Data Center

Mon, October 26, 2009 - Private clouds -- where companies use their own infrastructure and provision virtualized services to end users via automated tools -- are gaining traction among IT leaders who want to deliver advanced services at lower cost.

Mon, October 26, 2009 - A Burton Group report has highlighted the problems that businesses have in assessing accurate costs

Fri, October 23, 2009 - Enterprise efforts to consolidate data centers and install virtualization software are taking a big bite out of the number of power-hungry application and storage servers required to support enterprise data. But after taking this critical first step, what else can you do to boost efficiency?

Fri, October 23, 2009 - Juniper Networks (JNPR) can thank its enterprise business for third-quarter results that exceeded expectations.

Thu, October 22, 2009 - Apple released a server diagnostic download on Thursday that the company says will test servers running Mac OS X Server 10.6 for hardware issues.

Thu, October 22, 2009 - It was July of 1952, and I had accepted MIT’s offer to come to work in their Digital Computer Lab, which at the time was part of the institute's Department of Electrical Engineering. It was widely known at the time that the lab was involved in the development of the Whirlwind Computer. Whirlwind, one of the first stored program digital computers, was similar to the ordvac—which I became familiar with while at the University of Illinois.

Wed, October 21, 2009 - At SNW, you had to stick around until Thursday morning to get a quick briefing on Sun's SSD strategy and products, but it was well worth it.

Wed, October 21, 2009 - North Carolina State University engineers have created a material that can hold 1TB of data on a chip the size of a fingernail. The technology represents a 90% reduction in size compared to today's silicon-based chips.

Wed, October 21, 2009 - IBM's lawyers have a busy winter ahead of them as Big Blue attempts to fight off antitrust accusations related to its mainframe business and an IBM employee faces allegations of insider trading.

Wed, October 21, 2009 - The newly upgraded Mu Test Suite can help ensure the quality of IP-based communications, including cloud services.