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How to Speak Data Center: IT Power Supplies
December 14, 2012 01:12 PM
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Knowledge of IT equipment power use and efficiency are essential in the data center. Here’s how to get started.
Intel Gets Serious About Microservers with New Chips
December 13, 2012 02:09 PM
Posted by Art Wittmann
Intel's Atom S1200 chips are built with low-power servers in mind; they draw just 6 to 9 watts. The chips also demonstrate Intel's commitment to a market it once thought was not worth pursuing.
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Facebook's Open Compute Summit Pushes Open Hardware For The High End
October 28, 2011 02:28 PM
Posted by Jim Rapoza
At the Open Compute Summit this week in New York, Frank Frankovsky, Facebook’s director of hardware design and supply chain, opened the proceedings by saying, "Open source is not just something that you can use to describe software, but also to describe the hardware space." That is the goal for the Open Compute Project, which aims to spur the development of cheaper servers and more efficient data centers.
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IBM Systems And Tecnology Group Growth Strategies
December 08, 2010 05:48 PM
Posted by David Hill
At its recent industry analyst event in Rye Brook, N.Y., IBM's Systems and Technology Group (STG) unveiled its five-year growth strategies for 2011 through 2015. As the guardian of the hardware and software that exploits that hardware to maximum benefit, STG is one of the recognized foundations of IBM, with a wide range of servers (including x86, Unix and mainframe systems) and storage products, as well as the IBM Research labs that support those efforts. Understanding what IBM STG is doing is important to understanding not only what the company is doing now and plans to do in the near future, but also to understanding what IBM thinks are the dynamics that will be driving the IT industry in years to come.
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Nimbus Goes All-In For SSD
May 07, 2010 09:00 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
In the venture-driven, "grow-faster-or-go-home" storage world, it's gratifying when a company is run like the small business that it is. Nimbus Data systems has been selling iSCSI disk arrays and unified storage systems for about five years, and they've been making money despite their low profile. Now, like Cortez burning his ships upon his arrival in the New World, Nimbus data CEO Tom Iskovich is betting the company that the market is ready for all SSD storage systems, discontinuing their current models with spinning discs. I've written before how I thought an array of reasonably priced SSDs might be a better idea than a few STEC ZEUSiops at $10,000 or more a pop. Now Nimbus has proven me right.
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Viridity's EnergyCenter Brings Energy Management To The Data Center
March 31, 2010 11:16 AM
Posted by David Hill
Mark Twain famously said, "Everyone talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it." Conversely, in IT everyone talks about data center energy efficiency, and many vendors are trying to do something about it. The introduction of Viridity's new EnergyCenter offers a particularly intriguing example. Viridity, a start-up company, tackles the data center energy-efficiency problem head on with EnergyCenter, a software approach to enabling data center energy optimization. Now corporate initiatives to go "green" are well and good, but there a couple of pragmatic business reasons why energy efficiency is being increasingly scrutinized within IT organizations.
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