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July 03, 2012 03 Jul'12
Amazon outage due to data center generator problems

Data center generators are to blame for the Amazon outage in June. What's worse, it's not the first of its kind.
June 29, 2012 29 Jun'12
Overheard at the Red Hat Summit: Nyancat and the cloud

Attendees at the 2012 Red Hat Summit brought many different perspectives. Here are a few witty quotes to get you thinking.
June 29, 2012 29 Jun'12
ARM servers, system on a chip promise efficiency for hyperscale data centers

Though the ARM server market is still small, Red Hat's Fedora for ARM project sees a future in high-density data centers.
June 25, 2012 25 Jun'12
Carbonite, Rhapsody, Activision choose data center colocation

Three household names that chose a data center colocation facility offer advice on how to select a colocation provider.
June 19, 2012 19 Jun'12
HP gives Intel Atom processors a leg up on ARM with Project Gemini

Data center managers interested in highly dense, low-power system configurations will have another option to choose from later this year, according to an announcement made today by HP and Intel. ...
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June 18, 2012 18 Jun'12
Server consolidation tempered by tech trends, uptime goals

Going overboard with server consolidation is as bad as not doing enough, but IT trends are keeping unchecked growth under control.
June 15, 2012 15 Jun'12
Want one of the many Linux jobs out there? Time to go back to class

Does extended education from the Linux Foundation and others help graduates meet the demands of today’s Linux jobs? Some say yes.
June 14, 2012 14 Jun'12
Ten technology trends impacting the IT industry, jobs

IT needs to adapt or be swept away by the avalanche of data that users want to access everywhere with whatever device they have.
June 04, 2012 04 Jun'12
HP integrates Autonomy with Converged Infrastructure for big data

Amid restructuring and uncertainty, HP fits pieces of its enterprise portfolio together. Can these products appeal to IT customers wary of HP's future?
May 30, 2012 30 May'12
Dell floats ARM server trial balloon

Dell has shipped its “Copper” ARM-based server to a limited list of customers and partners, with the goal of sussing out uses for the low-power chip in enterprise environments. The 32-bit Advanced ...
May 22, 2012 22 May'12
Are private data centers an endangered species?

Businesses can save millions by leasing data center space rather than building their own, but some feel private data centers are the best bet.
May 17, 2012 17 May'12
Bug report reveals Mozilla Marketplace won't support Linux at launch

Mozilla Marketplace won't support Linux on release. New stable Linux kernel, version 3.4, finalized soon, says Torvalds. RHEL 7 slated for 2013.
May 17, 2012 17 May'12
Facebook Open Compute Project a role model for data centers

Data center experts say most enterprises can’t imitate Facebook’s Open Compute Project, but they could reap the benefits over time.
May 15, 2012 15 May'12
UPDATE: Blizzard servers groan on Diablo III release

UPDATE: June 12th's server maintenance brought in patch 1.02c with a "fix" for everybody's favorite Error 37. How did they fix it? That depends on your definition of "Fix." Quoth the patch ...
May 14, 2012 14 May'12
'Big data' shops eye cheaper four-socket Intel Xeon servers

What once required high-end Intel E7 processors and motherboards now fits into a lower-cost E5-4600 four-socket Intel Xeon system, suitable for scale-out workloads in HPC and big data.
May 10, 2012 10 May'12
Why Zynga moved from public cloud to hybrid cloud

The subtext of Zynga’s “hybrid cloud” strategy is that at a certain scale, public cloud ain’t cheap.
May 09, 2012 09 May'12
Dell microserver gives energy-efficient IT shops a glimpse of Ivy Bridge

New Dell microservers include power-efficient Ivy Bridge processors based on Intel’s 22-nm manufacturing process.
May 04, 2012 04 May'12
Cloud provider SHI to use SUSE Enterprise for pay-as-you-go services

SHI to use SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as primary OS for cloud services. OpenFabrics Alliance aligns OFED software with Linux kernel.
May 01, 2012 01 May'12
IBM's big iron sales down but mainframes not on way out, say experts

Does IBM's recent drop in mainframe sales indicate big iron modernization tools are gaining traction?
May 01, 2012 01 May'12
IT operations in the age of cloud: Brace yourself for change

It’s no longer a question of if — but when — cloud takes hold in enterprise IT shops. IT operations will never be the same.
April 25, 2012 25 Apr'12
IBM takes another stab with low-priced PowerLinux systems

