Tuesday, May 05, 2009

What kind of data center can you build with $500 million?; A green nod for Cisco

The Social Security Administration gets $500 million to replace its National Computer Center
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What kind of data center can you build with $500 million?
So, if the government gave your company $500 million to spend on building a new data center what would you buy and how would you build it? Well, the Social Security Administration is about to find out. Read more.

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A green nod for Cisco Cisco lands in the ninth spot on the Environmental Protection Agency's list of the 50 greenest U.S. companies.

Intel releases power management tool for data centers Intel on Thursday announced Data Center Manager software tool kit that can reduce the power drawn by servers in data centers by tapping into hardware resources.

With long history of virtualization behind it, IBM looks to the future The future of technology always has roots in the past. And the past is indeed long in the case of virtualization, a technology that is reshaping today's IT industry and will likely play a huge role in the building of next-generation data centers. Few people are more aware of that history than Jim Rymarczyk, who joined IBM as a programmer in the 1960s just as the mainframe giant was inventing virtualization.

Microsoft to bring BI to the cloud Microsoft will bring BI and analytic services to its Windows Azure cloud computing platform, though it is unlikely to arrive before 2013, an executive said Thursday.

Another Data Center Headache: Log Data Exploding Following the March, 2004, bombings in Madrid, Spain, law enforcement searching for leads on those responsible for the attacks focused on the cell phones used by the terrorists and requested that European telecommunications providers turn over their call data. The only problem: It took the companies weeks to find the relevant data.

Microsoft targets Windows, Linux management Microsoft Tuesday opened its annual management confab saying it would ship the next version of Operations Manager by the end of June and laying out its efforts to manage datacenters and virtualized environments.

Cloud Standards: Trickier than Nailing Jell-O to a Wall Just try creating a definition of cloud computing that's broad enough to encompass all its permutations and narrow enough to provide technical guidance on how to get one cloud talking to another.

Back to the Future? Microsoft Subnet blogger Glenn Weadock reminisces about the mainframe and minicomputer environments that he worked with in college and in his first few years as a practicing IT consultant. And it occurred to him that maybe that model is not such a bad one.

New HP networking boss suing former employer EMC Cisco Subnet blogger Brad Reese says David Donatelli, executive VP of HP's enterprise servers, storage and networking, is reportedly suing EMC in an attempt to void his non-compete agreement.

The 2009 Microsoft Management Summit Kerrie Meyler gives a bit of perspective from a presenter's point of view of the sights and sounds at last week's Microsoft Management Summit. 

Sorry…The EC2 Cloud Is Full, Come Back Later In his Microsoft Subnet blog, Mitchell Ashley had his bubble burst in his thoughts on the cloud while using Amazon's EC2 service. 

May Giveaways
Cisco Subnet
, Microsoft Subnet and Google Subnet are collectively giving away books on Google Apps Deciphered, the CCNA Security exam, an awesome SQL Server 2005/2008 training video and the grand prize, a Microsoft training course from New Horizons worth up to $2,500. Deadline for entries May 31.

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05/05/09

Today's most-read stories:

  1. Illinois programmer sues Google over "Android"
  2. Why mix Bluetooth with Wi-Fi?
  3. Use the Cisco restroom at your own risk
  4. Is it time to cut the Ethernet access cable?
  5. Some IT skills see pay hikes during downturn
  6. Juniper bolsters branch router, switch lines
  7. LexisNexis says its data was used by fraudsters
  8. Who's on deck to replace Cisco's Chambers?
  9. Microsoft aligning management, clouds
  10. Eliminate network gear maintenance fees to save big money
  11. Notebook replaces trackpad with LCD panel


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