Latest data center news.
VMware benchmark tool raises fairness questions, 07/23/07: VMware is making a free benchmarking tool available to IT professionals Monday to evaluate the performance of virtualization technology in their data centers.
A10 announces two smaller application acceleration boxes, 07/23/07: A10’s application acceleration gear family has two new members – AX2000 and AX2100 – that have lower throughput but also lower prices for smaller data centers.
Blog fight!: Cisco Subnet blogger Doug Alger writes: I was browsing through the SearchDataCenter.com web site this morning and discovered a blogger who took issue with some of what I wrote in my book about the pros and cons of routing Data Center physical infrastructure overhead vs. under a raised floor.
Podcast: Dealing with the unexpected costs of power: When DVDPlay, a DVD rental service, built out its network, the cost of electricity began to exceed the cost of bandwidth. On this edition of Voices from IT Roadmap, Jens Horstmann, vice resident and CTO at DVDPlay, explains how the company is dealing with the costs and using computing resources more efficiently to ease the electrical burden. (11:59)
IBM opens up AIX 6, 07/19/07: In May, IBM took the wraps off of its Power6 processor, rolling out systems based on the chip that Big Blue claimed was more powerful and less power hungry than any Power processor before. The chip offers better energy management and virtualization capabilities. I wrote a bit about the Power6 processor when it was first introduced. You can read that newsletter here.
