Latest data center news.
Q&A: Citrix positions its acquisitions around an ‘access management vision’, 09/04/06
Citrix made its name with a specialized software product, Citrix MetaFrame, now called Presentation Server. It was used by a blue chip list of Fortune 500 companies to run Windows applications on servers, accessed by PCs via Citrix’s communications …
Grids moving into enterprise data centers, 09/04/06
Mention the word “grid” and most IT executives probably think of thousands of CPUs crunching numbers for data-intensive applications such as seismic modeling and drug discovery. Increasingly, however, grids are being considered as platforms for …
Teams embrace all-inclusive SOA, 09/01/06
Application developers, data architects, security specialists and IT directors all have a stake in the design of application services and the enterprise framework across which they run. Network executives are no exception.
IBM rolls out p5 entry-level, midrange servers, 08/31/06
IBM last week rolled out several quad-core systems that provide performance enhancements and configuration flexibility.
DDR2 finally crowned DRAM king, 08/30/06
After a much longer than expected delay, DDR2 (double data rate, second generation) has finally taken over as the most popular memory chip used in PCs.
Intel to launch vPro desktop bundle Sept. 7, 08/30/06
Intel is set to announce next week that HP and other vendors are ready to ship the chip company’s vPro technology bundle in business desktops, according to sources.
New Data Center Strategies Newsletter: Three steps to lower storage TCO, 08/29/06
A few weeks back I wrote about “the curse of cheap disks” on enterprise organizations: Storage costs have gotten so cheap that the natural response …
Server vendors to use Intel “Tulsa” chips, 08/29/06
Dozens of server manufacturers Tuesday announced plans to incorporate Intel’s new dual-core 64-bit Xeon 7100 processor, dubbed “Tulsa,” into upcoming servers.
Qimonda expands foundry, technology pact with Winbond, 08/29/06
Qimonda AG, the world’s second largest dynamic RAM maker, has expanded a technology and production pact with Winbond Electronics to provide the company with 80-nanometer manufacturing technology.
Samsung makes 1Gb DDR2 smaller and for less, 08/29/06
Samsung Electronics has started mass-producing 1Gb DDR (double data rate 2) dynamic RAM memory chips using an advanced manufacturing process that allows it to make the chips smaller and at less cost.
Server shipment increases but virtualization continues to slow new server sales, 08/29/06
IDC announced its server market share figures last week. Server factory revenue grew almost 1% to $12.3 billion in the second quarter …
IBM beefs up array of Unix servers, 08/28/06
IBM has added four-core processing capability to the low end of its Unix servers.
Scalent beefs up virtualization software for servers, network and storage resources, 08/28/06
Scalent this week is expected to release Version 2.0 of its software designed to help corporate users virtualize the server, network and storage resources in their data centers.
