IT managers are feeling the economic pinch and they’re planning accordingly. Thirty-five percent of the 120 data center, facility and IT managers polled in Emerson Network Power’s Data Center Users Group (DCUG) survey have delayed plans to expand or build…
Green IT News Roundup – Tuesday, May 19
Symantec to expand cloud-based software – Reuters Symantec’s hosted storage services, which consumers and businesses access over the Web, are among its fastest-growing products. Salem said companies were originally hesitant to use the Internet to transmit sensitive information, but are…
Green IT News Roundup – Wednesday, May 13
Using power management techniques to green your IT department – TechRepublic In 2007, IT consulting company EDS demonstrated it was socially responsible by complying with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) ENERGY STAR specifications for reducing computer energy use. In…
New HP Left Hand Line Makes SANs Virtual Server Friendly
HP is smoothing out SAN storage management for VMware shops with new Left Hand P4000 SAN hardware, Virtual SAN Appliance Software and the new StorageWorks SB40c Storage Blade. When deployed in conjunction with the new P4000 hardware and PSA software…
Sun Releases Intel Xeon 5500 and Flash-packing Blades, Servers
Sun Fire X4270 Sun today launched a slew of new Sun Fire systems based on the quad-core, virtualization-friendly Intel Xeon 5500 series of processors. Sun provides this helpful breakdown of where in the data center their new gear slots in:…
