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...
October 15, 2008 6:53 PM
Posted by: Bridget Botelho
blade server,
Blade servers,
CIO,
cloud computing,
data center efficiency,
DataCenter,
Facebook,
Gartner,
Green computing,
IT Asset management,
Virtualization,
x86 serverGartner, Inc. analysts highlighted the top 10 technologies and trends that will be strategic for most organizations in 2009 during the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, being held in Orlando through...
August 12, 2008 2:40 PM
Posted by: Leah Rosin
data center efficiency,
Green computing,
server virtualizationAn article by Steve Denegri over at Serial Storage Wire, The Data Center’s Green Direction is a Dead End, asks some interesting questions about the “green” movement in IT, and has caused
August 8, 2008 3:16 PM
Posted by: Bridget Botelho
DataCenter,
Green computing,
Linux,
LinuxWorld,
open source,
Operating systems,
VirtualizationIDG World Expo, which organized the LinuxWorld and Next Generation Data Center Conference & Expo (NGDC) Aug. 4-7, 2008, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, announced the "successful...
July 22, 2008 8:17 PM
Posted by: Bridget Botelho
Green computing,
Green500,
IBM Roadrunner,
Supercomputing,
TOP500The 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
