Latest data center news.HP readies low-cost Fibre Channel drives, 04/06/04HP will begin offering low-cost Fibre Channel disks in July that will cost about one-half the price of current Fibre Channel storage, according to HP.https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0406hpreadi.html?nl McNealy: Don’t dismiss us in data centers, 04/05/04Sun warned us: You can interview CEO Scott McNealy, but don’t ask about the financials, which Sun said last week will include up to an $810 million loss for the latest quarter. We more or less stuck to technology and strategy questions, though Network World Senior Editors Deni Connor and Jennifer Mears still managed to get a rise out of McNealy. https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0405mcnealy.html?nlFeature: Extreme server makeovers, 04/05/04Server consolidation has become one of those inescapable trends in the computer industry – everyone, it seems, is either doing it, planning to do it or thinking they should be doing it.https://www.nwfusion.com/research/2004/0405makeover.html?nlBlades raise heat, power issues, 04/05/04At the recent Server Blade Summit in San Jose, attendees saw firsthand how the increase in power demands from the densely packed systems could affect enterprise data centers: An interoperability demonstration of working blade systems caused the power in the Wyndham Hotel that hosted the conference to flicker on and off sporadically throughout the event. https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0405blades.html?nlUniversity builds cluster in a day; fails to break into Top 500 fastest supercomputers, 04/05/04Students and staff at the University of San Francisco failed in their attempt last Saturday to build a supercomputer that would run a benchmark fast enough to secure it a place in the Top 500 list of supercomputers.https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0405flashmob.html?nl Alcatel launches workgroup switch, 04/05/04Alcatel last week launched an all-Gigabit switch aimed at high-end workgroups or for connecting servers or clustered nodes in a data center.https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0405alcatelswitch.html?nlVendors readying InfiniBand switches, 04/05/04InfiniBand switch vendors Topspin Communications and Voltaire today are expected to announce switches that expand their product lines to support bigger clustered systems. The companies say the moves will breathe new life into the high-speed I/O switching fabric technology that failed to take off as initially expected.https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0405infiniband.html?nlEMC introduces Clariion disk library, 04/05/04EMC Monday plans to announce a new line of storage arrays designed to let customers replace tape-based back-up systems with faster disk-based devices.https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0405emcintro.html?nlF5 brings traffic management to blades, 04/05/04F5 Networks is extending its presence in the emerging blade-server management market with new security and packet-inspection enhancements to its BIG-IP Blade Controller software.https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0405f5bring.html?nlTech Update: IPMI V2.0 eases blade management, 04/05/04High-performing, reliable systems used to have one drawback: They were usually built with proprietary components that offered little or no interoperability. Server management relied on proprietary tools that made it difficult for IT to manage multi-vendor server racks and blade servers. A standard was needed to tie things together, and it arrived in the form of the Intelligent Platform Management Interface.https://www.nwfusion.com/news/tech/2004/0405techupdate.html?nl Related content 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 news DRAM prices slide as the semiconductor industry starts to decline TSMC is reported to be cutting production runs on its mature process nodes as a glut of older chips in the market is putting downward pricing pressure on DDR4. By Sam Reynolds Nov 29, 2023 3 mins Flash Storage Technology Industry news analysis Cisco, AWS strengthen ties between cloud-management products Combining insights from Cisco ThousandEyes and AWS into a single view can dramatically reduce problem identification and resolution time, the vendors say. By Michael Cooney Nov 28, 2023 4 mins Network Management Software Cloud Computing opinion Is anything useful happening in network management? Enterprises see the potential for AI to benefit network management, but progress so far is limited by AI’s ability to work with company-specific network data and the range of devices that AI can see. By Tom Nolle Nov 28, 2023 7 mins Generative AI Network Management Software Podcasts Videos Resources Events NEWSLETTERS Newsletter Promo Module Test Description for newsletter promo module. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe