Data Center Briefs: August 15, 2008

By Systems Management News Team

August 15, 2008 —  (Page 1 of 2)
Borman Named Avocent CEO
Michael Borman has been named CEO of Avocent and was elected to the company’s Board of Directors. Borman, 53, previously was IBM’s vice president of worldwide sales in its software group. He also served as general manager of the iSeries and pSeries server lines, and started at IBM as a programmer in 1977. Before he joined IBM, Borman served as president and COO of Blue Martini Software. “Avocent has excellent opportunities to offer its customer base as well as new customers exciting new solutions to reduce costs and simplify their IT operations,” Borman said in a statement.

Accenture Creates Environmental Scorecard
Accenture released the Green Technology Suite, a set of tools to help organizations assess its environmental impact and address their carbon footprint. One of the main pieces in the Green Technology Suite is the Green Maturity Model, which assesses the environmental efficiency of IT. The maturity model produces a scorecard based on answers to 300 questions about working practice, office environment and other topics, according to Accenture.

SAVVIS Expands Singapore Facility
SAVVIS has expanded its Singapore Data Center, with the facility now at more than 18,000 square feet of raised floor space. The center has the full suite of SAVVIS Managed Hosting Services and allows financial customers the ability to host their trading applications with SAVVIS Proximity Hosting, according to the company. Customers can connect to the Singapore Exchange through low latency network access. Company executives said the expanded data center builds on SAVVIS’ investment in the region and helps the Asia Pacific market deal with growth.

VMware Releases Free Automating Tool
VMware has created a free scripting interface for administrators that need to manage multiple ESX hypervisors or VirtualCenter instances. The VMware Infrastructure Toolkit works on Windows and enhances automation of virtual data centers, according to the company. The VI Toolkit is based on the Microsoft PowerShell scripting language and lets administrators automate tasks like cloning or moving virtual machines in a VMware environment.   

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