Archive for August, 2007
How fast is your storage?
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/08/gear6_aims_to_s.html For most applications, the storage industry is fairly adept at delivering requisite performance. All, that is, except for large data set processing. Think: Financial market modeling, or digital image rendering, or seismic analysis for the gas and oil industry. For these applications, thousands of servers churn away for days before the job is finished. [...]
Green data centers the way forward
http://www.vnunet.com/computing/news/2197221/citi-build-green-centre US banking giant Citi is spending €170m (£115.6m) on a new green data centre in Frankfurt, Germany. The installation is due to be completed in March 2008, and will provide IT services for Citi’s operations in Europe. ‘We were able to create a green facility within the same capital cost as that of a [...]
ABN Amro deal continues
http://business.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1384782007 THE Royal Bank of Scotland consortium bidding 71 billion (£48bn) to take over ABN Amro is understood to have examined the implications the volatile debt market and equity market conditions might have on its bid – but has decided it does not threaten its offer, despite dramatic falls in banking shareprices. It comes as [...]
Nivio and AMD enhance desktop virtualization
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,136617-c,nonwindowsoss/article.html Hosted desktop pioneer Nivio has taken an undisclosed investment from AMD to help it work on its ambition of making virtual Windows XP desktops and software accessible from any connected device — even a Linux PC or a smartphone. The Nivio service uses virtualization to provide users with a virtual PC, which they can [...]
SGI blades do well
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/AQTH11430082007-1.htm SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — With a new CEO at its helm, SGI completed its fiscal year 2007 with the launch of a breakthrough blade system purpose-built for high-performance computing (HPC), while racking up significant customer wins across SGI’s server and storage product lines. The company also released financial results for the Fiscal [...]
Updates about the Vista service pack
http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2007/08/29/announcing-the-windows-vista-service-pack-1-beta.aspx Now is the time and the time is now: let’s talk about Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1). Much has been made of what will or will not be included in SP1 and when it will be released (some accurate, some otherwise). I’m here to set the story straight: we’re in the process of [...]
IBM’s Cell Broadband Engine based blades rock
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0296425.htm IBM (NYSE: IBM) today introduced a new version of the breakthrough computing system based on the Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.) — the IBM BladeCenter® QS21 — that delivers twice the memory, density and I/O throughput as well as enhances power efficiency and the ability to work with existing IT infrastructure for both current and [...]
Does the government need to regulate green data centers?
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-28-2007/0004652897&EDATE= LONDON, ON, Aug. 28 /PRNewswire/ – Government needs to take a leadership role to stem the excessive power consumption curve by data center operators in North America, says Info-Tech Research Group. A recent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report predicting data center power bills will grow exponentially over the next four years is no [...]
Degree Controls shows how important thermal design is
http://www.degreec.com/dc_press.htm MILFORD, NH (USA) – Degree Controls, Inc. (DegreeC), a leading thermal management solutions provider, is pleased to announce the opening of a new CATT (Center for Airflow and Thermal Technologies) facility in Santa Clara, CA. The new CATT facility will offer West Coast companies the opportunity to utilize DegreeC’s experienced staff and custom hardware [...]
My ILO’s hung what do I do?
I got an email from Chris today asking for help, “you’ll know this, my ILO’s stopped working, it’s a production box so I can’t just reboot it, any ideas of stuff we could try other than replace the system board?” So here we go, my top ILO recommendations: Try running an ILO firmware upgrade – [...]
