Archive for August, 2008
TrendPoint to reduce energy costs in the data center?
PRNewswire SAN RAMON, Calif., Aug. 26 /PRNewswire/ — TrendPoint Systems, a leader in data center energy management solutions, today announced a four-point plan aimed at dramatically reducing energy costs and carbon emissions at data centers. A recent study by McKinsey & Co. predicted that data centers will surpass the airline industry as the largest source [...]
Talking about Egenera and capacity-on-demand
The Earth Times MARLBORO, MA — 08/28/08 — Egenera, Inc. today announced an upcoming technology preview of its capacity-on-demand solution developed jointly with VMware, Inc. The company will showcase the solution at next month’s VMworld 2008, September 15-18 in Las Vegas at its Corporate Booth #328. Set to be unveiled for the first time on [...]
Changing your IT to meet trading conditions
Business Review Online While the jury is still out on whether the UK economy is heading into a recession or just a period of low growth, there’s never been a better time to look at some of the technologies that have the potential to reduce overall IT spending. So here is my pick of the [...]
Eight-core Sparc64 processor to come?
ComputerWorld August 27, 2008 (IDG News Service) Fujitsu is developing an eight-core version of its Sparc64 processor, which should give a performance boost to the Sparc Enterprise Servers that Fujitsu jointly develops with Sun Microsystems Inc. Fujitsu’s Takumi Maruyama mentioned the chip briefly at the end of a presentation on Tuesday at the Hot Chips [...]
IBM continues to do well
Reuters (Reuters) – U.S. computer group International Business Machines (IBM.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) widened its market share lead over rival Hewlett-Packard Co (HPQ.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) in worldwide server shipments in the second quarter, researcher IDC said on Wednesday. IBM had a market share of 33.2 percent, up from 31.1 percent [...]
HP Proliant DL785 G5 rocks at VMWare
HP and VMWare 08/08 HP ProLiant DL785 G5 posts #1 result for virtualization performance The HP ProLiant DL785 G5 achieved the highest virtualization performance and largest number of virtual machines on an x86 server, achieving 96 virtual machines with a score of 21.88@16 tiles. The leading result proves the ideal suitability of the HP ProLiant [...]
Data centers the next big energy users
prnewswire SAN RAMON, California, August 26 /PRNewswire/ – – Data centers, projected to be one of the world’s biggest energy users, face rapidly rising costs and tough carbon regulations TrendPoint Systems, a leader in data center energy management solutions, today announced a four-point plan aimed at dramatically reducing energy costs and carbon emissions at data [...]
Data center power debate continues
webitpr 26th August 08 – With a large number of organisations making energy cuts a top priority for 2008/9 (1), many are not taking green issues seriously enough and are adopting a do-it-yourself approach argues data centre consolidation specialists, RichardsoNEyres. This DIY approach has been revealed in research commissioned by RichardsoNEyres to highlight the main [...]
Verari continue to evolve the blade platform
Verari SAN DIEGO, Calif. – August 26, 2008 – Verari Systems, a premier developer of energy efficient data center consolidation platforms utilizing independent blade-based computing and storage solutions, today announced the addition of the SB5168XL DataServer to its blade-based hybrid server and storage system family. The newly introduced architecture combines an Intel® Xeon® 3000 series [...]
Citrix talk about XenApp 5
vnunet Citrix has announced a new release of its XenApp application virtualisation tool, adding Windows Server 2008 compatibility and speeding application performance for end-users. XenApp 5 also provides a common delivery method for both server-hosted applications and those running locally on client systems. XenApp was previously known as Citrix Presentation Server until it was re-branded [...]
