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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
- Tags: Data Center, Microsoft Windows Live, Server, Microsoft Corp., Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, 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....
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Data Center, Green IT, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- 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...
- Tags: Data Center, Blog, Data Centers, Blogging, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Internet, Heather Clancy
- 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...
- Tags: Data Center, Verari Systems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- 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...
- Tags: Cassatt Corp., Data Center, Cassatt Active Profiling Service, Cassatt Active Response, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- IBM Acquires Transitive
- Last week, I received a notice from IBM's PR company that IBM was going to acquire Transitive, that clever supplier of operating system and hardware virtualization technology. It's clearly a move to strengthen IBM's claim on being the premier supplier of systems for the next generation datacenter. ...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Generation Datacenter, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- Nielsen Mobile, an Altor Networks Customer
- I recently had the opportunity to speak with Nick Portolese, Senior Manager of Data Center Operations for Nielsen Mobile, an Altor Networks customer. He spent a few moments sharing his experiences with their software. Nick's comments follow. Please tell me who you are and what...
- Tags: Network, Environment, Network Security, Server, Virtual Machine, Tool, VMWare ESX, Nielsen Mobile, Altor Networks, Nielsen, Productivity, Data Centers, Ip storage, Networking, Security, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- 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...
- Tags: Team, Data Center, Green Technology, Wells Fargo & Co., Data Centers, Server Virtualization, Virtualization, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Servers, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Amazon CTO: Cloud infrastructure keeps companies focused on innovation
- On the night of the historic U.S. presidential election, news outlets across the country streamed live video of the news coverage on their Web sites. Obviously, the Web traffic that night, compared to others, was exponentially greater. But it's not as if news organizations went out and spent boatloads of...
- Tags: Innovation, Amazon.com Inc., Infrastructure, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- 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...
- Tags: Data Center, Information Technology, Organization, Energy Consumption, IT Equipment, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Christopher O\'Connor. IBM, Special to ZDNet, Christopher O\'Connor. IBM, Special to ZDNet, data center, green, IBM, costs, Christopher O'Connor
- News items 2008-11-17
- Gallery: AMD demos 'Shanghai'
- AMD held a demonstration of its new quad-core, 45nm Opteron processor, Shanghai, on Wednesday at a datacenter belonging to the second largest ISP in Europe, Strato, in Berlin. by Andy Smith
- Tags: Shanghai, AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Data Centers, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Processors, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Internet, Semiconductors, Components, Andy Smith, AMD, server, Operteron
- Image galleries 2008-11-17
- Conversation with Replicate Technologies
- Rich Miller, CEO, and Oren Teich, VP Product, both of Replicate Technologies spent a while providing an introduction to the company and an explanation of what they're doing. It was great catching up with both of them. Rich was the COO of Univa, a company focused on bringing high performance...
- Tags: Oren, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Storage Analytics meets Tufte
- The most powerfull thing about Sun's new line of storage appliances isn't its price, its capacity, or anything else involving the hardware - it's the general applicability of the command and control software that's really exciting to anyone who's ever had to guess how his data center was performing. by...
- Tags: Storage, Data Centers, Hardware, Data Management, Paul Murphy, Network, Analytics, DTrace
- Blog posts 2008-11-15
- Interview: rPath's Billy Marshall on how enterprises can virtualize applications as precursor to cloud use
- The cloud forces the older notion of "write-once, run anywhere" into a new level of "deploy correctly so you can exploit the benefits of cloud choices and save a lot of money." by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Dana Gardner, Benefits, Human Resources, Application, Hypervisor, Infrastructure, Virtual Machine, rPath, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Data Centers, Hardware, Storage, Data Management
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- The time is now for a Microsoft-Yahoo search deal
- The patience over Microsoft and Yahoo's never-ending deal dance is wearing thin among the chattering class--bloggers, analysts and folks sick of following this dysfunctional courtship--and the consensus is right. The time to do a Microsoft-Yahoo deal is now and it's time to put aside the bad boardroom blood and hook...
- Tags: Yahoo Search, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Squali, Aggarwal, Data Centers, Outsourcing, Search, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- 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...
- Tags: Data Center, F5 Networks Inc., Data Centers, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2008-11-11
- VMware DRS: Why You Still Need Assured Application Delivery
- VMware Infrastructure products provide the next generation virtual platform for the new data center, but they don't virtualize the network or application delivery. F5 BIG-IP LTM works with VMware to provide truly virtualized Application Delivery Networking.
- Tags: F5 Networks Inc., VMware Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- 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.
- Tags: Data Center, F5 Networks Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- 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...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Energy, Strategy, Management, Dana Gardner, Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- 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...
- Tags: Data Center, Server, Resource, Server Virtualization, Data Centers, Virtualization, Storage, Productivity, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
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