Green Grid plans 'Data Center 2.0' design guide The Green Grid consortium will announce plans Wednesday to create a "top-to-bottom" design guide for building energy-efficient data centers, as well as new metrics for estimating data center productivity. EMC, Microsoft extend partnership on virtualization, security and content management EMC and Microsoft have extended a partnership that focuses on interoperability of products related to virtualization, security and content management. Start-up SiCortex puts green twist on high-performance computing SiCortex is trying to bring the benefits of high-performance computing to smaller enterprises and research groups, particularly those worried about the rising cost of... Dell outlines plan to help customers cut energy costs Dell on Wednesday talked about steps the company is taking to improve energy efficiency in servers, also outlining a server-refresh cycle that could help customers cut energy... An application-centric approach to virtualization To increase the ROI of their virtualization efforts, organizations are virtualizing servers that support business-critical applications. While many tools help manage virtual servers, they provide little real-time, actionable data on how the virtualized applications are performing and how they interact with one another and the infrastructure on which they reside. Extreme adds 10Gig switch for data centers Extreme Networks has joined the push for 10 Gigabit data center networks. The company has started shipping the Summit X650, a 32-port stackable switch designed to fit in server racks and interconnect either fast servers or Gigabit switches. The joys and pains of running betas in virtual machines The problem is, Microsoft’s two most commonly used virtual environments – Virtual PC 2007, and Virtual Server 2005 – don’t support running 64-bit operating systems. An affordable and ultimate way to dispose of old hard drives You've got compliance on one side, and data leakage on another. What's a network exec to do with aging disk drives? Blogger Ron Barrett has found a unique, affordable, shredding service. Netbooks grow powerful with virtualization Microsoft Subnet blogger Brian Egler demonstrates what $450, a USB drive and Virtual PC gets you – a powerful PC. Buy a router: save the world? John Chambers's advice to fix the economy … keep investing in Internet technologies. SAP, Oracle dueling over 'smart' energy metering The rivalry between enterprise software giants SAP and Oracle is heating up in the area of smart energy metering. February giveaways from Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet Up for grabs: One American Express gift card worth $250 from Global Knowledge; One Microsoft training course worth $2,995 from Global Knowledge; 15 copies each of the hot book titles Voice over IP Security, and CCNA Wireless Official Exam Certification Guide and 15 copies of Exchange Server 2007 How-To: Real Solutions for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Administrators. Get all the entry details here. |
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