Latest data center news.
New Data Center Supplement: Mercantile exchange uses automated change management, 03/20/06
When you work on the nation’s largest trading network, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s sprawling Globex infrastructure, keeping systems in synch is a change-management challenge extraordinaire. Any slip-up on the roughly 150 changes performed in an …
New Data Center Supplement: Setting the foundation for identity management, 03/20/06
Across corporate America, identity management is running up the IT priority chart and into the New Data Center security infrastructure.
New Data Center Supplement: Grid computing comes of age, 03/20/06
This is the year that grid computing will move with a bang into mainstream corporate America, say analysts at firms such as The 451 Group. Businesses in biotech, the sciences and financial services industries already have discovered that grids are …
New Data Center Supplement: Protecting data throughout its life cycle, 03/20/06
After attackers gained access to personal information on 19,000 students at Carnegie Mellon University last April, and network administrators reviewed data policies, the university implemented new security-management controls around its Oracle …
New Data Center Supplement: Change management at the CME, 03/20/06
At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the onus of determining what changes to make, and when to make them, falls on an approvals board, which meets each Tuesday morning for a risk assessment.
HP rolls out Arches chipset, 03/20/06
HP is rolling out a chipset for its Integrity midrange and high-end servers that it says will boost performance by 30 percent over its crrent Pinnacles chipset.
XML databases gaining acceptance, 03/20/06
The surge in XML data is pushing companies to create fresh information architectures.
Red Hat lays out plans for virtualization, 03/20/06
Red Hat last week laid out its strategy to make it easier for customers to run and manage their workloads in a virtualized Linux environment.
IP telephony deployments struggle with power/heat issues, 03/20/06
While the IP telephony market heats up, thermometers are literally spiking in some wiring closets and computer rooms where VoIP and power-over-Ethernet (PoE) gear is being installed, users say.
Healthcare system juggles upgrades, 03/20/06
For Community Medical Centers, a recent move to a filmless environment has had multiple business benefits. The traditional method was expensive and time-consuming. Two years ago the nonprofit hospital group began moving to a system that would let …
Buyout firm not shying away from Cisco, Oracle with its investments, 03/17/06
Don’t call Garnett & Helfrich Capital a venture capital firm. The two-year-old outfit labels itself a “venture buyout” company. Instead of investing its $350 million in brand new companies, it uses the funds it raises from limited partners such as …
CEBIT – Low power is future for high-powered servers, 03/15/06
The electricity consumed by a server over its lifetime is likely to cost as much as the server itself if energy costs continue to rise, according to one analyst. That should make energy efficiency a key concern for data center managers — and its a …
