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Blind Boys Host Lincoln Center Concert Series

July 14th, 2010 | No Comments

RALPH STANLEY, YONDER MOUNTAIN, AARON NEVILLE, JOAN OSBORNE, CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE, &
MORE TO APPEAR

Blind Boys of Alabama

Tonight is the second night of a three-night concert series curated by The Blind Boys of Alabama. The
three Lincoln Center Festival celebrations showcase The Blind Boys’
great range, starting with an opening night concert
with Yo La Tengo and Yim Yames of
My Morning Jacket. The second
concert spotlights country music
with Yonder Mountain String Band,
Texas Swing
sensations Ray Benson and Jason Roberts of Asleep at the Wheel, and bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley
performing songs from The Blind Boy’s upcoming
CD. The final evening, The Blind Boys Family
Revival, will feature songs from all of the group’s
Grammy Award-winning albums and include duets
with Aaron Neville, Joan Osborne, Hot 8 Brass Band, Dan Zanes, John Hammond, Charlie Musselwhite, and others to be
announced at a
later date.

July 14, 8 p.m.
The Unbroken Circle with Dr. Ralph Stanley and Friends
Yonder Mountain String Band

Ray Benson and Jason Roberts of Asleep at the Wheel
Ralph Stanley
Allison Moorer
One hour and 30 minutes; no intermission (approx.)

July 16, 8 p.m.
Blind Boys Family Revival
Aaron Neville
Joan Osborne
Hot 8 Brass Band
Dan Zanes
John Hammond
Charlie Musselwhite
Additional artists to be announced

Two hours and 40 minutes; one 20 minute intermission (approx.)

Alice Tully Hall, 65th Street and Broadway, New York, NY
Tickets: $35, 45 (each concert)

Click here to buy tickets.

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Dell Offers OEM Version of Microsoft System Center Essentials 2010

July 14th, 2010 | No Comments

Dell’s integration with Microsoft Systems Center Essentials 2010 delivers a solution with a single console to help businesses manage a range of IT tasks. It starts at approximately $5,000 and is aimed at businesses with up to 50 physical or virtual server operating systems. – Technology giant Dell reached out to small to medium-size businesses July 14
by integrating hardware management into Microsoft System Center through new
Dell Management Packs, Pro Pack and Update Catalogs for Systems Center
Essentials 2010 for end-to-end management.
Starting at approximately $5,…

Fujitsu Massively Expands Data Center Co-location Capacity

July 12th, 2010 | No Comments

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.) – …

Former High-Level BP Contractor Working at BP’s Command Center: BP “Cutthroat”, Doesn’t Care About Cleaning Up the Oil

July 12th, 2010 | No Comments

Former high-level BP contractor Adam Dillon was promoted to BP’s command center before being fired for photographing something which BP didn’t want photgraphed.Dillon is a former special ops soldier, not a liberal environmentalist.Dillon said that the …

How to Achieve Greater Application Interoperability in Your Data Center

July 9th, 2010 | No Comments

In today’s data center, application interoperability matters more than ever. There are security, performance and reliability risks associated with poor application interoperability. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Rex Black explains how to reduce the risk of nasty surprises in your data center’s production environment. – In one of my previous Knowledge Center articles, I discussed how to build quality applications by integrating multiple quality assurance activities into your process. This is important, but most of us don’t have the luxury of thinking about only one application. In today’s data center, it’s not enou…

How to Plan a Successful Data Center Relocation

July 7th, 2010 | No Comments

Estimating data center relocation costs accurately is a challenge that is facing an increasing number of organizations that are being forced to relocate their data centers due to the space, power and cooling limitations of their current facilities. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Kris Domich explains how to plan a cost-effective and successful data center relocation. – In the past two years, I have had the pleasure of scoping and executing more than 130 data center relocations. During this time, I have participated in every facet of the relocation life cycle, including application and business process discovery, application bundling, scheduling, logistical planni…

Federal Data Center Consolidation a Virtually Impossible Task

July 6th, 2010 | No Comments

News Analysis: Consolidating federal data centers takes more than just overcoming interagency jealousies. Congressional oversight and the intricacies of the budget-approval process can delay major IT projects for years. – In his article in eWEEKs sister publication, Smarter
Technology, Dennis McCafferty reports on the results of a study that shows that
White House efforts at consolidating federal data centers to save money and
improve operational and energy efficiency will be a tough nut to
crack.
As McCaffe…

Bund Center surges on report it was undervalued

July 6th, 2010 | No Comments

Shares of Singapore’s Bund Center Investment (BCIL.SI) rose 12.3% to $0.37 on Tuesday after a local newspaper said the Chinese property developer’s stock was undervalued.

Almost nine million shares changed hands as of 10:13 a.m. The stock was listed on the exchange last week, when it opened at $0.255.

Dell to Acquire Data Center Automation Specialist Scalent Systems

July 1st, 2010 | No Comments

Dell, competing nose-to-nose in IT infrastructure with Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard and IBM, will integrate Scalent’s V/OE, or Virtual Operating Environment, into its Advanced Infrastructure Manager control software. – Dell is adding an important ingredient to
its data center management software recipe. The company announced July 1 that
it is acquiring automation software vendor Scalent Systems, which provides
shortcuts intended to make data center infrastructure easier and more efficient
to operate.

