Archive for June, 2008
Fujitsu brings new energy efficient data center online
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2220339/fujitsu-opens-44-million-centre Fujitsu has opened a £44m energy-efficient data centre in the UK which it says will contribute towards saving enough electricity each year to power up to 6,000 homes. The centre was announced last August and is designed to address the shortage of data storage in London. Located 35 miles from the capital, the site [...]
IT contractors and the city – what’s the score?
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/06/30/231282/it-contractors-in-financial-services-upbeat-despite.htm IT contractors are not expecting a cull in the financial services sector despite the economic slowdown. According to research from contractor services provider giant group, IT contractors believe that any job cuts in the financial services sector over the next 12 months will not come close to the levels of those in 2001, the [...]
Welcoming Hyper-V to the market
http://uk.reuters.com/article/governmentFilingsNews/idUKN2630634220080626Â BOSTON (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it started selling its new server virtualization software about six weeks ahead of schedule, putting pressure on market leader VMware Inc. Server virtualization software allows one machine to perform the work of multiple servers, letting companies save money on equipment, electricity, maintenance and other costs. Microsoft [...]
HP to continues to support Linux
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2008/080623a.html HP Contributes Source Code to Open Source Community to Advance Adoption of Linux Continuing its efforts to advance customer adoption of Linux, HP today announced the contribution of its Tru64 UNIX Advanced File System (AdvFS) source code to the open source community. The AdvFS source code includes capabilities that increase uptime, enhance security and [...]
What do energy price rises in the UK mean for the data center?
I’ve been interviewing a few people over the last few days and I’ll be publishing the interviews tomorrow. One of the interviews is with Mike, a senior data center manager and consultant. Mike was telling me what he’s doing to minimize the impact of rising energy costs on the operational costs of his data centers [...]
Nationwide outsources networked IT services
http://www.finextra.com/fullstory.asp?id=18661 The UK’s Nationwide Building Society is outsourcing the management of its networked IT services to BT under a seven year, £160 million deal. The new deal replaces a 10-year contract for the supply of managed voice and data services signed in 2004. Under the new agreement, Nationwide will transfer all voice and data networking [...]
Data center demands continue in India – what’s next?
http://www.broad-group.com London, 22 June 2008 – A new report from consulting company and data centre market specialist BroadGroup finds that the India market is experiencing substantial growth and will reach more than USD1.5 billion in value by 2010. Yet power supply remains a critical challenge for the country. Based on a study detailing the profiles [...]
Talking about the Blade.org Symposium
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/061908-bladeorg-predicts-trends.html A blade server industry group founded by IBM and Intel is predicting three key trends that will reshape the data center: network convergence with Ethernet technology; advanced energy efficiency techniques such as water cooling; and “hyper consolidation” involving both virtualization and blade servers. Blade.org, which is hosting a technology symposium in New York Thursday, [...]
HP and VMWare continue the innovation
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/061808-hp-vmware-manage-virtual-servers.html?hpg1=bn LAS VEGAS — HP Wednesday announced an expanded partnership with VMware to jointly develop software to manage VMware hypervisor technology. While HP today offers base-level capabilities to manage VMware environments, company officials explained going forward the partnership will enable HP to instrument its management and automation software to tackle performance, configuration and availability on [...]
Sun continues it’s innovation of the blade platform
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-06/sunflash.20080618.2.xml DRESDEN, GERMANY International Supercomputing Conference (ISC), June 18, 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced the availability of its newest Sun Blade x64 system, offering industry-leading memory capacity to run the most compute-intensive HPC and enterprise applications. The Sun Blade X6450 Server Module, powered by four high-performance dual-or-quad core Intel Xeon processor 7300 [...]
