Latest data center news.
HP blade server gets dense, 03/15/04
HP next quarter is expected to begin shipping a two-processor Xeon blade that is half the size of its current offerings, giving business users who need minimal on-system storage the ability to pack more processing power into smaller spaces.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0315hp.html?nl
EMC gets ready to show softer side, 03/15/04
What could drive a traditional hardware company like EMC to spend roughly $3.6 billion on three big software companies over the past nine months?
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0315emcilm.html?nl
4G Fibre Channel doubles speeds of SANs, 03/15/04
The 4G bit/sec Fibre Channel standard boosts the performance of storage-area networks by doubling speed while maintaining backward-compatibility with 1G and 2G bit/sec systems.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/tech/2004/0315techupdate.html?nl
Vendors tackle electronic records retention, 03/15/04
Bank of America’s securities unit last week agreed to pay a record $10 million penalty to the Securities and Exchange Commission for record-keeping violations and failing to produce documents – in particular, e-mails – requested as part of an SEC investigation.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0315content.html?nl
HP buys more identity mgmt. software, 03/11/04
HP Thursday announced its intentions to acquire TruLogica and roll the company’s user provisioning software into HP’s larger OpenView management portfolio.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0311trulogic.html?nl
Microsoft to update management software, 03/10/04
Microsoft is expected to detail features of its forthcoming Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2004 product and preview the beta version of Software Update Services (SUS) 2.0 at a conference in Las Vegas next week.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0310microtoup.html?nl
Fujitsu ships Xeon blade server, 03/09/04
Fujitsu Computer Systems on Tuesday will begin shipping its first blade server based on Intel’s Xeon DP processor.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0309fujitsu.html?nl
Opinion: Adding data center capacity block by block, 03/15/04
If you’re thinking you might reclaim some space in the data center when you migrate to blades, think again. Blade densities are so great they typically overpower data center cooling capabilities.
