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HP Doubles Down on Green Data Center with New Case Studies, Solutions
Hot on the heels of IBM and Dell, Hewlett Packard is developing new technologies to help organizations build more more energy efficient data centers. In one of its latest green initiatives, the company...
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Research: Liquid Cooling Can Reduce Data Center Energy Use
Liquid-cooled servers at a data center at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory used less energy in certain circumstances than air-cooled servers on site, a lab researcher said Tuesday at the sixth...
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Fast and Spacious Helium-Filled Hard Drives Ready for Lift Off
Hard-drive maker HGST has tamed the manufacturing challenges to bringing high-capacity, energy-efficient helium-filled drives to market. Data-storage company HGST has begun making a six-terabyte helium...
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HP Demonstrates AMD-Powered 'Moonshot'
HP is already selling Intel-based Moonshot ultradense servers, but demonstrated an upcoming AMD-powered model
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HP Profits After Data Centre Gains, But PC Competition Hurts
Hewlett-Packard posts mostly positive results thanks to sales growth in data centre systems and commercial PCs
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Research and Markets: 2013 Report on the International Data Center Networking...
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "2013 Report on the International Data Center Networking Mark
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IBM Plans Big Spending for the Cloud
IBM is moving rapidly on its plans to spend heavily on cloud computing. It expects to spend $1.2 billion this year on increasing the number and quality of computing centers it has worldwide. The move...
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AMD Adds To Opteron 6300 With 12-, 16-Core Chips
Advanced Micro Devices has beefed up its Opteron 6300 portfolio with the arrival of two new Opteron server chips that offer 12 and 16 cores. AMD is aiming these new chips at virtualised workloads in...
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OpenStack Revamps To Build Cloud Momentum
The OpenStack Foundation reveals its plan to get more users to contribute ideas to an open-source cloud effort
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ARM Publishes 64-Bit Server Standard For Data Centre Push
ARM continues to challenge Intel in the data centre with the release of its Server Base System Architecture specification
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Dell Shows Proof-Of-Concept 64-Bit ARM Server
Dell's proof-of-concept microserver is intended to help boost developer engagement around ARM-based servers
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Intel Touts High-End Xeon Chips For Big Data
The updated Intel Xeon E7 chip lineup offers up to 15 cores and a number of performance improvements
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The Big Boys Are Rocking The OpenStack Bandwagon
HP and IBM have picked up on OpenStack quickly, says Chris Preimesberger. But the real kudos should go to the inventors of the open source cloud platform
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Server Shipments Hit 2013 Record, But Revenues Fall – Idc
Server makers shipped a record number of systems in the fourth quarter, but margins continued to be squeezed
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CommScope Modular Data Centre Aims To Reduce Up-Front Costs
CommScope is unveiling a modular data centre programme that officials say will enable businesses to build or expand their computing facilities without the high up-front costs and time lags associated...
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Intel, Hewlett Packard, Verne Global, Appnomic Systems, and CohesiveFT
The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA), the global organization where members work together to advance the deployment of enterprise cloud solutions and services that are interoperable, secure and free of...
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Your New Heat Source: Data Centers
The massive data centers that power services from Google, Facebook, IBM and other tech giants are big-time energy hogs. But researchers around the world are starting to turn them into an energy source.
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Bits Blog: A Closer Look Inside IBM's Cloud Challenge
IBM, after a sluggish start, is moving with real urgency in building up its cloud business, as I noted in a recent article. “IBM has made big moves and done some really good things,” said Daryl...
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Rackspace Investigates Possible Sale
Despite strong profits, US hosting firm Rackspace has called in Morgan Stanley to look at options, including putting the cloud provider up for sale, in response to the cloud price war between Amazon,...
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HP Discover: The Cloud Can't Happen Without SDN
HP has launched a software defined networks (SDN) application which allows service providers to build and reconfigure networks a they need them, making cloud services easy to construct. With storage...
