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  • Java creator backs Oracle and Enterprise Edition

    Also, dependency injection in EE 6 provides a way to inject dependencies in code, said Gosling.He hailed the GlassFish application server as providing the first implementation of EE 6, saying the server used in data centres is downloaded about a…
    18 March 2010
    Tags: Sun Microsystems • Profile • Language • Edition • Application Server • Api

  • Fujitsu new server aimed at cloud computing

    Rather than expanding their own data centres, some companies pay third parties to provide hosted computing and storage services.Customer demand is driving all these competitors," McCormack said. Our own data centre was one of the key guiding lights…
    17 March 2010
    Tags: Targeting • Supplies • Rack • Markets • Cloud Computing • Air

  • Google traffic starting to dominate Internet

    By this February, Arbor reckons that over 60 percent of Google's traffic was being channelled through direct interconnects that link its massive data centres to one another.To put this in less technical terms, Google and the customers using its…
    16 March 2010
    Tags: Youtube • Thirdparty • Percentage • Data Centres • Activities

  • HP, IBM and Dell launch servers with Intel Xeon 5600 chips

    Users will be able to throw more workloads to maintain higher server utilisation rates.That should help consolidate servers, especially in data centres, where virtualisation drives high server utilisation rates, McCarron said.The reduction of…
    16 March 2010
    Tags: Virtual Machines • Utilisation • Rates • Power Consumption • Data Centres • Blade

  • Open sourcing data centre design

    A new industry group is trying to apply open-source principles to the design and construction of data centres, which it says could accelerate the use of new technologies and increase competition in the industry.The Open Source Data Center…
    08 March 2010
    Tags: Questions • Pool • Innovation • Engineering • Data Center • Cooling

  • Google Apps now offers backup and recovery

    At the core is real time, synchronous replication in multiple servers and data centres of every morsel of data entered into or modified in any of the Apps components, like Gmail, the Docs office suite, Sites and Calendar.Anytime you change any…
    05 March 2010
    Tags: Recovery • Gmail • Disaster • Data Centres • Charge • Apps

Latest Features

  • Five doomsday scenarios for IT apocalypse

    Data centres? And then they can turn out the lights, leave behind a logic bomb that corrupts Google's databases, or simply have their way.I'm not familiar with the structure of Google's network, but they must have a command and control app that…
    17 March 2010
    Tags: Wall Street • Stopped • Scenarios • Scenario • Rogue • Disaster Recovery

  • Will the cloud take your IT job?

    In some respects, system administrators function like auto mechanics, needing keen diagnostic skills and repair capabilities to keep a complex mixture of disparate systems operating as a whole.Of course, data centres have become far more complex…
    11 March 2010
    Tags: Skills • Harder • Developments • Centralised • Car • Article

  • Low power Ethernet boosts green networks

    The EPA reports that energy usage in data centres doubled between 2000 and 2006 and is predicted to double again by 2011, hence the interest in energy efficiency.Data centres are built to handle peak loads and often have excess capacity off peak.
    04 March 2010
    Tags: Transmission • Savings • Metrics • Mechanisms • Idle • Efficiency

  • Top five ways for VMware to beat Microsoft

    The expansive title appears in the first sentence of every press release VMware issues these days.VMware's marketing also focuses heavily on its "vCloud" program, which seeks to build a lineup of partners that offer cloud computing services based…
    02 March 2010
    Tags: Virtual Machines • Virtual Machine • Management Tools • Forrester Research • Cloud Computing • Apis

  • Microsoft vs. Google: The empire strikes back

    Under this arrangement, customers get most of the benefits of running servers on their own premises, with fewer headaches.Microsoft's data centres are your data centresMicrosoft's plans for its data centres don't end with simple outsourcing, either.
    23 February 2010
    Tags: Redmond • Flagship • Cloud Computing • Argue • Architect • Apis

  • How the Cisco-HP split will benefit customers

    Each focused on its own areas of expertise, and though HP did sell networking gear through its ProCurve division, that business was focused mostly on small and medium-sized businesses.However, as data centres become larger and more complex…
    22 February 2010
    Tags: Stephen Lawson • Partnership • Note • Force • Deals • Contract

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  • Five reasons to embrace Intel Xeon 5600 processors

    Five reasons to embrace Intel Xeon 5600 processors Tony Bradley How data centres can benefit from six CPU core chips How-Tos However, depending on the hardware currently deployed in your data centre, few IT purchases offer an ROI (return on…
    17 March 2010
    Tags: Xeon • Optimised • Heat • Evolution • Energy • Array

  • How to save your business money on print costs

    For PUnlike a lot of areas of infrastructure, like data centres, desktops and call centers, we pretty much beat up those in terms of cost savings for years, the office environment with these types of devices has been pretty unmanaged," says Craig…
    20 January 2010
    Tags: Copying • Productivity • Scale • Printing • Stores • Cost Savings

  • How to manage massive file transfers

    Despite being insecure and outdated, the file transfer protocol (FTP) continues to be a popular method for sending large files between data centres, corporate divisions, branch offices or business partners.
    11 January 2010
    Tags: Automation • Compliance • Data Centres • Data Centre • Transfers

