Previous
Energy-rating system introduced for servers
News Other criteria are the ability to report energy-related statistics to datacentre management software and relatively efficient idling, Fanara said. The first version of an 'Energy Star' rating for enterprise servers is poised for release in the US...
[May 18, 2009, 14:35]
BMC to buy BladeLogic for £398m
News Last July, HP said it would spend $1.6bn to buy datacentre-automation firm Opsware, a company founded by Marc Andreesen. Systems-management company BMC Software on Monday said it intends to buy BladeLogic for $28 per share, or about $800m (£398m...
[March 17, 2008, 14:41]
Citrix XenDesktop 4 adds features, changes licence
News Power users running high-end applications can be served by blade PCs in the datacentre, too. Citrix has updated its XenDesktop product, adding over 70 new features, and boosting performance, security and readiness for enterprise-wide deployments.
[October 8, 2009, 8:56]
IDC: Virtual servers set to overtake physical boxes
News By 2013, the ratio of virtual to physical machines in a typical datacentre will be 3:2. IT departments in Western Europe will deploy more virtual machines than physical servers for the first time this year, according to a new report from IDC.
[May 15, 2009, 16:02]
IBM: Mainframes enjoying global resurgence
News Many companies are facing both space and power constraints in their datacentres, and are clamouring for increased datacentre efficiency," he said. The mainframe is finding its way into emerging markets and is still holding strong globally...
[August 18, 2008, 11:14]
Citrix aims to ease servers' Web 2.0 workload
News In order to create a rich interactive experience, Web 2.0 applications need to maintain a one-to-one user connection to backend servers for extended periods, which severely taxes datacentre resources and adversely impacts performance and...
[April 14, 2009, 16:27]
Cable & Wireless switches chiefs
News One area likely to be addressed is the datacentre business. The chief executive responsible for issuing four profit warnings and cutting thousands of staff at troubled telecom group Cable & Wireless is to leave the company on 4 April.
[April 2, 2003, 17:58]
Google recognised for promoting women in IT
Blog The telco is aiming to reduce its datacentre-related carbon emissions by 80 percent over the next nine years. Google has been recognised as the employer who has done the most to promote the careers of women in IT.
[December 10, 2007, 14:43]
Google's desktop liberation tool
Talkback It is hard enough to keep control of your own data when it is stored locally or in a company datacentre, let alone when somebody else is caretaking it for you (see today's article about MS's Halo 2 source code being leaked).
[October 15, 2004, 14:01]
Storage devices get common crypto standard
News The Opal Security Subsystem Class Specification is designed for PC clients, the Enterprise Security Subsystem Class Specification is for datacentre storage, while the Storage Interface Interactions Specification focuses on the interactions between...
[January 29, 2009, 13:36]
Amazon expands cloud services for the enterprise
News Amazon recently opened a datacentre in Ireland for businesses wanting to use the services but keep their data in Europe for compliance and latency purposes. Amazon's cloud-computing division has lifted the lid on some of its forthcoming enhancements.
[May 5, 2009, 16:02]
HP extends physical and virtual systems management
News Insight Orchestration also includes a web-based portal and a workflow engine to help managers implement the software throughout a datacentre. HP on Thursday announced software that it says will provide system managers with template structures to...
[January 16, 2009, 14:54]
New 'Whistler' build adds antipiracy lock
News Whistler is the first release of Windows in which Microsoft is aiming to deliver a full range of flavors, from a 32-bit personal version to a 64-bit datacentre version, all based on a common NT kernel.
[January 9, 2001, 8:59]
Novell: all systems go
Blog Car manufacturer BMW is to use SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 with Xen virtualisation software in its datacentres to try to cut hardware costs and simplify datacentre deployment, Novell said. It's all systems go at Novell this week.
[June 5, 2007, 12:19]
Amazon's virtual private cloud goes public
News The term 'private cloud' usually refers to an on-premises datacentre that uses cloud-style technology. Amazon is opening up its Virtual Private Cloud to all users of its EC2 cloud-computing services, in a public beta test launched on Monday.
[December 15, 2009, 13:18]
Open-source developers reach for the cloud
News Evans Data said the shift to cloud services is seen in part as a way of cutting costs for power, staff and datacentre resources, but also as a cost-effective way of expanding a company's infrastructure.
[January 21, 2009, 15:52]
Gartner: Outsourcing prices to fall 10 percent
News Gartner expects a price fall in datacentre services of between five and 15 percent. The outsourcing market faces up to two years of falling prices, according to analyst firm Gartner. Prices in all areas of IT services will fall by between five and...
[March 23, 2009, 15:24]
Cisco enters rack-mount server market
News The certifications cover skills such as storage networking, datacentre networking infrastructure, datacentre application services and virtualisation. Cisco is to move into the rack-mount server business as part of its drive towards what it calls...
[June 5, 2009, 15:17]
Google Apps come out of beta
News Sheth also announced that the company would implement live replication of data to other locations "for near-instant disaster recovery, and special handling of business users' data in our datacentre operations".
[July 8, 2009, 12:25]
VMware announces Fusion 2.0, vClient Initiative
News VMware also announced its vClient Initiative, which is intended to foster "universal clients" that would let users access their set of desktop applications — hosted in a datacentre — from any device, anywhere.
[September 17, 2008, 8:19]
