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- 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
- Get Up To Speed: LAMP
- All network administrators should know about the LAMP server. LAMP servers can not only save your IT department money, it can add a level of reliability and flexibility that you would never have with a Microsoft server. In this Get Up To Speed, you will be introduced to the LAMP...
- Tags: Servers, Hardware
- Download resources 2008-11-19
- BladeCenter Visual Tour
- "Explore the benefits of the IBM BladeCenter S from the inside out. The perfect mix of performance and energy savings, the IBM BladeCenter S is ideal for the small to mid-sized office and the remote office. It neatly consolidates your storage, servers and networking into a single...
- Tags: IBM eServer BladeCenter, IBM Corp., Blade Servers, Servers, Hardware
- Presentations 2008-11-19
- 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. ...
- Tags: Data Center, IBM eServer BladeCenter, Benefit, IBM Corp., Blade Servers, Servers, Hardware
- Presentations 2008-11-19
- Calculate your energy savings with IBM Power Configurator tool
- Energy costs keep going up, and IT departments must find new ways to save. The IBM Power Configurator tool is designed to show you how IBM System x™ and IBM BladeCenter servers offer high-performance and flexibility businesses need, plus advanced power management that keeps energy costs as low as possible....
- Tags: Tool, IBM Corp., Productivity, Blade Servers, Servers, Hardware
- Tools & templates 2008-11-19
- Addressing virtualization's achilles heel
- The benefits of virtualization are quite obvious but when you start to really increase the density of virtual machines in order to maximize utilization suddenly it ain't such a simple proposition. The latest CPUs from AMD and Intel are more than up to the task of running 10-20 or more...
- Tags: Bandwidth, Virtualization, Network Interface Card, Blade, Achilles Heel, VM, Networking, Servers, Hardware, James Staten
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- How Intel's Nehalem will benefit AMD
- Although enthusiastic benchmark claims for Intel's Nehalem have been available for over a year now, the actual product ihas only recently made it into early production servers featuring the new motherboards and firmware needed to make use of technology AMD has had for years but couldn't get integrated into...
- Tags: Benefit, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Servers, Hardware, Paul Murphy, Motherboard, Nehalem, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture
- The pivotal machine in the emergence of the Wintel culture was probably the IBM PC/AT. It sold in sufficiently large quantities to IBM customers to create its own software markets, and was sufficiently poorly engineered and over priced to ensure that its buyers didn't perceive it as a threat to...
- Tags: Culture, IBM Corp., Mainframes, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy, PC, Board, Graphics, BASIC, PC/AT, Corporate Governance, Desktops, Tools & Techniques, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- AMD's 45nm Shanghai gets official
- AMD officially introduced its first 45nm processors today. Compared to its existing 65nm AMD Opterons, the new quad-core server processors code-named Shanghai, will offer better performance and use less power, and because they use the same socket and have the same thermal requirements, they will be available in more than...
- Tags: AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Processors, Servers, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- AMD unveils 'Shanghai'; Aims to better compete with Intel
- AMD on Thursday will launch its "Shanghai" platform, its latest batch of Opteron server chips. With Shanghai, AMD gets a do-over from its ill-fated Barcelona launch. At a high-level, Shanghai gives a 400 MHz speed gain in the same thermal band as Barcelona. Shanghai also triples the...
- Tags: Barcelona, Shanghai, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Stevens, Performance Management, Semiconductors, Processors, Network Technology, Servers, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Components, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- In tight times, Microsoft launches two new servers
- It's not a great time for a new product launch. But Microsoft officials soldiered on with the company's planned November 12 virtual launch of its newest small and mid-size business servers: Windows Essential Business Server 2008 and Windows Small Business Server 2008. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Server, Microsoft Corp., Small And Medium Business, Smb/Sme, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Windows Small Business Server, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Exchange Server, EBS, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Servers, Hardware
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- Ncomputing the benefits of operating system virtualization
- In a rapid fire presentation, the Ncomputing folks provided a very interesting view into what they've been doing to help organizations take advantage of the unused power in today's desktop systems to support many workloads. As I mentioned in the post Ncomputing: Sharing the power of a single computer, this...
