Archive for February, 2007
Can I have a virtual BCP/Disaster Recovery infrastructure?
http://continuitycentral.com/news03090.htm SunGard Availability Services has unveiled its virtualization-based infrastructure and services initiative, which will extend its portfolio of information availability services to include additional virtualization- and automation-based IT recovery, end-user recovery, high availability and managed services. These services will provide organizations with a cost effective way to achieve recovery timeframes of less than four hours, [...]
Sun Microsystems bright future
http://www.channelinsider.com/article/Sun+Burns+Brightest+in+Latest+IDC+Server+Study/201913_1.aspx In a year of comebacks for once-struggling Sun Microsystems, the company’s server revenue grew 15 percent in 2006, which jolted the company into a tie for third place among the top five vendors, according to the latest IDC study. The survey, which IDC released on Feb. 26, showed Sun increasing its server revenue 24.4 [...]
Server market for India significant
http://www.dqchannels.com/content/reselleralert/107022705.asp NEW DELHI FEBRUARY 27, 2007 According to Gartner, the Indian server market has witnessed an excellent quarter as it annually grew by 23 percent in terms of the server revenue on the back of an overall shipment growth of six percent. With a shipment of 27,818 units, the Indian server market was pegged at [...]
IBM make supercomputer from blades
http://www.dailytech.com/IBMs+NextGeneration+Supercomputer/article5389c.htm IBM is developing a next-generation supercomputer that will become the world’s most powerful computer IBM plans on building Roadrunner, a next-generation supercomputer that will be located at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The computer will have a performance level of 1 petaflop, which is the equivalent of 1,000 trillion calculations per [...]
DatacenterDynamics goes to New York
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/2/prweb507601.htm London, England (PRWEB) February 28, 2007 — Building on the success of 2006, DatacenterDynamics returns to New York for a fifth year, on 20 March at the Hilton Hotel, Avenue of the Americas. The Conference is anticipated to be the largest ever gathering of US data center professionals (last year in New York over [...]
IBM makes HPC easier
http://www.verivox.de/News/ArticleDetails.asp?aid=45191&pm=1 (pressebox) Stuttgart, 28.02.2007 – IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today new initiatives designed to make it easier for clients to use “clusters†of servers for high-performance computing tasks. The company is investing in development, marketing and sales-channel programs that leverage IBM’s technology prowess in high-end supercomputing and deep experience delivering industry-focused solutions. Excellent, anything offering [...]
Cell blades gain more tools?
http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/1274239.html Allinea Software Announces Support for IBM Cell Platform Warwick, United Kingdom, February 19, 2007 –- Allinea Software today announced plans to offer both its Distributed Debugging Tool (DDT) and its Optimization and Profiling Tool (OPT) on the IBM QS20 BladeCenter Cell Broadband Engine platform. In addition to the powerful features that DDT and OPT [...]
IT is already green, but needs to be greener
http://www.itweek.co.uk/itweek/comment/2184164/green-beats-red-tape Despite plentiful meetings and conferences, there is still little near-term prospect of state-backed incentives to reduce datacentre power consumption. Thankfully, however, enlightened self-interest on behalf of IT vendors and buyers is likely to bypass the need for red tape. Business needs coupled with energy costs, corporate social responsibility are causing businesses to wake up [...]
Server sales on the rise
http://www.whatpc.co.uk/vnunet/news/2184244/server-sales-break-dotcom-boom Server sales reached $52.3bn in 2006, the highest level of overall sales since the market peaked in 2000, according to new data from analyst firm IDC. The new sales record is different from the buying spree on which companies embarked at the turn of the millennium, when they loaded up on low-cost industry standard [...]
Greengrid and the datacenter
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/02/26/HNgreengrid_1.html The IT industry’s thirst for energy is growing exponentially, far outpacing the supply of reliable, clean power. Now a group of leading IT firms has banded together to try to head off an impending energy crisis in the datacenter. Eleven enterprise heavyweights including Microsoft, IBM, Sun, HP, Intel, AMD, Rackable Systems, and VMWare announced [...]
