Latest data center news.Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Data Center News Alert! This newsletter will provide headlines and links to all the latest news on technologies that are transforming the data center – like grids, utility computing, blade servers and much more. We hope you’ll find this weekly news alert informative and useful. Thanks for joining us. Please send any feedback to mailto:jcaruso@nww.comVMware points users toward utility computing, 11/10/03VMware’s new Virtual Center, announced in June as Control Center, provides a single interface for managing virtual machines that run Windows, NetWare or Linux on multiple physical servers. With Virtual Center, users can do things such as provision multiple systems at once by creating configuration templates that can be copied and shared across multiple servers for quick deployment. https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1110vmware.html?nlVendor brings Cobol apps to the Web, 11/10/03 The theme for Web services is integration, and Micro Focus plans to bring Cobol into the picture by equipping companies with tools that convert the legacy code to align with the emerging technology.https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1110microfocus.html?nlCancer center SAN ensures on-time treatment, 11/10/03At the Cancer Therapy & Research Center in San Antonio, Texas, more than 200 patients each day receive radiation therapy on time because of an iSCSI storage-area network and some innovative remote boot technology.https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1110san.html?nlStart-up takes aim at document management, 11/10/03 Start-up PSS Systems last week unveiled its first product: software aimed at helping companies track and secure documents that are distributed inside and outside of corporate boundaries.https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1110pss.html?nlQ&A: Travelocity’s flight to open systems, 11/10/03The extended enterprise concept is as old as networking itself, and as young as e-commerce. Few companies typify that old/young dichotomy better than Travelocity, the Internet child of Sabre Holdings – granddaddy of extended enterprises. https://www.nwfusion.com/ee2/2003/1110qa.html?nlHow far can we go? 11/10/03Many network executives and industry analysts clearly can see e-business’ next milestone. Some call it the “real-time enterprise,” a business structure that allows the automatic routing of information to the right person at the right time – instantaneously if required. Hand in hand with that, they foresee how the network would become a commodity utility.https://www.nwfusion.com/ee2/2003/1110barriers.html?nlMaking application performance a non-issue, 11/10/03Applications at Best Buy Canada/Future Shop can be so complicated that analyzing performance takes no fewer than eight monitoring tools. Jason Kennedy, a systems management analyst at the electronics retailer’s headquarters in Burnaby, B.C., is tackling one of the more challenging management tasks in networking today: understanding application behavior enough to control it. This isn’t a new issue, by any means. But it is one growing in importance as companies continuously intertwine their business processes with those of customers and suppliers.https://www.nwfusion.com/ee2/2003/1110performance.html?nlWeb integration: Then & now, 11/10/03B2B e-commerce pioneers Ford Motor Credit, Sigma-Aldrich and Staples continue to define the cutting edge. In the mid- to late 1990s, Sigma-Aldrich was among the companies getting business-to-business Web efforts off the ground, making decisions on architectures and vendors that it couldn’t be sure would last for the long term. But it became well known in the chemical industry for its early e-commerce efforts, just as Ford Motor Credit did in the automotive financing business and Staples in the retail world. Sigma-Aldrich and Ford Credit, in fact, are past winners of our E-comm Innovator Award, while Staples has shared its experiences with us throughout the years.https://www.nwfusion.com/ee2/2003/1110webprogress.html?nl Related content news US will take decades for supply chain independence in chips: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang pointed out that Nvidia’s latest AI servers have 35,000 parts from all over the world, including Taiwan. By Sam Reynolds Nov 30, 2023 4 mins CPUs and Processors Technology Industry news Why are 5G private networks failing to take off in India? Lack of clarity on spectrum allocation coupled with high capital expenditure are leading to low uptake of 5G-enabled private networks in India. By Gagandeep Kaur Nov 30, 2023 5 mins Private 5G news HPE goes all-in for AI with new hybrid cloud compute, storage products At its annual Discover conference, HPE debuted a range of hybrid cloud offerings designed to allow enterprises to optimize generative AI model development and implementation. By Sascha Brodsky Nov 30, 2023 6 mins CPUs and Processors Flash Storage Generative AI news Dell provides $150M to develop an AI compute cluster for Imbue Helping the startup build an independent system to create foundation models may help solidify Dell’s spot alongside cloud computing giants in the race to power AI. By Elizabeth Montalbano Nov 29, 2023 4 mins Generative AI Podcasts Videos Resources Events NEWSLETTERS Newsletter Promo Module Test Description for newsletter promo module. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe