Latest data center news.
IBM uses green technology to build the company’s largest data center, 06/22/07: IBM’s green initiative takes root in Boulder, Colo., with expansion that will make the facility the company’s largest data center in the world.
6 tips for jump-starting your automation project, 06/25/07: IT managers need to grease the wheels a bit to enjoy the benefits of automation. The tools available today rely on IT managers understanding what they have in their environments, what it all does and what they need it to do on its own. Inventorying …
10 automation companies to watch, 06/25/07: Run-book, IT process and data-center automation companies deliver products to help IT shops reduce manual work, eliminate repetitive tasks and speed problem resolution.
Insurer aims for automation, 06/25/07: After Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida invested $40 million in a new data center, Paul Stallings began his quest to reduce manual labor, integrate systems across IT silos and ultimately optimize data center operations through automation.
Sun needs AMD chips to launch new supercomputer, 06/26/07: As Sun Microsystems Inc. prepares to demonstrate a new high-performance computer Tuesday at a technology conference in Germany, it hopes that quad-core processors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. that will power the computer arrive on time to deliver …
IBM pushes z9 mainframe for small business, 06/21/07: IBM unveiled a Web site and IT security software application Thursday as part of its effort to compete with HP and Sun for customers in the fast-growing small and midsize business sector.
Virtualization questions abound, 06/21/07: Many of the customers attending this week’s Hewlett-Packard Co. Technology Forum in Las Vegas ran back and forth across the Mandalay Bay Hotel & Casino’s convention center absorbing all they could about virtualization. There were 87 workshops …
Emerson helps customers get a handle on power and cooling, 06/21/07: Power and cooling continue to be big issues as systems become smaller and more powerful, so I’d guess that most data center managers are …
Google to build $600M data center in Iowa, 06/20/07: Google is building a $600 million data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa, that is scheduled to open in the spring of 2009.
Burning question: Blades or racks? 06/19/07: Blade servers are no longer on the bleeding edge, but there continues to be a lot of debate about when and where the slimmed-down servers make sense. It …
HP is its own case study with data center project, 06/19/07: The $100 million data center consolidation project being undertaken by Hewlett-Packard Co. will help it be more efficient but also informs the consulting advice it gives to client companies.
Google turns on its solar panels, plans $10 million in grants, 06/19/07: Google on Monday turned on the solar panels covering nearly all the roof space on its corporate campus and announced that its philanthropic arm plans to dole out over $10 million in grants to support hybrid cars.
