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InfoWorld's reviewer can't confirm Dell's 19% power-savings claim, but does report that for the six days he ran the system, the biggest blade used a grand total of 21.7 kilowatts of power.

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found a way to use nanotechnology to boil water more efficiently, which could help them better cool computer chips.

The EPA said an Energy Star rating for servers could be ready by the end of the year, although the amount of information it offers will be limited at first.

Researcher iSuppli said the price war between chip makers Intel and AMD appears to be abating based on first-quarter research.

By studying its own telework program, Sun Microsystems has found that workers use about half as much energy in a home office as they do when they come into the office.

(Source: Computerworld) The compact size, cost, and virtualization capability of blade servers has made these servers a data center favorite. But blade hardware, from vendor to vendor, is incompatible. Are users risking vendor lock-in by deploying blades? Vendors appear uninterested in creating an "IBM compatible-like" hardware approach for blades. Does this lack of hardware compatibility pose risks for users? Will they face frustration in finding components if third party vendors are building around some blade configurations and not others? This webcast features speakers from Intel and HP.

(Source: Raritan) Changes in information technology (IT) can be split into two broad categories. Moves, additions and changes (MAC) are day-to-day IT activities which involve adding and removing end-user personnel, changing end-user locations such as when an employee moves to a different cubicle and upgrades services. Build outs, consolidations and acquisitions (BOCA) are large-scale projects which can be very disruptive and require careful planning and implementation to maintain operations. Key considerations are the complexity and risks such data center transformations bring with them and establishing a process that ensures success. This white paper examines the BOCA process and what is required to meet IT goals and objectives and maintain business continuity.

(Source: Raritan) To support new, power-hungry IT equipment, especially blade servers, data center managers have to deliver more sophisticated power to the IT equipment rack. This paper examines the questions IT administrators and data center facilities managers need to ask before purchasing high power PDUs.

(Source: Raritan) Due to an increased reliance on mission-critical applications, administrators are rapidly adding servers and other IT equipment to their data center. Unfortunately, this is pushing power and cooling systems to their limits. Can emerging technologies like intelligent PDUs help manage this change? Find the answer in this white paper.

HP is entering the warehouse appliance market with all-in-one servers designed to ease configuration issues and give customers one-stop hardware and software support.

At Hewlett-Packard's annual technical conference, executives assured users that HP -- which has discontinued several aging technologies in recent years -- remains committed to HP-UX and its Integrity server line.

Blade servers were invented to enable today's small, powerful computers to fit more efficiently into standard server racks. Here's the scoop on the history, technology and market for blade servers.

The servers pack two motherboards into a 2U unit with a single power supply, increasing the available processing power while consuming less energy, the company said.

Psystar, the Florida firm that makes Mac clones, yesterday unveiled knock-offs of Apple's Xserve servers.

Arm is getting ready to challenge Intel by moving its mobile chip architecture into servers, although dethroning Intel won't be easy, analysts say.

Patrick Thibodeau glances through his notes from the HP Technology Forum and finds good advice on IITL implementation, gray areas for green tech, and thoughts on when your company is and is not a democracy.

Hewlett-Packard announced plans to use solid-state technology from start-up Fusion-io across its server lines.

The Top500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers passed a milestone Wednesday with the first system to achieve peak performance of 1 petaflop, or one quadrillion floating point operations per second. Erich Strohmaier, a computer scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, was one of the founding editors of the Top500 list back in 1993. He talked with IDG News Service about the performance gains the list has seen, the quad-core processors that are coming to dominate it and mistakes that can creep in when the list is put together.

Firefox users may have been too enthusiastic as they rushed to grab Version 3.0 of their favorite browser, since Mozilla's servers swooned under the traffic. The servers were later brought back online.

Hewlett-Packard announced on Monday that its NonStop fault-tolerant technology, the high-end, mission-critical systems widely used by banks, telecommunications providers and government emergency services for online transaction processing, will now be available on a blade server.

Linux was the winner by up to 12%,
Network World's testers said, but there were a bunch of stipulations mandated by the testing setup. Your wattage may vary.

Sun Microsystems Friday is set to unveil open source code that can turn OpenSolaris-based servers into block-based storage devices.

IBM is expanding its Project Big Green energy-efficiency program to include a standardized approach to designing and building data centers with up to 20,000 square feet of floor space.

Symantec announced it has combined its online storage management software with Citrix Systems Inc.'s Xen Hypervisor to develop an x86 server virtualization platform. The company also made several upgrades it it Veritas NetBackup product.

Data centers are bursting at the seams, so despite a slowing economy, it's time for companies to rethink and rebuild their data centers to increase efficiency and accommodate growth.

Not every IT demand can be fulfilled by shoehorning more resources inside the shrinking corporate data center. You need to know when and what to let go, says columnist Mark Hall.

When building your next data center, your best bet is to be flexible and keep an eye on your company's future needs. Here are some goals to keep in mind.

New technologies are helping data center movers speed up the transition process and improve efficiencies at the same time.

Most IT managers have to make the best of wherever their data center is located. But if the choice is yours, here are some tips for getting the best spot.

Once a decision is made to build a new data center, the IT manager must negotiate with vendors to get the best deal. The more you buy, the more leverage you have.

Universities are preparing for a future where demand for university-supplied IT services declines as their users shift to services offered by Google, Microsoft and Amazon.

Sun officials today said that the company plans to ship solid-state storage technology this year, but disclosed few details of their plan.

VDI consists of four basic components: a client to access the virtual machines, a broker to direct the clients to the appropriate VMs, the virtualization server and the VMs that are used as the desktop. Edward L. Haletky explains more.

Factors in the first quarter included build outs of large Web data centers and emerging-market growth, Gartner says.

A disk failure in an aging Sun Microsystems server caused the FAA's NOTAM system to crash last week.

This Sun server looks a lot like other 1U systems, but really shines when it comes to database tasks in particular,
InfoWorld's reviewer found.

(Source: Vision Solutions) Many companies need more than tape backups to protect AIX environments on IBM servers. Learn the options and strategies for moving AIX protection and recovery initiatives forward, including how EchoStream technology dramatically increases data recovery time and how CDP makes it possible to recover data to any point in time.

(Source: Computerworld) Whether it's in the front office or the server room, green thinking can save energy, trees and money. From the Editorial Staff at Computerworld, here's the latest thinking on greening your operations.

A Pennsylvania hospital decides not to upgrade to a newer version of Microsoft Exchange and instead chooses a Linux-based Exchange clone that it believes could meet the needs of its 700 users.

With up to 32 server nodes in a single 10U blade chassis, the new BladeSystem can scale up to 128 servers, 1,024 CPU cores and 2TB of RAM in one standard-size rack consisting of four enclosures, HP says.