  • How to keep your data centre running over the holidays

    The staffing plan should also be worked out before the end of fall, he says.You have to ask, 'What is your minimum staffing level to, not only keep the plane flying, but keep it flying safely,'" Blum says.Play defenceThe holiday rush heightens at…
    10 December 2009
    Tags: Art • Firms • Defence • Spring • Learned • Ecommerce

  • How to solve the data challenge, with environmental efficiency

    So, with data centres already bursting at the seams, and a wider pressure to consider the environmental impact of IT, companies are faced with a significant challenge.This challenge requires an absolutely fundamental change in the way that…
    15 June 2009
    Tags: Amounts • Demands • Analytics • Carbon • Consumption • Realtime

  • Case Study: Parallel Internet: Inside the Worldwide LHC computing Grid

    New fibre-optic cables with special protocols will be used to move data from CERN to 11 Tier-1 sites around the globe, which in turn use standard Internet technologies to transfer the data to more than 150 Tier-2 centres.It's using some advanced…
    28 April 2008
    Tags: Questions • Dedicated • Tier • Centres • Network World • Raw

Reviews

  • System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 review

    Although live migration works with bare Hyper-V using the free tool, SCVMM makes it easier, with better intelligence about the target virtual host to which you're migrating, available resources and other information.SCVMM also interfaces with the…
    15 March 2010
    Tags: Vm • Virtual Machines • Maintenance • Hosts • Clustering • Cluster

  • Cisco OTV review

    For many applications and services this isn't a problem, and WAN connectivity between data centres and campuses does the job just fine. Last week, Cisco walked me through a demonstration of Cisco OTV (Overlay Transport Virtualisation), a novel…
    17 February 2010
    Tags: Table • Scenario • Extension • Ends • Data Center • Centers

  • Cyberoam CR50ia UTM appliance

    Wed rate it as one of those extremely ambitious newcomers that pop up in networking technology from time to time, helped by its Indian-based product development centres.HardwareCyberoams CR 50ia is classed as a 1U Soho or branch office product…
    23 November 2009
    Tags: Modules • Events • Prevention • Intrusion • Gigabit Ethernet • Creation

  • Dell EqualLogic PS4000 iSCSI SAN

    We found setup to be very straightforward and quick, as one would expect of a system designed to be sold to everyone from inexperienced Windows system admins to SAN admins in large data centres. Dell acquired EqualLogic in 2007, adding a strong…
    08 October 2009
    Tags: Acquired • Player • Volumes • Fibre • Ports • Channel

  • Western Digital RE4-GP hard drive review

    Western Digital's energy saving and vibration reduction technologies, combined with a higher cache than WD's 2TB Caviar Green drive and fast throughput speeds, make this drive a great addition to data centres.
    01 July 2009
    Tags: Power Consumption • Consumer • Cache • Hard Drive • Western • Noise

  • VMware ESX Server 3.5

    These evolutionary upgrades fill important gaps and ostensibly set the stage for the next big release, which may mark the advent of virtualisation as the rule in data centres, not the newcomer. Coupled with VMware's physical-to-virtual (P2V…
    11 February 2008
    Tags: Handy • Vm • Scalability • Wizard • Shops • Hosts

White Papers

  • Business service efficiency: The key to green IT and profitability

    Data centres consume more energy than any other environment in most companies. Learn how to use what you have already without buy new hardware to realise greater improvement in service and a greater reduction in operations costs and capital expenses.
    17 February 2010
    Tags: Energy • Efficiency • Centers • Capital • Broader • Addresses

  • Advanced compressions with Oracle Database 11g release 2

    The introduction of these exciting new technologies comes at an opportune time as terabyte-sized databases, once considered a novelty, are becoming prevalent in enterprise data centres. Mass distribution of rich and multimedia content over the…
    03 December 2009
    Tags: Volumes • Volume • Scalability • Growth • Demands • Compression

  • Lowering your IT costs with Oracle Database 11g release 2

    Oracle Database 11g Release 2, the second release of the award winning Oracle Database 11g, provides the foundation for IT professionals to successfully deliver more information with higher quality of service, make more efficient use of their…
    03 December 2009
    Tags: Professionals • Centres • Budgets • Foundation • Oracle Database

  • Achieving business agility with application grid

    Find out more Responsible companies are learning how to run their data centres more efficiently using less hardware, less software and less IT resources. Taking grid computing to the next level by introducing application grid technologies.
    03 December 2009
    Tags: Layer • Centres • Grid • Learning • Dynamically • Adjust

  • Security, performance, and energy efficiency converge

    Security, performance, and energy efficiency converge Intel Why modern data centres thrive on scalable performance and energy efficiency whitepaper Success requires high-quality server hardware and well-tuned enterprise applications that meet or…
    26 November 2009
    Tags: Robust • Efficiency • Optimised • Data Centres • Highquality

  • Five steps to successful data centre consolidation

    Can downsizing and consolidating data centres yield long-term savings sufficient enough to warrant the project? Using the five step process outlined in this white paper, we were able to eliminate more than 2,000 servers from our own IT…
    23 June 2009
    Tags: Savings • Consolidation • Data Centre • Budget • Bmc • Commitment

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