http://www.networkworld.com/topics/datacenter.html The latest data-center news and analysis from NetworkWorld.com. Network World, Inc. Copyright(C) 1994 - 2009 Network World, Inc. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/110609-viridity-software.html 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. Jon Brodkin 2009-11-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/110409-big-it-is-back-say.html A certain truth about the big IT vendors is they want to sell as much as possible to any one customer and now, with virtualization, cloud computing and very tight IT budgets, they believe they have an opening. Patrick Thibodeau 2009-11-04T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/nsm/2009/110209nsm2.html EMC Ionix portfolio provides integrated, unified element manager for Vblock as part of Cisco, EMC and VMware coalition established to enable collaboration among the IT vendors. Denise Dubie 2009-11-03T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/110309-cisco-emc-collaboration.html Cisco and EMC this week unveiled their anticipated collaboration, which will provide integrated products and services for customers building private cloud computing infrastructures. Jim Duffy 2009-11-03T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/110309-rackspace-outage.html Rackspace suffered another data center failure Tuesday that caused outages for its cloud computing customers, the third such incident since late June. Jon Brodkin 2009-11-03T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/110209-blackouts-hurt-africas-tech.html Power outages are hurting efforts in African countries to cultivate IT businesses and promote data center construction. Rebecca Wanjiku 2009-11-02T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/tech/2009/110209-tech-update.html While solid state drives offer increased performance, the key to figuring out the role they can play in the data center is balancing that performance against cost. Bob Fine 2009-11-02T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/103009-emc-teams-with-intel-for.html EMC is working with Intel on a more energy-efficient version of EMC's Atmos cloud storage system that should be available in the second half of next year, the companies said Thursday. James Niccolai 2009-10-30T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/102909-mainframe-pennsylvania.html Mainframe consolidation and virtualization are keys to efficiency in Pennsylvania’s state government. Jon Brodkin 2009-10-29T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/102809-alertme-measures-home-energy.html AlertMe has unveiled a new service that lets Brits monitor their energy usage from any PC with web access. Carrie-ann Skinner 2009-10-28T12:00:00-04:00