Latest data center news.
VMware to push further into systems infrastructure, 06/05/06
Virtualization software vendor VMware plans to extend its reach into additional systems-infrastructure areas following the unveiling of its VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3) suite Monday.
Gartner conference tackles security, 06/05/06
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Security companies are gathering here this week for Gartner’s IT Security Summit to unveil products and services that promise to manage identities, prevent intrusions, track assets, protect data, and more.
Beta-test your way to competitive advantage, 06/05/06
In 15 years at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, systems engineer Jim Nauer has been involved in six major beta tests. As Nauer has found, being a beta tester has numerous benefits: The most important is the ability to get your hands on …
Web hosters go green, 06/05/06
In a desert town south of Los Angeles sits a hosting provider’s data center. It’s not a typical location, but Affordable Internet Services Online isn’t your typical provider. The host boasts it’s going green.
VMware pools virtual resources, 06/05/06
VMware this week is expected to unveil software designed to let customers group compute resources into a virtual pool that can be allocated to workloads depending on application demands, eliminating the need for manual intervention.
Going green? Active Power might have the data center UPS for you, 06/05/06
Flywheel technology, found in everything from potter’s wheels to airplane altitude-control systems, has also found a home in UPS systems for data centers.
Opinion: Network computing: Here we go again .. sort of, 06/05/06
In network computing, everything old is new again. Grid computing touts many benefits that sound very familiar to those of us who worked with 1980s mainframe computing.
Sun investigating object-aware CPUs, 05/30/06
Eyeing boosts in application performance, Sun is researching how to improve handling of objects in multiprocessors with a project dubbed Maxwell.
OS-level virtualizer ships with Linux for first time, 05/30/06
Mandriva Corporate Server 4.0 is to include OpenVZ, operating system developer Mandriva – once known as MandrakeSoft – and it’s the first time that operating system-level virtualization software has been included as a part of the OS, according to …
New Data Center Newsletter: Extreme growth: More apps, more servers, more storage, 05/30/06
Four major themes emerged in Nemertes’ latest data center research, drawn from interviews with 82 data center managers, CIOs, IT directors …
Inergy Automative Systems gets 300% more out of existing bandwidth, 05/30/06
Data center and server consolidation are popular trends among IT managers looking to reduce costs and operations expenses across …
