Network World on Servers

Transforming the data center from hell

2008-07-23T00:00:00Z

Some CIOs and data center managers have found themselves having to wring performance out of monstrously deficient facilities. Ultimately, these three wrestled with their infrastructures, made major changes and won the day.

How Green Is Your UPS?

2008-07-21T00:00:00Z

Servers, switches and routers certainly suck up a lot of electricity. But according to power engineers at Cleveland-based Eaton Corp., all that hardware actually accounts for less than a third of your data center's electricity demand. Your HVAC and power management systems gobble up the rest.

Sun Microsystems to focus on Africa

2008-07-18T00:00:00Z

Sun Microsystems will focus special attention on Africa under a new emerging markets sales geography, which the company expects to drive accelerated expansion and sales coverage across growing markets.

Cisco to develop new generation of data centers

2008-07-17T00:00:00Z

Africa is set to benefit from Cisco Systems' new unified data technology that delivers multiple applications over a network using minimal bandwidth.

HP to offer data center-in-a-box

James Niccolai — 2008-07-16T00:00:00Z

Hewlett-Packard became the latest vendor to announce a "mini-data center" housed in a shipping container, which can provide a way for companies to add compute capacity when power and cooling systems in their existing data centers are maxed out.

APC to offer data center cooling products in Africa

2008-07-16T00:00:00Z

APC by Schneider Electric, a major supplier of data center cooling and UPS equipment aimed at improving efficiency, is lowering costs and developing integrated tools to address power fluctuations in Africa.

Sun and Fujitsu give Sparc servers a speed bump

James Niccolai — 2008-07-14T00:00:00Z

Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu Computer Systems have updated their jointly developed family of Sparc Enterprise Servers with a new quad-core processor.

Tennessee's sinking data center gets help

2008-07-13T00:00:00Z

A data center in Tennessee that may be located in the worse spot in America for a data center -- on an unstable landfill, next to a railroad and a river and downstream from a large dam that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says has a risk of failing -- is getting relocated, at least partially.

Sun expands storage lineup

Stephen Lawson — 2008-07-09T00:00:00Z

With many organizations scrambling to meet exploding demand for storage capacity without constantly expanding their IT staffs, Sun Microsystems continues to push open-source software as a solution, along with a new series of storage arrays and a hybrid server-storage platform.

Good incentives boost data-center energy efficiency

2008-07-09T00:00:00Z

A Microsoft executive shared techniques the company has used, including new kinds of employee incentive programs and internally created automation tools, to reduce the energy consumption of its growing data centers.

Is your data center ready for tomorrow's applications?

2004-04-12T00:00:00Z

Click here to see what Gartner, Network World and other experts say about the new data center.