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August 6, 2008  12:21 AM

Next Generation Data Center/LinuxWorld 2008: Reporter’s Notebook



Posted by: Bridget Botelho
Blade servers, cloud computing, Container Data Center, data center consolidation, DataCenter, I/O virtualization, LinuxWorld, network virtualization, server consolidation, server virtualization, virtual machines, Virtualization, Xeon processor

I expected this year's joint LinuxWorld/Next Generation Data Center conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco Aug. 4-7 to be full of technology vendors, high-level technical sessions, product...

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August 5, 2008  3:35 PM

Facebook relying on Intel Xeon processors in Data Center build-out



Posted by: Bridget Botelho
AMD, DataCenter, Facebook, Intel, open source, Xeon processor

The social networking website Facebook is building out its data center infrastructure using

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August 4, 2008  1:14 PM

Next Generation Data Center and LinuxWorld conferences



Posted by: Bridget Botelho
cloud computing, DataCenter, LinuxWorld, Networking, Virtualization

The second annual Next Generation Data Center (NGDC)/ LinuxWorld Conference &Expo takes place Aug. 4-7 at Moscone Center North in San Francisco.

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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  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...

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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...

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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...

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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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