- Tags: Operating System, Benefit, ClearCube Technology, OS Virtualization, Ncomputing, Parallels, Server Consolidation, Blade Servers, Operating Systems, Desktops, Servers, Hardware, Software, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- Obama: good news for Sun
- Obama has promised to shut down new coal and nuclear generation while offering car makers incentives to produce electrically powered vehicles. The resulting supply crunch on power is tailor made to benefit Sun - because,on SWaP, Sun has by far the most energy efficient technologies on the market. by Paul...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Obama, Manufacturing, Sales Force Management, Sales, Paul Murphy, Intel Xeon, Processors, Servers, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- Looking forward to webinar on applications modernization trends and techniques with Nexaweb
- Application modernization is one of those IT initiatives that packs the one-two wallop of cutting costs while improving agility and business outcomes. That combination of doing more for less makes so much sense these days, and it may be the new number one requirement for any IT budget. by Dana...
- Tags: Technique, Information Technology, Webinar, Application Modernization, Productivity, Strategy, Management, Dana Gardner, Nexaweb, Roi/Tco, Mainframes, Programming Languages, Servers, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- The need for a mixed load benchmark
- The right way to do virtualization is almost always just to avoid it - and let the Unix scheduler handle resource allocations among multiple applications and users as service demands change. Unfortunately people who want to do this face an unexpected problem: no good way to size the hardware short...
- Tags: Paul Murphy, Resource Allocation, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, UNIX, Operating Systems, Hardware, Storage, Software, Operating System, Data-processing, Sun Solaris, Servers
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- The IBM-Apple-Papermaster triangle: How far does a non-compete go?
- The courtroom tug-of-war between IBM and Mark Papermaster is getting nasty. Papermaster responded Friday to IBM's attempts to prevent him from taking over the iPod unit at Apple. Papermaster argued that IBM doesn't compete with Apple in consumer electronics. IBM reiterated that Papermaster violated a non-compete agreement. Now a judge...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Agreement, IBM Corp., Papermaster, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- F5 Case Study: BlueLock.com
- Read this study to see how BlueLock launched a unique virtual Cloud Computing platform with VMware Virtualization and F5 BIG-IP LTM to reap benefits like: Seamless traffic delivery during very rapid provisioning of virtual servers Detailed network data for accurate provisioning Highly competitive service offerings...
- Tags: F5 Networks Inc., Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Servers
- Case studies 2008-11-10
- What's next after server virtualization
- Virtualization in the form of the use of virtual machine software isn't the panacea that many seem to believe. While the use of this technology is very helpful if an organization's goal is consolidation to achieve some level of cost reduction, cost avoidance or, on occasion a more agile environment,...
- Tags: Virtual Machine, Organization, Virtual Machine Software, Desktop Virtualization, Data Centers, Server Virtualization, Virtualization, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Servers, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-11-07
- ClicksAndWhistles (zip)
- ClicksAndWhistles is an IRC client for Windows. ClicksAndWhistles supports multiple server connections and identities. Desktop and tabbed windows, connection explorer and connection monitor, themes and color schemes including PNG backgrounds and outline fonts. Support for unicode (UTF-8) and customizable messages is included. Full text formatting support is included (colored/bold/italic/underline). Pop-up...
- Tags: Leigh Johnston, ClicksAndWhistles, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Microsoft Windows, Servers, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-11-07
- Monitor CPU iSeries AS400 (zip)
- Drawing graphs for CPU iSeries AS400. JAVA language with lib open source. JTopen API iSeries QWCRSSTS. Free program for users of iSeries AS400. Available choices of time refresh and log activity in console.
- Tags: Monitor, IBM iSeries, IBM AS/400, SAS Institute, Servers, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-11-07
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