Companies Report That Virtualization Investments Are Indeed Paying Dividends – eWeek The most recent example: San Francisco-based IT services provider BEAR Data Systems, a Cisco Systems gold-certified partner, revealed June 24 that its hardware and virtualization tools are enabling clients…
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 – Wednesday, June 17
Infortrend’s green ESVA attacks the storage virtualisation market – IT-Director.com The five ESVA systems announced today–three for fibre channel (FC) and two for iSCSI SAN protocols–provide much more functionality while maintaining its green theme. The cabinets come populated with disk…
Dell Does Dedupe
Dell has officially launched a data deduplication site and a cursory glance reveals an intro to the technology, an assortment of whitepapers, and of course, a healthy spotlight on the IT vendor’s partnership with the dedupe mavens at CommVault….
Green Computer Tip: Don't Buy Another Hard Drive, Delete Duplicate and Update Files
Adding a hard drive to your Windows PC is an easy way to expand storage capacity if you find yourself running out of room for your files. But there are two problems with this approach. First, it’ll cost you money….
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…
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…
Supermicro Debuts Energy Efficient Storage Servers Chassis
So SSDs may be out of your price range but you still want your storage arrays to be energy efficient, right? Supermicro has the 1U, 2U, 3U or 4U chassis for you. The company has outfitted its new barest…
Green IT News Roundup – Wednesday, May 20
IT Pros to the Feds: Don’t Regulate Green IT – Reuters A survey by data center operator Digital Realty Trust found that 69 percent of IT pros surveyed “were extremely or very concerned about government regulation.” The study was…
AT&T and EMC Team for Cloud Storage
The cloud services space got a little more crowded today as AT&T announced that the company will be tackling online storage with the help of EMC. AT&T Synaptic Storage as a Service is being pitched to enterprises as a way…
