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- Datacenter
- The department that houses the computer systems and related equipment, including the data library. Data entry and systems programming may also come under its jurisdiction. A control...
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- Limelight Networks Operations Center
- Limelight Networks Operations Center in Tempe, Arizona supports all the online media streaming for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. by Jason Perlow
- Tags: Jason Perlow, Online Media, olympics, media streaming, internet, datacenter
- Image galleries 2008-08-17
- LinuxWorld: The evolving data center
- At the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, Cisco general manager, Rajiv Ramaswami talks about the history of the data center. He also discusses new technologies driving data center innovation including on-demand provisioning, the deployment of SOA, and Web 2.0 solutions.
- Tags: LinuxWorld, Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Cisco, Datacenter
- Videos 2008-08-05
- Gallery: Saving your data from nuke attack
- Barbed wire, fences, guards, and guard dogs are just the first level of security for an English datacenter that claims to be safe from nuclear, chemical and biological attack. by Andy Smith
- Tags: Attack, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Andy Smith, datacenter, data, security
- Image galleries 2008-05-13
- Podcast: AlwaysOn Summit, virtual worlds, green data centers and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show I am on the Stanford University campus at the AlwaysOn Summit and David is in his headquarters outside of Boston. I give David some of the highlights from the conference, including the state of virtual worlds, social networking, green data centers and...
- Tags: Wired & Wireless, Web Technology, Utility computing, Telecommunications, Software Infrastructure, Social networking, Second Life, SaaS, Hardware Infrastructure, Green Tech, General, Facebook, Datacenter, Dan &, David Show
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
- HP's expanding software portfolio
- Since Mark Hurd took over the reigns of HP on March 29, 2005, the company has been leaning into software, mostly through acquisition. With the last 24 months, HP’s software group has made six acquisitions, totally nearly $7 billion. It's not acquisition at Oracle scale, but it's a big shift...
- Tags: IT Management, Hewlett-Packard, Hardware Infrastructure, General, Datacenter
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
- 365 Main details SF outage problems
- 365 Main on Wednesday detailed what went wrong during the San Francisco power outage last week and detailed what it's doing to make sure its facilities stay running in the future.The power outage on July 24 knocked various sites--including CNET, Craiglist and others--offline and raised questions about business continuity planning.Here's...
- Tags: IT Management, Hardware Infrastructure, General, Disaster Recovery, Datacenter, Business Continuity
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
- Podcast: SF power outage, Apple earnings, mashups and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show we discuss Apple's quarterly earnings (which were released just before we recorded the show--270,000 iPhones sold in the two-day launch before the end of the quarter) and the power outage in San Francisco that took out ZDNet, Craigslist, Technorati, Yelp and other...
- Tags: Web Technology, SaaS, General, Enterprise 2.0, Disaster Recovery, Datacenter, Dan &, David Show, Apple, Business Continuity, Amazon, Microsoft
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- SF power outage reveals disaster recovery plans need tweaking
- When a power outage that affects a mere 30,000 to 50,000 customers knocks out some of the more popular sites on the Web you know disaster recovery plans have some holes. On Tuesday afternoon a host of sites such as Craigslist, Red Envelope, Yelp Technorati and ZDNet had trouble delivering...
- Tags: Business Continuity, Datacenter, Disaster Recovery, General, Hardware Infrastructure, IT Management, Software Infrastructure
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- HP takes out Opsware for $1.6 billion
- Hewlett-Packard beefed up its data center software business with a $1.6 billion acquisition of Opsware. Opsware makes automation software that puts many data center operations on autopilot. HP, looking to become a big player in the area, said it is paying $14.25 a share for Opsware, which closed Friday at...
- Tags: Software Infrastructure, IT Management, Hewlett-Packard, Hardware Infrastructure, General, Datacenter
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- Get ready for GBT--Green Business Technology
- Guest post: Christopher Lochhead, the former chief marketing officer at Mercury, was the driving force behind the concept of BTO Business Technology Optimization, which is about aligning IT investments deeply with business goals. Now Christopher is thinking “green,†looking at what he is called Green Business Technology GBT. In this...
- Tags: Dan Farber, Datacenter, General, Green Business Technology, Green Tech, IT Management, tech industry
- Blog posts 2007-06-18
- IT giants hope to save $5.5 billion in energy costs
- A who's who list of Silicon Valley titans are joining forces to set aggressive goals to cut computer energy consumption and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The group, collectively called the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, consists of Intel, AMD, Google, EDS, EMC, Dell, HP, IBM, Lenovo and Microsoft to name a...
