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Who cares about green IT? Not us!
Blog What datacentre managers are saying is that their facilities are full or filling fast, with 15 per cent saying that their data centres are already at capacity and that they'll be forced to build new sites or refurbish existing sites within the...
[September 29, 2009, 12:18]
More low-energy datacentres reach planning stage
Blog I've noted in a previous blog that no-one has yet appeared to have built the nirvana of data centres: a totally automated, virtualised system where the top level of management is the data centre rather than the server.
[June 4, 2009, 18:07]
Cambridge rents out HPC for the cloud
News Janet the national education and research network] is looking at shared services for its data centres; it's only a small step to say 'let's put a supercomputer in there and have regional HPC centres'," he said.
[May 11, 2009, 16:57]
Gartner sees boom for virtualisation in slump
News The current recession that is affecting various economies in EMEA could prove to be a short-term brake on uptake of virtualised technologies, so vendors must be aware of how the technology can save organisation money by better server use and lower...
[April 9, 2009, 12:35]
HP takes the battle to Cisco with new servers and software
Blog That’s a shot fired across the bows of network vendor Cisco, which just two weeks ago unveiled a new unified computing initiative, at whose core is a scheme to manage and automate the movement of virtual machines and applications across servers...
[April 2, 2009, 16:03]
Inside IBM's only European Cloud Centre
News It is part of a network of cloud centres which IBM is building around the world. These cloud centres are made up of a hub, surrounded by facilities. However, IBM does not plan to build all the cloud centres from scratch.
[March 3, 2009, 16:21]
Fine tuning the virtual engine
Blog Smaller (I would logically imagine) but on the same side of the virtual coin is CiRBA who contend to be able to combine technical, business and resource constraints to determine optimal workload placements and resource allocations within...
[January 27, 2009, 23:19]
IBM joins the 'cloud computing' bandwagon
News It has new centres in Sao Paulo, Bangalore, Seoul and Hanoi, bringing the total number of its hubs to 13. For instance, IBM's clients and partners will be given access to specialists in its 13 cloud-computing centres and 40 IBM Innovation Centers...
[October 6, 2008, 17:16]
Microsoft pushes seamless communications
News Data centres can have multiple servers controlled by one console. Microsoft also said it would continue to develop its business-intelligence offerings, which include elements of SQL Server, Microsoft Server and Microsoft Office System client tools.
[March 5, 2008, 17:10]
Oracle, BEA and the big virtual Java adventure
Blog Perhaps costs are so high as we are all being so inefficient, IDC recently reported that there is $140 billion of unutilised server assets floating around in data centres. In many data centres, one set of servers is assigned to each application; so...
[January 16, 2008, 16:21]
Sun: IT departments must tackle energy ignorance
News We have two data centres: the main production one and one for test and development. However, when pushed on why thin clients have never really found traction outside specific niches such as call centres, Wilkinson admitted that convincing employees...
[November 28, 2007, 16:31]
Microsoft to offer unbundled hypervisor
News That will lead to a fundamental shift in how data centres are run. Microsoft also announced that it will have eight versions of Windows Server, ranging from $469 (£227) for its web server product to $3,999 for the data-centre edition.
[November 13, 2007, 8:42]
Gartner urges action on data-centre emissions
News The intensive power requirements needed to run and cool data centres now account for almost a quarter of global CO2 emissions from information and communications technology, according to Gartner, the analyst firm.
[October 11, 2007, 11:46]
Social networking driving server sales
News But the marrying of virtual and physical tools is causing "real havoc" in data centres with ad hoc, internally developed management tools not doing the job effectively, according to Green. But Richard Green, executive vice president of software at...
[October 5, 2007, 8:35]
Extreme Blue: IBM's student demo review
Reviews Designed for installation in large sites such as airports and shopping centres, Locus uses Bluetooth-enabled devices like printers as fixed elements of an ad-hoc network, and could direct you to the nearest coffee shop or toilet, for example, or...
[September 13, 2007, 14:18]
VMware: Not just hypervisor revenue
News We do think virtualisation will be ubiquitous on the hardware; and in automated data centres for someone running three servers to 3,000 servers, virtualisation will just be a given," she said. The open-source Xen hypervisor today is available for...
[September 12, 2007, 9:00]
Dell favours Linux for virtualisation
News He spoke to an audience gathered for the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, addressing the growth of the open-source Linux operating system — which he said he hoped would hit $1bn ($495m) in licensing revenue by 2011 — and what it means for...
[August 8, 2007, 8:34]
Cisco fleshes out 'Data Center 3.0' strategy
News We are investing in innovations we believe will help our customers to transform their data centres to achieve improved efficiency and increased business productivity. Cisco is hoping to attract other companies which want to use the VFrame DC...
[July 25, 2007, 16:49]
HP reveals green storage technology
News HP says that its new storage array technology will cut power and cooling costs in data centres by 50 percent, but the company offered few details on how this was to be achieved. Useful for customers not connected into a storage area network, the...
[June 20, 2007, 10:39]
Linux Foundation tackles power concerns
News Many of the Linux Foundation's members — including names such as IBM, Novell, Intel, Sun, AMD and Dell — are also involved in the Green Grid, a consortium of companies dedicated to reducing power consumption in corporate data centres.
[June 19, 2007, 11:29]
