Data Center

Thu, November 12, 2009 - Hewlett-Packard's acquisition of networking gear vendor 3Com will unlock a major new market for the company, taking its growing rivalry with Cisco Systems to China, analysts said Thursday.

Wed, November 11, 2009 - A security researcher unveiled a new unpatched bug in Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 that, when exploited, locks up the system, requiring a total shutdown to regain control.

Wed, November 11, 2009 - Fujitsu has unveiled a 10Gbps Ethernet switch designed to handle important applications in an energy efficient way.

Mon, November 09, 2009 - With a 75-year retention requirement and 5 petabytes of data, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs faces major challenges when it comes to storing data in its primary data center in Austin, Texas.

Mon, November 09, 2009 - VMware's latest desktop virtualization software features a new remote desktop protocol designed to improve low-bandwidth experience.

Fri, November 06, 2009 - A data center start-up is exiting stealth mode with technology that reduces power and cooling costs by analyzing the energy consumption of IT equipment and applications.

Thu, November 05, 2009 - If the size of your Google cloud is starting to look like Act IV of A Perfect Storm, you'll probably be interested in the company's latest feature, Google Dashboard--a one-stop shopping overview of all your Google cloud services, with links to preferences and privacy settings for each. (The Dashboard link is somewhat buried on your account settings page, so you might want to bookmark google.com/dashboard.)

Wed, November 04, 2009 - The private cloud packages developed by Cisco and EMC could integrate with existing internal clouds.

Wed, November 04, 2009 - Cisco Systems, EMC and VMware hope to soon sign the first Asian customers for their cloud-computing partnership and Acadia joint venture.

Tue, November 03, 2009 - Rackspace suffered another data center failure Tuesday that caused outages for its cloud computing customers, the third such incident since late June.