- Tags: Storage, Microsoft, IT Management, Intel, Innovation, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Hardware Infrastructure, Green Tech, Google, General, EMC, EDS, Dell, Datacenter, AMD
- Blog posts 2007-06-12
- Sun's Blackbox shakes and bakes
- Sun has been earthquake testing its datacenter housed in a shipping container--Project Blackbox at the University of San Diego UCSD, which has a “shake table,†more formally known as a Seismic Response Modification Device.The video shows Project Blackbox shocked by a 6.7 magnitude earthquake. It survived with some detached...
- Tags: Sun, Hardware Infrastructure, Datacenter
- Blog posts 2007-06-11
- SAP unveils Co-Innovation Lab and envisions Web 3.0
- SAP held a dog and pony show, including a ribbon cutting ceremony, for the unveiling of it new Co-Innovation Lab in Palo Alto. "The intention is this is to be a working lab, not just a slick showcase for customers," said Zia Yusef, executive vice president of the Global Ecosystem...
- Tags: Web Technology, Software Infrastructure, SAP, SaaS, IT Management, General, ERP, Enterprise 2.0, Datacenter
- Blog posts 2007-06-07
- VMware offers virtualization as a service
- VMware launched a new program to enlist service providers to deliver virtualized server infrastructure as a hosted service. It's a natural step for companies that want to move to a utility computing, capacity on demand model, which can provide improved levels of reliability, scalability and cost efficiency. Hosting providers can...
- Tags: VMware, virtualization, Utility computing, IT Management, Hardware Infrastructure, Datacenter
- Blog posts 2007-06-05
- One of Microsoft's latest data centers is 1.3 miles around
- Microsoft has completed its first building at its Quincy, Washington data center and a leisurely walk around it is about 1.3 miles.That little ditty comes from Michael Manos, senior director of Microsoft's data center services unit. Manos was interviewed by Tina Wood at Channel 10.Some other key highlights from Manos: The...
- Tags: Datacenter, General, Green Tech, Hardware Infrastructure, Microsoft
- Blog posts 2007-05-31
- Using IPv6: Watching the dancing turtle
- ARIN, the organization responsible for giving out IP numbers in North America, says it's time to start using IPv6. This time, they really mean it! Can you hear the collective yawn? The fact is, until they're forced to, most people don't care and they're not going to...
- Tags: Datacenter, General, IT Management
- Blog posts 2007-05-25
- Splunk 3.0 drills deeper into IT data
- Splunk continues to ramp up what it calls an "IT search engine," which captures log data and other kinds of information that can help identify problems and provide proof of compliance with various regulations, such as Sarbannes-Oxley and the Payment Card Industry standard. Splunk is somewhat like a Google search...
- Tags: Datacenter, General, IT Management, Search
- Blog posts 2007-05-23
- Podcast: Microsoft patents, Dell's Project Hybrid, DRM-free music and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show, we discuss Microsoft's accusation that the open-source software industry has infringed 235 Microsoft patents and Dell's Project Hybrid, which appears to be a plan deliver virtualized, plug-and-play servers for datacenters. We also Amazon's new DRM-free music service, Google's Universal search and...
- Tags: Entertainment, DRM, Dell, Datacenter, Dan &, David Show, Apple, Amazon, Google, Hardware Infrastructure, IT Management, Linux, Microsoft, MySpace, Open Source, Red Hat, Software Infrastructure, virtualization, Web Technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- Dell's Project Hybrid: Pre-packaging the datacenter
- Dell executives met with the press today in San Francisco to have a discussion about the company’s strategic direction, but it turned into more of a lecture about how Dell is going to leapfrog HP and IBM in delivering datacenter solutions.Dell’s CTO Kevin Kettler and Jay Parker, director of PowerEdge...
- Tags: Dell, Datacenter, Hardware Infrastructure, IT Management, Software Infrastructure, virtualization
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- WebSideStory becomes Visual Sciences; bolsters enterprise focus
- Web analytics company WebSideStory has changed its name to Visual Sciences and launched a bevy of new software products to expand more into enterprise software. Image Gallery: These screenshots show the latest Web/data analytics software from Visual Sciences. ...
- Tags: Web Technology, Software Infrastructure, General, Enterprise 2.0, Datacenter, Business Intelligence
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
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