Virtualisation and automation have created considerable efficiencies in the datacentre, but also brought new problems, according to the analyst firm
CIOs and IT directors expect spending on staff in their datacentres to dramatically outstrip the overall growth in IT expenditure this year, according to ComputerworldUK's sister analyst group IDC.
Service provider continues to deny flooding at the Melbourne facility but customers claim otherwise
One unhappy Datacom customer is determined to file a lawsuit against the company for gross negligence, claiming the provider’s Melbourne datacentre was flooded and experienced a major service outage.
Company adapts services to reflect unique challenges of operating sub-5,000-square-foot facilities
HP today unveiled a host of new services aimed at helping small data-center operators boost performance and cut operating costs. Aimed at data centers up to 5,000 square feet in size, these facilities-oriented services include capacity analysis, infrastructure condition and capacity analysis, and energy-efficiency analysis.
The data center in north east England is the most energy-efficient one that HP has ever built
From the outside, Hewlett-Packard's newest data center looks like a massive, well-secured loading dock, devoid of logos and surrounded by a robust barbed-wired fence in a nondescript industrial park.
Datacentre hardware vendor brings on Rapid 5 Distribution as part of efforts to expand its reseller relationships
Datacentre hardware vendor, Rittal, has signed newly-established distributor, Rapid 5 Distribution, to wholesale its core RiMatrix5 solutions locally.
New enhancements will extend across the networking giant's Nexus 7000 and Catalyst 6500 and 4900M Ethernet switches plus WAAS and load balancing appliances
Cisco is expected to unveil new and enhanced data center products that are designed to more easily interconnect and allocate resources among multiple data centers and are optimized for cloud computing and virtualization.
The company has launched a 20-foot containerized data center, which starts at $600,000 without the IT equipment inside
Hewlett-Packard has released a smaller version of its portable data center, this time based on a standard 20-foot shipping container, half the size of its first model.
New ribbons to generate electricity are developed by Princeton University researchers
Tiny ribbons that generate electricity when flexed and flex when stimulated with electricity have been developed to flap the wings of mechanical dragonfly spy drones, but the technology can also find uses ranging from powering iPods and cell phones to charging batteries by converting to electricity the vibration of devices deployed in data centers.
Extreme Networks and Voltaire focus on supporting growing numbers of virtual machines
Combatants in the data center wars keep reloading. This week, two switching vendors -- Extreme Networks and Voltaire -- unveiled Ethernet gear designed to support the growing number of virtual machines moving around data centers, and provide a bridge to legacy environments such as Infiniband.
Midsized enterprises are embracing the company's UCS server platform more than expected, he says
While Cisco Systems branches out into consumer electronics, video, mobile data and other areas, one of its biggest areas of focus today is enterprise data centers. The dominant LAN provider thinks the transformation of data centers through virtualization calls for new kinds of connections and a broader role for network technology and intelligence. John McCool oversees this push as senior vice president and general manager of Cisco's Data Center, Switching and Services group. IDG News Service talked with McCool recently about the company's own role and its partnerships with other vendors in this arena.
Unified compute platforms become the focus for integrators and vendors in 2010
Faced with the continued commoditization of servers, IT vendors this year will try to differentiate their offerings by moving toward more highly integrated, unified compute platforms.
Cisco, HP and others join up to promote better virtualisation management
Cisco, HP and others are waging an epic battle to gain control of the data center, but at the same time they are joining forces to push through new Ethernet standards that could greatly ease management of those increasingly virtualized IT nerve centers.
A look at this year's achievements and what is on the cards for the networking giant in the new year
2009 started with a bang and ended with a bash for Cisco.
Despite its drawbacks, Flash has advantages over traditional storage devices, says analyst
Flash-based storage will quickly become one of the most important technologies in the data center, according to Gartner.
Total 10 Gigabit Ethernet revenues grew 10% to $737 million during the quarter
The Ethernet switch market grew for the second consecutive quarter during the third quarter of this year, driven by continued strength in data center deployments, according to Dell’Oro Group.
