Cognos business intelligence software ported to System z
IBM's Cognos 8 business intelligence software is now generally available for System z mainframes running Linux, the company announced Monday.
HP, Hitachi boost blade server offerings
HP and Hitachi boosted their existing blade server offerings on Tuesday, with Hitachi upgrading its systems with the latest Intel chips and Hewlett-Packard combining blades to create a specially configured appliance that can handle demanding data-warehouse workloads.
Rackable Systems unveils high-density servers
Rackable Systems announced new rack-mount servers on Monday that aim to provide more processing power while reducing power consumption and taking up less space.
Arm to duel with Intel in the server space
Arm wants to challenge Intel's server market dominance by plugging its multicore chip designs into servers, but the company faces an uphill battle, including the market's preference for x86 architecture and the lack of software infrastructure to support Arm's chips, analysts said.
Looking back on the Top500
The Top500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers passed a milestone Wednesday with the first system to achieve peak performance of 1 petaflop/s, or one quadrillion floating point operations per second.
Telligent server spurs collaboration
There's little argument that Telligent's Community Server can stand up to the rigors of hosting public-facing communities. This product is the force behind some of the biggest and most visible blogs on the Net, including MySpace, the National Football League, and National Geographic. An equal number of clients -- the likes of Dell, GlaxoSmithKline, and Ernst & Young -- use this platform for business-to-business and business-to-consumer communities.
How to move your next data center
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Where to put your next data center
If data center location was paramount to Rodney McPearson, a data center project manager at Cimarex Energy Co., he wouldn't have two of his five data centers in the hurricane-prone locales of New Orleans and Houston and a third in the tornado hot spot of Tulsa, Okla. But geographic diversity is a big deal to McPearson, so instead of consolidating to a single facility in a safe location, his company decided it was better off keeping its servers spread out.
How to staff your next data center
Thanks to technology, it doesn't take a whole lot of people to run a data center. With new remote-management and automation capabilities, you need fewer data center staffers. For instance, Microsoft Corp. will staff its 500,000-square-foot Chicago data center with only 35 people. Read more about Microsoft's new data center.
How to build your next data center
Today's data centers pack more processing power into smaller physical spaces than ever before. But too much of a good thing creates new challenges for next-generation data center design.
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