Mar
23
2010
Here’s something that I haven’t thought about all the much, but is bound to become a more important consideration over time: If you want to outsource your data center to a third party to save some power, especially if that somebody is a services company that has both a product and services arm, be prepared [...]
Mar
18
2010
Logic (and industry marketing campaigns) suggest that converged data center architectures will make for less ports, fewer switches and therefore less cooling infrastructure and energy consumed.
But a new report from Gartner is challenging that notion, because of the complexity involved in designing such converged networks. Titled “Myth: A Single FCoE Data Center = Fewer Ports, [...]
Mar
17
2010
Fujitsu’s latest Primergy server product, called the Primergy CX1000, was designed to appeal to the economics of cloud service providers — especially those that are focused on ultra energy efficiency.
By divesting the servers of individual fans and cramming them into its new Cool-Central cabinet architecture, Fujitsu believes it can deliver a 20 percent reduction in [...]
Mar
12
2010
The tier one technology companies ala Dell, Hewlett-Packard and IBM all view for green IT headlines on a weekly basis, but there is plenty of innovation going on among smaller players.
Super Micro, for example, just showed off new server technology during the CeBit computer show in Hannover, Germany. The common theme in the products it [...]
