IDG News Service
James Niccolai is a reporter for the IDG News Service.
Data center spending stays strong, AFCOM says
Oct. 06, 2008
Many companies are stepping up their data center investments even as they try to make cutbacks in other parts of their business, according to survey released Monday by AFCOM, the association for data center ...
CERN grid may boost drug and climate research
Oct. 03, 2008
The computing grid built to carry data from the Large Hadron Collider to scientists around the world is also being used to speed the development of life-saving drugs and uncover the causes of climate change, people ...
Google proposes $4.4 trillion clean energy plan
Oct. 02, 2008
Tiring of its mission to "organize the world's information," Google has set itself a new objective: save the planet.
Google says its data centers are the most efficient
Oct. 01, 2008
Google's leadership on the Web stems partly from its powerful data centers, which allow it to provide lightning-fast search results while keeping energy costs to a minimum. The company has been mostly secretive about ...
AMD says Shanghai won't be another Barcelona
Sep. 30, 2008
Advanced Micro Devices said its Shanghai processor is on track to ship in servers by the end of the year and sought to reassure customers that the problems that delayed its previous server chip, Barcelona, are a thing ...
Savvis helps ISVs become SaaS providers
Sep. 29, 2008
Managed hosting provider Savvis has rolled out a service that allows (ISVs) independent software vendors to offer their applications in a software-as-a-service model.
Ballmer still searching for an answer to Google
Sep. 26, 2008
Microsoft may be the only company in a position to provide "any real competition" for Google in the online search business, CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday. But first it will need to figure out a way to do it.
Ellison pitches high-speed data warehouse server
Sep. 24, 2008
Oracle saved the biggest news for last at its OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. CEO Larry Ellison took the stage Wednesday afternoon to announce two hardware products developed with Hewlett-Packard that are ...
VMware customers look past the turmoil
Sep. 18, 2008
VMware has taken a beating in the press and on Wall Street lately over its management upheaval, slower growth rate and competition from Microsoft, but customers at the VMworld conference here said they were either ...
No virtual bridge from Xeon to AMD, Intel says
Sep. 17, 2008
VMware customers are getting a bit more freedom in the way they can transfer virtual machines from one Intel-based server to another, but they shouldn't hold their breath waiting for a bridge between Intel and AMD-based ...
VMware's VirtualCenter coming to Linux, iPhone
Sep. 17, 2008
VMware CTO Stephen Herrod drew a cheer at the VMworld conference Wednesday by announcing plans to bring the next version of VMware's VirtualCenter management software to Linux and the iPhone.
VMware chief says the OS is history
Sep. 16, 2008
VMware's CEO made his pitch on Tuesday for a new type of operating system for the data center, and in the process assigned the "traditional OS" to the dustbin of history.
VMware tries to expand throughout the data center
Sep. 15, 2008
VMware, facing increased pressure from rivals Microsoft and Citrix Systems, will announce new products this week intended to let customers extend their use of virtualization beyond servers and into all corners of the ...
Startups pitch new tools for business
Sep. 09, 2008
A service for parcelling out shares in a young company and a Twitter-like tool for the workplace were among the enterprise products launched at the TechCrunch50 showcase for startup companies on Monday.
Neterion's new 10 Gig adapter slips to 2009
Sep. 09, 2008
Neterion's new family of 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters, designed to solve the problem of I/O bottleneck in virtualized servers, won't appear on the market until the first quarter next year, a bit later than originally ...
Surgient software creates 'self-service cloud'
Sep. 03, 2008
Surgient has renamed and updated its virtual lab automation software, which aims to relieve some of the burden on IT departments by allowing business units to set up their own virtual compute environments for internal ...
HP launches product blitz for virtualization
Sep. 02, 2008
Hewlett-Packard has announced a broad sweep of new virtualization products along with survey results claiming that most businesses aren't making the most of what the technology has to offer.
China aims for petaflop computer in 2010
Aug. 27, 2008
China has stepped up investment in its homegrown Godson microprocessor and hopes to build its first petaflop-class supercomputer using the chip in 2010, one of the country's senior engineers said on Tuesday.
Fujitsu readies eight-core Sparc64 chip
Aug. 27, 2008
Fujitsu is developing an eight-core version of its Sparc64 processor, which should give a performance boost to the Sparc Enterprise Servers that Fujitsu jointly develops with Sun.
Dell gains, Sun loses in worldwide server market
Aug. 22, 2008
Dell posted the biggest gains in worldwide server revenue in the second quarter, helping it to nudge Sun Microsystems out of third place, Gartner said Thursday.
Amazon adds persistent storage to compute cloud
Aug. 21, 2008
Amazon has rolled out a persistent storage feature for its EC2 Elastic Compute Cloud, which should allow developers to use its hosted computing services for a much broader range of applications.
Study shows glacial pace of IPv6 adoption
Aug. 19, 2008
A study this week has revealed just how slow is the rate of adoption for IPv6, the next version of the Internet's main communications protocol, and some experts say black markets where companies trade unused IP ...
PC owners urged to manage power use and save money
Aug. 01, 2008
Businesses and home users can help the environment and save money at the same time by making better use of basic tools for desktop PC power management.
Yahoo on defensive at shareholder meeting
Aug. 01, 2008
Yahoo was criticized by some shareholders on Friday for the way it handled Microsoft's attempted acquisition, but in the end there were fewer fireworks at its annual meeting of stockholders than some had expected.
Rackable to sell IBM blades in modular data centers
Jul. 28, 2008
Rackable Systems has signed an agreement to resell IBM's BladeCenter servers in Rackable's ICE Cube modular data center, the companies announced Monday.
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