System Management News
Hitachi releases first 25nm SLC SSDs for storage arrays
Hitachi GST announced the Ultrastar SSD400S.B, which uses high-endurance SLC NAND flash memory to create an enterprise-class drive that also comes...
DDoS attacks motivated by politics not criminality, Arbor Networks finds
Large Internet organisations believe ideological and political motivations have become the single commonest motivation behind the DDoS attacks...
U.S. to use climate to help cool exascale systems
In a picturesque spot overlooking San Francisco Bay, the U.S. Department of Energy's Berkeley Lab is building a new computing center that will...
Large data center coming to India, as regional demand booms
Tulip Data Center Services is setting up a 900,000 square foot (83,612.7 square meters) data center in Bangalore, the largest in India, to benefit...
India builds a mega data center
IBM has designed and helped to build a 900,000-square-foot data center in India that it says is the largest in that country in terms of size and...
The rise of Node.js: JavaScript graduates to the server
Microsoft and others have already adopted this technology to extend JavaScript beyond the browser -- but it has limits developers must beware
Systems management, cloud services likely in Dell's software acquisition plans
Dell's formation of a new software group, which was announced Thursday, could be the forerunner to a string of acquisitions by the vendor, with...
Cisco CTO: Software integration will drive intelligent networks
Networking giant Cisco plans to make software one of the company's "core competencies", with the aim of creating a networking operating system...
Nimbus puts up its new all-flash array against disk arrays
Nimbus today announced an enterprise-class version of its all-NAND flash primary storage array that sports redundant controller modules and twice the...
In Search of an Energy Yardstick
We take a comprehensive look at the new green-IT metrics for measuring data center efficiency and productivity from The Green Grid and other industry...
John Deere plows into agile
John Deere & Co., has moved about 800 software developers into an agile development process, and did so in just over a year.
HDD Crunch May Have Far-reaching Effects
The global supply of hard disk drives may be slow to rebound, with a ripple effect that's threatening small businesses and PC makers. The...
Oracle Move Could Push Rivals Toward Big Data Bundles
The shipping of Oracle's Big Data Appliance earlier this month could pressure major rivals like IBM, Hewlett-Packard and SAP to come up with...
Micron to acquire PCIe virtualization vendor Virtensys
SSD-maker Micron Technology announced it has signed an agreement to purchase Virtensys, a maker of PCIe virtualization appliance.
The Agile Infrastructure
To keep pace with a fast-changing business environment, these companies are ditching inflexible legacy systems in favor of software as a service and...
Oracle's Big Data Appliance brings focus to bundled approach
Oracle's Big Data Appliance product, which shipped Tuesday, gives enterprises another option for deploying projects based on Apache Hadoop open...
The year's best hardware, software, and cloud services
InfoWorld's Test Center unveils the 2012 Technology of the Year Awards
IT staffers shed 1,500 pounds
Kaiser Permanente's 'CIO Challenge' pumps up IT morale while promoting healthier lifestyles.
NOAA migrates to Google Apps, but gives users options
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has moved 25,000 employees and contractors to Google Apps for Government.
2011: When cloud computing shook the data center
In a year of surging private cloud activity and major build-outs in public cloud capacity, the cloud's promised simplification remains elusive
In Search of an Energy Yardstick
The Connected Enterprise
