Archive for January, 2007
Power, Cooling, and the Data Center
IT-Director.com – Sageza’s Amok Analysts – Looking Forward: Power, Cooling, and the Data Center In the future, we may look back on 2006 as the year that power consumption, cooling, and energy efficiency in the data center ceased being a back-burner issue for IT and facilities managers and elevated itself to become one of the [...]
Luxembourg Stock Exchange in the virtual world
Digital50: News and more Business News LOS GATOS, Calif.-(Business Wire)-January 23, 2007 – Transitive(R) Corporation, the leading provider of software that enables transportability of software applications across multiple hardware platforms, announced today that the Luxembourg Stock Exchange has successfully deployed Solaris/SPARC applications on x86-based servers in a virtualized environment using QuickTransit(R) for Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux/x86-64. This deployment [...]
Lower my firms’ carbon footprint
Green Business News – an IT Week blog: Bonuses key to energy saving drives UK firms were last week advised that they will have to introduce financial incentives if they wish to change employee’s behaviour and encourage them to reduce electricity costs and carbon emissions through energy efficient working practices. That was the main conclusion [...]
Datacenter investment continues through 2007
http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=5429 Managing Information Newshttp://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=5429″ The owner/operator sample spent overall an estimated £3 billion in 2006 on improving and increasing their data centre facilities. Just under one in four built new facilities in 2006; half refitted or extended their capacity within existing facilities and one in three has relocated or consolidated their operations. The research indicates that, [...]
Datacenter demands – bring new opportunities
Forecasts of the European Market for UPS in Datacentres – Market Research Reports – Research and Markets Growth in Financial, Banking and Telecom Sectors Drives Installation of Datacentres There are plenty of opportunities for manufacturers of uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems in datacentres when compared to other end-user segments. This is evidenced by the strong [...]
The next generation ‘virtual’ datacenter
Next Generation Data Centers – Evolving from Physical to Virtual Infrastructures – Computer Technology Review As organizations continue to scale their data centers to satisfy their business requirements, IT administrators invariably face the task of efficiently managing growth while ensuring maximum utilization of their data center resources. The current generation data center infrastructure, as shown [...]
Where does all my storage go?
Storage is a shared infrastructure, an IT supplied service. In this case, any application might easily use up a large percentage of your total space, reducing the space for your retail/capital markets groups. Good cross charging, effective reporting and openness as to what is happening in the storage area is key. Avoiding the situation where [...]
Lucasfilm’s datacenter rocks
http://news.com.com/2100-1026_3-6153647.html SAN FRANCISCO–Given the cult-film status of 1971′s THX 1138 in the George Lucas universe, it should come as little surprise that the total capacity of Lucasfilm’s giant data center is 11.38 petabits per second. Granted, that number–which represents the value one would get by adding up the bandwidth capacity of all the company’s 1 [...]
Unisys and virtualization for the enterprise
http://weblog.infoworld.com/ Unisys Corporation announced two new solutions for enterprise computing that enable clients to align business and IT more closely and reduce IT management costs. These solutions are a significant component in the Unisys vision for a Real-Time Infrastructure – a complete business life-cycle management capability that enables the monitoring and management of IT activities, [...]
Time to spin the plates..
http://www.itweek.co.uk/ Following extensive consultation with its partners, virtualisation vendor PlateSpin has unveiled its new global channel programme and is looking to have 25 fully trained partners on board by the end of the year. Last summer, the vendor initially started mooting changes to its channel programme (CRN, 3 August), but Patrick Malaperiman, regional director EMEA [...]
