Servers & Data Center

In part 1 of this post I talked about emerging cloud technologies, and how one management technology built for the cloud paradigm is at play in bringing cloud-like capabilities to your infrastructure. Pressing on with this theme, one more example helps paint the picture of what cloud really is, and why much of the baggage we get mired in (the hoopla about standardization) should be tossed out with the bathwater.

Chatter on about the pros and the cons of the cloud as we might, you're seeing vendors demonstrate every day how the fundamental concept of cloud is changing how you will compute tomorrow. This is part one of a two part post.

Google beat earnings forecasts for the first quarter ended March 31 despite a global recession that is affecting the company's main revenue engine, online advertising.

Microsoft today let loose a new beta version of its flagship enterprise messaging software now called Exchange 2010. As Eric Lai reported for Computerworld, this is a big update and it looks to address some of the competition from Google.

It's not easy being green, but saving green is apt to be the real driver for business managers to re-evaluate data retention policies and to measure power consumption of every device in their data center, relates Don Tennant in this week's editorial.

Computerworld Editorial's blog

It's a few years ago, and this pilot fish works at a very large data processing outfit where every night there's a very large job that runs for hours -- until there's a problem.

Google has been opening up lately with their data center technology. Today, they've posed a quick tour of one of their monster data center facilities.

Today's Xserve release was pretty much on par with what you'd expect. Upgraded Nehalem processor, faster bus, etc. There was, however, one curve ball that Apple threw us in the storage department.

It's a sizzling summer season at this retailer, and the main server has failed for the second time in a month -- but help is on the way.

In a special IT Blogwatch Extra, Richi Jennings watches the latest play in the IBM/Sun acquisition saga. It seems that IBM wants to pay less, but Sun isn't happy with that, so the deal's off -- or is it? Not to mention IKEA slapstick...

A contractor is working to replace the outdated ventilation system in the office building where this IT pilot fish works. But that shouldn't pose any problems for IT -- at least in theory.

In Friday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches IBM move forward with its acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Not to mention what Steve Wozniak did next...

[The title is with grudging apologies to Mike Rothman, but he still owes me plenty]

In today's podcast: Rackable buys up remnants of SGI; RIM rolls out BlackBerry application store; and Microsoft launches Windows Server OS for small businesses.

If you still think Ubuntu is just this cute little Linux for Linux fans, boy do you have a surprise waiting for you in Ubuntu Server 9.04.

Google today revealed what its inventor and maintainer, Ben Jai, calls Google's Manhattan Project. This "holiest of holies" comes down to a bunch of off-the-shelf parts combined into what appears to be a pretty standard server - with some notable differences.