Displaying items by tag: Data centres
Friday, 17 October 2008 15:55
Virtualisation, schmirtualisation, it's old hat for IBM mainframes
While the likes of VMware and others talk up the benefits of virtualisation in server consolidation, this is really old news, according to Christopher O'Malley - in fact 37 years old. That's how long ago IBM first released VM on its mainframes says the GM of the mainframe business unit of CA.
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Wednesday, 20 August 2008 07:33
Microsoft eases datacentre software virtualisation rules
Microsoft has relaxed its licensing restrictions on datacentre software to allow for the growing use of virtualisation. Significantly, Microsoft has chosen to drop its previous 90-day reassignment rule, allowing server software to be moved around a server farm as often as necessary. The change is especially significant for customers running virtualised environments.
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Sunday, 03 August 2008 19:38
IBM invests $360 million in cloud computing
Last week iTWire reported how HP, Intel and Yahoo! are joining forces to spearhead a global and open source test bed for the advancement of cloud computing. Now IBM has thrown a few hundred million into the technology as well...
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Friday, 25 July 2008 12:37
VMware goes to university, 40 of them
Through the Council of Australian University Directors of Information Technology (CAUDIT) more than 40 universities in Australia and New Zealand have implemented VMware's virtualisation technology.
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Friday, 25 July 2008 12:10
Virtualisation for profit: sell your spare server capacity
German company Zimory has launched what it claims to be the world's first online marketplace where organisations can buy and sell processing capacity on their virtualised data centre servers.
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Thursday, 17 July 2008 19:05
Citrix announces 'œvirtual machines on any hypervisor' project
Citrix, the newest player to enter the hypervisor space when it
acquired XenSource in October 2007, has unveiled “Project Kensho”,
designed to make virtual machines portable across the major hypervisor
platforms, including XenServer from Citrix, VMware's ESX and
Microsoft's recently released Hyper-V.
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Sunday, 13 July 2008 14:08
APC launches data centre design consultancy
Data centre power and cooling technology supplier, APC, has launched its professional services business group in Australia and New Zealand offering data centre assessment, carbon footprint assessment, data centre design and engineering services and training services for IT and facility managers.
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Friday, 06 June 2008 07:42
Hot chips? Call in the plumber!
Is Mario working at IBM's research lab? Surely only a crazy plumber would think of building microscopic water pipes inside silicon chips.
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Thursday, 05 June 2008 10:24
Wanted: one million Australians
The Climate Savers Computing Initiative has arrived in Australia, and its movers and shakers are looking for one million people to commit to using more aggressive power management settings and to take energy efficiency into consideration when buying their next PCs.
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Friday, 30 May 2008 06:15
A green light is one that's never on
Go into any data centre and you will see thousands of tiny lights, in the rows and rows of electronic gear. A UK company reckons these, and those on computing equipment in UK homes contribute 50,000 tonnes to CO2 emissions and waste £10m a year in energy costs.
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Wednesday, 21 May 2008 05:34
IBM continues green machine theme
IBM's been pushing better energy efficiency for data centres for a year, and has now introduced a new set of offerings to help its customers meet that goal.
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Monday, 12 May 2008 11:28
MYOB now hosts sites - but when will it offer hosted MYOB?
Payroll, retail and accounting software solutions provider, MYOB, has
entered the web hosting market with hosting and email packages after
the recent purchase of a web hosting business. While this is a good
move, it’s clearly still early days, with a hosted MYOB solution to
come “in time”.
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Saturday, 03 May 2008 12:37
Microsoft Hyper-V jumps to hyperspace to arrive early
Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor and virtualisation technology is coming
early – but given the stuff ups with XP SP3 and Vista SP1, would you
trust it – or stick with VMWare or Citrix instead?
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Thursday, 01 May 2008 02:18
HP turns theory into fact with memristor memory
It's been 37 years since Leon Chua hypothesised the existence of the memristor - the 'missing' basic electronic circuit element to complement the capacitor, resistor and inductor - but Hewlett-Packard scientists have finally made one.
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Monday, 07 April 2008 07:28
Equinix execs escalated
Data centre and Internet exchange service provider Equinix has promoted former MD of the company's Australian operation Doug Oates to the new role of vice president of sales for Equinix Asia Pacific, with Darren Mann promoted to fill Oates' shoes.
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Tuesday, 18 March 2008 04:36
Digital Sense plans two massive data centres
Digital Sense is building, in Kenmore Brisbane, the first of two massive new data centres in response to burgeoning demand for outsourced data centre services.
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Tuesday, 05 February 2008 09:16
Dell goes iSCSI with new SAN products
Following its acquisition of EqualLogic, Dell has released a new series of iSCSI storage arrays.
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Wednesday, 30 January 2008 04:51
Onaro now part of NetApp
NetApp's acquisition of storage software vendor Onaro has gone through in double-quick time.
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Tuesday, 29 January 2008 05:38
Dell ties the knot with EqualLogic
Dell's $US1.4 billion acquisition of SAN specialist EqualLogic has been completed, marking another step on the company's journey towards achieving similar status in the data centre as it enjoys in the corporate desktop and notebook markets.
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Friday, 25 January 2008 06:08
Symantec scores solid quarter
Symantec's results for the quarter ending December 2007 were well up on the year-before period.
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