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July, 2008

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July 28, 2008  5:27 PM

IBM BladeCenter servers now shipping in ICE Cube



Posted by: Bridget Botelho
Blade servers, Capacity Planning, Container Data Center, IBM, IBM BladeCenter, x86 server

Rackable Systems, Inc. entered into an agreement with IBM to offer IBM’s BladeCenter servers inside its ICE Cube modular data...

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July 25, 2008  10:41 PM

Open source gaining ground in the enterprise



Posted by: Leah Rosin
Operating systems

The open source community gathered this week in Portland, Or., at the 10th annual O'Reilly OSCON. The conference was host to a variety of scintillating speakers that were perfect for the admittedly


July 25, 2008  2:20 PM

Zimory testing data center resource trading marketplace



Posted by: Bridget Botelho
Capacity Planning, cloud computing, DataCenter, IT Asset management, Networking, virtual machines, x86 server

Zimory, a spin-off of Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, the research and development unit of Deutsche Telekom AG in Berlin, Germany, is testing a...


July 24, 2008  9:09 PM

Symantec data center guru talks about riding herd on IT assets and the challenge of chargeback



Posted by: Matt Stansberry
Capacity Planning, DataCenter, IT Asset management

I recently spoke with Kenneth Gonzalez, leader of Symantec’s Data Center Transformation Services team about how data center managers can get rogue business units to give up their crappy old servers and how to make data center costs explicit to internal end users. This is an excerpt of that...


July 24, 2008  7:18 PM

Add PCI Express I/O connectivity without adding PCI Express



Posted by: Bridget Botelho
DataCenter, Dell, ExpressConnect, FlexAddress, HP, HP Virtual Connect, I/O virtualization, network virtualization, PCI Express, server virtualization

Recently, Tucson, Ariz.-based NextIO announced its ExpressConnect I/O virtualization product, which adds additional PCI Express (PCIe) I/O connectivity to any server in a data center. “PCI Express is cost-effective, has a lot of bandwidth...


July 22, 2008  8:17 PM

Supercomputers rank high on energy efficiency list



Posted by: Bridget Botelho
Green computing, Green500, IBM Roadrunner, Supercomputing, TOP500

The third edition of the Green500 List includes more supercomputers than ever, showing that high performance can be achieved with power efficiency in mind.The first sustained


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