Tuesday, February 17, 2009

IBM, Juniper join in cloud strategy; Voltaire unleashes 40Gbps data center switch

IBM, Juniper team up on cloud strategy
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IBM, Juniper join in cloud strategy
IBM and Juniper on Monday provided a sneak peek at technology that lets enterprise IT managers easily reallocate computing resources between a private and a public cloud. Read more.
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Voltaire unleashes 40Gbps data center switch Voltaire this week announced a 40Gbps InfiniBand switch switch for data centers that's designed to provide a low latency fabric for large, high-performance clusters.

IBM leads IT out of the data center IBM hosted its Pulse 2009 conference in Las Vegas and revealed its dynamic infrastructure strategy, which envelopes digital, physical, cloud and virtual environments in one service management strategy.

Wells Fargo CTO talks keeping costs flat Scott Dillon, chief technology officer of Wells Fargo's Enterprise Hosting Services, the company's data center operation support group, spoke with Computerworld about his IT group's approach to keeping costs flat while improving performance in a Fortune 50 company.

Google buys defunct Finnish paper mill for data center Google will buy the site of a former paper mill in Finland for €40 million ($51 million), with preliminary plans to build a data center.

Slideshow: How to build your own supercomputer Supercomputer do-it-yourselfer Bruce Allen says anyone can build one with some simple equipment.

Savvis bursts into cloud computing Savvis (NASDAQ: SVVS) on Thursday announced cloud computing services aimed at companies with bursty Web traffic that are looking for a cost-effective way to handle peaks...

HP unveils blade PCs and Citrix virtualization bundle HP's fourth generation blade PCs feature a desktop virtualization partnership with Citrix.

Start-up targets data center power usage A software start-up in stealth mode is promising to reduce power and cooling costs by providing visibility into data center processes and identifying ways to more efficiently use electricity.

Tata sets up Cisco Technology Lab in India Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India's largest outsourcer, has set up a Cisco Technology Lab, that will focus on developing network-based data center technologies, test frameworks, and train and certify employees on Cisco Systems data center technologies.

IBM floats software in Amazon's cloud IBM is delivering some of its infrastructure software as an on-demand service through Amazon Web Services, the companies said Wednesday, helping to validate the cloud computing model among enterprise customers.

Tata Communications invests $430M in Asian expansion Indian telecommunications operator Tata Communications will spend $430 million to set up a data center in Singapore and a regional cable system with an eye to tapping opportunities in emerging Asian markets.

Force10 unveils virtualization framework Force10 Networks this week unveiled a blueprint for easing the management of virtualized data centers.

Green IT, virtualization top of mind at IT Roadmap Citigroup and other companies will discuss plans for green IT and virtualization at Network World's IT Roadmap event in New York City.

SQL Server 2008 - happy half-birthday The database celebrated its birthday by crashing the eval copy of blogger Brian Egler … but, in his humorous way, he's got a plan to restore it.

Windows Remote Management: we are under your command (line) Guest blogger J. Peter Bruzzese says that WRM requires using the command-line, which can be an excellent way to quickly manage remote servers.

XP to Windows 7 upgrade strategy explained, defended Microsoft Subnet blogger says enough with the conspiracy theories … upgrading from XP to Windows 7 isn't the end of the world.

Microsoft My Phone is only the bait Microsoft Subnet blogger Mitchell Ashley notes that My Phone is significantly more limited than Google's and Apple's sync services, but feels its just a diversion to the real cloud strategy.

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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02/17/09

Today's most-read stories:

  1. Microsoft announces $250,000 Conflicker worm bounty
  2. Evolution of PCs, Macs, Internet, routing, cell phones, Microsoft Windows
  3. Palm pulls the plug on Palm OS, bets the future on Pre's webOS
  4. Largest coordinated ATM rip-off ever nets $9+ million
  5. Iridium calls may suffer outages from satellite crash
  6. Microsoft renames, expands free online services for higher-ed
  7. New amplifier paves way for 10Gbps wireless Web
  8. NSA identifies top 25 programming errors
  9. Rumor mill: Cisco to buy VMware?
  10. Did Borat help Cisco?


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