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HP tailors datacentre tools for Oracle apps
News HP has released tools for its BladeSystem Matrix integrated datacentre package that aim to make it easier to run Oracle applications. The templates can be customised to ensure compliance with customers' datacentre policies.
[October 13, 2009, 16:39]
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. The new programs, which IBM announced on Thursday, are from the company's Tivoli unit...
[December 2, 2005, 9:05]
NetApp refreshes datacentre OS for the cloud
News The combination of NetApp's existing enterprise and clustered computing platforms provides customers with "the platform for the cloud," according to the company's datacentre chief, Jeff O'Neal. NetApp has released a new version of its Data Ontap...
[August 26, 2009, 12:34]
Building boom leads to datacentre crash
News Billions have been spent on data hosting, but now datacentre companies are in crisis Whatever glimmers of light Ernst is seeing, it's clear that the datacentre companies are quickly rethinking their expansion plans.
[May 10, 2001, 11:04]
VMware debuts datacentre automation suite
News VMware has rolled out a suite of products designed to automate datacentre tasks and manage service-level agreements. In a nutshell, vCenter is designed to automate tasks such as datacentre provisioning, monitoring, and change and performance...
[September 1, 2009, 12:00]
Cisco sees its future in the datacentre
News Cisco is expanding its fledgling datacentre strategy by releasing a second switching product family and by buying out the company that developed it. The new products, which will be known collectively as the Cisco Nexus 5000 series, are datacentre...
[April 9, 2008, 10:43]
Can tech giants talk you out of your datacentre?
Comment While neither is being noticed for building new datacentres the way Google, Microsoft and Amazon are, both are in the midst of massive, multi-year datacentre consolidations, and it is possible that they are quietly building lots of extra capacity...
[July 3, 2009, 12:01]
Microsoft uses trucks to install its datacentre servers
News The Chicago datacentre, for example, will use containers on the first floor and more traditional racks on the second level. The company has opened a datacentre in Quincy, Washington, and will also open a Chicago facility, as well as one in San...
[August 21, 2008, 8:24]
Giant Apple datacentre hints at cloud ambitions
News All three have a little over 400,000 sq ft of space dedicated to datacentre use. Miller said: "The early site plans indicate Apple is planning about 500,000 sq ft of datacentre space in a single building.
[August 20, 2009, 17:34]
MoneyWorks Datacentre
Downloads MoneyWorks Datacentre offers server-based multi-user accounting for multiple accounts databases on one central server. MoneyWorks Datacentre offers the same industry-leading functionality and performance as MoneyWorks Gold with the convenience of...
[September 24, 2009, 2:26]
VMware revamps datacentre tools
News Virtualisation specialist VMware has introduced its next generation of datacentre-virtualisation tools, called vSphere, and announced its vCloud initiative. Speaking on Tuesday at the VMworld Europe 2009 conference in Cannes, VMware president Paul...
[February 24, 2009, 11:16]
New backers join datacentre standards group
News The companies joined the datacentre Markup Language (DCML) Organization, a group of 37 companies working to establish a standard that will enable computing gear from multiple providers to share important operational information.
[November 18, 2003, 16:15]
Rackspace opens wood-powered datacentre
News Hosting company Rackspace's latest datacentre — its first in Europe — draws its energy from a wood-burning power station, a strategy which the company says is cleaner than many of the alternatives. In line with the feeling among many companies that...
[June 10, 2008, 17:47]
Intel plots the dynamic, scalable datacentre
Blog To run them efficiently you need an efficient architecture and, according to Intel, efficiency is what Nehalem, an eight-core Xeon, is all about for the chip is aimed at the datacentre and especially at the largest datacentres or mega datacentres.
[February 20, 2009, 11:12]
A new threat from the datacentre: you're making your staff deaf!
Blog Comment I keep being told datacentre managers are all for sensible redesign of the spaces, with hot and cold rows and better underfloor ventilation and what have you, but isn't this a bit like insulating your house - yes, great idea, I'll get round to it...
[June 25, 2008, 10:03]
Green IT strategies beyond the datacentre
News At the Business Goes Green conference in San Jose, California, Christopher Mines, senior vice president of Forrester Research, talks about strategies that managers can use to green IT in areas of an organisation outside the datacentre.
[June 24, 2008, 13:11]
Cutting datacentre costs main driver for virtualisation
News Nine out of 10 organisations that have adopted virtualisation technologies have done so to reduce datacentre costs, according to research from IDC. Of those organisations surveyed, almost half said they see virtualisation as standard for new...
[July 7, 2008, 15:48]
A new threat from the datacentre: you're making your staff deaf!
Blog An interesting side effect of datacentre growth has come to my attention, as part of this month's intense look by ZDNet.co.uk into server use in the UK (based originally into our poll of the ZDNet UK community, but since bolstered by commentary...
[June 18, 2008, 11:59]
Cisco brings out blades in grand datacentre push
News Cisco has launched 'Unified Computing', a next-generation datacentre effort that encompasses virtualisation, a group of major technology partners and the networking company's first foray into making server hardware.
[March 16, 2009, 17:01]
HP to integrate Opsware into datacentre
News Last year, however, the company switched gears and decided to concentrate its efforts on its software for managing applications in a datacentre. Aiming to boost its products for managing large corporate data centres, Hewlett-Packard plans on Monday...
[June 2, 2003, 8:23]
