Latest data center news.
Is your DNS server configured wrong?, 10/09/06
More than half of the Internet’s name servers are configured incorrectly, leaving networks vulnerable to pharming attacks and enabling servers to be used in attacks that can wipe out DNS infrastructure.
HP’s Dunn, Fiorina blame Perkins for downfall, 10/09/06
Former HP chairmen Patricia Dunn and Carly Fiorina each cited board member Thomas Perkins as an instigator behind their ousters from the technology company, according to interviews the two gave on a U.S. TV news program Sunday night.
Force10 switches take aim at wiring closets, 10/09/06
Force10 Networks plans to enter the LAN edge/wiring-closet market this week with new switches that bring data-center scale and resiliency to the LAN edge.
Data Domain adds to backup performance, 10/09/06
Data Domain plans to announce this week a disk-based backup and recovery appliance that is faster and has more capacity than the company’s virtual tape library offerings. Related links Deduplication: Stop …
Opinion: Corporate dishonesty: Is HP the only one?, 10/06/06
Watching HP’s slow-motion train wreck has been fascinating. Every day in the last two weeks there has been a new revelation of questionable behavior on the part of this once admired company.
Serving up files and text, 10/06/06
FileZilla Server is an excellent free, open source, Windows FTP server implementation with a small multithreaded engine (a 2.4MB download, and it uses just less than 3MB of RAM) that is fast and robust.
Hitachi joins Sony battery recall, 10/06/06
Hitachi joins most of the leading notebook computer makers in recalling batteries from Sony that are known to overheat and potentially cause fires.
These energy efforts are hot, hot, hot, 10/06/06
As heat, power and cooling rise to the top of the list of concerns for data center managers, there are a growing number of initiatives aimed at helping enterprises reduce electricity consumption and increase efficiency of their technology infrastructures.
Dunn, Hunsaker face HP charges in court, 10/05/06
Former HP Chairman Patricia Dunn made a brief court appearance Thursday in Santa Clara County, Calif., to face four state felony charges in the HP boardroom scandal. Superior Court Judge Alfonso Fernandez scheduled her arraignment for Nov. 17, at …
Toshiba lays out plans for mobile Cell chip, 10/05/06
The Cell processor sits at the heart of the PlayStation 3, most powerful game console yet developed, and a high-performance computer from IBM and now Toshiba wants to put that power into mobile devices and cell phones.
ClearCube unveils sub-$1,000 PC blade, 10/05/06
ClearCube Technology, a vendor of bladed PCs, this week is rolling out a blade that costs less than $1,000.
CEATEC – NTT DoCoMo shows fuel cell prototype, 10/04/06
NTT DoCoMo is showing at this week’s Ceatec show in Japan a prototype fuel cell that it’s developing with a Japanese start-up for use as a cell-phone recharger.
Dunn, four others charged in HP scandal, 10/04/06
Ousted HP Chairman Patricia Dunn, a former company lawyer, and three outside investigators were charged Wednesday in California on felony charges related to the conduct of an investigation to track down news leaks from the HP board that allegedly …
Two of world’s largest electronics makers won’t merge, 10/04/06
The world’s largest contract manufacturer of notebook PCs has denied any plans to merge with or be acquired by the biggest contract electronics maker.
STMicro, Hynix to open $2B China plant next week, 10/04/06
Hynix Semiconductor and STMicroelectronics plan to start making memory chips on advanced production lines at a $2 billion chip plant in China next week.
IBM puts up $100 million to simplify mainframe operations, 10/04/06
IBM this week unveiled a program, tools and services the company hopes will make the mainframe easier to manage, program and administer.
HP to open second India plant on strong PC demand, 10/04/06
HP is setting up a second computer manufacturing facility in India to help it meet surging demand in the country.
CEATEC – Murata Boy climbs a hill, 10/04/06
Murata Boy, the cycling robot from Japan’s Murata Manufacturing, has made it up a hill.
CEATEC – NEC to sell water-cooled PC with Blu-ray drive, 10/04/06
Japanese users won’t have to worry about a noisy cooling fan disturbing them while they watch high-definition movies on NEC’s newest computer — the PC, equipped with a Blu-ray drive, uses water-cooling instead.
CEATEC – Hitachi updates WLAN tags for goods, employees, 10/04/06
Hitachi this week updated its AirLocation II system, which uses wireless LAN technology to track goods and employees, with the introduction of a smaller tag.
HP inks seven-year deal with Pepsi, 10/04/06
HP, struggling under a boardroom spying scandal, continues to gain new business and on Wednesday announced that it has signed a seven-year deal with PepsiCo to provide data center management services for the soda and snack maker’s international division.
IBM improves efficiency of PowerPC chips, 10/03/06
IBM has improved the power efficiency of two models of PowerPC processors, making an effort to strengthen its position in markets from cars and printers to networking and communications equipment.
HP extends further into copier market, 10/03/06
HP is extending its reach further into rivals’ markets for workplace copiers with new products introduced Tuesday.
Gateway ships servers based on Intel Xeon 5100 chips, 10/03/06
Gateway this week introduced three servers that use the Intel Xeon 5100 processor.
CEATEC – Fujitsu shows a larger paper-thin display, 10/03/06
Fujitsu has made progress in its development of flexible, paper-thin displays that consume very little power.
CEATEC – Intel praises Apple, but calls for open standards, 10/03/06
Intel looks set to find itself in the midst of an industry battle over how the power and complexity of computers should be combined with the convenience and simplicity of consumer electronics — and the company couldn’t be happier.
New Data Center Strategies Newsletter: Open source tools can manage the data center, 10/03/06
Nemertes’ recent research on data centers has failed to find the management nirvana: The fully autonomic, adaptive, automatic, on-demand data …
EU prepares possible legal action against Intel, 10/03/06
European Commission antitrust officials investigating computer chip maker Intel Corp. presented what they believe is a watertight argument for prosecuting the firm to an internal panel of so-called devil’s advocates on Tuesday, according to a person …
