What does the cloud look like in 2011? What’s it made of? Thanks to a survey conducted by BitNami, Cloud.com and cloud management firm Zenoss, we have a fascinating new snapshot of the cloud market. With the help of 500 IT professionals, the companies were able to get a bead on some of the factors […]
Electronic medical records’ green potential lies in the cloud
Can electronic medical records (EMR) help hospitals, clinics and doctor’s offices go green? Yes, but not right away. Kaiser Permanente, a health care giant, used itself as a test case and the results are encouraging. Transitioning to electronic medical records can cut CO2 emissions by up to 1.7 million tons a year. The New York […]
Symantec and VMware: Virtualize those business critical apps
Today, Symantec and VMware say they are removing the last roadblock to completely virtualized server infrastructures with Symantec ApplicationHA and VirtualStore. The two companies worked together on a solution, based on Symantec’s Veritas Cluster Server and Veritas Storage Foundation, for giving IT managers the confidence to place business critical apps on virtual machines. Of course, […]
Green IT News Roundup: Wednesday, July 29
APC to replace aircons with row-based cooling systems – Computerworld According to APC, air conditioners are the “second-highest consumer of power in the data center, next only to the IT equipment.” And citing a report by Gartner, the company said…
VMware Courting Virtual Iron Customers with Price Breaks
Reuters is reporting that VMware is offering a 40 percent discount to Virtual Iron customers if they make the switch. Virtual Iron, which tailored virtualization solutions toward SMBs, was bought by Oracle in May and was promptly shuttered as a…
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…
Dell's Shortcut to Virtualization
Today Dell made of flurry of virtualization related announcements. Among the most intriguing are two, quasi-turnkey virtual infrastructure packages, one for full-fledged datacenters and another for SMBs: Data Center Virtualization Configuration: The unified virtualization platform with pre-configured architectures combines Dell…
Virtualization Optimization Guide from AnandTech
Liz van Dijk over at AnandTech has written the first part of a fantastically informative primer on virtualization and the hardware required to run VMs smoothly based on their own first-hand research. A must-read if your shop is eyeing VMware…
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…
Green IT News Roundup – Thursday, May 28
Security and regulatory concerns slow some server virtualization efforts – Network World There’s awe in the instantaneous speed that VMware offers in set up and tear down of VMs but worry about potential abuse of that power, too, deliberate or…
