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Jon Brodkin

Jon Brodkin

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Recent articles by Jon Brodkin

Data center start-up offers energy saving software

November 06, 2009

A data center start-up is exiting stealth mode with technology that reduces power and cooling costs by analyzing the energy consumption of IT equipment and applications.

Rackspace apologizes for cloud outage, prepares to issue service credits

November 05, 2009

In a letter to customers, Rackspace apologizes for cloud service outage and promises to do better in the future.

Boston Celtics clamp down on spam

November 05, 2009

Until recently, the Boston Celtics' e-mail infrastructure was outdated and badly in need of an overhaul.

Cisco/EMC cloud packages proprietary, but may not cause lock-in

November 04, 2009

The private cloud packages developed by Cisco and EMC could integrate with existing internal clouds.

Rackspace cloud suffers third outage since June

November 03, 2009

Rackspace suffered another data center failure Tuesday that caused outages for its cloud computing customers, the third such incident since late June.

IBM executive accused of insider trading out of a job

November 03, 2009

The IBM executive charged with insider trading by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is out of a job at Big Blue.

How a start-up tried ¿ and failed ¿ to take supercomputing world by storm

November 03, 2009

SiCortex built highly efficient high-performance computers, but couldn't survive the global recession.

Mainframe consolidation saves cash for Pennsylvania government

October 29, 2009

Mainframe consolidation and virtualization are keys to efficiency in Pennsylvania¿s state government.

Amazon slashes cloud prices, offers new database service

October 27, 2009

Amazon cuts the price of Web-based virtual servers and debuts a cloud-based relational database.

10 Gigabit upgrade helps college modernize network

October 27, 2009

While the tech industry looks ahead to 40 Gigabit Ethernet and 100 Gigabit Ethernet, lots of IT shops are still undergoing the transition to 10 Gig networks.