November 6, 2008 9:00 PM
Posted by: Bridget Botelho
BladeLogic,
Capacity Planning,
data center consolidation,
data center efficiency,
Database,
DataCenter,
Green computing,
GridApp,
IT Asset management,
server virtualizationEarlier this week I spoke with Rob Gardos, the CEO of the New York-based IT automation company GridApp Systems, about his paper “Eight Reasons Data Center Managers should thank Wall Street for the Financial Meltdown.”
As a reporter, I am...
October 28, 2008 3:56 PM
Posted by: Bridget Botelho
Capacity Planning,
data center consolidation,
data center efficiency,
DataCenter,
Green computing,
IT Asset management,
server virtualization,
Uptime Institute,
Virtualization,
x86 serverThe overarching theme of the Data Center Decisions conference in Chicago last week was energy; how much data centers use, how much they pay for it, and how much they could be...
September 15, 2008 1:52 PM
Posted by: Bridget Botelho
Capacity Planning,
Data center disaster recovery,
data center efficiency,
DataCenter,
Hyper-V,
IT Asset management,
Microsoft Windows,
server virtualization,
Unisys,
virtual machines,
Virtualization,
VMware,
x86 server,
Xeon processorBlue Bell, Pa.-based Unisys Corp. announced its new ES7000 Model 7600R Enterprise Server using Intel Xeon six-core processors (Dunnington), which Intel also...
July 25, 2008 2:20 PM
Posted by: Bridget Botelho
Capacity Planning,
cloud computing,
DataCenter,
IT Asset management,
Networking,
virtual machines,
x86 serverZimory, 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
Posted by: Matt Stansberry
Capacity Planning,
DataCenter,
IT Asset managementI 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...