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Alex Woodie
Alex Woodie has written about IT as a technology journalist for more than a decade. He brings extensive experience from the IBM midrange marketplace, including topics such as servers, ERP applications, programming, databases, security, high availability, storage, business intelligence, cloud, and mobile enablement. He resides in the San Diego area.
Flash Array Aimed At VDI Heals Other Hospital Applications
March 13th, 2014
When the folks at Shannon Medical Center decided to begin a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) project to eliminate traditional PCs, their research showed how critical I/O would be to the success of the project. But when the 400-bed hospital ...
The NoSQL Heart of Telco Messaging
January 15th, 2014
You probably haven't heard of Openwave Messaging. But if you get email, voice mail, or other messaging services from a tier-one telecommunications firm, chances are fairly good that you have used its white-label messaging products at some point. And ...
Amadeus Travel Goes Up Tempo with CouchbaseDB
November 21st, 2013
In the near future, if you search for a flight online, it’s likely that your query will run against Couchbase’s NoSQL database. That’s because Amadeus, the Spanish company that processes many of the world’s flight, hotel, and cruise ship ...
Dell Certifies QLogic Adapters for Converged Network Switch
September 20th, 2013
Dell has given its stamp of approval for a pair of QLogic adapters to be used in its converged S5000 networking switch, which is a key component of Dell’s strategy to enable data center operators to support data (TCP/IP) ...
Datacenters Wasting Cooling Capacity, Report Says
September 20th, 2013
In data centers, heat is an enemy that threatens to fry expensive electronics. However, a recent study suggests that many data centers are wasting a large portion of their cooling capability, which in turn means they are wasting tens ...
Violin Launches New Software as IPO Approaches
September 20th, 2013
Violin Memory, a developer of Flash memory-based storage systems, last week unveiled new software that aims to make it easier for organizations to move their legacy data to a tiered storage environment that utilizes a mix of traditional disk ...
Asetek Scores First Point With Liquid Cooling
September 20th, 2013
Asetek reports that it’s taken the first order for its RackCDU liquid cooling system. The order for five RackCDUs from an undisclosed OEM will be used to cool 280 compute nodes in an HPC cluster, the company reports. RackCDU ...
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