Latest data center news.
Laser chip breakthrough could bring faster data center networks, 09/18/06
University of California, Santa Barbara and Intel have teamed to create lasers on chips, a technology the researchers say could make networks speedier and much less expensive to build.
Customers, analysts say HP needs to rise above board scandal, 09/18/06
Improving financials have brightened HP’s outlook, but a scandal that has resulted in the resignation of the company’s chairman of the board, as well as state and federal investigations could seriously tarnish HP’s reputation as it seeks to stabilize …
PeakStream software unlocks multicore chip speed, 09/18/06
New software from start-up PeakStream is aimed at unleashing the power in the latest generation of multicore processors.
HP Forum: HP pledges to connect better with customers, 09/18/06
HP president and CEO Mark Hurd, speaking at a user conference Monday in Houston, told customers the company’s goal is to listen to them more and respond to their needs more quickly.
NetXen offers virtualization-friendly NICs, 09/18/06
NetXen this week is expected to launch Gigabit and 10G server NICs aimed at opening up I/O bottlenecks among server images running on a single virtualized machine.
PC revenue decline in 2006 continues, Gartner says, 09/15/06
Even as PC sales continue double-digit growth, industry revenue is likely to decline 2.5% to $198.5 billion in 2006, according to a forecast released Friday by Gartner. Worldwide PC shipments are scheduled to rise 10.5% over last year, reaching 233.7 …
Gartner says Vista to have little impact on PC growth, 09/15/06
Gartner analysts expect the release of Windows Vista next year will have little impact on boosting PC sales.
Storage in the Enterprise Newsletter: Think of the big picture when adding in new systems functionality, 09/14/06
If you are an end user, why cares about software architecture? After all, if a piece of software works, why be concerned with how it was put …
Servers Newsletter: PlayStation chip finds a bigger job at the Department of Energy, 09/14/06
Last month, I wrote about scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory proposing that the STI (Sony, Toshiba and IBM) Cell processor …
Dell to open manufacturing plant in India, 09/14/06
Dell has selected Chennai, the capital city of Tamil Nadu in southern India, as the location for its first PC manufacturing plant in the country.
China’s BLX takes Godson-2 processor to 1GHz, 09/14/06
China’s BLX IC Design Co. Ltd. has produced a prototype version of its Godson-2 processor that runs at a clock speed of 1GHz.
WAN Newsletter: How scalable are network and application acceleration products?, 09/14/06
Last time, we discussed the fact that WAN scalability is impacted by many factors other than just the ability to increase the bandwidth of the …
State says it has evidence to charge HP officials, 09/13/06
A day after HP chairman Patricia Dunn promised to step down for her role in a spy scandal, the state of California is continuing to investigate the actions of HP officials and the private investigators they used.
Schwartz, Sun reach out to customers, 09/13/06
Sun CEO and President Jonathan Schwartz made it clear Wednesday what kind of customers his company hopes to lure now that long-troubled Sun finally appears to be in the middle of an upswing.
Sun releases new servers and workstations, 09/13/06
Sun Wednesday announced new additions to its server and workstation lines with the Sun Fire And Sun Ultra, the company said in a statement.
‘Dell 2.0’ will focus on PC design, overseas factories, 09/13/06
In a bid to reassure nervous investors in the wake of a federal investigation and a battery recall, Dell executives have announced a corporate overhaul dubbed “Dell 2.0.”
IBM puts its first Cell computer on sale, 09/13/06
IBM has started selling the first computer based on its multicore Cell processor, targeting organizations that run compute-intensive tasks such as medical imaging or oil exploration.
Storage in the Enterprise Newsletter: Mailbag: Are companies prepared to face a disaster?, 09/12/06
The second of last week’s newsletter – which admittedly was only incidentally …
Servers Newsletter: Yikes! Exploding servers, 09/12/06
I read something this week about workers spending as much as two hours a day surfing the Web for personal business. John Dix, Network World’s editor-in-chief …
Dell spurns Intel on desktops, 09/12/06
Dell has stepped away from long-time supplier Intel, launching one desktop that spurns the chipmaker’s vPro business bundle and two others that use processors from chipmaking competitor Advanced Micro Devices.
Grids help eBay do big business, 09/12/06
A massive computing grid helps eBay make changes to its auction Web site on the fly while maintaining a 99.94% up time, said Paul Strong, a distinguished research scientist there.
FAQ: HP board scandal, 09/12/06
While HP has been buoyed by rising financials, the tide has turned in recent days as the industry focuses on a boardroom scandal involving the board chairman, an outside investigative firm and a technique known as “pretexting.” What follows are …
HP’s Dunn, Keyworth to step down, 09/12/06
Patricia Dunn, HP’s embattled chairman, will be relieved of those duties after the board’s Jan. 18, 2007, meeting, but will continue as a director.
HP’s head of global operations to leave next month, 09/12/06
HP’s executive vice president of global operations, Gilles Bouchard, will leave the company at the end of October. The news came Tuesday immediately before HP announced that Chairman Patricia Dunn will step down.
New Data Center Strategies Newsletter: Two paths to virtual storage offer advantages, 09/12/06
Nemertes Research recently published its third volume of data center research on the topic of storage. Our research shows that just under a third …
Branch Office Best Practices Newsletter: Cisco’s bolstered branch device is compelling, 09/12/06
I’m starting a series of columns this week that highlight some of the more interesting, useful products available for branch offices.
