Archive for May, 2007
We don’t care about cost or energy, we want the fastest..
My little brother has been working in the data center field, he sometimes tells me what’s going on, and he was in a meeting the other day, and thought he’d tell me what happened. He was there in a data center protection guy role – (every system(s) purchased have to be approved by data center [...]
Europe loves servers – can we have some more please?
http://www.itjungle.com/breaking/bn052907-story01.html Last week, the box counters at IDC and Gartner provided their quarterly estimates of global server sales by server type, operating system, and vendor. But IDC also went the extra mile and provided some insight into server sales in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. In what must seem like something of a dream [...]
Xen 3.1 goes improves 64 bit support
http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/linux/2007/0528linux2.html A new version of the open source Xen virtualization stack was released last week, offering up improved support for 64-bit systems, improved virtual server maintenance tools, and a new API for Xen software partners to play with. While Xen 3.1 has no earth-shattering new features, some incremental improvements will be useful to serious users [...]
The Next Generation Data Center conference announced!
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp%3FndmViewId%3Dnews_view%26newsId%3D20070530005712%26newsLang%3Den FRAMINGHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Next Generation Data Centerâ„¢ (NGDCâ„¢), the only strategic IT event focused on the complete end-to-end solution and new technologies for the data center, has announced that the Ethernet Alliance and Open Grid Forum (OGF) have both signed on as sponsors. The networking and grid technology focuses of the event will be further [...]
Platform Grid scales wonderfully
http://www.gridtoday.com/grid/1589351.html TORONTO, May 30 — Platform Computing today announced an update to its Symphony 3.1 software — a high-performance, low-overhead, high-scalability solution for grid computing in the financial services market. Symphony 3.1 allows customers to build a grid scalable up to 4,000 CPUs per application while reducing latency and ensuring optimal utilization. Symphony was tested [...]
The merger and corporate social responsibility
http://www.theherald.co.uk/business/news/display.var.1436706.0.0.php ABN Amro chief executive Rijkman Groenink, who has criticised Royal Bank of Scotland’s break-up bid for the Dutch bank while calling a friendly deal with Barclays “fantastic”, does not figure in the committee formed to weigh the competing offers. In line with the wishes of ABN shareholders sympathetic to the higher 71bn (£48bn) bid [...]
There’s a man here to check your carbon footprint…
http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/analysis/2191001/government-backs-smart-meter The government is considering plans that would require energy suppliers to install smart meters in all but the smallest businesses within five years. Smart metering provides more accurate, real-time tracking of electricity consumption, giving customers greater insight into, and control over, usage. The technology is being tested in homes by providers including Centrica and [...]
What’s next in the ABN Amro merger saga?
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/5e2592a8-0f6d-11dc-a66f-000b5df10621,dwp_uuid=e8477cc4-c820-11db-b0dc-000b5df10621.html Bank of America is unlikely to re-enter talks with RBS over LaSalle, ABN Amro’s US operation, unless it believes the Dutch Supreme Court will uphold the decision of the lower court, a source familiar with the situation speculated. Another person also suggested the fact that RBS failure to strike a deal with BoA indicates [...]
RBS to use consolidation to aid cross selling
http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2190980/rbs-consolidates-customer The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is to consolidate data from more than 1,500 sources to give sales staff a single view of customer information. The bespoke tool will be a single port of call to establish which banking services a customer uses, their behaviour patterns and credit risk. The system will allow employees [...]
HP works with WWF to establish climate change projects
http://www.pnnonline.org/article.php?sid=7483&mode=thread&order=0 HP announced plans to allocate more than $2 million in cash and HP equipment to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to establish three projects aimed at addressing the causes and consequences of climate change on a global basis. The projects, which focus on analysis, research and data collection, include: The Epicenter for Climate Conservation [...]
