

Wave of change for Carnival Cruise Lines' SAN

Carnival Cruise Lines recently finished switching out its storage area networks from a Fibre Channel-based system to an Ethernet-based storage architecture using a virtualized server infrastructure.

CIOs no longer a 'jack of all trades'

In the past, CIO had to be tech wizards to keep their jobs. That was then: It is now very different. In an article in the Journal of New England Technology, experts say that CIOs also have to know

Are you ready for change?

As a CIO, you have to keep up with change, so keep looking ahead and patch problems as they arise. There are always new projects and multiple demands for integration but there is a way to deal with

Circuit City's IT odyssey

Circuit City CIO Bill McCorey detailed how he decided to outsource his IT operations to IBM in an effort to cut costs and to allow internal staff to focus on better supporting workers in the

Bringing high-performance computing in-house

Companies of all sizes can now take advantage of high-performance computing (HPC), thanks to the affordable computing power of clustered standards-based Linux and Microsoft servers running

The value of a wisdom network

Wisdom is a term that typically brings connotations of years of experience, old age and grandfatherly advice to mind. But as one IT executive defines it, wisdom is a "differentiating and