New Database Reporting Console Tracks Compliance
Application Security's Analytics 1.0 is used in conjunction with the company's DbProtect database security suite. It is based on Cognos' business intelligence suite and contains dashboards that cover compliance and security key performance indicators.
By P J Connolly
9/26/2008 4:30:00 PM - Relevance: 3 Points
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Intel Certification Available as a Service
A service was started in April by Intel and SpikeSource to give certification to ISVs to develop on multicore platforms. Today, that service has gone public, and the two companies hope to grow an already sizable subscriber base.
By Alex Handy
8/20/2008 1:00:00 PM - Relevance: 1 Points
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SharePoint Technical Conference Announced
This coming January, the SharePoint Technology Conference in Burlingame, Calif., will provide IT companies the resources and expertise to make the most out of SharePoint implementations.
By David Rubinstein
8/18/2008 1:30:00 PM - Relevance: 1 Points
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Cutting to the Core Issues About Blades
With power and cooling still remaining big issues for companies and their data centers, can blade servers be the solution that companies think they are?
By Geoff Koch
8/15/2008 9:26:00 AM - Relevance: 2 Points
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SharePoint Technical Conference Announced
This January, come and see us at the SharePoint Technical Conference in Burlingame, Calif. For three days, you will learn the ins and outs of SharePoint from top-notch experts.
By David Rubinstein
8/15/2008 9:02:00 AM - Relevance: 1 Points
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What's Driving the Next-Generation Data Center?
The push to improve energy efficiency is driving new approaches to IT equipment architecture and best practices. Improvements in technology allow companies to apply techniques and standards they once only dreamed of.
By Michelle Savage
8/11/2008 4:39:00 PM - Relevance: 2 Points
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Emerson Network Power Brings Direct Cooling
The company's new product can be placed next to equipment racks to reduce the amount of cooling power used and can cool up to 23kW or 33kW. It uses scroll compressor technology to allow for precise adjustments in cooling.
By Jeff Feinman
8/1/2008 12:00:00 PM - Relevance: 1 Points
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Data Center Briefs: August 1, 2008
The EPA continues to work on ENERGY STAR specifications for data centers, Centrin opens up the largest data center in China and OneNeck acquires the managed hosting business unit from Ensynch.
By Systems Management News Team
8/1/2008 9:00:00 AM - Relevance: 1 Points
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System Utilities You Can't Live Without
Sysadmins use a bevy of tools to handle everything under their watch, and not all of their tools are proprietary. We ask around to see what tools are popular and what types of jobs they do.
By Alex Handy
8/1/2008 9:00:00 AM - Relevance: 1 Points
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Facilities and Data Centers Dance at Conference
The DatacenterDynamics conference focused on all the nooks and crannies where power consumption hides in digital warehouses. Researchers gauged attendees to see what power concerns they were dealing with and what kinds of solutions they were seeking.
By Alex Handy
7/18/2008 5:00:00 PM - Relevance: 1 Points
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Hard to Contain Enthusiasm for Data Centers in a Box
The container model looks like it's here to stay, and the options and companies to choose from are expansive. Why should a business use containers and what advantages do they offer?
By John Rath
7/15/2008 9:00:00 AM - Relevance: 2 Points
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The Storage Rack: 'Best-in-Class' Can Prove To Be Worst Decision
The temptation to use best-in-class products for your network can be counterproductive. Standards between products, such as between SAN storage and servers, don't always complement each other.
By Mike Karp
7/15/2008 9:00:00 AM - Relevance: 5 Points
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Underground Data Centers Help Cut Costs
Companies like Sun and StrataSpace are developing or have constructed underground data centers that they say are much more power efficient than traditional above-ground facilities.
By Jeff Feinman
7/15/2008 9:00:00 AM - Relevance: 1 Points
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EPA Takes STAR-ring Role
The EPA called on data center managers to help it come up with new standards for data center power usage. The goal is find ways to decrease power usage, such as by adopting multicore processors.
By Jeff Feinman
6/27/2008 8:30:00 AM - Relevance: 1 Points
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Virtualization Touted at Conference
The 2008 Virtualization Conference and Expo in New York City had companies talking about the gains of virtualization in data centers and for mobile devices. Other offerings help contain virtual sprawl and virtualize life-cycle management products.
By Jeff Feinman
6/26/2008 2:00:00 PM - Relevance: 1 Points
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HP Takes on Change Management
Hewlett-Packard unleashed a slew of releases aimed at improving its application life-cycle management and change management tools. The tools will be released later on as a SaaS offering.
By Alex Handy
6/17/2008 7:45:00 AM - Relevance: 1 Points
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Tooling Up to Go Green
The prominence of green computing is causing many companies and organizations to develop a myriad of ways to increase energy efficiency and create eco-friendly data centers. This special report illustrates the kinds of effort going into towards this goal.
By Jeff Feinman
6/16/2008 4:00:00 PM - Relevance: 4 Points
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A Cloudy Future for Computing
Cloud computing is a hot topic now, and it looks like it is here to stay. What are major companies doing to take advantage of it, and how successful will they be?
By Michelle Savage
6/16/2008 10:18:00 AM - Relevance: 1 Points
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Guest View: What's It Mean to Be Green?
The definition of "green computing" has been hard to grasp, and a concrete definition would go a long way to creating a standard by which a data center can truly be considered efficient and environmentally friendly.
By Stephen Garrison
6/15/2008 8:58:00 AM - Relevance: 1 Points
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SIFMA Serves Up IT Action
The financial industry event featured companies like IBM, Microsoft and Sun talking about new mainframes and server designs, along with noting recent acquisitions and data center advancements.
By Jeff Feinman
6/11/2008 4:33:00 PM - Relevance: 8 Points
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