Archive for October, 2009
Bladewatch.com: May the learning, the innovation continue
We’re doing some work on the bladewatch site over the next few weeks, and we’re going to take a look at the format of the site/content. The content, the essence of what the site represents isn’t going to change (we’ve been doing this for 3 years or 4759 posts), we’re simply looking to keep the [...]
IBM to provide IT infrastructure and services
CBR Online IBM has entered into a three-year $200m deal with Datacom, part of Videocon Industries group, to provide IT infrastructure and services to support its commercial launch of telecommunication services in India. IBM said, that the partnership will help Datacom to accelerate time-to-market for new services, adapt quickly to meet future market requirements, reduce [...]
3PAR to help with storage efficiency
MarketWire PHOENIX, AZ–(Marketwire – October 12, 2009) – Storage Networking World–3PAR® (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today the introduction of several industry-first, next-generation thin technologies designed to reduce the up-front cost of a storage technology refresh by up to 60% as compared to legacy arrays and keep costs low over [...]
DataCenter Insights 2010
http://www.datacenterinsights.com/ DCI 2010 is an invitation-only, hosted summit designed for senior IT and business executives who want to understand how current and future technology trends will impact their datacenter vision and strategies. This summit will offer strategic level insights into what enterprise leaders should do to optimize their datacenters for maximum business value. This unique [...]
Kontron delivers a virtualization platform
http://www.windowsfordevices.com/c/a/News/Kontron-KISS-4U-KTQ45/ Kontron has announced a new server touted as “the ideal virtualization platform for industrial applications.” The KISS 4U KTQ45 features up to 8GB of DDR3 memory, seven drive bays, four PCI slots, and PCI Express slots, the company says. Kontron’s KISS 4U KTQ45 is said to be aimed at “computing-intensive embedded applications such as [...]
Thoughts on IBM VMControl
Information Week IBM (NYSE: IBM) will bring the virtual machines of several vendors under a new heterogenous management umbrella called IBM VMControl, the company announced Tuesday. The product will debut in December.VMControl will manage VMware, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)’s Hyper-V, Linux KVM, and Xen virtual machines running on x86 servers, PowerVM on IBM’s Power System servers, [...]
Innovation and investment in SPARC continues
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS112570+13-Oct-2009+BW20091013 Enhanced Server Line With Faster SPARC64 Processors Sets Four New World Records, Delivers Best Investment Protection on the Market TOKYO & SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(Business Wire)– Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) and Fujitsu (TSE:6702) today announced new quad-core SPARC64(TM) VII processors and an Enhanced memory controller for the SPARC Enterprise(R) server line. The faster SPARC64 VII [...]
Locking down the IT continues to be a challenge
http://www.finextra.com/fullstory.asp?id=20672 According to Manhattan prosecutors, Adeniyi Adeyemi was employed as a computer technician contractor at the headquarters of the Bank of New York in 2001. During his time there, he stole the personal identifying information of dozens of Bank of New York employees, mainly in the IT department, where he was assigned, say prosecutors. Over [...]
Challenges in the virtual world
Techtarget.com Despite the many benefits of server virtualization, the technology still poses challenges for corporate data centers. TechTarget’s recent “Virtualization Decisions 2009 Purchasing Intentions Survey” asked users to identify their server virtualization challenges, and the list was substantial. Backing up virtual machine data and managing storage are two of the biggest challenges for both VMware [...]
Talking about grid computing
Forbes It wasn’t long ago that universities were considered the poor cousins of big corporations when it came to information technology. Students learned how to program, got jobs at big companies and breathed a sigh of relief at just how quickly and efficiently technology was modernized and upgraded. Fast forward a few years. Data center [...]
