Run don't walk to read Jim Louderback's account of how Revision3 was taken down by MediaDefender, a subsidiary of penny stock ArtistDirect.The gist: Revision3 suffered a denial of service attack that was orchestrated by MediaDefender.
The zEnterprise 114 aims to consolidate traditional servers, save floor space, lower energy costs and tackle different workloads
The vCenter Product Family suite of virtualisation-management applications handles tasks such as dealing with service-level agreements
Microsoft has published a white paper on cloud computing economics and argues that large clouds could deliver computing power at up to 80 percent lower cost than small ones.
IBM's M5 portfolio revolves around rack and tower, blade, dense and integrated systems.
GE has acquired Lineage Power Holdings in a $520 million deal that will bring its energy conversion equipment to the telecom, data center and cloud computing markets.
Intel outlined plans to produce six-core chips in the fourth quarter. The move is that latest salvo in a game to out-core AMD on everything.
IBM plans to outline cloud computing services for the Federal government as well as various municipalities.
Guest post: TechRepublic's Scott Lowe, Chief Information Officer for Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, examines some of the reasons server sales have dropped and handicaps the recession's impact. For more posts like this see TechRepublic's data center blog.
With cloud computing providers expected to grow exponentially there may be a need for a brokerage that allows IT buyers to efficiently procure services. Enter the cloud computing brokerage, an idea proposed by research firm Gartner.