StorageTek T10000C Tape Drive features 5TB native capacity per cartridge and 240Mb-per-second native throughput, which the company says is three times the capacity of any system now available. – It’s been a full year since Oracle closed its $7.4 billion deal to acquire Sun Microsystems and all its hardware businesses, but it’s still a little strange to see news about new Oracle data center hardware.
The world’s second-largest business software maker on Jan. 31 launched
a powerful new …
GoGrid expands its portfolio of infrastructure-as-a-service offerings with the latest Hosted Private Cloud, which lets customers run applications in a public cloud environment that uses hardware dedicated to their use. – GoGrid introduced an enterprise-grade hosted private cloud platform
on Jan. 19, delivering to customers both the benefits of cloud computing and dedicated
server hosting.
The GoGrid Hosted Private Cloud features the same
capabilities as GoGrids public cloud offering, the company said. The hosted…
DBS Vickers initiates Xinren Aluminium (MN5.SG) at Buy with a $0.70 target.
Says the company is well positioned in the Chinese aluminum industry as an integrated manufacturer with 275,000 tons smelting capacity and 50,000 tons fabrication capacity.
Singapore Airlines (C6L.SG) gaps down at the opening and is last off 0.9% at a 4-month low of $15.32, after the carrier released data showing lower November load factors due to capacity growth outpacing the traffic increase.
Finland’s top refiner Neste Oil (NES1V.HE) expects its renewable diesel plant in Singapore to reach full capacity in six months, its chief executive said.
“It is a big refinery and we want to proceed slowly and see how it works and see if there are any bottlenecks,” Matti Lievonen told Reuters in an interview on Friday.
“It will take probably six months before full capacity will be reached. We are scaling up from 70,000 tonnes to 800,000 tonnes (annually),” he said.
Thanks to virtualization options and improving application and middleware software, storage capacity, processor performance and cooling apparatuses, new data centers are inherently more efficient. – IT researcher Gartner reported Nov. 18 that most new data centers now being
planned and built will have inherent efficiencies that will enable up to 300
percent growth in storage capacity and use 60 percent less floor space to do
it.
According to consistent reports from eWEEK industry and anal…
The builder of rig-support vessels intends to construct a second yard in Pernambuco, northeast Brazil, which will start production in 2012 and begin deliveries the following year, Chief Executive Officer Roy Reite said in a Nov. 12 interview. The company has orders for eight ships to be built at the new facility.
Traditional IT capacity management approaches that focus solely on the data center are outdated. Today’s IT capacity management initiatives must address the entire Web application delivery chain, considering resources both within and beyond the firewall to ensure superior Web performance for best-case traffic scenarios. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Imad Mouline explains how to better manage capacity across the entire Web application delivery chain. – Modern Web 2.0 applications are quot;composites quot; that include content and services not just from inside the data center but from third-party service and content providers beyond the firewall. For example, a single composite Web 2.0 application may include shopping carts, search engines, user …
Mainboard-listed Ziwo Holdings, the China-based raw material producer of import substitution products, today announced that it plans to invest around RMB123.8 million ($24 million) to expand its production facilities to meet rising demand for its products.
Ziwo says the investment will be funded using the group’s internally generated funds and/or, if required, loans from financial institutions.
Apple’s iPad will soon face competition from other manufacturers, but it now ships in 24 hours, suggesting production bottlenecks might have eased. – Apple’s iPad now ships within 24 hours from the company’s online store,
suggesting that the company’s production capacity has caught up with consumer
demand for the bestselling device.
That narrowed ship-time extends to both the WiFi-only and 3G-enabled
versions of the tablet, which presents a …
Tiger Airways (J7X.SG) off 1.1% at 5-week low of $1.88, extending largely steady decline since reaching all-time high of $2.25 earlier this month, due to ongoing concerns over rising costs tied to aggressive expansion, recent sale of shares by several substantial shareholders, says Dow Jones.
Budget carrier’s decision to lease 2 planes to Southeast Asian Airlines of the Philippines, disclosed yesterday, possibly also deemed negative. Royal Bank of Scotland estimates move could lower expected increase in Tiger’s seat capacity to 26% from 37%, average seat kilometer to 27.5% from 33% for FY ending March 2011.
Intel and Micron Technology team up on NAND flash memory designed by IM Flash Technologies and boasting a high capacity and compact design. – Chip maker Intel and semiconductor solutions specialist Micron Technology
announced the delivery of 3-bit-per-cell (3bpc) NAND flash memory on
25-nanometer process technology, offering a high-capacity, compact NAND flash
memory.
The companies have sent initial product samples to select customer…
Review: VMware vSphere 4.1′s memory compression, storage and network I/O control, along with a cluster limit increase, make the latest virtual machine platform suited for enterprise production use. – VMware vSphere 4.1 continues to lead the enterprise virtual
machine platform pack. New memory management, storage and network control
features enable resource pool creation that improves scale while reducing
performance drags.
Virtual machine management gains increased in importance in
the vSp…
Fujitsu America’s Sunnyvale, Calif., headquarters is an expansive piece of property that once housed large-scale manufacturing operations. Over the years that manufacturing capacity has been relocated. So the company has transformed much of that space into data center-ready square footage& 32,071 square feet, to be exact. Fujitsu isn’t new to the data center business. For years, the company has hosted custom application deployments for customers who requested such service. Now it has invested tens of millions of dollars and is opening more of its secure data center floor space to companies seeking professional Web, cloud computing and application co-location services. Fujitsu also has another distinction: The first hydrogen fuel cell installed in Silicon Valley provides part of its power capacity for the data center facility. This eWEEK slide show highlights some of the features Fujitsu built into this data center complex. (Photos by Chris Preimesberger and by Fujitsu.) – …
Balancing the demands for resources in a virtualized environment requires a new approach to capacity management. For example, over-allocated virtual machines (VMs) represent wasted capacity, which needs to be identified and reclaimed. And poor VM placement can decrease utilization and cause resource contention. This video discusses capacity management challenges introduced by using virtualization and approaches to take to make optimal use of resources.
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Singapore plans to triple capacity of recycled water by 2060 and increase desalination capacity by almost 10 times, the city-state’s national water agency said.
The country is targeting recycled water, known as NEWater, to make up 50% of its future demand, the Public Utilities Board said in a statement today. Desalinated water will meet about 30% of usage in the long term, it said.
Singapore Airlines (C6L.SG) +0.7% at 5-week high of $14.92 on improvement in May load factors, says Dow Jones.