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Bits Blog: The Era of Cloud Computing
Analysts estimate that over the next six years 90 percent of new spending on Internet and communications technologies will be on cloud-based technology.
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Green initiatives blossom in Asia Pacific data center sector
Two major green initiatives have been announced in Asia Pacific, with FoxConn launching an environmentally friendly data center in China, while the Green Grid Association announced a new movement to...
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HP supercomputer at NREL garners top honor
A supercomputer created by Hewlett-Packard (HP) and the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) that uses warm water to cool its servers, and then re-uses that water to heat...
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9 Ways Sustainability Drives Profit
Today most executives recognize that sustainability must be integrated into their organization's core strategy — not to say that they necessarily understand why. In fact, too many are still content...
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Windows Server with ARM? Crazier ideas have happened
Microsoft is reportedly pondering an ARM-based flavor of Windows Server. The idea may just make sense.
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9 Ways Sustainability Drives Profit
By now, most corporate executives recognize that sustainability must be integrated into a company's core strategy. Unfortunately, not many executives understand why this is so -- or worse, they proudly...
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Qualcomm To Build ARM-Based Server Chips
Qualcomm, the world’s top mobile chip maker, is ready to get into the crowded ARM-based server chip business. At the company’s annual analyst day in New York, CEO Steve Mollenkopf said company...
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Asus System Named The Most Efficient Supercomputer
Much of the attention at the SC14 supercomputing show last week in New Orleans centered on the release of the Top500 list, a roster of the world’s fastest supercomputers. The twice-yearly list is...
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Bare-metal switches poised to take off in data centers
Bare-metal switches that can be programmed like Linux servers aren't just for big Web companies anymore. They may show up in a lot more average enterprises in the next few years.
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Facebook sued for alleged theft of data center design
Facebook is being sued by a British engineering company that claims the social network stole its technique for building data centers and, perhaps worse, is encouraging others to do the same through...
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IDA launches green data center program
The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) recently launched the Green Data Centre Innovation Program (GDCIP) that aims to boost the competitiveness of the data center industry by raising...
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Case Study: Modified Rack Design for Higher Data Center Temperature
Increasing the ambient temperature in data center computer rooms to 65°C (149°F) can greatly reduce cooling. Operating at this temperature poses challenges, however, not the least of which is how...
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Presidential Candidates: Who Believes in Climate Change?
The presidential election of 2016 will determine the United States’ role in confronting and managing the impacts of climate change for years to come. A new University of Texas poll found that 76...
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Hybrid Hosting: The Third-Generation Cloud
The cloud is a multi-generational phenomenon. Its story is distinguished by three distinct generations of cloud. With the introduction of each generation, platforms, applications, and companies have...
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Digital Signage Firm Buys Former EDS Data Center in Dayton
Stratacache, a company that specializes in infrastructure and content for digital signage, has acquired a big data center in Dayton, Ohio, which used to support multiple GM manufacturing plants.
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Dell Gets Bigger and Hewlett Packard Gets Smaller in Separate Deals
As Michael Dell closes $67 billion merger, Meg Whitman sells off Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s software for $8.8 billion.
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The Impact of Cloud Security Gaps and How IT Can Fix Them
IT teams are responsible for business systems and IT services that make companies run smoothly. In today’s borderless enterprise, protecting corporate data both at rest and in motion to support...
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Enterprise Cloud Security Startup Skyhigh Raises $40M
Skyhigh automatically detects all cloud services used by an organization, analyzes them for abnormal behavior, and enforces security and usage policies.
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What's happening in data center energy management
New equipment, tools and business strategies will rein in run-away IT energy costs, the biggest operating expense in the data center. Data center energy management requires a multi-pronged approach:...
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HP's Water-Cooled Supercomputer is Designed for the Hydrophobic
HP’s Apollo 8000 supercomputer does direct water cooling for efficiency but keeps water out of server trays to minimize the risk of drips
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