US Government gets into the Datacenter Rating Game
The EPA joins the party in putting metrics on your datacenters. Who else can you look forward to putting their two cents in?
Five Nines: The Next Gen Datacenter
David Chernicoff looks at technologies that impact data center users and operators, including server consolidation and virtualization, green IT, and the latest hardware advances.
David Chernicoff
With more than 20 years of published writings about technology, as well as industry stints as everything from a database developer to CTO, David Chernicoff has earned the term "veteran" in the technology world.
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Simplified networking in the datacenter gets another push
Three into one and envisioning the entire network as the datacenter drives Brocade's latest push into the datacenter networking model
Do containerized datacenters have a future?
What part can a datacenter container play in the future of your business?
Making Social Networking Work for IT
HP looks to make social networking a benefit to IT rather than a thorn in its side
Datacenter Operational Sustainability to become a benchmarking standard
The Uptime Institute hopes that their new rating system will enable process and personnel evaluation to be rated in relation to their long established tier system.
BMC takes a shot at ILM in the cloud.
ILM and the cloud has been a set of conflicting techniques that need reconciling. BMC makes the first attempt at tying together the management of local and cloud services.
eBay Sets a Realistic Goal for their New Datacenter
With companies talking about their goals for datacenter energy efficiency for their new datacenters that push the limits of technology, eBay steps back and delivers on a practical goal with major energy (and money) savings in their newly opened facility
Hybrid Computing Gets a Datacenter Boost
Combining the latest Intel XEON processors with new generation NVIDIA GPUs gives IBM an out-of-the-box hybrid computing solution for HPC with a server design that meets the needs of the green datacenter.
Introducing your new social networking interface: Microsoft Outlook
Outlook 2010 gives Microsoft a backdoor into control of the social networking universe.