Latest data center news.
Advanced technologies muddy software licensing, 06/13/05
Software licensing has never been simple, but the issue is becoming particularly thorny as IT managers deploy new data center technologies such as server virtualization, grid computing and multicore processors that stretch the limits of traditional …
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/061305-software-licensing.html?nl
Unisys touts on-demand servers, 06/13/05
Unisys, which leads the high-end Windows server market, is bringing capacity-on-demand features to its ES7000 servers, enabling end users to turn on processing power as needed.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/061305-unisys.html?nl
Brocade expands beyond Fibre Channel wares, 06/13/05
Brocade, which has lost market share and produced modest financial results of late, is making moves to better exploit its installed base of Fibre Channel switches, as well as expand into new data management areas. Last month, Brocade introduced storage-area network (SAN)-based server provisioning software, plus a wide-area file services (WAFS) appliance.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/061305-brocade-wafs.html?nl
Tech Update: Multi-core serves up performance, 06/13/05
IT managers are starved for more powerful computing and multi-tasking as their demands, data and services grow while their IT budgets shrink. Multi-core innovation begins the age when corporations can feasibly achieve mainframe-class performance on …
http://www.networkworld.com/news/tech/2005/061305techupdate.html?nl
Fedora Linux set for upgrade, 06/13/05
Red Hat is readying the first major update to its free Fedora Core Linux distribution since November 2004.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/061305-fedora-core.html?nl
Facing competition, JBoss updates software, 06/13/05
JBoss is reorganizing its partner program and considering moves into new types of software, including tools for building rich client interfaces, as it prepares to fend off increased competition from other providers of open-source middleware.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/061305-jboss.html?nl