Dell …

Oracle Upgrades x86 Data Center Stack

June 28th, 2010 | No Comments

Oracle’s Sun Fire x86 systems data center stack brings new hardware, including Intel-powered blade servers. However, this does not mean that Oracle is changing its relationship with AMD, Oracle says. – Oracle on June 28 revealed an upgraded version of its Sun Fire x86 systems
data center stack that includes a series of new Intel-powered blade servers,
five new rack mount servers, and a new 10 Gigabit Ethernet cluster networking
module that embeds into the blade structure.

Because this was st…

10 Best Practices for Data Center Consolidation

June 22nd, 2010 | No Comments

Virtualization for consolidating servers and storage arrays isn’t just a smart idea anymore& it’s a de facto data center best practice. As enterprise data center managers and CIOs/CTOs update their legacy systems, they are using virtualization as a way to get better utilization out of their existing servers and storage arrays and to cut down on the number of machines taking power out of the wall. For the record, virtualization software shifts conventional single-purpose application servers to a pool of computing power that requires fewer servers, enabling notable performance gains and reducing the electrical energy used to run them. However, there is a lot more to consider than simply virtualization when it comes to consolidating a data center. The information in this slide show was compiled by nlyte Software in Menlo Park, Calif., which provides data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software and services for intelligent capacity planning. – …

HP Intros New Intel Servers, Data Center Offerings

June 22nd, 2010 | No Comments

At the opening of its TechForum show, HP is rolling out new rack and blade servers using the latest Intel processors, new application provisioning software, a new interconnect technology and a new power-management solution. The offerings are part of HPs overall converged infrastructure initiative. – Hewlett-Packard is pushing forward its converged infrastructure
initiative with a refreshed ProLiant server portfolio powered by the
latest Xeon processors from Intel and host of new software products
that offer greater manageability, networking capabilities and energy
efficiency.
The refresh o…

Enterasys Takes on Cisco, Brocade, HP with Data Center Strategy

June 14th, 2010 | No Comments

Enterasys is driving home the message of heterogeneity as it unveils its data center networking strategy, which will compete initiatives from a host of other vendors, including Cisco, Brocade, HP and Juniper. The first step in the strategy is enhancements to its S-Series data center switches, including greater automation of management tasks in physical and virtual environments. – Enterasys is unveiling a data center networking strategy that officials says differs from that of Cisco Systems and Brocade Communications in its high level of support for heterogeneous data center environments.
Enterasys, which merged with Siemens Enterprise Communications Group in 2008, on June 1…

Brocade Takes On Cisco, Juniper in Converged Data Center Space

June 10th, 2010 | No Comments

Brocade announces its converged data center strategy, dubbed Brocade One, which is designed to bring many data center operations onto the network for simplified and less costly operations. Brocade One will compete with Ciscos UCS and Junipers Project Falcon initiative. – Brocade entered into the converged data center fray against Cisco Systems
and Juniper Networks June 9 with the introduction of Brocade One, a strategy
designed to bring data center operations onto the network.
The initiative is designed to cut costs and simplify data
center operations, and inclu…

Dell Refreshes Most of Its Data Center Wares

June 9th, 2010 | No Comments

The hardware and software maker unveils two new Dell EqualLogic storage arrays, two PowerVault storage arrays, two PowerEdge blade servers, a PowerEdge rack-mount server, and a new series of Juniper Networks-built PowerConnect switching/routing gateways. – Dell, keeping a literal open mind about all things data center, June
9 introduced a bevy of new open-standards servers, storage and
networking equipment for older enterprise IT systems that might need
refreshing.

The Round Rock, Texas-based hardware and software maker unveiled two
new Del…

Last shuttle from KSC to be launched next year

June 9th, 2010 | No Comments

Kennedy Space Center has said that its last shuttle mission will likely start early next year and then there may be one more launch in next summer if funds are available. The Center has said that it does not want to rely in future on one large program.
The Center has announced that in [...]

NetApp, Microsoft Unveil New Co-Developed Data Center Management Tools

June 8th, 2010 | No Comments

The two companies announced that IT managers now can utilize their standard Microsoft management tools to monitor and manage virtual environments that include NetApp storage arrays. – Exactly six months after signing
a three-year development alliance that tightened up a 10-year-long
partnership, NetApp and Microsoft June 8 announced the first new products and
services resulting from that agreement.

The two companies announced that IT managers now can utilize their standard
…

Two men stabbed in downtown Belgrade

June 2nd, 2010 | No Comments

Two young men were attacked and stabbed on Tuesday night in the center of Belgrade. They were taken to the emergency center and are recovering, said reports this morning.

Czech election looks set to end political unstability

May 30th, 2010 | No Comments

Center right parties favouring tough austerity measures look set to form the Czech Republicâ€™s next government following a closely fought general election. Petr Necas, leader of the rightwing Civic Democrats, thanked voters for giving the party the opportunity to create a coalition capable of tackling the countryâ€™s budget deficit and introducing necessary economic savings.

SGI Expands ICE Cube Containerized Data Center Line

May 27th, 2010 | No Comments

SGI, which rolled out its first ICE Cube modular data center in 2007, is expanding its offerings. Until now, the ICE Cube has only offered SGI’s half-depth Rackable servers. The upcoming Universal class of modular data center will be able to hold full-size servers and storage equipment from third-party vendors as well as from SGI. – SGI is expanding its ICE Cube
containerized data center offerings to give customers more flexibility and extend
the product’s reach into the high-performance computing space.
SGI on May 27 introduced a Universal
class of ICE Cube that can accommodate not only the company’s entire server and
sto…