Archive for February, 2008
Talking about VMWorld Europe
http://www.virtualization.info/2008/02/live-from-vmworld-europe-2008-day-1.html As announced, virtualization.info is here at VMworld Europe 2008 in Cannes to live blog during the opening keynotes for the first two days. Diane Greene, VMware Founder and CEO, is on stage. She starts introducing the virtualization phenomenon, the VMware historm, results and technology evolution, along with some major customers case studies (today the [...]
Glasshouse Technologies talks about virtualization
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/renown-glasshouse-virtualization-expert-addresses-virtualization-implementation-at-vmworld-europe,289674.shtml FRAMINGHAM, Mass. – (Business Wire) GlassHouse Technologies, the leading independent IT infrastructure consulting and services firm, today announced that Ron Oglesby, director of virtualization and architecture services, will present at the VMworld Europe Conference on Wednesday, February 27 at 4:30 p.m. in Redaction room 2. With so many companies focusing on disaster preparedness, a [...]
Will home users sell their cpu time?
http://www.supercomputingonline.com/article.php?sid=15187 You might soon be selling your spare computer power over the internet, or perhaps buying in extra resources to solve a tricky problem. In either case, network administration used to be a stumbling block – until European researchers developed a successful free-market approach to grid computing. As you read this, millions of computers all [...]
Verari continues to innovate
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/correcting-and-replacing-verari-systems-redefines-data-center-consolidation-with,284935.shtml Energy and Cost-Efficient BladeRack 2 XL is the Second Platform in New X-Series and Delivers Remarkable Performance with Highest Storage and Compute Density Available Verari Systems®, a premier developer of energy efficient data center consolidation platforms and independent blade-based computing and storage solutions, today announced the introduction of the BladeRack® 2 XL computing platform. [...]
Virtualization of bcp site – the way forward
http://searchstorage.techtarget.com.au/topics/article.asp?DocID=1301076 While most of the buzz around server virtualisation in general, and VMware Infrastructure in particular, have been about server consolidation and greening the data centre, disaster recovery may be the IT area where server virtualisation technology has the biggest impact. Disaster recovery (DR) planning for mission-critical applications historically called for replicating the data for [...]
NetApp joins Blade.org
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0365095.htm Blade.org, the industry consortium driving innovation in blade-based solutions, announced that NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) has been named a governing member and that NetApp’s Adam Mendoza will join the organization’s board of directors. Mendoza is NetApp’s senior manager for the Virtualization and Grid Infrastructures business unit. One of his principal responsibilities is the development of [...]
DataSynapse continues the innovation
http://www.gridtoday.com/grid/2046889.html Not only did last Monday mark the release of DataSynapse’s FabricServer 2.5, but it also marked something much bigger for the infrastructure software vendor, and possibly for the distributed infrastructure software market as a whole. DataSynapse, the grid-computing-turned-application-virtualization vendor, has changed its tune again, this time burying both technologies and marketing itself as a [...]
Calculating the benefits of virtualization
http://www.platespin.com/Products/powerrecon/calculator.aspx With rising energy prices and growing concerns about global warming, power consumption is becoming a critical factor for data center budgets. The issue is compounded by high-density equipment such as blade servers, which need a lot of power to run, as well as significant HVAC resources. Properly planned and executed server consolidation and optimization [...]
Apple continue the notebook innovation
http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/ The latest Intel processor, a bigger hard drive, plenty of memory, and even more new features all fit inside just one liberating inch. The new MacBook Pro has the performance, power, and connectivity of a desktop computer. Without the desk part. http://www.apple.com/macbook/ Faster is just the beginning. The new MacBook features the latest Intel [...]
Fortis and ABN continue to do well
http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2008/02/25/afx4690215.html BRUSSELS (Thomson Financial) – Richard Wohanka, chief executive of Fortis Investments says the merger with ABN Amro asset management as part of Fortis NV’s wider acquisition of parts of Dutch peer ABN Amro NV is a ‘remarkably civilised, friendly, constructive process’. In an interview with the Financial Times, Wohanka said client reaction has been [...]
