March 18, 2010 4:26 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
AMD Opteron,
Cisco UCS,
Data Center,
INtel Xeon,
magny cours,
nehalem ex,
westmereCisco is apparently going to wait until Intel announces its eight-core Nehalem EX chip before it unveils its newest Xeon server hardware, which will be dubbed the "M2" server line.
Most server vendors - HP, IBM, Dell, Fujitsu - made server announcements this week regarding the six-core
June 4, 2009 4:15 PM
Posted by: Bridget Botelho
Cisco Systems,
Dell,
Gartner Inc,
Hewlett Packard,
HP,
IBM,
server market,
Unified Computing,
x86 serversDoes anyone else think it is a bad idea for Cisco Systems to enter the server market when the industry is experiencing the most significant year-over-year sales decline in history?
Worldwide server revenue declined 24 percent in the first quarter of 2009 and shipments dropped 24.2 percent...
March 20, 2009 3:27 PM
Posted by: Matt Stansberry
Data Center,
Hyperic,
open source,
Solar Winds,
Systems ManagementAccording to IT management blogger John M. Willis, upstart systems management vendors like Zenoss and Hyperic need to tone down their open source rhetoric and take a page from their...
March 17, 2009 5:36 PM
Posted by: Bridget Botelho
blade server,
Cisco Systems,
Cisco UCS,
Cisco Unified Computing System,
Intel Nehalem,
Networking,
Virtualization,
VMwareI tuned in to Cisco's web-based news conference yesterday to hear about their first server platform within the Unified Computing System, and my eyes are still rolling today.
Instead of showing off...
August 26, 2008 5:03 PM
Posted by: Matt Stansberry
DataCenter,
Performance ManagementThere are two ways of measuring application performance from the end user’s perspective: Synthetic transactions and real end user monitoring.
With synthetic transactions, an admin performs typical user functions while on a scripting screen; those actions are captured and run across multiple...
August 20, 2008 6:27 PM
Posted by: Matt Stansberry
DataCenter,
Performance ManagementLast week, while doing some background research for our application performance management tutorial, I got into a discussion with Julie Craig, a...
August 6, 2008 12:21 AM
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 processorI 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...
August 4, 2008 1:14 PM
Posted by: Bridget Botelho
cloud computing,
DataCenter,
LinuxWorld,
Networking,
VirtualizationThe second annual Next Generation Data Center (NGDC)/ LinuxWorld Conference &Expo takes place Aug. 4-7 at Moscone Center North in San Francisco.
