DataCenter

Source: blogs.computerworld.com --- 15 days ago
I'm late following up on my previous X4150 thoughts - I can blame conferences for that at least - but I shouldn't shirk my responsibilities. It is very difficult, from a buyers perspective, to decide what that sweet spot is in terms of buying hardware. The current computer market, and more importantly the current computer climate, has completely changed the way that we look at buying computers. read more ...

Source: weblog.infoworld.com --- 6 hours ago
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Source: www.infoworld.com --- 22 hours ago
Intel has acquired the assets of NetEffect, a maker of Ethernet chips and adapters for high-performance computing clusters, for $8 million. The company's Gigabit Ethernet and 10-Gigabit Ethernet adapters, ASICs (application-specific integrated circuits), and intellectual property will complement Intel's current Ethernet portfolio, Intel announced on Wednesday. The added products will help Intel address demand for server compute clusters, server virtualization, and convergence of network and storage traffic, Intel said. [ Discover the top-rated IT products as rated by the InfoWorld Test Center . ] NetEffect's products support iWARP, a set of extensions to Ethernet from the RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) Consortium that is designed to eliminate overhead and latency in Ethernet networks. Intel described iWARP as an alternative to InfiniBand. NetEffect was formed in 1998 as Banderacom, a maker of an InfiniBand switch and adapters, and recapitalized under its current name in 2004. Its 30 employees have joined Intel but will remain in Austin, Texas. Intel will continue to sell NetEffect's adapters and work with the former NetEffect engineering on future generations of ASICs, said Steve Schultz, director of marketing for Intel's LAN access division. Intel supports but doesn't make InfiniBand products, and NetEffect's iWARP-based products give Intel a lineup that offers comparable performance with the benefits of Ethernet, he said. ...

Source: www.infoworld.com --- 8 days ago
An ambitious project is under way in Wales to build one of the most advanced and secure datacenters in Europe. ...

Source: www.vmware.com --- 2 days ago
A few weeks ago, 14,000 of VMware’s customers and partners attended VMworld 2008 in Las Vegas . It was an incredible opportunity for VMware to define what we do and outline the exciting new products coming in 2009 …and we did. We defined a bold, clear vision, one that we’ve been marching to for a while, but have only recently articulated very precisely. In the process, we introduced new concepts, new definitions and new names…a quick overview is at the below link http://www.vmware.com/technology/virtual-DataCenter-os/ I’m going to use this blog to explain the thought process behind these new announcements. What we announced: The roadmap for 2009 The vdc-os We announced that we extend our product, VMware Infrastructure, to a virtual DataCenter operating system. In 2009, we will have a whole range of new capabilities and when you add them to the products and capabilities that we have currently, you get a computing platform that does 2 main things: Abstract away from the complexity of hardware across servers, storage and network to create a unified and uniform platform which then provides resources to applications on an as-needed basis Abstract away from the complexity of applications and provides OS-agnostic services to all applications The first set of enabling capabilities is called Infrastructure vServices , the second set of capabilities is called Application vServices. In a single server environment, these capabilities would be del ...

Source: blogs.vmware.com --- 5 days ago
This week we talked about the concepts of the virtual DataCenter OS with VMware's own Leena Joshi, and we covered some of the 2009 roadmap material we presented at VMworld 2008 this year. Listen, as always, via the widget over there on the right or the mp3. (52:01 duration) More notification options here, and I'm very pleased to announce that the Communities Roundtable Podcast is now in the iTunes Store -- just search for VMware or go right here. Links you can use: Virtual DataCenter OS on VMware's website VMworld 2008 sessions now available on vmworld.com for conference attendees. Upcoming webinars - while you're there, check out all the webinars -- many are quite good, some are technical, and they're missing RSS, but you do have to register.Next-Generation Virtual Networking for VMware Infrastructure – 10/16, 9am PT Technical Track: Fault Tolerance for VMware Virtual Machines – 11/5, 9am PT Next week, we'll once again do a live show next Wednesday at Noon Pacific, topic TBD. Bonus just because you read this far: I think Leena is working on a blog post over at the VI Team Blog, but I'll scoop her with some YouTube versions of the videos over at the VDC-OS site. Same content, crappier resolution, but you can share them with your friends or on your blog much easier. Collect them all! ...

Source: news.thomasnet.com --- 14 days ago
Offering design, operations, and monitoring capabilities, APC InfraStruXure® Central, Capacity Manager, and Change Manager provide comprehensive management of DataCenter physical infrastructure. Scalable to 4,025 devices, suite features multi-vendor support, placement advisor for IT equipment, power path mapping, and 3-phase UPS load balancing and analysis. Software is localized in 10 languages and includes interface with user-defined charts and graphs. This story is related to the following: Software Search for suppliers of: Network Management Software | Facilities Management Software ...

Source: www.businesswire.com --- 35 days ago
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Stratavia™, the leading provider of data center automation software for Fortune 1000 organizations, announced today that co-founder ...

