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The Weekly Round-Up: 06.11.09
Round-Up Likewise, do techies wander around parks with blade servers under their arms asking joggers: "Need a server farm built? That's 3,400 tonnes of steel housing 2,000 servers. One anonymous reader of the... [06 Nov 2009]
Dell's secret to riding out the recession
Comment Now, thanks to virtualisation, the company has boosted processor utilisation rates beyond the 20 per cent it was getting previously and it plans to decommission about 8,000 servers by January 2010 - just under a third of... [04 Sep 2009]
Hands-on with Windows 7: How it worked for me
Comment Windows 7 became available for IT professionals subscribing to Microsoft's TechNet on 6 August, and, for a change, Microsoft had sized its servers so that people could download the operating system without everything... [13 Aug 2009]
Simon Post
CIO Profile Among his recent achievements, Post signed up IBM in a multi-year IT infrastructure services agreement to deliver services to The Carphone Warehouse, including service desk, servers, storage, desktop, network and... [03 Jun 2009]
'IT is the central nervous system of the company'
Comment I think in 2007 we stripped out 2,000 servers and something like $7m in savings by removing those 2,000 servers and retiring them, consolidating applications onto other servers, that... [26 May 2009]
Is Salesforce.com sitting pretty for cloud wars?
Comment The announcement means internal corporate applications can be built on Force.com while customer-facing websites can be run on salesforce.com servers. As Salesforce.com's director of platform research, Peter Coffee, put... [12 Nov 2008]
Peter Sunde and Gottfrid Svartholm
AS Profile The site, initially established in 2003, claims it is a not-for-profit group that does not store copyrighted material on any of its servers. Peter 'brokep' Sunde and Gottfrid 'anakata' Svartholm are two of the operators... [07 Oct 2008]
Phil Pavitt, CIO, Transport for London
Comment There is also a strong green IT element to the move with a quarter of the number of servers and fewer data centres supporting that business unit now. Pavitt says: "It wasn't the hardest sell ever as you can probably... [29 Jul 2008]
Steven Bandrowczak, CIO, Nortel
Comment That includes two major data centres and 12 satellite centres, along with 1,500 servers and 40,000 desktops running Windows XP, and SAP for business applications. There are skills around communication,... [01 Apr 2008]
Virtualisation cuts carbon and servers
Comment Servers haven't traditionally used all of their spare CPU power, because reliability concerns stop administrators running lots of applications on one box. Working out a company's potential carbon savings... [21 Dec 2007]
Itanium revisited - one year on
Comment Manchester University spin-off, Transitive, began shipping a variant of its QuickTransit application emulation environment to allow applications compiled for Sparc processors running Solaris to be moved to Linux... [13 Dec 2007]
Diane Greene
AS Profile Greene released a desktop virtualisation product in 1999, followed by one for servers in 2001. But Greene is not resting on her virtual laurels and continues to come up with new ideas - including how to keep an IT... [12 Oct 2007]
It's not easy being green
Comment Changing chip designs may lead to greater power savings but is hardly a retro-fit option, and replacing a few thousand servers before they need to be replaced can hardly be seen to be green. With many organisations now... [25 Jul 2007]
Data centre in a box
Comment As the racks are turned sideways (instead of facing out toward the aisle) the airflow through the servers is in the conventional front-to-back direction they are designed for. Each container can hold up to 250 Sun T1000... [18 Jun 2007]
Virtualisation gets trendy
Comment Partition mobility (or VM mobility) - the ability to move running virtual servers between physical servers without service interruption - is key to the ability to produce an always-on,... [15 May 2007]
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