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panels in data center airflow management.

The study, paid for by Upsite but conducted by an unnamed third party, found that using Upsite's blanking panels -- which fill in empty rack slots -- essentially saved the data center 7 degrees Fahrenheit at the server intakes. That would enable data center... More...

Jun 24, 2009
Every data center relocation is different, yet most seem to trip over at least one common pitfall. The mistakes can be trivial or substantial, but the results are the same: delays, increased cost and increased disruption to the business. However, companies can avoid and even predict most... More...
May 11, 2009
of the data center hosting company ColoSpace Inc., said he sees startup technology companies popping up throughout the Boston area, especially in virtualization, mobile technologies and storage areas.

"Now is a fantastic time to start a new business, because the talent that is available in... More...

Apr 13, 2009
sell data center power efficiency
IT pros resisting server virtualization in production environments or who don't have the resources to implement it still need to add compute power. For them, superefficient servers, CPUs and power supplies are a good way to add compute cycles while... More...
Mar 27, 2009
week said data center facility managers should "get in front of that parade" for cloud computing, no one appears to be queuing up quite yet.

Greg Papadopoulos, the chief technology officer at Sun Microsystems Inc., discussed cloud computing and what it means for the future of data centers at the... More...

Mar 11, 2009
focuses on data center energy efficiency, released the PUE metric. It was simple: Take the amount of total data center facility energy and divide it by the energy that gets to the IT equipment. The more efficient the data center, the closer that number is to 1.

But soon it became apparent that this... More...

Feb 9, 2009
in a data center at company headquarters in Austin, Texas. There, on what it calls the Surgient Virtual Automation Platform, customers can host applications in a virtualized environment without worrying about hardware or facility maintenance. Evan Watkins, the director of data center... More...
Jan 21, 2009
out our data center blogs: Server Farming, Mainframe Propellerhead, and Data Center Facilities Pro.

IBM plans to acquire Transitive Corp., whose translation software enables applications to run on various combinations of CPU and OS. But will IBM continue to enable translation for non-IBM... More...
Nov 19, 2008

"Most large data centers have mainframes with z/OS, and just about all organizations have Linux stuff that is a candidate for consolidation," said Wayne Kernochan, a senior research analyst at Aberdeen Group. At the same time, Kernochan explained that there is a lot of "graying of the old... More...

Nov 17, 2008
feet of data center space in the U.S. and knows a thing or two about choosing the right location for a data center. Chris Crosby, the senior vice president of Digital Realty Trust, offered tips and tricks of the trade during the Data Center Decisions conference in Chicago this week.

"Finding a... More...

Oct 27, 2008
ahead, data center budgets should weather the storm, although various keynote panelists expressed different levels of optimism at the AFCOM Data Center World conference today.

In the keynote, four members of the board of the Data Center Institute – the research arm of the AFCOM data... More...

Oct 6, 2008
square-foot data center facility in Utah that will incorporate Utah air for cooling, Oracle Grid Computing and Oracle VM technologies. The new facility is designed for Oracle's growing on-demand customer base but also provides data center infrastructure for Oracle's aggressive company... More...
Aug 6, 2008
and cuts data center space requirements in half, said Jim Ganthier, the director of HP's BladeSystem marketing.

Each blade holds up to two dual-core or quad-core Intel Corp. Xeon 5400 and 5200 processors per server node and up to 16 GB of RAM and allows for 32 server nodes per 10 U in the c7000... More...

May 29, 2008
Server, and Data Center. Both High Availability and Virtual Server include everything in Base but each has unique features. High Availability, for example, has HP Serviceguard, software that helps clustered server environments prevent downtime.

Meanwhile, Virtual Server OE has Virtual... More...
Apr 15, 2008
issue in the data center. With an objective standard, manufacturers can promote energy-efficient servers, and users can incorporate energy-efficiency ratings into the decision-making process on which hardware to purchase.

Energy Star for servers' scope
In August 2006, an informal industry... More...
Feb 15, 2008
on their data centers. Share Treasurer Jim Michael said users still struggle to truly grasp SOA. but, said Michael, if users better understood the concept, they might discover that they already use these technologies.

For some, SOA is broadly thought of as a language translator between... More...

Feb 5, 2008
Data center colocation company Terremark Worldwide Inc. will install almost 10,000 kilovolt-amps' (kVA) worth of data center backup power with flywheel-based uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems rather than batteries at a sprawling new data center campus in Culpeper, Va.

The... More...

Jan 7, 2008
are on data center and IT managers' wish lists. What manager wouldn't want fewer pages and phone calls that require him to trudge into a facility during the wee hours because of a temperamental uninterruptible power supply?

All they want for the holidays
For Roxanne Reynolds-Lair, CIO of the... More...
Dec 20, 2007
certified data center run by Digital Realty Trust Inc., about 15 feet away from the building, is a standalone black ashtray. It sits about three feet high, looks like a pyramid with a tube on top and includes a hole to dispose of cigarettes. On a recent afternoon, construction workers stood outside... More...
Dec 19, 2007
But for data center managers, making the business case for implementing a CMDB can be a tough prospect: The true value of CMDBs and other initiatives designed to improve IT service management such as the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) strain traditional ROI calculations. In the effort to... More...
Dec 12, 2007
Solutions, a data center consultancy, suggest that the possibility is quite likely. Migration Solutions estimates that acts of theft, fraud and vandalism in the data center are three times more likely to be the result of an inside job than to be the work of an outsider. And about 65% of data center... More...
Nov 8, 2007
a new Data Traffic Optimizations feature that enhances data movement between processors, memory and I/O connections, Intel said. While previously an interconnect was shared, each processor will now have its own interconnect, Skaugen said.