Source: www.infoworld.com --- 31 days ago
VMware, facing increased pressure from rivals Microsoft and Citrix Systems, will announce new products this week intended to let customers extend their use of virtualization beyond servers and into all corners of the DataCenter, including storage and network equipment. The new products, to be described at the company's VMworld conference in Las Vegas this week, are scheduled for release in 2009 and are an effort to build what VMware calls a "virtual DataCenter operating system." VDC OS is not a product itself but a set of capabilities that will appear in updated releases of VMware's Infrastructure 3 software and other products. [ Stay up to date on the latest virtualization developments with InfoWorld's Virtualization Report blog and newsletter . ] "The VDC OS aggregates all hardware elements -- servers, storage and networking -- into a unified single resource. You take piece parts of the data center and let them act as a single big computer that can be allocated on demand to any application that needs the resources," said Bogomil Balkansky, VMware senior director of product marketing. VMware thinks customers can use virtualization to transform their data centers into more flexible cloud-computing environments like those offered by Amazon and Google. Among the new software to be announced this week is vCloud, which will allow customers to export virtual environments -- including virtual machines and their attached policy informati ...

Source: webcast.rice.edu --- 1 day ago
Wednesday, October 15, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Rice University, Anne and Charles Duncan Hall This year�s meeting offers opportunities to learn how ECE researchers uniquely apply innovative theories, concepts, and tools to understand, manage and reduce, complexity in engineering systems design. Conference Highlights: Hear about breakthroughs, work in progress, and recent achievements Learn about trends in electrical and computer engineering that impact systems design See live real research results with innovative demos for a range of applications �from communications to imaging View award-winning company-sponsored senior design projects and posters from top undergraduate course projects Featured Research Urban-Scale Ultra-Low Cost Wireless Networking, Professor Ed Knightly Active Integrated Circuit Metering Techniques for Security and Digital Rights Management, Professor Farinaz Koushanfar Make "Sense" for Computing, Professor Lin Zhong Large-scale Optoelectronic Integration on Silicon, Professor Qianfan Xu 2008 Keynote Speaker: Server and DataCenter Design for the Exascale Era Dr. Parthasarathy (Partha) Ranganathan (Rice MS'97, PhD'00) Principal Research Scientist at Hewlett Packard Labs MIT Technology Review Young Innovator under 35 (540 min) ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 4 days ago
Internet News Oct 11 2008 10:23AM GMT ...

Source: www.internetnews.com --- 12 days ago
The world's largest search company documents how it's able to squeeze considerable energy savings out of its many datacenters. ...

Source: virtualization.sys-con.com --- 9 days ago
Is your IT Infrastructure holding your business back? Do you need to regain control of the virtual and physical server sprawl that can dominate today’s datacenters? See how you can develop a virtualization strategy that will enable you to transform your DataCenter into a cost-effective, energy efficient and responsive IT environment that can dynamically adapt to the changing requirements in your business. read more ...

Source: searchstorage.bitpipe.com --- 13 days ago
This paper looks at the role virtualization should take in an optimized IT infrastructure, and presents a set of principles and best practices to build a comprehensive virtualization strategy for the organization. Published by: Microsoft ...

Source: searchstorage.bitpipe.com --- 37 days ago
This paper summarizes the benefits and challenges of traditional virtualization strategies, the advantages of Sun's approach, and the core capabilities of the Sun xVM portfolio. Published by: Sun Microsystems, Inc. ...

Source: singapore.recruit.net --- 11 days ago
... Experience of Professional scheduling packages, such as OPC/TWS and Autosys is essential. Experience of Netcool and / or Tivoli is essential. ... ...

Source: singapore.recruit.net --- 11 days ago
... Professional scheduling packages, such as OPC/TWS, Autosys or equivalent, is essential. Experience of Netcool and / or Tivoli is essential. ... ...

Source: singapore.recruit.net --- 11 days ago
... Professional scheduling packages, such as OPC/TWS, Autosys or equivalent, is essential. Experience of Netcool and / or Tivoli , or equivalent ... ...

Source: singapore.recruit.net --- 11 days ago
... Experience of Professional scheduling packages, such as OPC/TWS and Autosys is essential. Experience of Netcool and / or Tivoli is essential. ... ...

Source: www.fwicki.com --- 9 days ago
Many companies are stepping up their DataCenter investments even as they try to make cutbacks in other parts of their business, according to survey released Monday by AFCOM , the association for DataCenter professionals. The investments are a sign that company executives recognize the important role datacenters play in their business, particularly as more services and processes go online, according to AFCOM founder and former president Len Eckhaus. [ Learn more about how the financial crisis is affecting IT and the high-tech industry, plus what IT can do to help , in InfoWorld's special report. ] Half the respondents to AFCOM's survey said their DataCenter budget had increased this year compared to 2007, while a third said it stayed flat and 18 percent said it declined. Forty three percent expected their budget to increase again next year, in most cases by about 10 percent. "Part of it is because of the Internet and everything going online. Part of it is that executives these days have a better idea what their DataCenter is doing for them," Eckhaus said. The investments are also being driven by efforts to improve power efficiency, which can lead to savings. About 80 percent of the respondents said they expect to do more "greening initiatives" this year and next. The results are based on responses from 312 DataCenter professionals working mostly in the U.S., with a few in Canada, Asia, and Europe. About two thirds work in IT and one thi ...