Data Center Study Looks at Global Trends
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By 2010, Web servers around the globe will have additional electrical demands equal to more than 10 new 1,000 megawatt power plants, but that number can be halved by managerial efficiencies. That's the conclusion of a recent study from chipmaker AMD on data centers and their projected power needs.
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Company shows off labor-saving data center technology at Palo Alto research lab.
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InfoWorld - Later this year, Intel will help server network interfaces take advantage of the major recent advances in datacenters: multiprocessor systems, multicore processors, and virtualization.
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CIOs at Enterprise Management World see server consolidation as a way to reduce management complexity in data centers and avoid the need to buy more server hardware.
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New initiatives aim to help businesses create server clusters for high-performance computing tasks.
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New report on offshoring's implications from the British Computer Society.
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(Source: Hewlett Packard) A typically complex, distributed, and heterogeneous IT environment is very difficult and expensive to manage, and a number of disadvantages to this model have become apparent. These include escalating operational costs, inflexible infrastructure, and erratic data security and integrity. Consequently, Butler Group believes that the proliferation of system silos found within the majority of enterprises today is not sustainable in the long term. Read this white paper to learn the significant benefits to data center consolidation and the adoption of a corresponding centralized management approach.
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Global disk storage spending grew by almost 10% in the third quarter of 2006, according to new IDC research.
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The leading vendors in the data warehousing market are running scared of new entrants to the market that are offering data warehouse appliances (i.e. pre-integrated hardware, software, storage combinations) that can offer greatly superior performance at a significantly lower price.  In this white paper we will dispel the 'fog of war' that currently pervades the data warehousing landscape, dismissing those question marks that are irrelevant and gratuitous, but highlighting any genuine issues that need to be addressed.
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A recent UBS survey of chief information officers found corporate spending on industry standard servers would grow 17 per cent over 2004, compared with estimates for overall 2005 IT spending growth of about 5 per cent.
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(Source: Network Appliance)  This paper takes a look at using data virtualization to provide end-to-end data reduction efficiencies. It features three user case studies on how users were able to have a significant impact on bottom-line expenses through data virtualization, as they relate to the storage acquisition and ongoing data storage management costs.
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(InfoWorld) - The server market remains strong but industry research shows unit shipment rates slowing as companies buy fewer, but more powerful, machines. The effects of virtualization, the emergence of multicore processing and other consolidation efforts are evident in server sales and market share numbers in IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker report for the third quarter, released Wednesday. A similar trend toward slower server unit sales growth is seen in a third quarter server report released Tuesday by Gartner Inc. IDC reports that overall server revenue grew by 3.5 percent from the year-earlier quarter to $12.9 billion, the fastest growth rate in four quarters. But IDC analyst Jed Scaramella points to slower unit sales growth, particularly for industry standard servers, as evidence of virtualization and other data center consolidation efforts by customers. "We have started to see unit shipment in the x86 market tempered a little bit," Scaramella said. Unit shipments of x86-based servers grew by 8.8 percent in the third quarter, down from 9.8 percent in the second quarter and 11 percent in the first. Virtualization is the process of enhancing server utilization by running multiple applications on the same physical server. Without it, some servers only operate at 15 percent to 20 percent of capacity. Companies are also buying new servers with dual-core or quad-core processors that offer more computing power than older models with single-core processors. Thus, customers can enhance their data centers' capability with fewer servers, Scaramella said. The IDC and Gartner numbers show no change in the market share rankings, based on revenue, of the leading server vendors. IBM Corp. led with 33.1 percent market share on a 6.6 percent revenue increase to $4.28 billion, compared to the year-earlier quarter. Hewlett-Packard Co. held onto second place with a 26.3 percent share as its revenue declined 2.1 percent to $3.4 billion. Dell Inc. holds a 10.5 percent share on a 3.8 percent revenue increase to $1.36 billion. Sun Microsystems Inc. followed closely with a 10 percent share on a healthy 15.8 percent jump to $1.3 billion. Scaramella says Sun has rebounded from weakness a year ago, when its sales fell by 5 percent. Since then, Sun has introduced its Niagara line of servers and servers running Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s Opteron processors, a rival to the dominant Intel Corp. processor. "Overall, Sun has been focused on performance per watt. They've been at the forefront of it," Scaramella said. Fujitsu Computer Systems Corp. ranked fifth with 5.3 percent market share on a 9 percent revenue decline to $690 million. The remaining vendors collectively held a 14.9 percent share on 4.4 percent revenue growth to $1.93 billion. Â
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Intel Corp. later this year will help server network interfaces take advantage of the major recent advances in data centers: multiprocessor systems, multicore processors and virtualization.
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News and survey results from Computerworld's twice-annual storage conference.
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(Source: Liebert)  With technology needs changing rapidly as this midsized hospital transitioned from paper-based to electronic systems, insufficient data center cooling threatened both growth and system reliability in this midsize data center. A new cooling strategy eliminated heat-related problems and provided a roadmap for future growth.
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By Shyla Sangaran  IN a recent study conducted by International Data Corp (IDC) on the networking skills gap in 12 Asia-Pacific countries, it was found out that there is a deficit in IT competency across the region.
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There's little question that more and more storage and computing will move out into the cloud over time. The question--well, one of them anyway--is where the economic scale points lie.