New Backers Join Datacentre Standards Group
News Such datacentre automation technologies are in their infancy, but are seen as crucial by analysts and technology buyers at large companies. The companies joined the datacentre Markup Language (DCML) Organization, a group of 37 companies working to...
[November 18, 2003, 16:15]
Datacentre: Heal Thyself
News IBM has released new datacentre software designed to automatically detect and fix performance problems, advancing its effort to build "self-healing" technology. Tivoli Systems Automation for Multiplatforms, also new, is designed to bring systems...
[December 2, 2005, 9:05]
Sun's N1 Gets Storage Management
News The datacentre automation initiative competes with similar efforts from rivals such as IBM, with its autonomic computing plan, and Hewlett-Packard, with its Utility Data Center. Sun has already released the first N1 products, which are designed to...
[April 8, 2003, 9:50]
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]
Why HP Is Different From IBM
News A lot of people associate virtualisation with the server, and what really needs to be done by customers is to virtualise the entire datacentre, the servers, the storage, the networking and the applications.
[March 31, 2008, 16:09]
SOA And RFID Top CIOs' Wishlists
News RFID should grow most significantly in closed-loop supply chains based on tracking high-value physical assets such as containers, trailers, datacentre and engineering assets, according to the survey. The other technologies in the top 10 were: IT...
[March 19, 2008, 8:13]
