Is the Cloud a Bandwidth Hog? – ITBusinessEdge For some time now, I’ve been saying that networking is the key element to cloud architectures. While that’s still true, it’s probably more accurate to say that adequate bandwidth will make or…
Green IT News Roundup – Monday, July 27
In measuring data center power use, more (info) is more – SearchDataCenter.com Large data center operators like Microsoft and Google have already said that measuring power consumption is key to energy efficiency. Last year, Microsoft demonstrated how it measured power…
Green IT News Roundup – Monday, June 29
Computer Green-Off – Earth911.com According to a recent study, 70 percent of businesses are greening their efforts, and the leaders in the IT industry are no different as the industry’s top computer brands – HP, Apple and Dell – all…
Green IT News Roundup – Thursday, June 18
Twitpic Spotlight: @greenwombat’s Deutsche Bank carbon counter in NYC The new kid on the virtualization block – Grumpy Apache An obvious minus, however, is the integration of VMware. I am using VMware server 1, which is almost unsupported on Fedora…
Green IT News Roundup – Friday, June 12
How Enterprise Software Will Evolve in the Cloud – eWeek Blogs As a Microsoft software partner that subscribes to the Software Plus Services mantra, Epicor is moving to offer some elements of its software, such as the Web server and…
Green IT News Roundup – Friday, June 5
Green servers cropping up all over – InfoWorld The new HP ProLiant machines, for example, come equipped with a new feature that the company dubs “sea of sensors”: 32 smart sensors that automatically monitor the heat created by the server…
Green IT News Roundup – Thursday, June 4
Verizon’s Public Cloud Aimed at Enterprise – PC World Customers using CaaS can manage their service through a console that allows them to provision resources as they wish, which also means if they decommission a resource, they will automatically stop…
Sun Gives Entry Level Storage a Dash of Flash
Sun is adding oomph to entry-level enterprise storage arrays with solid-state drives. Not to worry, the flash-packing storage devices play a supplementary role in the Sun Storage 7310, acting more like cache to improve performance. That cache can swell up…
Green IT News Roundup – Tuesday, May 26
Hints of a New Market for Cheap, Power-Sipping Servers – Digits – WSJ Blogs Super Micro, which is based in Milpitas, Calif., thinks its Atom-based systems will mainly be used by companies that want to package just a little…
IBM: 800 Percent DB2 Performance Hike with SSDs
IBM is touting massive DS2 Database performance gains by employing solid state drives and using software tools, like those present in the “targeted data placement” smarts of the IBM Data Facility Storage Management Subsystem (DFSMS), in zSeries and DS8000…
