Archive for February, 2011
Bladewatch servers go online
http://www.bladewatch.com/servers/ or this ebay auction. I have been discussing the state of the server estate for some years, writing a few guides introducing concepts like ILO, discussing virtualization best practices, and interviewing colleagues in the enterprise and SMB space, from the CIO looking to reduce his support costs, to the server guy trying to get [...]
HP continues to engage with its customers
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2011/110224a.html?mtxs=rss-corp-news HP today announced it is participating with Business Matchmaking Inc., a not-for-profit corporation supporting procurement opportunities for small businesses, to launch the 2011 Business Matchmaking event series. Now in its eighth consecutive year, Business Matchmaking provides opportunities for small businesses to secure contracts from federal, state and local government agencies, as well as many [...]
Talking server sales and shipments
http://www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3926226/Gartner-Reports-Server-Sales-Up-Nearly-17-Percent.htm Global server sales jumped 16.8 percent in terms of shipments last year while, in terms of revenue, they grew 13.2 percent, according to Gartner, a leading analysis firm. Check out this post talking about server sales from Gartner, it’s always interesting to see what is going on in the server space, as well as [...]
Outage is not just an IT thing any more, IT is your business
http://www.finextra.com/News/Fullstory.aspx?newsitemid=22305 The Exchange moved to halt trading in Sets and Setsqx at 07.54 and reverse or cancel trades affected by an apparent market data-related malfunction in the opening auction. By 09.30, trading remained at a standstill, frustrating brokers who could only sit and watch as European markets rebounded and UK fourth quarter GDP data was [...]
Talking cloud at GlobusWORLD
http://www.newswise.com/articles/grid-and-cloud-computing-meet-at-globusworld-2011 Newswise — (Chicago, IL) February 22, 2011 – Researchers, software developers, and cyberinfrastructure providers will convene at GlobusWORLD 2011 to see and experience new technologies at the intersection of grid and cloud computing. GlobusWORLD 2011, to be held April 11-13 at Argonne, near Chicago, will feature Globus user success stories, expanded software-as-a-service capabilities in [...]
Acer continues to innovate their server platforms
http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Storage/Acer-Server-Storage-Appliances-Boast-AMD-Intel-Processors-494412/ Acer America announced a line of server and storage solutions across a broad range of usage models, including tower, rack, blade and multi-node platforms that are based on Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron processors. The Acer server and storage solutions also support the release of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) [...]
Cloud could be the next vehicle for job creation
http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/cloud-computing/3262199/cloud-adoption-will-create-90000-public-sector-jobs/ The adoption of cloud computing services in the public sector will lead to the creation of 90,000 jobs in the UK, according to new figures from the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR). This may be good news for the public sector employees facing redundancy as a result of the government’s Comprehensive Spending [...]
Dell Ideastorm – may the end user participation continue
I was on the Dell site the other night doing some research (in fact that’s where this post about the Lifecycle controller came about), anyway I was looking around and saw the ideastorm concept where you can make suggestions to Dell about their products and services. It was interesting reading them, I had a few [...]
Planning a driver upgrade project
I got emailed by a Project Manager/Server manager asking for some advice, I’ve summarized his email to remove anything that might identify him at his request and we’ve changed the names and the data a bit again to protect privacy but the content, the concept remains the same, anyway check it out: Hi Martin, I’ve [...]
Being interested in the future and the past
I was speaking with one my consultant friends, he had been sent in by a consultancy to help a medium manufacturing firm with the automation of their server and desktop/laptop builds, the current procedures were too time intensive and lacked flexibility. I was interested to hear that the consultancy had been giving an interesting brief: [...]
