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21 Dec 2011 Shell-shocked HP enterprise shops look forward to uneventful 2012
After a tumultuous 2011, things are finally looking up for loyal Hewlett-Packard enterprise customers. But HP isn’t out of the woods yet.
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08 Dec 2011 DC power: Coming soon to a data center near you?
As data center operators look for new ways to improve energy efficiency, a move to DC power is all but inevitable, some experts say.
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07 Dec 2011 IBM, HP share top spot for servers: News in brief
With flagging sales of Itanium systems last quarter, IBM wrested sole ownership of the number one position for worldwide server revenue from HP, IDC reported.
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06 Dec 2011 Data center infrastructure management on the move
At Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas this week, DCIM players talked up their latest attempts to tame the flood of data center operations information.
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30 Nov 2011 Fuel cell technology pitched as data center power source
An Oregon startup is positioning fuel cell technology for targeted use in data center environments.
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17 Nov 2011 AMD Opteron 6200 chip ships: News in brief
Intel rival AMD announced the availability of its Opteron 6200 and 4200 processors this week, and other data center news.
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10 Nov 2011 Oracle woos Sun faithful with Solaris 11
Oracle went back to Sun’s Wall Street roots to make the case for Solaris 11 and continued investment in the legacy Unix platform.
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09 Nov 2011 IBM welcomes Windows to zEnterprise mainframe family
As promised, IBM will support Windows Server as part of its zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension, or zBX.
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01 Nov 2011 HP has high hopes for low-energy ARM servers
HP says the biggest social media companies are chomping at the bit to try its new low-energy ARM-based server design.
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28 Oct 2011 Are data center providers in trouble?
A paradigm shift promises to help cloud providers, but may be harsh on facilities providers and other IT outsourcing businesses.
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27 Oct 2011 Facebook Open Compute Foundation to speed hardware innovation
In phase two of Facebook’s Open Compute Project, speakers at today’s Open Compute Summit imagined a world with greater hardware innovation and more interoperability.
Popular Linux automation tools embrace Windows
CFengine now natively supports Windows, and Opscode Chef does too. But will Windows shops accept their advances?
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14 Oct 2011 Dell preps monster PowerEdge server to take on Oracle’s Exadata
Once the king of commodity servers, Dell is building a PowerEdge box that will compete with some of the biggest SMP systems on the market.
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05 Oct 2011 IT shops call on HP and Oracle to kiss and make up
With new leadership at HP, the time is now for Oracle and HP to restart stalled negotiations on Intel Itanium support.
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28 Sep 2011 Airbus buys HP PODs: Data center news in brief
The European aircraft manufacturer Airbus will deploy HP containerized data centers in Toulouse, France and Hamburg, Germany.
Oracle looks to regain Sun shops’ trust with SPARC T4 servers
Loyal Sun shops–those that are left of them–have new SPARC server models for running general purpose Solaris applications.
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27 Sep 2011 IT shops try new tools to up server-to-admin ratios
A mainstay of Web 2.0 companies, DevOps-inspired configuration management tools are turning out to be a good fit in the traditional enterprise.
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21 Sep 2011 Oracle Database Appliance seen as gateway to Exadata (SearchOracle.com)
The Oracle Database Appliance is a 4U, two-node RAC server appliance seen by experts as a more affordable entry point toward Exadata, but it doesn’t have nearly as many features.
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19 Sep 2011 Mainframe shops hang on–for now
Connecting mainframe databases to the Web is nice, but mainframers want more.
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14 Sep 2011 Raritan tracks data center assets: News in brief
Raritan’s new asset management tags help data center managers keep tabs on their infrastructure; and other data center facilities news.
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13 Sep 2011 Oracle Sparc T4 policy has licensees scratching their heads (SearchOracle.com)
Oracle has added the upcoming Sparc T4 chip to its processor core factor table, and what it says has some wondering whether Oracle is playing games to get people to adopt Sun hardware.
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09 Sep 2011 Data center manager wants better view into energy use
Emerging energy management tools, like those from Power Assure, may be what one data center manager needs to wrangle precious power resources.
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06 Sep 2011 Oracle’s not alone on poor heterogeneous stack support
Oracle says it won’t support multivendor stacks unless the problem originates with Oracle, but Microsoft and IBM don’t cover themselves in glory either.
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29 Aug 2011 Converged networking gets commoditized at VMworld
New 10 Gigabit Ethernet converged networking adapters fit in to any server, from any vendor, but HP and Cisco are keeping up the proprietary fight.
HP ships VirtualSystem for VMware: News in brief
HP, chasing more converged infrastructure business, delivers three versions of its VirtualSystem for VMware; Sentilla measures cloud savings; more news.
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25 Aug 2011 Data center pros hurry up and wait for Hurricane Irene
A bout of natural disasters has data center professionals rechecking their disaster recovery plans.
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24 Aug 2011 HP desktop changes rile data center pros
Some IT pros fear an HP without PCs could disrupt their data centers.
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19 Aug 2011 HP partners blast tablet, PC decision, Autonomy buy (SearchITChannel.com)
Computing giant’s decision to kill off TouchPad tablets, evaluate exit from PC biz, and spend $10.3 billion on Autonomy set partners reeling.
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15 Aug 2011 Server fabrics garner second look in virtualized shops
Once the province of scale-out, high-performance computing apps, server fabrics are now being pitched for mainstream virtual environments.
Surprise! Data centers used less energy than expected
Data centers used less energy in the last five years than previously thought; and more data center facilities news in brief.
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03 Aug 2011 As hardware biz shrinks, VARs build out cloud management services (SearchCloudProvider.com)
GreenPages teams with CA, BMC on management-as-a-service for end user devices.
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01 Aug 2011 Researchers hatch novel off-grid data center scheme
A new research project will build a pair of data centers that generate 100% of their power from renewable energy.
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29 Jul 2011 Oracle’s Java virtualization support policy reignites controversy (SearchServerVirtualization.com)
With Oracle’s new Java 7 virtualization support policy, users fear they won’t be able to run the popular programming language -- or its apps -- on VMware or Hyper-V.
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26 Jul 2011 Energy, carbon management apps offer new twist on enterprise software (SearchITChannel.com)
Enterprise carbon and energy management (ECEM) know-how comes in handy for VARs.
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25 Jul 2011 VMware vSphere 5 pits scale-up against scale-out
With VMware’s new licensing scheme, is it better to buy one big box or two smaller ones?
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22 Jul 2011 Intel, Dell, Riverbed go on buying spree: News in brief
Data center bigwigs made a series of acquisitions this week; and other data center news in brief.
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18 Jul 2011 Cisco UCS fabric bandwidth doubles: News in brief
Updates to Cisco's UCS platform mean more; SeaMicro packs in more density; and other data center news.