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Cisco Systems Rolls Out New Rack-Mount Servers for UCS

October 9th, 2009 | No Comments

Since the UCS launch last March, Cisco has provided network-oriented C-Series blade servers for the system. On Oct. 9, the company announced some new form factors for them — plus a few other additions to the unified computing system.
– Cisco Systems went into the data center systems business full time on March 16, 2009, and has been ramping up its R amp;D and product development ever since. This is all new business for the world’s largest Internet-plumbing hardware and software provider.
Cisco has at the center of this initiativ…

Cisco Systems Rolls Out New Rack-mount Servers for UCS

October 9th, 2009 | No Comments

Since the UCS launch last March, Cisco has provided network-oriented C-Series blade servers for the system. On Oct. 9, the company announced some new form factors for them — plus a few other additions to the unified computing system.
– Cisco Systems went into the data center systems
business full time on March 16, 2009 and has been ramping up its R amp;D and product development ever since. This is all new business for the
world’s largest Internet-plumbing hardware and software provider.

Cisco has at the center of this in…

Intel, IBM, Others Craft Speedy Servers for Cloud Computing

September 24th, 2009 | No Comments

Driven by the rapid adoption of server virtualization and the trend toward cloud computing, OEMs are rolling out systems designed to bring high performance, energy efficiency and relatively low cost to the data center. At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel executives continued their drumbeat of rolling out processor technologies designed to meet those goals, and took it a step further by not only saying they were looking to create a microserver category, but also by unveiling an Intel-developed microserver that will serve as a reference design. On the showroom floor at IDF, a host of OEMs displayed systems aimed at addressing the demands for high performance and low energy consumption.By Jeffrey Burt
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HP Offers Samsung SSDs as Option in ProLiant Servers

September 17th, 2009 | No Comments

Users of HP ProLiants will have the option to replace anywhere from two to 24 hard disks with the new SSDs, depending upon their configurations, business requirements and budget constraints. In this setup, data center administrators will be able to use specific drives for specific types of applications.
– Samsung,
which has been competing fiercely with Toshiba
for new customers in the enterprise NAND flash drive market, announced a major
one Sept. 17 in Hewlett-Packard,
which will now use the Korean manufacturer’s 60GB and 120GB solid-state drives
as an option in its ProLiant G5 and G6 servers.
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New Dell PowerEdge Servers Designed for Businesses on a Budget

September 9th, 2009 | No Comments

Dells focus on small and midsize businesses is again apparent in its introduction of a new portfolio of PowerEdge server systems designed for those businesses with limited IT budgets. Among the new Dell systems are four energy-efficient, quick-setup servers and a line of uninterruptible power supplies.
– During Dells Aug. 27 earnings call, chief financial officer
Brian Gladden fielded several questions about the
mobile phone prototype Dell had delivered to China Mobile before finally
remarking that he didnt much care to dwell on the phone. Â“From
our standpoint, were spending an awful lot more en…

Netgear ReadyNAS Storage Links to Symantec Backup Exec

September 8th, 2009 | No Comments

Netgear partners with security firm Symantec to offer cost-conscious businesses support for the Remote Agent for Linux and Unix Servers (RALUS) for Symantec Backup Exec for Windows Servers.
– Netgear’s ReadyNAS line of storage appliances for small to medium-size
businesses now supports the Remote Agent for Linux and Unix Servers or RALUS for
Symantec Backup Exec for Windows Servers. The Symantec-produced Backup Exec
agent communicates directly with Symantec Backup Exec software and is…

Chip Shot: Energy Efficient Servers – Intel’s ACE in the Hole

August 28th, 2009 | No Comments

To further cut costs associated with cooling the datacenter, Intel today revealed findings from a multi-company study funded by the California Energy Commission. The result is ACE Technology – an intelligent cooling management approach that, for the first time, enables datacenter managers to use existing technology in servers to more precisely control the cooling infrastructure. This innovation to the platform is expected to yield significant efficiencies in data center energy consumption. Even the EPA recognizes the value of the ACE concept and now requires their Energy Star servers to have the temperature and communication components needed for this approach.

Big Iron Mainframes Versus x86 Servers: What You Need to Know

August 12th, 2009 | No Comments

IBM in recent years has seen an upswing in interest in its Series z mainframes, and Big Blue, along with other vendors such as Unisys, CA and BMC Software, is ramping up its investment in mainframe technologies. At the same time, other OEMs, such as Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard and Dell, are promoting a vision in which data centers are populated by a host of smaller, highly virtualized servers that are more tightly integrated with storage, networking and management resources. Industry observers, who once saw the mainframe as a dinosaur, now concede that big iron is going to stick around and IBM has worked hard to keep it relevant. However, with advancements in chip technologies from Intel and AMD; greater virtualization capabilities; and new performance and efficiency features from HP, Dell and others, highly networked x86 servers are able to take on increasingly large and complex workloads. Here are five arguments each for distributed and mainframe environments, thanks to IBM and HP. While not a definitive list, each covers a lot of ground.
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Samsung Launches 1TB HDD for Servers, Desktop PCs

July 30th, 2009 | No Comments

The Korean HDD maker joins a trend of recent large-capacity releases from Western Digital, Toshiba and Seagate with Spinpoint F3, a new product line of high-density disk drives for high-performance computing systems that go up to 1TB in storage space.
– Following on the heels of big new spinning-disk storage drives released by Western
Digital, Toshiba
and Seagate,
Samsung rejoined the capacity party July 29 with Spinpoint F3, a new product
line of high-density disk drives for high-performance computing systems that go
up to 1TB in storage spac…

Rackspace Releases New Public API for Cloud Development

July 14th, 2009 | No Comments

Users of the Cloud Servers API will have control panel and programmatic access to Rackspace’s cloud infrastructure services, which are Cloud Servers, Cloud Files and Slicehost. The API for standards-based cloud servers is designed to give IT managers and software developers better control over their cloud infrastructures.
– Cloud services provider Rackspace on July 14 released the public beta of a
new API for software developers interested
in better and more direct control over their own hosted computing structures.

The Cloud Servers API immediately becomes an
alternative to Amazon EC2, an online platform used f…