January 20, 2009 6:24 AM
Posted by: Matt Stansberry
CMDB,
Data Center,
Facebook,
Managed Objects,
myCMDB,
Novell,
Systems ManagementThe value of a configuration management database (CMDB) is proportionally dependent on the level of involvement from the IT staff using the tool. Two of the biggest challenges of a successful CMDB...
December 3, 2008 5:42 PM
Posted by: Bridget Botelho
blade server,
Blade servers,
data center efficiency,
data center services,
DataCenter,
HP,
IBM,
Sun Microsystems,
virtual machines,
Virtualization,
x86 serverWith the U.S. economy in a recession, world economies suffering and virtualization adoption on the rise, it comes as no surprise that factory revenue in the x86 worldwide...
November 25, 2008 1:50 PM
Posted by: Bridget Botelho
data erasure,
DataCenter,
DataManagement,
hard drive wiping,
IT Asset management,
Sun Microsystems,
x86 serverLast week I chatted with Michelle Dennedy, Chief Privacy Officer for Sun Microsystems Inc., about a new data erasure service the company is offering as part of Sun's recently
November 14, 2008 9:30 PM
Posted by: Bridget Botelho
Blade servers,
Capacity Planning,
data center consolidation,
data center efficiency,
DataCenter,
Green computing,
HP,
HP ProLiant,
IBM BladeCenter,
LEED,
server power consumption,
server virtualization,
virtual machinesA few Hewlett Packard (HP) executives visited with me yesterday to discuss their Green data center mission - and surprisingly, they admit that it doesn't always mean using HP hardware.
They started off our meeting with a discussion about new...
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 29, 2008 9:02 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
DataCenter,
EPA Energy Star,
Green computing,
Uptime InstituteThe EPA's plan to slap Energy Star stickers on servers could slow down Moore's Law, at least temporarily.
I'm talking here about the economic portion of Moore's Law rather than the technological portion. Chips will...
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...
