Archive for April, 2008
Swapping hard drives on a Compaq/HP server
http://e4services.homestead.com/files/Support/ProliantHardDriveInstallReplacement.html Each SCSI channel on the controller supports up to 14 drives. Drives can be of the Wide Ultra3 or Wide Ultra2 type. Each drive on a SCSI bus must have a unique ID value in the range 0 to 15 (except ID 7, which is reserved for controller use). This value is set automatically [...]
RBS continues to exceed targets
http://www.forbes.com/afxnewslimited/feeds/afx/2008/04/23/afx4924762.html LONDON (Thomson Financial) – The Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc expects the synergy gains from the acquisition of Dutch rival ABN Amro to exceed targets, chairman Tom McKillop said. RBS led a consortium that bought ABN Amro (nyse: ABN – news – people ) for 72 billion euros last year. Spain’s Banco Santander [...]
Talking about energy efficient IT
http://www.greenbiz.com/news/reviews_third.cfm?NewsID=55903 IT managers are in a pickle these days: according to a recent report by the Uptime Institute, nearly half of data center managers expect to hit their maximum energy capacity in the next two years, even while IT demand keeps growing. At the same time, energy costs are making high-level computing an ever more [...]
The Green Grid announcement MOU with EPA and SNIA
http://www.thegreengrid.org/news/news_releases/ Portland, Ore. — April 21, 2008 — The Green Grid, a global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems, today announced Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). The Green Grid’s agreement with the EPA will first [...]
CA and Opalis announce drive to reduce IT operational costs
http://www.gridtoday.com/grid/2290517.html ISLANDIA, N.Y., and TORONTO, April 16 — CA, one of the world’s largest independent software companies, and Opalis Software Inc., the market leader in IT process automation software, today announced an OEM partnership that will enhance CA’s Data Center Automation (DCA) offerings with the award-winning IT process automation technology from Opalis. The joint technology [...]
Do we need to change the way we run IT?
http://www.advancedtrading.com/blog/archives/2008/04/time_to_end_wal.html;jsessionid=L2OKU1UIYYCN2QSNDLRSKHSCJUNN2JVN With investment banks reporting layoffs and tightening their belts in light of the economic downturn, one of the major themes emerging in IT circles is sustainable cost reduction. “The industry does carry a lot of cost,†says Bob Gach, global managing director capital markets at Accenture in New York. “The industry hasn’t had the [...]
Demand for data centers continues
http://www.smallcapnews.co.uk/article/Xploite_wins_27m_contract_to_supply_stateoftheart_/4908.aspx IT services group Xploite has picked up a £2.7 million contract through its Anix business to supply IBM technology as part of a £30 million roll out of a new data storage facility in Southampton. As part of the agreement, Xploite will supply the centre with innovative ‘pod’ storage technology from IBM. Each pod [...]
IBM continues innovation through iDataPlex
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/presskit/23962.wss and the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRZyz1vXkPE&eurl IBM today announced an entirely new category of server to address the growing Web 2.0 industry. Today, the companies behind the Internet rely on massive, sprawled out data centers that are pushing the limits of power and space available to them. This does sound very cool, data center energy costs [...]
Citigroup to talk with HP
http://www.finextra.com/fullstory.asp?id=18376 Top executives from Citigroup have approached Hewlett Packard (HP) for advice on how to revive the banking group’s flagging business without breaking up the company. According to a Financial Times report, which cites “people close to the situationâ€, top Citi executives have been holding talks with executives at HP to learn how the IT [...]
Dubai bank improves business continuity
http://www.ameinfo.com/153924.html Dubai Bank today announced that is has implemented a state-of-the-art Business Continuity Site for its core banking systems in a record time of nine months. The site is located 100 km away from the primary data centre, and required rigorous planning and execution to put into place. The implementation of a Disaster Recovery Site [...]
