Data Center

Fri, July 07, 2006 - The European Parliament has signed off on a radical new law aimed at curbing pollution from used portable batteries, ending more than two years of debate among European lawmakers. Battery makers will also be forced to provide more accurate information about the performance of their products.An overwhelming majority of Parliamentarians approved the law with a show of hands on Thursday. The official ...

Fri, July 07, 2006 - A lack of standards is holding back awareness of energy-consumption issues in the consumer electronics market, unlike in the business market, Hewlett-Packard (HP) executives said Friday."The awareness is quite low today," said Bernard Meric, senior vice president for external affairs. "We don’t see customers shopping for IT products because of energy consumption."But high energy prices and new environmental regulations are ...

Thu, June 29, 2006 - Dell, the world’s leading producer of PCs, on Wednesday said it would offer users of its computers the opportunity to recycle their old hardware for free, regardless of whether they plan to purchase a new Dell computer, the Associated Press reports via the New York Post.The free recycling program is already available to Dell customers in Europe, and ...

Tue, May 23, 2006 - Cisco Systems has restructured its core infrastructure to align with the concept of service-oriented data centers that enable network, storage and computer power on-demand, and has saved itself 300 million Australian dollars (US$226 million) in the process.Brian Christensen, Cisco’s IT infrastructure director for data center systems, said rather than use the already-adopted phrases for the automatic provisioning of IT infrastructure, he prefers ...

Wed, May 17, 2006 - In a move expected to cut IT spending by US$1 billion, Hewlett-Packard (HP) is consolidating its 85 data centers into six, the company said Wednesday.The move is part of a massive restructuring at HP, led by Chief Executive Officer and President Mark Hurd, that involves major consolidation of the company’s data centers worldwide and thousands of layoffs. HP has cut ...

Thu, May 11, 2006 - Cos. will focus on Europe, Asia-Pacific.

Mon, April 03, 2006 - Two virtualization software startups will vie for the spotlight at the LinuxWorld conference in Boston next week with competing offerings based on the open-source Xen hypervisor.Startup XenSource, which also manages the development of the open-source hypervisor, will launch a commercial virtualization platform, XenEnterprise, based on the latest version of the hypervisor.Red Hat and Novell are both integrating the open-source Xen ...

Sat, May 15, 2004 - Clustering: Collections of machines in a fixed configuration designed to operate and be managed as a single machine. Differs from grid computing where resources can enter and leave the pool as necessary.Distributed computing: Connecting computing resources over a network for the purpose of consolidating CPU power. Grew out of a need for scientific and technical users to increase their processing ...

Sat, May 15, 2004 - An assortment of grid players

Sat, May 15, 2004 - Long the domain of scientists and engineers, grid computing is finally going mainstream. CIOs need to examine their applications to see if their businesses can benefit from grid’s power and economies.