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Open Compute Project, a project started by Facebook with the goal of building an efficient computing infrastructures at the lowest possible cost, has just been joined by Red Hat.Red Hat will collaborate with all the other members of Open Compute Project to develop new technologies, a new design, and most importantly,... |
28 October 2011
08:55 GMT |
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If you ever wanted a sneak peek at the infrastructure powering the plethora of Microsoft services, then here is your chance to take a tour of a few of the company’s datacenters. Microsoft’s Cloud (all its web-based applications and services) resides in server farms spread across the world. Technologies f... |
27 July 2011
06:41 GMT |
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Microsoft is right on track to opening a new datacenter in Quincy, WA in early 2011, revealed Kevin Timmons, General Manager of Datacenter Services. The facility is a state of the art server farm designed to sport a variety of innovations, just as a few others that the Redmond company has been working on. The softw... |
4 January 2011
10:33 GMT |
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Microsoft owns the best enterprise datacenter facility in Europe. The Redmond company’s Dublin datacenter has been celebrated with the Best European Enterprise Datacenter Facility award the past week at the 6th edition of the Data Centers Europe 2010 Conference. However, the software giant emphasizes that its D... |
12 July 2010
04:50 GMT |
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In the effort to standardize and simplify datacenters, Dell has been working on realizing its vision of a flexible and dynamically orchestrated infrastructure. The technology released by the enterprise will move datacenter environments closer to this vision, through a combination of 10Gb Ethernet and infrastructure-m... |
11 December 2009
08:13 GMT |
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Microsoft has partnered with NetApp in a new collaboration designed to kick up a notch dynamics datacenter capabilities for enterprise customers. The new partnership, set up for a period of three years, will see the two companies join forces in a variety of aspects, including product collaboration and technical integ... |
9 December 2009
05:32 GMT |
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Fujitsu Group aims to aid in the establishment of a worldwide low-carbon society by 2020 and, to this end, it plans to turn its Green Policy Innovation project into a worldwide effort. World leaders decided, during the most recent Group of Eight Summit, that efforts should be made to halve greenhouse-gas emissions by... |
8 December 2009
09:13 GMT |
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With the introduction of a new data center architecture, Cisco made a key move in bringing to life its Data Center 3.0 strategy. The Cisco Unified Computing System, in combination with services and an open ecosystem, has Microsoft's blessing. The Redmond company revealed that it has inked an agreement with Cisco... |
16 March 2009
10:22 GMT |
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Having posted poor revenue results for the second fiscal quarter of 2009, Microsoft moved onward indicating a strong focus on tightening its belt. Opportunities to cut costs were identified across the company, from reducing the workforce to postponing indefinitely plans to build additional datacenters. At the end of ... |
20 February 2009
06:22 GMT |
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Power efficiency has been for a long time now one of the trends in the IT industry and companies have put a lot of effort into developing more and more eco-friendly technologies. Bill Kosik is one person that knows a few things about building efficient datacenters, and helped HP consolidate 85 datacenters into just s... |
26 November 2008
07:00 GMT |
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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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