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 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 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 21, 2008 2:28 PM
Posted by: Bridget Botelho
AMD,
C2005 Server,
data center efficiency,
DataCenter,
Intel,
PCI Express,
Rackable Systems,
Virtualization,
x86 serverRackable Systems, Inc. today announced the new C2005 server, designed with more expansion slots and a choice of SAS or SATA II hard drives for greater flexibility and configurability.
The
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...
September 26, 2008 6:41 PM
Posted by: Leah Rosin
cloud computingNicolas Carr appeared on the Colbert Report on Thursday night, promoting his book The Big Switch, and voluntarily subjecting himself to the humiliation-combined-with-publicity that only Stephen Colbert can provide.
For those of you with nothing...
September 25, 2008 1:44 PM
Posted by: Bridget Botelho
Amazon EC2,
cloud computing,
DataCenter,
HP,
IBMIBM has opened four new cloud-computing centers in Sao Paulo, Brazil; Bangalore, India; Seoul, Korea; and Hanoi, Vietnam, where there is increasing demand for Internet-based computing models.
IBM now has 13 cloud-computing centers...
