Data Center

Mon, February 26, 2007 - The Green Grid, a group of technology companies collaborating to improve energy efficiency in data centers, is officially open for business as of Monday.First proposed in April 2006, The Green Grid’s mission is to promote the development of energy-efficient processors, servers, networks and other technology and to promote best practices in data center operation. The nonprofit organization doesn’t expect to ...

Thu, February 15, 2007 - When Kirkland & Ellis commissioned new office space, the law firm’s IT needs were central to its plans

Thu, February 15, 2007 - For Chicago-area companies that need big-time computing power and resources but can’t afford millions for their own offsite data centers, new help is on the way.This spring, the Cyber Continuity Center, a high-density colocation data center 35 miles west of the Windy City, will open, serving midsize (Fortune 100 to 500) companies, says Bob Lacy, executive vice president. Customers will ...

Mon, February 05, 2007 - IBM researchers are counting on a 40-year-old technology to keep modern, state-of-the-art data centers running cool and allow companies to squeeze more computing power from the electricity they consume.These considerations are more important than ever. The power consumed by a rack of servers has risen from about 5 kilowatts (kW) of power per server rack five years ago to as ...

Mon, January 22, 2007 - Unisys is introducing a software suite that, among other things, automates the process of billing departments for computing time in a virtual environment.One feature of the new Unisys Enterprise Virtualization software suite, called "Real-Time Chargeback," calculates how to bill different departments of an enterprise when various applications are running simultaneously on the same physical server, said Alan Bender, vice president ...

Mon, January 01, 2007 - IBM will license its technology for cooling servers with water instead of air to Panduit, a global networking and electrical manufacturer, hoping to encourage adoption of IBM energy-saving techniques for data centers.Panduit will license IBM’s Rear Door Heat eXchanger, a 5-inch-deep cooling door that mounts on the back of a conventional server rack. Water courses through the door, cooling the ...

Tue, December 12, 2006 - The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) said that Qualcomm is infringing on one of Broadcom’s patents, dealing a blow to Qualcomm in an ongoing patent battle between the companies. The commission hasn’t yet issued a penalty for the infringement, and Qualcomm pledged to appeal the decision. The companies are in the midst of many other lawsuits with each other regarding ...

Wed, December 06, 2006 - IBM’s India Research Laboratory has developed technology for retrieval and integration of information from both structured and unstructured data. The new technology integrates data that is currently stored in separate silos, Mukesh Mohania, lead researcher on the project, said on Wednesday. "We are leveraging the structured data by extracting the information from the unstructured repositories, and then providing rich business ...

Mon, November 20, 2006 - The forecast for data centers isn’t good for the short term: They’re going to get hotter and a lot more cramped, according to Gartner analysts.Increasing use of cheaper x86 chip-based servers has presented problems for data centers, most of which haven’t been redesigned since the last tech boom went bust six years ago, said Rakesh Kumar, a Gartner research vice ...

Thu, November 02, 2006 - IBM Thursday is introducing a new tool to manage virtualized data centers even if the center is running different types of virtualization software.IBM’s Virtualization Manager uses a Web-based dashboard for managing different portions of a data center as one whole system, the company said. Virtualization Manager will simultaneously run virtualization software from vendors such as VMware, Microsoft and XenSource, as well ...