Optimizing for Virtualization, Part 2 – AnandTech

By consolidating previously separate storage systems into a single array, servicing multiple VM’s, we notice a change in access patterns. Because of queueing systems on all levels (guest, ESX and the array itself), what are actually supposed to be sequential reads coming from a single system get interleaved with the reads of other VM’s, resulting in a random access pattern. Keep this in mind when you notice a drop in otherwise solidly performing sequential read operations.

How Raytheon’s IT Department Helps Meet Green Goals – Computerworld

What They Did: Raytheon virtualized or decommissioned 1,300 servers and established common database services to reduce system acquisition, power and cooling costs. IT encouraged Raytheon’s businesses to use shared resources by offering a discount that trumped dedicated resources. Server virtualization enabled Raytheon to avoid building a major data center despite a 25 percent growth in capacity demand. Green IT projects produced more than $11 million of savings in 2008.

Even IT People Don’t Know What Cloud Computing Is: Report – TMCnet

Version One reportedly announced that its latest market research survey regarding cloud computing is ready, and its main finding is that more than 40 percent of senior IT professionals have confessed that they do not have a clue about the real meaning and definition of cloud computing.

Unisys Targets Secure Cloud Computing – PC World

Starting with the Unisys Secure Cloud Solution which is a managed cloud service on shared IT infrastructure that is hosted by Unisys, the company also plans to offer a prepackaged product in December, called Cloud-in-a-box, that will help companies set up and run their own internal clouds, said Rich Marcello, president of Unisys Systems and Technology.

L.L. Bean Data Center Earns LEED Silver – Web Host Industry Review

From its initial a conceptual design, the idGroup’s design evolved to suit L.L.Bean, meeting the criteria of both LEED Silver and the American Society of Heating Air Conditioning Engineering (www.ashrae.org), adding some local touches along the way. Along with minimizing environmental disturbance and recycling half of all construction waste, materials were sourced locally, including the structure’s distinctive New England-style shingles, which were made from wood harvested within a 500-mile radius, using sustainable forestry practices.