The previously announced Intel VT... More...
Sep 6, 2007

The EPA data center report, which resulted from a bill that Congress passed last year, focuses on three issues: the problem of rising energy costs in data centers, how data centers can minimize energy consumption, and how the EPA and the industry can develop energy efficiency benchmarks for... More...

Aug 3, 2007
implement a data center disaster recovery plan to prepare for events, like earthquakes, tornadoes or floods. But according to Burton Group vice president and disaster recovery expert Richard Jones, natural disasters should be third on the list of reasons to do disaster recovery.

Ahead of... More...

Jun 27, 2007
Center are following the same idea – focus the integration on the process steps that must be streamlined – in this case connecting SLA reporting to infrastructure monitoring and incident management. Maybe there is hope for these guys after all.

Either way, SLM is no... More...

May 17, 2007
three main data centers -- one in England, one in Malta and another in Australia. Together, they are running "hundreds" of Sun Solaris servers, from the Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) Opteron-based x4100s -- which start around $2,000 -- to the UltraSPARC-based E6900s, which start at about $240,000.

... More...

May 9, 2007
Control Center, which provides a single Web interface for IT managers to schedule jobs across all different server platforms.

"People might not be familiar with the different [server] architectures," said Richard Ptak, analyst with research firm Ptak, Noel & Associates. "The command... More...

Apr 9, 2007
regarding data center energy consumption, it will adopt some recommendations from The Uptime Institute on data center best practices.

A law passed late last year gives the EPA 180 days to file a report on how much energy data centers are using and ways to keep that number in check. Andrew Fanara... More...

Mar 12, 2007
the data center), and it helps the environment because we are slowing the need for new power plants," said Mike Durand of Massachusett's Nstar, a member of the coalition.

Other organizations that have signed on to the effort so far include TXU Electric Delivery of Texas, Austin Energy and the... More...

Feb 14, 2007
Data Center Research
Genentech on Google Apps by Google
Please join Todd Pierce, VP of Information Technology, Genentech, as he explains why his organization chose Google Apps. Genentech was considering replacing its data center. But thanks to cloud computing from Google, the company no longer has to execute the expensive process. Please join Todd Pierce, VP of Information Technology, Genentech, as he explains why his organization chose Google Apps. Genentech was considering replacing its data center. But thanks to cloud computing...
Effective Negotiating: 5 Rules for Smooth Transactions by Global Knowledge
This white paper discusses five rules for negotiating that can help make the transaction more pleasant for everyone involved and better your chances at getting what you want. Opportunities to negotiate arise everyday--at home, at work, when you're with your friends, and even with yourself. Sometimes they are small, like how many bites your kids should take of the spinach they don't like, or whether to buy that new set of golf clubs or keep using the ones you have...
The Reality Facing the Mainframe World by Acxiom Corporation
The mainframe is alive and processing. As a mainframe executive, various solutions are available to help address your challenges and meet the needs of your business. You manage a mainframe environment that runs one or more of your business' mission critical applications. Things are good; security, performance and reliability are just where they should be. But when you think about your long term staffing strategy, you cringe, because most of the people on your mainframe...
Practical Open Source Data Integration Case Studies & Implementation Examples by Talend
This document presents a few selected case studies, illustrating real-life implementations of open source data integration and its associated benefits. Over the past few years, open source has established itself as a key component of the overall data integration market. Many organizations have adopted this model for their data integration projects. These organizations span all industries, all continents, and all company sizes. More importantly, their projects range...
Virtual Service Solution by Opalis Software, Inc.
Opalis reduces the time, cost, and error potential of manual approaches to virtual service management by automating virtual lifecycle management, incident response and change management in your virtual infrastructure. The solution provides a level of control that eliminates sprawl and allows you to rapidly respond to changing business needs. Virtual machines have become mainstream technology for adding servers to the IT infrastructure. However, it has also added a layer...
Data Center Webcasts
Going Green Speakers Panel by SearchDataCenter
Three data center experts will discuss the benefits and potential pratfalls of going green. Three data center experts - Albert Esser from Dell, Jack Pouchet from Emerson/Liebert, and Steve Oberlin from Cassatt - will discuss the benefits and potential pratfalls of going green. Topics covered will include how and why users should...
Protecting Data on the Edge by Hewlett-Packard Company
to industry statistics, the majority of a typical company's data doesn't reside on data center storage -- it lives on the "edge." The edge may be desktop PCs, laptops or even smart phones and PDAs. Often, the data that these devices hold falls through the backup cracks and is inadequately protected, if at all. In this expert podcast W. Curtis Preston describes the most effective techniques, tools and best practices...
HP Network Solutions by Hewlett-Packard Company
This two-minute video highlights the advantages of HP Network solutions, including Data Center Networking, Unified Communications, as well as Wireless and Mobility communication. This video explains how HP can help you reduce risk, grow your business, and lower costs. With an end-to-end portfolio of products and services encompassing global network and messaging solutions, HP has unique experience...