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- Microsoft advances its Win Live Wave 3, Gen4 datacenter rollouts
- Microsoft has begun rolling out the Windows Live Wave 3 services it announced last month. The company also went public today with its "Generation 4 Datacenter" strategy. by Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Dell applies its own data center lessons to new green IT services
- As a business society, we've been pretty much used to thinking of information technology as a disposable asset. Even data centers were built with a 10-year lifespan in mind, which means a lot of the work done and systems deployed around the year 2000 is quickly reaching that maturity point....
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Chill-Off project tests various recipes for real-world data center cooling
- It seems appropriate as I hunker down in my rather chilly office that I pen this post about the ongoing data center "Chill-Off" projects being run by the Association For Computer Operations Management AFCOM in Northern California. The intention of the Chill-Off demonstrations/tests is to monitor the effect of modular...
- Blog posts 2008-11-27
- Verari signs up partner for Forest data center container line
- I've poked around some during the past two months, trying to get a read on whether or not companies are actually buying the data center containers or "pods" that several of the larger high-tech systems vendors have been piloting this year. So far, the biggest evangelist on the customer side...
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- Cassatt helps organizations implement in-house clouds
- A crew of folks from Cassatt presented Active Profiling Service, a new service offering, and Active Response 5.2, a product update for the company's orchestration and automation product. I was very interested in learning more because Cassatt has long been helping organizations discover and then make best use of their...
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- Wells Fargo team shares green tech tips for the data center
- In my quest to uncover practical information about what real data center managers are doing to decrease their energy consumption, for real, I recently spoke with two executives from Wells Fargo's Technology Information Group TIG. Scott Dillon, executive vice president and CTO for Enterprise Hosting...
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Extend the benefits of BladeCenter beyond the data center
- Don't let your servers take over your office. The cost-effective IBM BladeCenter HS12 and JS12 blades enable you to neatly consolidate multiple servers into a single IBM BladeCenter S chassis. And they'll make your IT easier to manage as you grow, at a price that maximizes ROI. ...
- Presentations 2008-11-19
- Greening the data center
- Rising costs of energy - along with limited availability of energy in some areas – are forcing the IT industry to take a new approach in designing and managing data centers, says IBM's Christopher O'Connor. Commentary--Energy efficiency is a significant global issue today, and is expected to be even...
- News items 2008-11-17
- F5 and the 8 Ways to Virtualization
- F5 pioneered the concept of breaking up data center virtualization technologies into eight unique categories within the data center. Any virtualization products or technologies implemented in the data center will fall into one of these eight categories. With this paper, F5 discusses how it has implemented these same technologies within...
- White papers 2008-11-11
- Seven Data Center Challenges to Consider Before Going Virtual
- One of the pillars of the Virtual Data Center is virtual platform infrastructure, or the virtual machine; however virtual platforms are dependent on many other, oft forgotten components of both the physical and virtual data center.
- White papers 2008-11-11
- Solving IT energy conservation issues requires holistic approach to management and planning, say HP experts
- In order to promote a needed close matching of tight energy supply with the lowest IT energy demand possible, the entire IT landscape needs to be considered. That means an enterprise-by-enterprise examination of the "many sins" of energy mis-management. Wasted energy use, it turns out, has its origins all across...
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- What's next after server virtualization? Orchestration
- There are a number of steps an organization could take after successfully executing a server consolidation strategy. One of them is to orchestrate workloads to make maximum use of physical server capacity, reduce power consumption, reduce administrative and operational expenses and create an environment which can assure that each and...
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- Data center management software adds power management functions
- There's a newly spruced-up version of the nlyte management product out from Global Data Center Management GDCM that boasts integration with power management systems and a floor-planning module that includes considerations such as air-conditioning efficiency ratings. Among the features in nlyte 5.0: - Power management features...
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- Blackbox, SWaP, and the z10
- During last week's discussion of IBM's z10 numbers, one contributor claimed that it is both space and power efficient - so I suggested he compare the z10's numbers to those for Sun's project blackbox. Since I doubt he bothered, I've done it for all of us -and the results are...
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- Survey: Still no clear mind-share leader when it comes to green IT
- The team at Hansa|GCR will be happy to know that I FINALLY am blogging about their Green TECHpulse 2008 survey, which set out to assess current and future green tech buying intentions, capturing the opinions of business technology decision makers at 600 organizations that were at least midsize in stature...
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- HP to data center managers: Put a lid on it
- As part of its evolving data center product and services strategy, Hewlett-Packard has introduced a technology called HP Dynamic Power Capping that lets data center managers set provisioning ceilings for how much power a specific server is allowed to use. You can base that cap on how much energy that...
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
- Avoiding the Economic Cliff By Managing the Data Center Floor
- Enterprise Management Associates' Liam McGlynn provides an insightful look at the maturing Intelligent Data Center Management IDCM market and its impact on stretching the useful life of data centers that are reaching their capacity limits for space, cooling and power. Sponsored by Global DataCenter Management GDCM this whitepaper demonstrates...
- White papers 2008-10-30
- Sometimes you feel like a NUT
- By supporting NUT, and assuring customers it can support whatever is in its data centers, OpenGear is now able to work with the top power management vendors, like Eaton. The two announced a partnership to deliver power management with NUT today. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-10-29
- DynamicOps self service management for virtual environments
- A few days ago, I had the opportunity to speak with Rich Bourdeau DynamicOps' VP Marketing, and learn about Virtual Resource Manager VRM and this spin-off from Credit Suisse. DynamicOps is the result of project to allow virtual resources to be easily configured and provisioned based upon the organization's policies...
- Blog posts 2008-10-29
- Microsoft's Azure cloud platform: A guide for the perplexed
- Microsoft's Azure cloud platform: A guide for the perplexedHead in the clouds...So, Microsoft "cloud computing" is another huge boon to IT Departments who want to hire more staff? I wonder if anyone will eventually wake up and realize that IT departments can usually be replaced by a dozen temp...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-27
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