IBM’s new low-priced Power servers compete with x86 for Linux workloads and may help IBM gain “big data” market share.
April 24, 2012 24 Apr'12
Data center managers seek simple disaster recovery options

Egenera’s PAN Portability fixes some – but not all – of the challenges of disaster recovery for bare-metal servers.
April 23, 2012 23 Apr'12
VDI puts data center networks to the test

Virtual desktop infrastructure pulls endpoint management to the core of the enterprise data center, taxing data center networks.
April 20, 2012 20 Apr'12
HP ProLiant servers to come with Ubuntu Server Edition

Hewlett-Packard to package Ubuntu on ProLiant servers. Linus Torvalds up for a prestigious technology prize. Red Hat embraces Microsoft Open Technologies.
April 13, 2012 13 Apr'12
Red Hat thinks big data with MongoDB collaboration

News in brief: Red Hat partners with 10gen to provide MongoDB NoSQL database. Kubuntu gains new sponsor. Samba patch plugs security hole.
April 11, 2012 11 Apr'12
IBM, Cisco, NetApp converged infrastructure systems worth the price?

IBM, Cisco, and NetApp released new converged infrastructure offerings this week, but the high price tag might drive IT customers away.
April 11, 2012 11 Apr'12
High-performance data center goes green with new tech and ingenuity

With little creativity, high performance data centers can rise to the challenge and attain a low carbon footprint while minimizing costs.
April 10, 2012 10 Apr'12
Oracle releases new Intel x86 servers against market headwinds

Oracle launches new x86 servers based on latest Intel Xeon chip a month after its release. Some analysts doubt Oracle can win HP and IBM customers.
April 06, 2012 06 Apr'12
Microsoft breaks into list of top Linux code contributors

Microsoft makes it on the list of top Linux code contributors. Also, new Ubuntu version makes waves and two enterprise Linux giants celebrate milestones.
March 28, 2012 28 Mar'12
From DevOps to NoOps: IT operations pros dwindle, developers rise

The NoOps term reflects a trend in contemporary DevOps shops: the diminishing number of operations people relative to developers.
March 28, 2012 28 Mar'12
Cloud computing? How about Earth computing?

Whenever I look up a see a beautiful sky with puffy clouds I think, "That's where my iTunes are." I read this tweet from filmmaker Albert Brooks the other day, and it made me laugh, because, ...
March 28, 2012 28 Mar'12
We're doing lots of science, but we can't store the results

Last year's flooding in Thailand was a terrible reminder of what nature can do. Besides affecting millions of lives, it destroyed businesses and factories and left the rest of the world with an ...
March 21, 2012 21 Mar'12
Hack the memeframe, er, mainframe

The shrinking number of workers who can program and administer a mainframe, sometimes referred to as the “red-haired stepchild of IT,” are members of an exclusive club with a language and sense of ...
March 19, 2012 19 Mar'12
AMD Opteron 3200 targets cost-conscious hosting providers

AMD’s latest server processor line is aimed at dedicated hosting providers that value price over performance and power efficiency.
March 13, 2012 13 Mar'12
Service providers trade Cisco UCS for commodity gear

Cisco UCS is selling like hotcakes in enterprise data centers, but some cloud and hosting providers say it’s too inflexible – and expensive – for them.
March 06, 2012 06 Mar'12
Intel Xeon E5-2600 delivers eight-core CPU, more memory

Intel shops now have support for more cores, more memory, 10 Gigabit Ethernet and speedier solid-state storage with the new Intel Xeon E5-2600.
March 01, 2012 01 Mar'12
AMD to bring SeaMicro server fabrics to the masses

AMD’s SeaMicro buy could be the harbinger of a fundamental shift in how servers are designed, experts say.
February 28, 2012 28 Feb'12
SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 2 targets Solaris shops

SUSE shops are cautious after a long silence from the Novell post-Attachmate deal; experts say Linux has eclipsed Unix generally, but SUSE needs work.
February 27, 2012 27 Feb'12
Dell packs more DIMMs, disk drives into new PowerEdge 12G

New Dell PowerEdge 12G servers give customers more memory and disk capacity for virtualization along with management software updates.
February 24, 2012 24 Feb'12
IT pros rethink data center infrastructure to support 'big data'

"Big data" analytics isn’t just for Web 2.0 anymore. Here’s how IT pros at some well-known companies manage big data infrastructure.
February 13, 2012 13 Feb'12
HP previews ProLiant refresh as users eye Cisco UCS

