Archive for June, 2007
Disaster recovery is increasingly important
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6745635,00.html LONDON (AP) – British police defused a bomb found in a parked car in central London on Friday, and the new government called an emergency meeting of senior security chiefs to investigate what many feared could have been a planned terror attack. A British security official told The Associated Press that the car was [...]
Data centers to keep GP services online
http://www.onestopclick.com/news/Data-centre-to-flood-rescue_18194657.html or http://www.ehiprimarycare.com/news/item.cfm?ID=2823 UK data centre has ensured that GP practices in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire have been able to maintain their business continuity despite floods which have seen parts of England submerged under feet of water. At least ten GP surgeries had PCs badly damaged by the floodwater, but thanks to the remote data storage [...]
Sun gets all supercomputer ready as well
http://www.sun.com/servers/hpc/SunConstellationPreview.jsp The Sun Constellation System is the world’s first open Petascale computing environment combining ultra-dense high performance computing, networking, storage and software into an integrated system that delivers massive scalability, dramatically reduced complexity and breakthrough economics. The Sun Constellation System brings key innovations to market and is designed for radical simplicity that puts a new [...]
IBM’s supercomputer announced!
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/hardware/soa/IBM-s-Blue-Gene-passes-petaflop-milestone/0,130061702,339279111,00.htm and http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/pr.nsf/pages/rsc.bluegene_2004.html IBM has devised a new Blue Gene supercomputer — the Blue Gene/P — that will be capable of processing more than 3 quadrillion operations a second, or 3 petaflops, a possible record. Blue Gene/P is designed to continuously operate at more than 1 petaflop in real-world situations. Blue Gene/P marks a significant [...]
How can I submit an article to bladewatch?
Got an email from a reader saying, have you read this? I think this would be an interesting post! It was an article about the HP and Microsoft partnership about Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster. It’s great that people are reading the blog and thinking of articles that fellow readers might find of value. So if [...]
A brief conversation about virtual desktop and blade pcs
I had dinner with a friend who’s been writing some documentation for his companies projects to implement blade workstations, and desktop virtualization, as we had dinner, I took the opportunity to quiz him about them and this is the result: What blades will you look at? Well we’re going to test the HP and the [...]
How many strategies does your IT have?
A lot of money is wasted in the enterprise through poor communication, through the detachment of the infrastructure teams, the evolution teams and the business/end users. That the evolution teams, the guys that work out what operating systems, what servers, what tools to use, might make a decision which causes disruption or has the opposite [...]
Barlcays to avoid compulsory redundancies
http://investing.reuters.co.uk/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=mergersNews&storyID=2007-06-28T143048Z_01_L28678269_RTRIDST_0_ABN-BARCLAYS-JOBS.XML LONDON, June 28 (Reuters) – British bank Barclays Plc (BARC.L: Quote, Profile , Research) said it plans to avoid compulsory redundancies where possible for its employees and for staff at its Dutch takeover target ABN AMRO Holding NV (AAH.AS: Quote, Profile , Research). Barclays said on Thursday it wanted to provide clarity and assurances to staff [...]
Which blades should I buy? IBM/HP/Dell?
The following is a list of blade server manufacturers and what I see as their potential benefits, in the interests of being impartial, if I forget anyone, do let me know, it certainly wasn’t intentional, and it’s simply to illustrate what vendors are out their, that there are many options all with different products that [...]
The art of the server decommission/recycle process
Many of the banks and the enteprise organizations are going through a consolidate exercise; whether it’s upgrading to windows 2003, deploying VMWare and virtualizing the infrastructure, or even consolidating data center space. With this comes the art of the decommission. Of taking the servers that are no longer required and removing them in a way [...]
