Archive for January, 2009
Talking about green storage
Earth Times SAN JOSE, Calif. – (Business Wire) The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) announced today the availability for public review and comment its initial Green Storage Initiative (GSI) Green Storage Power Measurement Specification. The initial Green Storage Power Measurement Specification includes a “Green Storage Taxonomy†for classifying storage products based on energy consumption characteristics [...]
Seagate hard drive firmware
PC Pro Seagate has revealed a firmware error on certain models of its hard disks is barring users from their data. Reports of high failure rates on Seagate drives have been circulating for days online. Now the company admits that faulty firmware is to blame for the reports. The fault is occurring on the company’s [...]
Talking about cloud based solutions
CNN LOTUSPHERE — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced LotusLive (www.LotusLive.com), a cloud-based portfolio of social networking and collaboration services designed for business. LotusLive will extend customers’ current investments and link to everyday business services. LotusLive.com is now the place to find all of Lotus’ cloud solutions including email, collaboration and Web conferencing services. “With LotusLive, [...]
Sun continues the innovation
Sun SANTA CLARA, CA January 7, 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced it has acquired Q-layer, a cloud computing company that automates the deployment and management of both public and private clouds. The Q-layer organization, based in Belgium, will become part of Sun’s Cloud Computing business unit which develops and integrates cloud computing [...]
Talking about the energy efficient data center
Network World In the spring of 2007, UPS’s Ben Swanson and Joe Parrino attended a conference on the growing problem of data center power consumption. One suggested remedy was to benchmark and analyze the power flowing through the data center. So after the conference, Swanson, the facilities department manager, and Parrino, a data center facilities [...]
Can someone virtualize my mail box, my mac?
I lack a Blackberry (or blueberry as my wife called it). At some point I had one, but then I got a laptop, found it was easier to log into my gmail account and check my email that way, the Blackberry became redundant in some respects. I’m wondering if I should get one again though, [...]
Is 2009 the virtualization year?
CNN NEW YORK (Fortune) — VMware hopes virtualization becomes a reality for corporate America in 2009. It has good reason to be hopeful: As businesses look to cut costs (and maybe do something nice for the planet in the process), virtualization – the idea of using a single server to run many operating systems and [...]
Thinking about Sun and virtualization
Eweek Sun’s xVM VirtualBox 2.1 desktop virtualization software offers a variety of new features, from full support of VMware VMDK and Microsoft VHD hard drive image files to support for hardware virtualization from Intel and AMD. Sun is making the open-source, no-cost software more powerful, thus creating a good alternative to VMware Workstation and Parallels [...]
Rich online media needs more IT infrastructure
Realwire Interxion, a leading European operator of carrier-neutral data centres, today announced that digital entertainment services company RealNetworks, Inc. has significantly increased its presence in the company’s Frankfurt data centres. RealNetworks is experiencing higher demand for its digital media and entertainment services and plans to expand its Interxion-based infrastructure by approximately 75 per cent. Since [...]
What three things should you be thinking about?
For me the three big things your CIO, CFO and CEO should be thinking about are: Data center consolidation – I want fewer more efficient data centers doing more for my business – does my BCP/disaster recovery site need to be so large – could I rent a VMware virtual disaster recovery facility? Virtualization including [...]