HP touts new management capabilities for the forthcoming Generation 8 of its ProLiant servers, but some users say they are already looking elsewhere.
February 08, 2012 08 Feb'12
Data center experts push back on ASHRAE economizer requirements

An addendum to the ASHRAE 90.1-2010 energy standard could ease energy efficiency requirements on anyone building or significantly expanding data centers in the U.S.
February 01, 2012 01 Feb'12
Scale-out computing gets new low-power option

Web-scale IT shops get the option of a low-power Xeon-based offering that looks to outperform Atom-based products in more ways than one.
January 31, 2012 31 Jan'12
Experts say data centers to shrink as hosting, cloud services boom

IT pros discuss the pros and cons of maintaining a private data centers vs. outsourcing to managed data center hosting and cloud services.
January 24, 2012 24 Jan'12
Energy Star for Servers finally means something

No longer limited to one- and two-socket boxes, the Energy Star for Servers label now applies to real enterprise-class hardware.
January 20, 2012 20 Jan'12
Uptime Institute GEIT award deadline pushed to Feb. 15

Requests for more time to accommodate corporate review leads to extension.
January 15, 2012 15 Jan'12
Five questions on solid-state drive technology

Before you strap in, make sure your data center network can handle the performance gains provided by solid-state drive devices.
December 21, 2011 21 Dec'11
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.
December 08, 2011 08 Dec'11
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.
December 06, 2011 06 Dec'11
British ISP deploys open source virtualization

JT Global is marching to the beat of its own drummer with open source software, including Ubuntu virtual machines, ConVirt virtualization management software, and a unique approach to VM clustering.
November 30, 2011 30 Nov'11
Fuel cell technology pitched as data center power source

An Oregon startup is positioning fuel cell technology for targeted use in data center environments.
November 17, 2011 17 Nov'11
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.
November 11, 2011 11 Nov'11
New openSUSE, Linux leaders call for secure boot fix: News in brief

The openSUSE project releases version 12.1, which includes new Gnome Shell 3.2; Red Hat, Canonical and The Linux Foundation all concerned about Windows 8 locking-out Linux; and other open source news.
November 10, 2011 10 Nov'11
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.
November 09, 2011 09 Nov'11
IBM welcomes Windows to zEnterprise mainframe family

As promised, IBM will support Windows Server as part of its zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension, or zBX.
November 01, 2011 01 Nov'11
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.
October 28, 2011 28 Oct'11
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.
October 27, 2011 27 Oct'11
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.
October 18, 2011 18 Oct'11
Cisco Fabric Extender finally available for HP BladeSystem

HP c-Class BladeSystem shops will finally be able to connect their systems to a Cisco Unified Fabric, using the new Cisco Nexus B22 Fabric Extender (FEX) for HP announced on Friday. This is not a ...
October 14, 2011 14 Oct'11
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.
October 05, 2011 05 Oct'11
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.
September 28, 2011 28 Sep'11
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.
September 28, 2011 28 Sep'11
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.
September 28, 2011 28 Sep'11
Windows 8 Linux woes, Red Hat's big Q2: News in brief

Windows 8 may cause problems for Linux, Red Hat pushes to become first $1 billion open source company and Linus takes a vacation; news in brief.
September 19, 2011 19 Sep'11
Mainframe shops hang on–for now

Connecting mainframe databases to the Web is nice, but mainframers want more.
September 14, 2011 14 Sep'11
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.
September 09, 2011 09 Sep'11
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.
September 07, 2011 07 Sep'11
RISC servers for data center efficiency

If you think RISC servers are taking a back seat to specialized mainframe transaction processors and inexpensive, general-purpose x86 processors, think again. RISC microprocessors specialize in ...
September 06, 2011 06 Sep'11
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.
August 29, 2011 29 Aug'11
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.
August 25, 2011 25 Aug'11
Data center pros hurry up and wait for Hurricane Irene

A bout of natural disasters has data center professionals rechecking their disaster recovery plans.
August 15, 2011 15 Aug'11
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.
August 15, 2011 15 Aug'11
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.
August 08, 2011 08 Aug'11
Ubuntu offers cloud freebie; openness of Android examined: news in brief

Canonical grows it personal cloud service to a million users, Android ranks last in open source analysis and other news in brief.
August 01, 2011 01 Aug'11
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.
July 27, 2011 27 Jul'11
Microsoft supports Red Hat Linux in Hyper-V

OSCON 2011: Microsoft will support RHEL as a guest OS in Hyper-V as part of its interop strategy.
July 25, 2011 25 Jul'11
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?
July 22, 2011 22 Jul'11
Data center dilemma: To build or box?

