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- Green IT tips for small businesses: Analysys moves data center offsite for big power savings
- Many of us who write about green technology issues often get dinged for focusing just on case studies that involve BIG companies. So, here's some information about a much more modestly sized company in Baltimore that was able to get greener AND save a bunch of money on its power...
- Tags: Analysys, Data Center, Green IT, Small Business, Data Centers, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-07-03
- DataCore Advanced Site Recovery
- It's been quite a while since I last spoke with the folks from DataCore. I believe that the last post on this company was back in August 2008 (see Datacore - nothing but storage.) Last time the discussion focused on the need organizations should recognize to pair virtual storage solutions...
- Tags: Data Center, Recovery, Approach, DataCore, Data Centers, Storage, Disaster Recovery, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- Should you really buy new gear or look for almost new?
- A few months back, I mused about how long the average company should keep their technology infrastructure around and about whether or not they really need new equipment for certain applications. Needless to say, I heard from several organizations that make their living on the hope that businesses will at...
- Tags: Sales Strategy, Data Centers, Sales, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-07-01
- Microsoft to turn on Chicago, Dublin datacenters in July
- Microsoft has been building out its datacenter network for the past few years. In July, the company plans to bring its Chicago and Dublin, Ireland, datacenters online. According to a June 29 post to the ms datacenters blog, the Chicago facility will go live on July 20 and Dublin on...
- Tags: Data Center, Microsoft Corp., Chicago, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-06-29
- Are economic conditions changing how you manage server turnover?
- Guest post: TechRepublic's Scott Lowe, Chief Information Officer for Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, examines some of the reasons server sales have dropped and handicaps the recession's impact. For more posts like this see TechRepublic's data center blog. Between cloud computing, virtualization and economic...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Data Center, Virtualization, Sales, Server Sale, Data Centers, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-29
- AMD: Creating the building blocks for cloud computing
- I met with Margaret Lewis, she is director of commercial solutions and software at Advanced Micro Devices. She spends a lot of time talking with data center managers about their needs and the transition to cloud computing. Here are some notes from our conversation: ...
- Tags: Software, Processor, Cloud Computing, Data Center, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Netbook, Data Centers, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- News to know: Vizio; Apple-Psystar; Buffett; Facebook status; Palm Pre; AT&T
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sean Portnoy: Vizio spills the beans on its Internet TV plans Sam Diaz: Court allows Apple-Psystar case to resume...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Facebook, Hewlett-Packard Co., Palm Inc., AT&T Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Data Centers, Software As A Service (SaaS), Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Emerging Technologies, Security, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- 10 data center paradoxes -- widening area networks; iPhone inspiration (2)
- Last week, I published the first five megatrends reshaping today's data centers, pulled from my latest article in Database Trends & Applications. Here the remaining five of the top 10 shifts, or paradoxes that are turning data centers upside down, rightside up, and many other directions: ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Data Center, Network, Information Technology, Data Center Planner, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Juniper, NYSE Euronext partner on efficient data center design
- Juniper Networks and NYSE Euronext are teaming up on an effort to consolidate and enhance the data center networks that power billions of transactions every day. Statement NYSE Euronext's two new data centers will be a key part of the work being done to consolidate the number...
- Tags: NYSE Euronext, Data Center, Juniper Networks Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- IBM releases upgrade to Tivoli software
- IBM today announced the release of a new verison of its Tivoli Identity Manager, which includes upgrades that allows the company to "administer, secure, monitor and certify user identities and their access to applications, information and systems." Basically, this is about access and being able to manage...
- Tags: Software, Tivoli Software, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Regulations, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Government, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-06-23
- RNA Networks launches RNAcache
- RNA Networks is launching RNAcache, a product that lives along the border of processing virtualization, network virtualization and storage virtualization by offering the capability to use server memory on many systems as a shared network resource. RNA Networks is one a number of suppliers that are melding high performance computing,...
- Tags: RNA, Data Center, Virtualization, RNA Networks, RNACACHE RNA Network, Biotechnology, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-06-23
- Virtual SMB Centre in a Box?
- What types of organizations have the most efficient IT operations? Data centers that provide highly available and resilient services with a minimum of human intervention and management? IT shops that can deploy new applications quickly and scale existing workloads to handle unpredictable demand spikes? And, just as importantly,...
- Tags: Information Technology, SAP AG, Small And Medium Business, Data Centers, Smb/Sme, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2009-06-23
- Virtual SMB Centre in a Box?
- What types of organizations have the most efficient IT operations? Data centers that provide highly available and resilient services with a minimum of human intervention and management? IT shops that can deploy new applications quickly and scale existing workloads to handle unpredictable demand spikes? And, just as importantly,...
- Tags: Information Technology, Small And Medium Business, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Smb/Sme, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2009-06-22
- Automated Energy Efficiency for the Intelligent Business
- Efficiency is emerging as a major tool to extend the life of existing data centers and ensure that new data centers will deliver the highest ROI. This whitepaper looks at how The Intel Xeon processor 5500 series with Intel Microarchitecture Nehalem empowers IT to maximize the business value of servers...
- Tags: Energy Efficiency, Data Center, Intel Xeon, Intel Corp., Data Centers, Roi/Tco, Storage, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Data Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Semiconductors, Components
- White papers 2009-06-22
- EDS's David Gee on the spectrum of cloud and outsourcing options unfolding before IT architects
- Is EDS, in fact, a cloud provider? And how will IT departments properly factor their decisions on what to keep on-premises in data centers versus placing assets and workloads on someone else's cloud infrastructure? by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Information Technology, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Spectrum, Managed Hosting, Outsourcing, Data Centers, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-06-19
- News to know: Morro reviewed; RIM; Intel; Windows 7
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: How good is Microsoft's free antivirus software? Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Security Essentials: What wannabe testers need...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Research In Motion Ltd., Microsoft Windows 7, Andrew Nusca, Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Storage, Cloud Computing, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-19
- 10 data center paradoxes -- out of complexity comes simplicity
- For every action there is an equally potent reaction, and that is certainly the case in IT developments we've been seeing as of late. Call them paradoxes if you will, and I just published some of them in an article for Database Trends & Applications on the...
- Tags: Data Center, Paradox, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- Some like it cool: HP/EDS fellow shares data center best practices
- I spoke last week with Ed Kettler, a fellow for Hewlett-Packard who comes to the company via HP's acquisition of systems integrator EDS. Kettler has been involved with two major data center overhauls that EDS undertook before it became part of HP, including the retrofit of a facility in Wynyard,...
- Tags: Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Best Practice, Kettler, Tulsa, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- News to know: iPhone OS 3.0; Text messaging; Social search; Morro; Palm
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Former Softie to take real-time social-search startup public Matthew Miller: iPhone OS 3.0 update fails connecting...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Social Search, Palm Inc., Text Messaging, Corporate Communications, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Data Centers, Branding, Marketing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- Putting a cloud into a box (container) the HP way
- At the HP Technology Forum in Las Vegas I got to a chance to tour a HP POD Performance Optimized Datacenter. A more suitable acronym would be "Portable Optimized Datacenter" because it is in a specially reinforced and equipped standard sized container and delivered on...
- Tags: Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
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