Archive for November, 2006
Seagate announce new drives
Seagate Savvio hard drives embraced by technology leaders worldwide “29 Nov 2006 :Seagate Technology (NYSE:STX), today announced that its ground-breaking Savvio 2.5-inch small form factor enterprise hard drives have achieved unprecedented levels of adoption among leading system suppliers and solution builders. The rapid adoption rate of this innovative solution marks a new trend in the [...]
Blades cool you down
Techworld.nl “Financial traders at a London company wear shorts to work because heat from workstations under their desks is so bad. Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) has invented technology to take the workstations out from under the desks and replace them with blade-style computers tucked away in a separate data center.” HP are set to release trader [...]
Consolidating with blade servers
The typcial intranet/internet application we look after is three tier. So you have: Web server connects to transaction server which retrieves content from the database/data server. Now at the moment, you’ll have typically some medium/small web servers which use similar web servers to connect to something very powerful to handle/store your data. With the Bladecenter, [...]
Bladeservers for web?
Storage Boosts Blades “Vendors have focused on blade servers as a perfect complement to SANs and see the use of blade server-storage combinations as satisfying customer needs,” explains Smetannikov. “Many have launched new products that deliver not just storage functionality, but also applications that have been developed on the assumption of the availability of blade [...]
Hitachi blade servers available
Hitachi launches new-generation blade servers Hitachi has released it’s own blade server range, interestingly they can run itanium or xeon blades, and the article comments that the itanium can run their virtualization tool which will allow the itanium to be split running several operating systems. Interesting to see how Hitachi get on, it’s very competitive [...]
Compute on demand
The move by some companies to a compute on demand solution, a system where I say “I need 2000 servers with hosting and support, what’s the cost”, one where my involvement is to install my operating system, my layered components, and join it to my existing infrastructure. There are many benefits in terms of flexibility, [...]
Supercomputing using the Xeon processor
INDEPENDENT online “HP has announced enhancements to its Unified Cluster Portfolio for high-performance computing (HPC) at Supercomputing 2006. Product updates include support for new HP servers and workstations powered by Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® 5300 series processors. The HP Cluster Platform 3000 system now runs new Quad-Core processor-based HP ProLiant servers that offer customers greater energy [...]
New virtualization tool announced
CA Releases Virtualization Management Tool Looks very cool, managing a virtual environment can get more difficult as the environment scales up, there is VMware’s virtual center, but I expect that this tool from CA will work well with your existing TNG/NSM setup. Will need to take a look.
IBM Makes Linux and Grid Easier
IBM Makes Linux and Grid Easier “IBM has unveiled new service offerings to help ease adoption of Linux and grid computing technologies. Big Blue said its new Implementation Services for Linux and Grid and Grow Express Implementation are based on a new IBM Research-designed automated Web-based tool that can significantly reduce implementation time and expense.” [...]
Linux on grid
A lot of the banks have been migrating their existing applications on to grid, their batch type calculation applications for risk/reporting etc, are ideal if configured in the right way for grid. In the short term, if the application is windows based, it makes sense to keep it windows, however, in the long term, more [...]
