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Cray building petascale supercomputer for Los Alamos

Posted April 2, 2010 - 9:40 pm

Cray is building one of the world's fastest supercomputers at Los Alamos National Lab to help secure the nation's nuclear stockpile.
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What Does The Cloud Really Look Like?

Posted April 2, 2010 - 9:31 am

The reality of cloud computing has always been a lot more about the nuts and bolts of data-center operations than about the metaphor of on-demand computer power flowing from anonymous sources somewhere on the other end of the network connection.
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5 hot IT topics: 5 must-read books

Posted April 1, 2010 - 9:30 pm

Staying on top of all the new innovations, strategies and directions in today's IT world can be mindboggling. That's where a great IT library can help, filled with the latest and greatest guidebooks on all the hot IT topics you need to put your arms around in your company's constantly morphing technology environment.
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Greenpeace says the cloud is a carbon polluter

Posted March 31, 2010 - 8:54 am

A new report from Greenpeace warns that the growth in cloud computing will be accompanied by a sharp rise in greenhouse gas emissions, and calls on big companies like Facebook, Yahoo and Google to do more to help the environment.
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Greenpeace: Facebook Has a Hand in Global Warming

Posted March 30, 2010 - 9:22 pm

Greenpeace has charged that Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google and others are contributing to global warming by using coal to power data centers for their cloud-based services. The charges are dramatic --- but are they on target?
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Server vendors focus on memory in Nehalem-EX servers

Posted March 30, 2010 - 6:10 pm

Orthodox server designs are receiving a face-lift with Intel's Nehalem-EX processor, with vendors implementing new memory features to boost application performance.
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Dell aims new PowerEdge servers at the cloud

Posted March 30, 2010 - 1:53 pm

Dell hopes to grab a bigger slice of the cloud infrastructure market with a new line of PowerEdge servers that the company announced on Wednesday.
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IBM, Microsoft court SMBs with cloud, appliances

Posted March 23, 2010 - 1:11 pm

Microsoft entices SMBs with cloud offerings, while IBM serves up an appliance
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IBM slapped with 3rd mainframe antitrust complaint in Europe

Posted March 23, 2010 - 12:12 pm

The third antitrust complaint against IBM's mainframe business was filed with the European Commission Tuesday, compounding the firm's regulatory problems in Europe.
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Google takes on China

Posted March 22, 2010 - 6:09 pm

Good for Google for standing up to a government that's been bullying them and other American businesses for years.
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The InfoWorld Westmere blade server shoot-out

Posted March 22, 2010 - 9:52 am

Intel's Xeon 5600 -- code-named Westmere -- was just announced, but InfoWorld already has deep benchmarking results on Westmere blade servers from Dell, HP, and IBM
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IBM adds DB2 to Lotus Foundations SMB package

Posted March 19, 2010 - 1:11 pm

IBM's Lotus appliance will now feature the DB/2 database
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Apple's Mac Mini server 'ideal' for small office

Posted March 17, 2010 - 12:49 pm

When Apple announced the server edition of its popular Mac Mini late in October, I was excited that the company was finally offering a low-cost small-business server at a terrific price point ($999) for both the hardware and an unlimited license of Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server.
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Five Reasons to Embrace Intel Xeon 5600 Processors

Posted March 17, 2010 - 10:53 am

Intel unveiled an array of new Xeon 5600 server processors. Like the Core i7 980x desktop processors, the Xeon 5600 chips deliver up to six CPU cores on the more efficient 32nm architecture.
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Fujitsu aims new server at cloud compute providers

Posted March 16, 2010 - 10:40 pm

Fujitsu is rolling out a new server designed specially for cloud computing providers.
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HP, IBM, Dell launch servers with new Intel chips

Posted March 16, 2010 - 1:57 pm

Hewlett-Packard, Dell and IBM rolled-out new servers on Tuesday based on Intel's latest Xeon 5600 microprocessors, which promise better performance and power consumption.
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IBM says rivals behind anti-IBM report in India

Posted March 15, 2010 - 4:40 am

IBM has slammed a report critical of the adoption of its mainframes in India, saying the report was driven by IBM competitors and has no credibility.
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Unix How To: Sed & Awk -- Still friendly after all these years

Posted March 10, 2010 - 4:45 pm

Even after decades of using Unix on thousands of systems, I find that it's still fun to discover various convolutions of sed and awk commands to perform command line wizardry. There's a lot more to each of these tools than those uses I make of these commands on a routine basis. Let's take a look at some one-liners you might not yet have tried.
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IT centralization is back in fashion

Posted March 9, 2010 - 10:52 am

When the economy plummeted at the end of 2008, the Western U.S. branch of The Salvation Army was ahead of the cost-cutting game. CIO Clarence White had centralized the IT organization a year or two earlier, and he had consolidated the database and storage servers from the business units into a single data center in Long Beach, Calif.
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Data centers tackling cyber terrorism, slowly

Posted March 5, 2010 - 10:18 pm

The data center is receiving more public scrutiny than ever before, with IT managers facing a range of challenges from making systems run more efficiently to protecting computers from cyber terrorism, says AFCOM chief executive Jill Eckhaus.
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Microsoft envisions ultra-modular data centers

Posted March 3, 2010 - 9:40 pm

In the years to come, Microsoft's data centers may not be huge buildings tightly packed with server racks, but rather rows of small, stand-alone IT units spread across acres and acres of cool, cheap land.
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SafeNet looks to secure data in the cloud

Posted March 3, 2010 - 4:48 pm

Encryption vendor SafeNet is now offering technologies that help enterprises securely store and access information held in third-party data centers.
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Energy-efficient Ethernet: A greener choice for 2010

Posted March 3, 2010 - 2:52 pm

Data center managers and equipment vendors looking for greener alternatives will begin to benefit this year from a major initiative aimed at reducing the power consumed by Ethernet equipment. IEEE 802.3az, or the Energy-Efficient Ethernet (EEE) standard, will implement low-power idle (LPI) modes for the full range of Ethernet BASE-T transceivers (100Mb, 1GbE and 10GbE) and the backplane physical layer standards (1GbE, 4-lane 1GbE and 10GbE).
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Unix server sales continue downward spiral, Gartner says

Posted March 3, 2010 - 12:48 pm

Server shipments increased in the fourth quarter of 2009, but revenue fell as x86 servers continued to bite into the declining market for Unix servers with RISC and Itanium chips, Gartner said in a study released on Wednesday.
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IBM brings memory flexibility to x86 servers

Posted March 2, 2010 - 9:38 am

IBM's new class of x86 servers based on Intel Nehalem-EX chips treat memory, processors and solid-state disk as interchangeable components.
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