Latest data center news.
Top-secret Google data center almost completed, 06/19/06
Search engine giant Google is nearing completion of a new data center on the banks of the Columbia River in The Dalles, Ore. But trying to get information about the project is almost as difficult as finding Bigfoot.
Lexar shareholders approve merger with Micron, 06/19/06
Despite opposition from billionaire investor Carl Icahn, shareholders of Lexar Media agreed to a deal to be bought out by Micron Technology, turning the giant memory chip maker into a stronger competitor in the NAND flash memory business.
Guide to Servers: A guide to the latest trends in server technology, 06/19/06
X-86, blades, 64-bit, virtualization, multicore – read how these approaches are changing the face of servers.
Guide to Servers: Blade servers try to shake bad-boy image, 06/19/06
This may be the year that blade servers cast off their bad rap. Introduced in 2001, blade servers were supposed to change the computing landscape, but questions about reliability, power consumption and heat output put a damper on adoption.
Guide to Servers: Core competency: Vendors push multicore envelope, 06/19/06
Vendors are pushing the multicore envelope, aiming to boost performance, especially for multithreaded applications.
Guide to Servers: 64-bit computing is slowed by lack of apps, 06/19/06
Most customers are waiting for 64-bit applications to arrive before moving beyond 32-bit computing.
Guide to Servers: x86 servers shake up data center computing, 06/19/06
When Curt Schumacher began working at the Chicago Board of Options Exchange nearly a quarter century ago, the question of what hardware platforms to use to support the business was relatively simple. Today IT executives have many more questions to …
Guide to Servers: Server virtualization expected to take off , 06/19/06
For the IT staff at Bryant University in Smithfield, R.I., the focus for the last couple of years has been on consolidation. First on centralizing servers that had been scattered across the campus into two physical locations, then on using virtualization
Mergers, acquisitions and especially integrations have been a way of life at TD Ameritrade Holding Corporation, the company I have called home for nearly seven years. Our approach to the integration process after a merger has become standardized, but …
HP to roll out new management software, 06/19/06
HP this week is set to announce software that supports what-if modeling scenarios that the company says will enable buyers to determine how changes made to staff and infrastructure resources will affect business service levels.
HP unveils new blade platform, 06/14/06
HP Wednesday rolled out a BladeSystem platform that it hopes will give it a boost in the fast-growing blade server market by providing customers with a more flexible, easier to manage, energy-efficient system.
Network vendors jump on HP’s latest blade server product, 06/15/06
Blade Network Technologies and Cisco this week piled onto HP’s latest blade server announcement, as the switch vendors each introduced Gigabit Ethernet switch modules for HP’s BladeSystem c-Class.
NetApp targets storage for high-performance computing, 06/19/06
Network Appliance Monday introduced a new operating system to power its storage for high-performance Linux computing clusters in large-scale computational systems.
Stratus to offer Linux on fault-tolerant servers, 06/19/06
Fault-tolerant computer maker Stratus will make Red Hat’s Linux operating system available on six of its server models that are now Windows-only machines, the company said Monday.
Clustered NAS helps cure hospital’s storage ills, 06/15/06
If your job is a daily fight against time to save lives, the vagaries of a storage system should not get in your way. This is the problem that Dr. Parag Mallick faced at the Cedars-Sinai Center for Applied Molecular Medicine in Los Angeles, where he …
PC shipments stay strong thanks to Asian demand, 06/13/06
Despite three years of slowing growth in sales, worldwide PC shipments grew by a strong 12.6% in the first quarter.
Companies moving slowly toward greater operational efficiency, 06/13/06
Four major themes emerged in Nemertes’ latest data center research, drawn from interviews with 82 data center managers, CIOs, IT …
Servers Newsletter: Active Power providing a greener alternative to lead-acid batteries, Part 2, 06/15/06
Active Power’s green UPS is truly cool, say users and analysts.
Servers Newsletter: Active Power providing a greener alternative to lead-acid batteries, Part 1, 06/13/06
Active Power is going green with the introduction of a flywheel energy storage system that replaces lead-acid batteries and cools …
Japanese chip makers tie on advanced production, 06/13/06
Four of Japan’s biggest chip makers will work together on development of manufacturing technology for next-generation semiconductors, the companies said Tuesday.