Modular data centers have been around for a few years now, but they are much different than they were just a few years ago. The Blackbox was the mysterious sounding name that Sun Microsystems gave ...
July 18, 2011 18 Jul'11
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.
July 12, 2011 12 Jul'11
IBM zEnterprise 114: Hot or not?

Will the zEnterprise 114 appeal to IT pros in mainframe shops that run new workloads or hard-core mainframe traditionalists?
July 06, 2011 06 Jul'11
CA overhauls mainframe portfolio: News in brief

CA conducts annual mainframe software blitz; Fujitsu updates its four- and eight-socket Primergy x86 servers; and Sanbolic releases a new version if its Melio cluster file system.
July 06, 2011 06 Jul'11
HP vs. Cisco hardware battle yields deep discounts for IT shops

As Hewlett-Packard and Cisco duke it out for new data center deals, IT shops get fire-sale prices on high-end hardware. Now, how much would you pay?
July 06, 2011 06 Jul'11
Indian outsourcer picks up mainframe graveyard shift

An Indian company is offering outsourcing services for organizations looking to fill late-night mainframe slots.
June 29, 2011 29 Jun'11
Oracle buys Pillar, Microsoft loses virtualization guy: News in brief

Oracle fills its storage hardware gap with Pillar Data Systems acquisition; virtualization evangelist David Greschler leaves Microsoft; and the feds bust a major cybercrime ring.
June 27, 2011 27 Jun'11
IT pros still not sold on SaaS

SaaS success stories aside, many IT pros aren’t happy about giving up on-premises software.
June 16, 2011 16 Jun'11
New HP data center container goes double wide

Hewlett-Packard’s EcoPOD is a double-wide data center container that gives technicians more room to work in. But managers still have issues with the data center container approach.
June 14, 2011 14 Jun'11
Oracle support issues overshadow Solaris virtualization milestone

Sparc 2.1’s live migration feature earns plaudits but may not be enough to placate weary Sun shops.
June 13, 2011 13 Jun'11
IBM launches mainframe job board: News in brief

Mainframe pros get a new source for System z jobs, and other data center news.
June 10, 2011 10 Jun'11
Raised floor resiliency

Industry experts long ago predicated the demise of raised floor cooling. Today, there are viable cooling alternatives, but raised floor cooling continues to keep its hold in the data center. Just ...
June 10, 2011 10 Jun'11
Open source fans disagree on impact of Oracle's OpenOffice divestiture

Oracle's donation of the OpenOffice.org source code to the Apache Software Foundation has split open source advocates who disagree over whether the move will ultimately help or hurt the project.
June 08, 2011 08 Jun'11
HP shops balk at AppSystem bundles

IT pros don’t find much to love in new HP data center appliances.
June 06, 2011 06 Jun'11
Oracle pitches cut-rate Exadata hardware to boost sales

High-end data center appliances are still a tough sell in disaffected Sun, Oracle shops.
June 03, 2011 03 Jun'11
Survey says: IT certifications are losing value

Real-life experience trumps formal IT certifications when it comes to salary, according to Foote Partners research.
June 03, 2011 03 Jun'11
APC links to HP Operations Manager: News in brief

APC infrastructure management software integrates with HP Operations Manager for real-time power and cooling monitoring; and more news in brief.
June 01, 2011 01 Jun'11
The true costs of data center downtime

IT professionals know that unplanned data center downtime is expensive, with the true costs associated with downtime often far exceeding the price of replacing faulty equipment. The time and effort ...
May 31, 2011 31 May'11
Terremark sees value in containerized data center modules

The flexibility and reduced lead time offered by containerized data center infrastructure has won over colocation provider Terremark.
May 31, 2011 31 May'11
Raritan tool finds spare data center capacity: News in brief

Raritan dcTrack helps managers unearth spare data center capacity; Wave2Wave intros a data center on wheels; and iTRACS and TBD Fusion strike partnership.
May 26, 2011 26 May'11
Cisco takes bite out of HP, IBM blade server share

Research shows Cisco gaining market share with its UCS servers at the expense of server giants HP and IBM.
May 23, 2011 23 May'11
RHEL 6.1 released, Microsoft supports CentOS in Hyper-V; news in brief

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 update is released, Microsoft decides to support the open source CentOS, and other news.
May 20, 2011 20 May'11
Containment breathes new life into legacy data centers

More data centers look into hot- or cold-aisle containment to eke more life out of old facilities.

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