Data center

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IN DEPTH

Grid gets down to business
Early enterprise adopters of grid computing praise benefits such as ultra-speedy processing for heavy-duty applications.

Autonomic attack plans
When it comes to the critically important self-managing concept, leading vendors IBM, HP and Microsoft are duking it out to grab enterprise mind share.

The New Data Center: Spotlight on Automation
Automation leaves no IT discipline untouched, from app management to security and server configurations.

Information Lifecycle Management
We profile users who are on the cutting edge of ILM and describe how ILM can be one of the building blocks of the new data center.

The New Data Center: Spotlight on Wireless
How to make wireless part of your new data center architecture.

The New Data Center: Spotlight on VoIP
Tips for building a fail-safe VoIP network, the new applications VoIP enables and more.

The New Data Center: Spotlight on Storage
How information life-cycle management, pay-as-you-go capacity and virtualization can help you handle storage demands

NW Fusion Radio: Utility computing and virtualization at HP
HP virtualization Director Nick van der Zweep on the technologies.

The New Data Center: Spotlight on security
We spotlight your security challenges, from managing multitudes of user identities to stomping out vulnerabilities.

The New Data Center
Where grids, virtualization, autonomic computing and other big changes shatter the traditional boundaries on applications and information ...

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Windows Server Clustering & PCNews
Added: 09/30/04

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Added: 09/22/04

Grid application performance - find the sweet spot
Added: 09/20/04

802.3an (10GBase-T)
Added: 09/08/04

Set up a grid job scheduler with the Globus Toolkit 3.2.x
Added: 08/27/04

Breaking data center news

Citrix updates Access Suite
04/26/05
Citrix Systems Tuesday formally unveiled version 4 of its Access Suite, with changes to three key applications in it.

Persistence in pioneering a laptop
04/25/05
Principals tell how Toshiba's T1100 became first IBM-compatible and incited a revolution.

AMD brings dual-core Opteron to data center
04/25/05
The move to put more processing punch into low-cost, standards-based systems has kicked into high gear with HP, IBM and Sun announcing that systems built on dual-core Opteron processors will ship over the next two months.

Microsoft plans to detail 'third decade' of Windows at WinHEC conference
04/25/05
Microsoft Monday plans to set its course for the "third decade" of Windows when Bill Gates kicks off the company’s annual WinHEC conference in Seattle.

The spin on Cisco's latest acquisition
04/25/05
With its acquisition of Topspin Communications last week, Cisco is leaping deeper into the corporate data center beyond its traditional role as a high-speed Ethernet switch vendor.

Microsoft to ship 32-bit version of Longhorn server
04/20/05
Microsoft plans to ship 32-bit, x64 and Itanium versions of its Longhorn server operating system, company executives said Wednesday.

HP adds dual-core processor to Opteron blades
04/18/05
Only days before the launch of Advanced Micro Devices' first dual-core Opteron microprocessor, HP began taking orders for a four-processor blade system that will use the chips.

Start-up to create open source harmony
04/18/05
A start-up headed by former Marimba CEO Kim Polese is hoping to be the one-stop-shop that companies turn to as they expand the use of open source applications in their data centers.

Arsenal Digital unleashes server-restore service
04/11/05
Storage management service provider Arsenal Digital Solutions Monday launched a server recovery service for small and mid-sized businesses that ensures business continuity.

Intel's first dual-core chip shipping now
04/11/05
Intel has begun volume shipments of the Pentium Extreme Edition 840 processor, the company's first dual-core processor, a company executive said Monday.

Data center opinion

Grid computing worth a long look
02/14/05
Long discussed, grid computing is alive and kicking and coming to a data center near you. And sooner than you might think.

Fixing an Exchange WAN connection issue
12/13/04
I will be installing Exchange 2003 on a server at a remote site. Even though I will be upgrading the older Exchange to the latest version, that won't be happening for at least 4 months. In the interim, is it possible to connect Exchange 2003 to ...

Betting on virtualization
11/15/04
Virtualization changes everything. Not immediately or even necessarily quickly, but over the next few years virtualization will redefine how we run enterprise infrastructure and give us a richer range of choices with which to create solutions.

Consolidation vs. virtualization
11/15/04
What are the benefits and risks associated with consolidating many functions on a single device?

Virtualization will own the enterprise
11/08/04
The week before last I attended the VMworld 2004 conference in San Diego. This event, hosted by VMware, surprised me. I got to the venue a little later than I had planned and went into the general session expecting to see maybe 300 or 400 people. ...

Data center newsletters

VMware spruces up workstation software
04/21/05
VMware last week updated its desktop virtualization product to assist developers in coding and testing new applications.

Data center metrics that matter
04/19/05
The face of the data center is changing, that much is certain. We see continuing and rapid data-center consolidation across many industries, higher-density ...

Software for Linux clusters unveiled
04/19/05
SteelEye Technology recently introduced a variety of high-availability software for businesses deploying Linux server clusters.

Alacritech unveils fast server NICs
04/14/05
Alacritech last week expanded its line of server network interface adapters with eight new NICs for use in data centers that need high application performance or ...

Preventing identity mega-theft
04/12/05
While companies say they collect information on consumers to better serve them, the worst disservice they can do is to inadvertently expose customers’ private ...