Archive for April, 2011
Dell continues the focus on helping growing businesses
http://www.dell.co.uk BRACKNELL, UK, April 14, 2011 – Small and medium businesses today are deluged with data that is overwhelming their existing technology infrastructures. To help these growing businesses thrive in the “Virtual Era” where multi-media content, multiple access points and devices are the norm, Dell today introduced new server, storage and networking offerings. First Server [...]
Green Award for Sustainability in Data Centres
http://www.thegreengrid.org/ or London, 05 April 2011 – The Green Grid has given its endorsement to the Green Award for Sustainability in Data Centres, to be presented at the annual Data Centres in Europe Awards which takes place on June 2nd in London (www.datacentres.com/awards2011). Now in its fourth year, the Awards ceremony and dinner provides another [...]
HP launches ePrint Service application for iPhone
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2011/110411a.html HP today announced the HP ePrint service App for iPhone is now available on the App Store. Now millions of iPhone users can search for and download the app to unlock the power of the HP ePrint Enterprise solution on their device. The HP ePrint Enterprise solution allows users to print within their enterprise network via [...]
Dell PowerEdge servers ideal for Unix migration
http://content.dell.com/us/en/corp/d/press-releases/2011-04-05-dell-westmere.aspx Latest PowerEdge servers are among the company’s highest performing systems, and ideal for customers considering RISC and UNIX migration Dell achieves highest 4-socket rack server market share in 10 years this quarter with 22 percent in Q4 2010, according to IDC1 Dell today introduced refreshed PowerEdge systems with substantially increased performance, integrated security and [...]
Joining the cloud computing space
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/cloud-computing-dominates-data-center-agenda-says-survey/46749 Cloud computing adoption among data center managers has snowballed in the last year with more than 70 percent of respondents who have implemented the technology or seriously considering it, according to a survey by AFCOM, a data center association. I saw this whilst reading some articles on zdnet and it’s an interesting read, I [...]
Talking about the HP Proliant DL385 G1
I’ve put together some pictures of the HP Proliant DL385 G1 servers that we have in the lab. The DL385 G1 was the first generation of servers built on the AMD processor and chip set and was similar in terms of design and form factor to the DL380 G4. Key points to note, it was [...]
Grid computing to help with earthquake monitoring
http://www.theengineer.co.uk/sectors/electronics/news/grid-computing-helps-visualise-motion-of-seismic-events/1008044.article Researchers in Taiwan are planning to use grid computing to visualise the motion of earthquakes after they occur. They hope this will cut the time of creating ’shake movies’ from a few hours to just minutes, providing valuable information to rescuers once an earthquake has occurred. As animations that show the ground motion of [...]
HP MicroServer and Fujitsu Primergy MX130 S1 content
I’ve posted pictures of the HP MicroServer and Fujitsu Primergy MX130 S1, as ever they’re rather raw but then that’s because they’ve been taken with our iPhone in the office so you can see what you actually get when they arrive if you were to order one. The feed for pictures of Marjorie the HP [...]
Dell to invest $1 billion (USD) to help create and deliver the Efficient Enterprise
http://content.dell.com/us/en/corp/d/press-releases/2011-04-07-dell-invests-solutions-services.aspx Dell to build multiple next generation cloud data centers that operate and deliver hyperscale efficiency New data centers to provide the foundation for next generation services and solutions from Dell Global Solution Centers help customers architect, validate and build the Efficient Enterprise – from the data center to the edge of the network New open, capable [...]
What’s a Fujitsu MX130 S1?
The specs for the Fujitsu Primergy MX130 are here, it’s an entry level server and I would best describe it as a server in a desktop chassis making the transition from a desktop where you might keep all your files to a server in a familiar footprint in either tower or desktop format. Features include [...]
