Archive for March, 2008
HP continues to innovate the Proliant server
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2008/080331xa.html GENEVA, Switzerland, March 31, 2008 – HP today announced two affordable, power-efficient HP ProLiant servers as well as the market’s first Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor-based x86 platforms. In addition, the company is offering an expanded customer relationship management (CRM) portfolio, Linux-based management tools and remote access technology. All of the products and solutions are [...]
Staff receive note regarding their iPhone
http://patphelan.net/apple-attempts-blackmail-with-its-irish-staff/ I have just had three phone calls from Apple staff in Hollyhill today panicking about a note they received this morning the contents of which are below. An interesting article about the terms and conditions that are reportedly attached to staff getting an iPhone, check it out.
Thinking about server consolidation
http://considerthesourceblog.typepad.com/consider_the_source/2008/03/server-consolid.html Service providers are increasingly touting “server consolidation†as a sure way to cut costs in IT sourcing contracts. Providers typically offer guaranteed price decreases based on a commitment to reduce the total number of client servers. However, guaranteed decrease in price shouldn’t drive hasty contract signing. The two primary alternatives include: consolidation guarantees within [...]
Innovation of the virtual infrastructure continues at VMWare
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/24/AR2008032401119.html VMware plans to improve virtual infrastructure through technologies such as high availability, automatic restart, better tolerance and masking of hardware failure, and site disaster recovery, the company’s chief scientist and co-founder, Mendel Rosenblum, told reporters in Bangalore on Monday. A virtual machine would, for example, be able to record its execution on another virtual [...]
GemStone and ITOCHU continue the innovation in the financial grid space
http://www.gridtoday.com/grid/2232600.html ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corp. (CTC) and GemStone Systems Inc., the leading provider of the Enterprise Data Fabric, announced a partnership to provide a data grid solution for financial computing systems. With this partnership, CTC will market GemStone’s GemFire Enterprise Data Fabric (GemFire EDF) and related software products on March 18. Recently, financial institutions have seen [...]
Grid continues to be an enabler
http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/2243313.html March 19 — The UK’s national computing grid, along with their counterparts in the US (TeraGrid) and Europe have helped UCL (University College London) scientists shed light on how life on earth may have originated. Deep ocean hydrothermal vents have long been suggested as possible sources of biological molecules such as RNA and DNA [...]
Taking your data center and the IT to the next generation
http://weblog.infoworld.com/real-time-enterprise/archives/2008/03/datacenter_in_a.html One of the biggest barriers to innovation today, is dealing with current datacenter complexity. This forces the largest IT investment dollars to be focused on keeping the lights on and containing infrastructure sprawl. The inability to focus a majority of time and investments on innovating and differentiating the business thru IT causes continued missed [...]
Secure the virtual machine as you would a physical one
http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/top/?p=299 Tall fences make good neighbors. That goes for life in suburbia and, apparently, on the inside of computers. The profile of virtualization is growing and, with it, the importance of virtualized security. It makes sense that this would be a big issue. It is impossible to get something for nothing: Virtualization squeezes multiple operating [...]
How to react to data center power use
http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/2243595.html According to a recent report by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), datacenters across the country consumed 61 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in 2006 at a cost of $4.5 billion — twice as much as in 2000. That’s more power than is required to operate the nation’s 250 million television sets. The EPA predicts [...]
Using grid for to benefit humanity
http://freemangoestech.blogspot.com/2008/03/world-community-grid-join-in-and-help.html World Community Grid’s mission is to create the world’s largest public computing grid to tackle projects that benefit humanity. Our work has developed the technical infrastructure that serves as the grid’s foundation for scientific research. Our success depends upon individuals collectively contributing their unused computer time to change the world for the better. A [...]
