Data Center Breaking News

SpringSource launches Java application server
SpringSource, maker of the Spring Framework for Java development, will announce a new application server on Wednesday that it claims will "liberate" Java users from "antiquated legacy Java technologies." More..

WEB 2.0 - IBM turns server sideways for Web 2.0 build-out
IBM has designed a new type of rack-mount server specifically for companies running heavily trafficked "Web 2.0" sites such as Facebook and MySpace, the company announced Wednesday. More..

FCoE: the evolutionary approach to SAN expansion
Ever since the emergence of Fibre Channel SANs in the late 1990s, enterprise IT managers have maintained two sets of networks, one for storage I/O traffic and the other for data network traffic. But system consolidation and SAN expansion efforts are driving the need for a unified fabric where multiple traffic types -- network, storage and clustering -- are all carried over a single network infrastructure. More..

Evolution of Internet powers massive particle physics grid
An evolution of Internet technologies is powering the worldwide grid supporting CERN's giant particle accelerator. More..

Green technology: hype or must-have?
An onslaught of "green" technology makes it hard to separate hype from reality. More..

SaaS providers cut costs with open source, but users won't get discounts
Nine out of ten software-as-a-service providers will rely on open source software by 2010 to save money, but the cost savings likely won't be passed onto customers, Gartner says. More..

Sun, Fujitsu pack 128 threads into new SPARC servers
Sun and Fujitsu deliver eight-core SPARC servers capable of processing 128 threads. More..

RSA - IBM's project Phantom to lock down virtual machines
IBM researchers are developing new attack prevention technology for the company's virtualization products. More..

Linux showing signs of solid growth: IDC study
Austin, Texas – Workloads running on Linux servers are shifting to become more business oriented, including databases and line-of-business applications, and the operating system appears headed for measurable growth over the next three years, according to a white paper released Tuesday by IDC. More..

IBM updates high-end servers, returns to water-cooling
SAN FRANCISCO -- IBM announced its most powerful Unix server to date Tuesday, an update to the System p5 595 that will be based on a new Power6 processor running at up to 5GHz.  More..

Asustek sues IBM in patent row
Asustek Computer has filed suit against IBM over alleged infringement of two patents, just a few months after IBM filed a similar action against the Taiwanese company earlier this year. More..

IBM, Second Life create business-friendly virtual worlds
IBM and Second Life creator Linden Lab are teaming up to build enterprise-ready virtual worlds that can be deployed behind a customer's firewall. More..

IBM merges System i and System p server lines
IBM is merging two of its server lines -- System i and System p -- into a single family of products, a move that was widely applauded but led some to ask: What took you so long? More..

Sun's octo-core SPARC is made to multitask
The past few years have seen some major changes in Sun hardware. The return of Andy Bechtolsheim has brought forth an impressive array of new server hardware, and reinvented Sun as an x86 server vendor. But where does that leave the SPARC? More..

NEC breaks two TPC-E records with Itanium server
NEC's new Express 5800 server has broken the TPC-E benchmark performance record with a score about 70 percent higher than the current leading machine, the Tokyo company said Tuesday. More..

Lenovo's Yang takes the high-end road
Lenovo Group Chairman Yang Yuanqing wants to challenge perceptions of Chinese companies as mainly producers of cheap, low-end products. More..

Citrix, HP team up on virtualization-enabled servers
A Citrix-HP partnership accelerates a trend of embedding server virtualization software into hardware. More..

IBM lures HP customers, reuses their abandoned HP gear
IBM's new rebate program for customers who use HP PA-RISC systems coincides with IBM's System p 550 Express Unix server launch. More..

Microsoft releases feature-complete Hyper-V code
Microsoft has finished most of the major work on its Hyper-V virtualization technology and expects it will be available for Windows Server 2008 on schedule in August, the company said Wednesday. More..

Dell launches new servers for SMBs
Dell on Monday launched single-socket servers for small and medium-size businesses, replenishing its overhauled PowerEdge line of servers. More..

HP unveils eight-socket, quad-core server
HP is releasing an eight-socket x86 server using quad-core AMD Opteron processors, which it says is ideal for large virtualization and consolidation projects that can take advantage of extra cores and greater processing power and memory. More..

Demystifying NAC
Despite the security benefits promised by network access control, NAC has yet to be fully embraced. Perhaps it’s the perceived cost, the complexities that troubled early adopters or the plethora of NAC choices available today. More..

Apps least likely to go virtual
Forrester Research survey shows while most applications are considered candidates for consolidation, e-mail and e-commerce apps are not likely to be trusted on virtual servers virtual. More..

Microsoft to patch Home Server corruption bug - in June
Microsoft Monday said its engineers were still "heads down working" on the data corruption bug that has plagued Windows Home Server since late last year, but acknowledged that a fix wouldn't be released until June at the earliest. More..

Microsoft, Sun open interoperability lab
Microsoft and Sun, which became a Windows OEM last year, opened an interoperability center Monday that will provide a test bed for customers who want to run Microsoft applications on Sun x64 servers. More..