Archive for October, 2007
Egnera continues to do well
http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns102907-story01.html Egenera has been a pioneer in the areas of blade server design and server virtualization and systems management since it was founded seven years ago. Up until now, if you wanted to use Egenera’s PAN Manager virtualization management tools, you had to buy Egenera’s BladeFrame platform. But soon, that will change. Egenera announced today [...]
GemStone announce GemFire Enteprise 5.1
http://www.gridtoday.com/grid/1863711.html BEAVERTON, Ore., Oct. 30 — GemStone Systems, the leading provider of distributed data management and virtualization solutions, today announced GemFire Enterprise 5.1, a core component of its high-performance, enterprise data fabric (EDF). The new GemFire Enterprise 5.1 release serves as a distributed operational data management infrastructure that sits between clustered application processes and back-end [...]
Platform purchases Scali Manage business
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,209722.shtml TORONTO, and MARLBOROUGH, Mass., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ — Platform Computing announced today it has acquired the Scali Manage business from Massachusetts-based Scali Inc. Scali Manage(TM) is an integrated and flexible High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster management and monitoring system. This strategic acquisition supports Platform’s vision to be the partner of choice for HPC infrastructure [...]
Everything you wanted to know about Cell processors
http://www.blachford.info/computer/Cell/Cell1_v2.html The Cell concept was originally thought up by Sony Computer Entertainment inc. of Japan, for the PlayStation 3. The genesis of the idea was in 1999 when Sony’s Ken Kutaragi [Kutaragi] “Father of the PlayStation†was thinking about a computer which acted like Cells in a biological system. A patent was applied for listing [...]
Blade servers for small business
http://www.informationweek.com/hardware/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202201558&subSection=Systems+Management The blade server wars are heating up, and this time the battlefield is the small and mid-sized businesses, whose specific needs and volume potential have led market leaders Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HP) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) to tailor specific new platforms to meet their requirements. IBM since June has been touting its BladeCenter S platform, [...]
Low power Xeon processor announced
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1937864,00.asp Intel has taken the wraps off of a new, low-power, dual-core Xeon chip for blade servers, the first of three new server chips it will roll out in coming weeks. The chip maker on March 12 said it had begun shipping its Xeon LV chip. The Xeon LV is Intel’s first blade server-oriented processor [...]
The Eco Innovation Initiative
http://www.domain-b.com/companies/companies_s/sun/20071029_consortium.html New Delhi: Sun Microsystems, in collaboration with APC-MGE, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Hitachi Data Systems and Wipro Infotech today announced a new eco consortium to address the growing issues of limited power, space, and energy, in a climate of increasing demand for performance and utilization. The consortium is part of Sun Microsystems’ new Eco [...]
Happy birthday to us (bladewatch that is)
http://www.bladewatch.com/2006/10/27/ So the blog is officially one year old (and a bit) that’s 2262 posts (so feedburner tells me). So what’s next for bladewatch? Well the coverage continues as does my commitment to the blog, it’s been a learning experience for me both in terms of writing and learning about new technology as well as [...]
Data center management gets more complex
http://hardware.silicon.com/storage/0,39024649,39168991,00.htm and http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0321243.htm Data centre chiefs are struggling with staff shortages, more work to do and minimal increases in budgets. According to research from Symantec, the biggest challenges for data centre managers are tough internal service-level agreements, continuing data centre expansion and staffing issues. Two-thirds of respondents said formal internal service-level agreements exist in their [...]
Mapping the data center
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9044578 October 29, 2007 (IDG News Service) — BOSTON – Wachovia is working on a project of staggering scope: A 3-D map of the firm’s data-center operations. The effort has been underway for about eight months, said Jacob Hall, a Wachovia vice president and head of the company’s platform design and data center, technology products [...]
