Archive for December, 2008
Implementing Green IT need not be challenging
Express Computer Online Let us for once list down a few arguments about Green IT and then we would move on to other things not often discussed. Green IT is a lot of marketing hype but also has lot of business value which can reduce energy consumption by 10%-30% for an organization. It needs significant [...]
Talking about blade servers
IT News Africa There is no doubt that blade servers offer tremendous benefits to the data centre; providing high-density computing that in turn allows for a smaller footprint without the resultant power compromise. However, whilst blade servers take up less space and allow for the deployment of state-of-the-art technologies like VMware they do require some [...]
I’m A PC campaign continues
Market Watch SAN DIEGO, Dec 08, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Brickfish, the social media advertising network, and Microsoft have teamed up to add additional social media elements to its ‘I’m A PC’ campaign. Located at http://www.brickfish.com/microsoft, this program is an extension of the Microsoft Windows “Life Without Walls” campaign and invites people to submit photos [...]
New Data Center in Essex announced
Property Week Pioneer Technology has got the green light for a data centre in Loughton, Essex. Epping Forest District Council granted planning permission for the 80,621 sq ft centre on the 2.6 acre site. Charles Carden, of Jones Lang LaSalle’s data centre advisory group, which is marketing the site, said: ‘This decision only goes to [...]
Dell and EMC to continue to innovate storage
Zdnet blog Dell and EMC said Tuesday that they have extended their partnership through 2013. As part of that agreement, EMC will allow Dell to sell its Celerra NX4 storage system. EMC and Dell formed a partnership in October 2001 as the duo focused on storage customers. The alliance had mostly focused on the midmarket, [...]
Talking about the HP Proliant BL495c
CIOI BANGALORE, INDIA: HP launched its latest virtualisation blade, HP ProLiant BL495c, recently. The HP ProLiant BL495c virtualization blade claims to be the the world’s first server blade designed specifically to host virtual machines. The BL465c is an ideal platform for virtualized environments that require significant memory, data storage and network connections to optimise server [...]
Apologies I’m trying to establish your domain?
I was having a chat the other night talking with a CIO for a multinational. He’s just kicked off their virtualization and consolidation project. Their aim is to reduce their operating costs and migrate everything they can to a virtual server. As ever I’ve removed anything that might identify the organization. So what’s the key [...]
Talking about the storage blade
IT Business Edge A few weeks ago, I highlighted some new storage options for HP BladeSystem users in a blog about direct-attached storage for virtual environments. Turns out that HP was only one of a number of vendors introducing new or expanded storage options for blade enclosures. The past few weeks have seen a number [...]
Energy efficient data centers pay back
GreenBang.com Who says it doesn’t pay to go green in a down economy? Try telling that to NetApp, a California-based Internet services company that’s received a $1.43 million (U.S.) rebate check from the utility Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) thanks to its energy-saving data centre. Earth2Tech reports that NetApp’s new data centre in Sunnyvale boasts [...]
Visionman Computers continue to innovate
Trading Markets BOULDER, Colo., Dec 22, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ — SLCM | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating — Visionman Computers, a manufacturer of servers, gaming systems and notebooks for small business and home users, today announced the release of the latest addition to its popular Acserva(TM) brand. The Acserva ViXone7 family of [...]
