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Seven Steps to a Green Data Centre 24/04/2007 12:00:19
Green data centres don't just save energy, they also reduce the need for expensive infrastructure upgrades to deal with increased power and cooling demands.How green is your data centre? If you don't care now, you will soon. Most data centre managers haven't noticed the steady rise in electricity costs, since they don't usually see those bills. But they do see the symptoms of surging power demands. - +
Beyond Vista 22/01/2007 12:19:24
Inside Microsoft's plan to dominate the Web 2.0 enterpriseEvery decade or so, a new platform emerges that reduces the cost of running an IT department to such an extent that vendors have no choice but to embrace it or die. In the 1990s, PCs with powerful operating systems spelled the end of mainframe development and ushered in the client/server era. Today, cheap servers and high-speed Internet connections are triggering a move away from traditional desktop PC software and to software as a service, hosted by a third party and delivered over the Internet. - +
Facing the Heat 06/08/2007 13:26:55
Chances are that a good portion of an organization’s environmental footprint, however small it may be, comes from ITAs a matter of personal belief, any CIO is free to count themselves among the tiny and diminishing band of troglodytes that would continue to deny the reality of human-induced climate change until the polar ice caps disappeared and the landscape was reduced to dust. - +
Cheap Frills 04/12/2006 14:34:42
How many high-profile CIOs can say they got their job through a free ad?First came Southwest: no frills. Then JetBlue: a few more frills. Now Virgin America: low fares, deluxe service and a new approach to IT - +
Clean, Green Machines 07/05/2007 14:36:00
Going green doesn’t have to be just an exercise in tree hugging. It can have a positive effect on your company’s budget, tooLast year when Wendy Cebula was shopping for a new vehicle, energy efficiency and lower emissions topped her list of requirements, along with four-wheel drive (her family lives on a hill)
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Sun Microsystems launched a new family of blade servers Wednesday, offering telecommunications customers a choice of processors between Sun's own UltraSparc or Opteron from Advanced Micro Devices.
Sun announced these Netra Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (ATCA)-standard blade servers at the CTIA trade show in Los Angeles, California. AdvancedTCA is a series of specifications set by the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG), targeted to communications industry requirements for high-speed interconnect technologies, next-generation processors, and improved manageability.
Telecommunications is the largest vertical market by revenue for Sun, of California, so the company is staking a lot on this product. The target customers are telecommunications equipment manufacturers (TEMs) and network equipment providers (NEPs), such as Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Lucent Technologies and Alcatel. In turn, those companies assemble mobile network infrastructures to sell to carrier companies, said Raju Penumatcha, Sun's vice president for Netra Systems and Networking.
That market shifted with Sunday's announcement of a planned merger between Lucent and Alcatel, but the overall market demand should remain the same, he said.
"The merger does not weaken this market, because it complements their strengths very well; Lucent is strong on CDMA (code-division multiple access), while Alcatel is strong on IPTV (Internet protocol television) and DSL (digital subscriber line). From my perspective, I don't see much overlap between the companies," Penumatcha said.
A major selling point for the Netra servers will be their standardized interfaces and range of computing options.
This will help customers reduce operating costs and gain flexibility to add new services, compared to the proprietary systems companies have been deploying in the past three years, said David Rich, director of 64-bit embedded markets for AMD, in California.
Customers can choose single or dual core Opteron chips, and Sun's Solaris 10 or MontaVista Software Inc.'s Linux operating system.
The new family includes three machines: the Netra CT900 12U/14 slot ATCA blade server, the Netra CP3010 dual UltraSparc IIIi processor-based ATCA blade, and the Netra CP3020 dual-core AMD Opteron processor-based ATCA blade.
The CT900 and CP3010 have been shipping since March, and the CP3020 is scheduled to ship in three weeks.
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Beyond Virtualisation - The Roadmap to 2012
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Attend and discover:
- What happens after virtualisation
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Computerworld Live Podcast #96: Security at the Edge 11/06/2008 09:22:22
CW Live speaks with Amol Mitra, HP ProCurve Director of Marketing for Asia Pacific and Japan. Today's topic: how enterprises are starting to shift away from simply controlling security via server logins, firewalls and moving to more adaptive security frameworks. - +
Data Management Edition #10: Multi-Petascale Systems 02/05/2008 09:12:33
This week we look at sustainability and the development of multicore technologies to build multi-petascale systems. - +
IT Security Edition #11: How to poison the Storm botnet 01/05/2008 08:51:55
This week CW Live presents a case study on how to poison the notorious Storm botnet . Plus we take a look at Cisco's plans for Ironport. - +
IT Security Edition #10: Cyber-battles fought and won 24/04/2008 11:09:47
Vendors bow to end user pressure to improve product security, and we take a look at the latest concepts shaping the cyber-battlefield of the future. - +
Data Management Edition #9: Data centre makeover 24/04/2008 07:43:06
This week CW Live looks at the death of the old style data centre which is undergoing its first makeover in more than 30 years.
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An EMC Perspective on Data De-Duplication for Backup
Explore the factors that are driving the need for de-duplication and the benefits of data de-duplication as a feature of an organizations backup strategy.
