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IBM's environmental concerns have put data centers to an unconventional and extremely odd use. One of the recently unveiled data centers in Uitikon, Switzerland, is used to heat a nearby swimming pool. The data center has been announced yesterday and is the result of IBM's joint collaboration with GIB-Servi... |
3 April 2008
04:41 GMT |
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CD and DVD manufacturer Imation has just introduced its newest line of storage media based on NAND flash memory. The company is mostly known for its CD, DVD optical media and the tape backup products, and the new SSD offering is a shot at a completely new market.The Imation-branded solid-state drives are built with h... |
11 March 2008
11:50 GMT |
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Sun Microsystems announced that its Project Blackbox has already started shipping. This time, they meant it, since the blackbox is in fact a mobile datacenter, built inside a big container, similar to those that usually ship smuggled merchandise and Chinese illegal immigrants. The datacenter is delivered at the buyer... |
30 January 2008
09:22 GMT |
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Telecommunications expert Eircom has just signed a contract worth 100 Million Euro for a new managed services datacenter located in Clonshaugh, Ireland. This new center is alleged to offer 'the most advanced hosting environment in Ireland' and is located in a 125,000 square foot facility."To stay competitiv... |
29 January 2008
11:58 GMT |
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The IT industry has started wearing green colors some time ago, but it seems that all the progress is not enough yet: hard-disks shutting down when not in use, energy-efficient processors and so on. What if we managed to achieve computers that would merely take less power?Start-up Validus claims to be able to solve t... |
28 January 2008
05:29 GMT |
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Intel announced the free availability of their software initiator package to support development of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) technology. The company has released Fibre Channel over Ethernet source code for Linux. The FcoE is still under ratification, but this is alleged to allow Fibre Channel SANs traffic ... |
20 December 2007
04:37 GMT |
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If you are not Western Digital and still want to jump in the eco-friendly bandwagon, you have to be smart enough to find an alternative. This is the case of another well known storage solution provider, Hitachi Data Systems, who has signed a partnership with Data Islandia to offer disc-based archival data management ... |
10 December 2007
11:03 GMT |
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For those of you that have not got off the Yahoo! horse and continue betting on it, here's a sign that things will start to pick themselves up: Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo!'s vice president of research for Europe and Latin America said in an interview today that structured search will be available shortly in... |
27 November 2007
14:06 GMT |
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The Green Grid is an association of several high-tech companies, most of which are active in the computer hardware manufacturing segment, that was created as a group that could lay the base for industry wide accepted practices, metrics and technologies that should help improve data center energy efficiency.Since its ... |
10 August 2007
05:36 GMT |
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Most hardware manufacturers and vendors, from processors to hard disk drives manufacturers, are claiming that their products are going green, which means better energy efficiency while keeping performance at a high level. While this may very well be the truth, the high power to performance ratios are not enough to st... |
6 August 2007
05:42 GMT |
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As data centers grow and their energy bills are almost reaching the market value of the hardware and software platforms that are housed within, a number of companies are trying to reduce their expenses and adopt new technologies that will make them more eco-friendly. According to the site Earth2Tech. "Data center ele... |
3 August 2007
06:26 GMT |
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Every big corporation (even more so in the IT world) has an impressive array of servers that hum day and night and use a lot of electric energy, space and maintenance time. Well, not anymore. Not anymore for IBM, at least, since the company plans to get rid of 3900 servers housed until now in its own data centers and... |
1 August 2007
08:40 GMT |
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In a move designed to expand infrastructure support for its Windows Live collection of services and products, Microsoft has leased two datacenter facilities located in Santa Clara from Digital Realty Trust. The two datacenters were previously controlled by Savvis. Initial reports pointing out that Microsoft had acqui... |
3 July 2007
03:38 GMT |
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California based networking mogul, CISCO Systems announced on Tuesday that they have a definitive agreement to acquire NeoPath Networks, a leading provider of high performance, scalable file storage management solutions. NeoPath Networks is recognized for their SMART virtualization technology, NeoPath File Director l... |
13 March 2007
12:20 GMT |
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