Saying goodbye

Servers This newsletter is sponsored by Overland Storage, Inc. Get more with 4Gb/sec Fiber Channel Fiber Channel's latest standard, 4Gb/sec, doubles the rate of its predecessor, 2Gb/sec Fiber Channel. Discover in this whitepaper what's driving users toward this faster technology and how it could benefit your storage environment. Network World's Servers Newsletter, 08/09/07 Saying goodbye By Jennifer Mears This is the final Servers Newsletter. As my editors have noted, you will continue receiving server-related information through the Data Center Alert newsletter that is mailed out on Tuesdays. It has been great covering server-related news and I’m sad to say goodbye. But I think the transition illustrates what is going on in most data centers today. It’s no longer about isolated hardware. It’s about how hardware and technologies such as virtualization and utility computing all fit together. Look for the Data Center Alert newsletter to help bring all that information together for you in one place. In the meantime, I thought it fitting to talk about how IBM is walking the walk when it comes to combining data center technologies and making the best use of hardware to create energy efficient, powerful computing platforms. Network World Senior Editor John Fontana, wrote a piece last week about how IBM plans to consolidate nearly 4,000 low-end servers onto mainframes running Linux. Read Fontana’s article here. Network Worlds Network Infrastructure Buyers Guide Find the right infrastructure products for your enterprise - fast. Our extensive database of detailed product information in over 20 specific network gear market segments will help you quickly pinpoint what you need. With the side-by-side comparison tool you can evaluate product features and make the best decision for your enterprise. Click here to go the Buyers Guide now. It’s an aggressive move for Big Blue, which laid out its Project Big Green initiative earlier this year. IBM claims its consolidation efforts will cut its operating costs by $250 million and will save enough energy to power a small town. In addition, Big Blue claims that by moving off of thousands of low-end systems and onto 30 System z mainframes, it will reduce the computing space it needs by 85%. Not bad. IBM obviously will make big use of the mainframe’s power, security and virtualization capabilities to get the job done on fewer – albeit more powerful – boxes. And while the benefits will be big, the move from scale-out computing on low-end systems to a mainframe platform may be a hard sell to those not familiar with mainframe environments. It will be interesting, though, to see what kind of attention and interest IBM gets from those who may not have otherwise considered a mainframe. Thanks so much for reading this newsletter and always feel free to stay in touch.   What do you think? Post a comment on this newsletter

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Contact the author: Jennifer Mears is a freelance journalist based in Arizona. She was previously senior editor at Network World focusing on server issues. E-mail her at jlmears@gmail.com.   This newsletter is sponsored by Overland Storage, Inc. Get more with 4Gb/sec Fiber Channel Fiber Channel's latest standard, 4Gb/sec, doubles the rate of its predecessor, 2Gb/sec Fiber Channel. Discover in this whitepaper what's driving users toward this faster technology and how it could benefit your storage environment. ARCHIVE Archive of the Servers Newsletter. BONUS FEATURE IT PRODUCT RESEARCH AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Get detailed information on thousands of products, conduct side-by-side comparisons and read product test and review results with Network World’s IT Buyer’s Guides. Find the best solution faster than ever with over 100 distinct categories across the security, storage, management, wireless, infrastructure and convergence markets. Click here for details. PRINT SUBSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE You've got the technology snapshot of your choice delivered to your inbox each day. Extend your knowledge with a print subscription to the Network World newsweekly, Apply here today. International subscribers, click here. SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES To subscribe or unsubscribe to any Network World newsletter, change your e-mail address or contact us, click here. This message was sent to: networking.world@gmail.com. Please use this address when modifying your subscription. Advertising information: Write to Associate Publisher Online Susan Cardoza Network World, Inc., 118 Turnpike Road, Southborough, MA 01772 Copyright Network World, Inc., 2007