Tripwire Keeps an Eye on Virtual Machine Sprawl
The newest version of Tripwire Enterprise uses new best practices to keep administrators informed of any potential misuse of virtual machine configurations, and can advise them of how to fix those problems.
By P J Connolly
9/26/2008 3:00:00 PM - Relevance: 1 Points
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News Briefs: September 15, 2008
IBM is constructing 13 data backup sites around the world, KACE creates a systems management product for the iPhone and Pericom releases two new switch products.
By Systems Management News Team
9/15/2008 9:00:00 AM - Relevance: 1 Points
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Boosts to Virtualization Management Come to Raritan's CC-SG 4.0
Raritan has upgraded its CommandCenter Secure Gateway to automatically discover, log and report on events virtualized systems. Currently, the product still only supports VMware systems.
By P J Connolly
9/4/2008 2:59:00 PM - Relevance: 1 Points
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Networking: Switching to a New Design for Intelligent LAN
LAN design must undergo another change in order to keep up with changing technology. Changing LAN design can help facilitate new networking capabilities, such as VoIP, and can streamline working with networks.
By Jim Metzler
8/1/2008 9:00:00 AM - Relevance: 11 Points
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For Universities, Open Source Is Always an Elective
Colleges have been known to use open-source software to save money and better fit the needs of its users. Not all institutions of higher learning have found open-source software to be universally useful, however.
By Alex Handy
8/1/2008 9:00:00 AM - Relevance: 1 Points
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Brocade Acquires Foundry
Data center networking company Brocade has acquired network switching and routing company Foundry, a deal that Brocade says gives it a piece of the Ethernet/IP networking market.
By Jeff Feinman
7/22/2008 5:00:00 PM - Relevance: 3 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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IT Planning Will Never Be the Same
IT and business are merging, and the days of considering IT being its own separate realm inside an enterprise are over. The sooner IT and business managers recognize this, the better.
By Systems Management News Team
7/15/2008 9:00:00 AM - Relevance: 1 Points
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Microsoft Makes Supercomputing Mark
Microsoft's Windows High Performance Computing Server 2008 made it high on the TOP500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers. IBM and Intel dominated the list in terms of power and aomount of supercomputers, respectively.
By Michelle Savage
7/15/2008 9:00:00 AM - Relevance: 1 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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Brocade Hosts Fast Adapters
Brocade released new host bus adapters that crank speeds up to 8Gbps and include quality of services monitoring, encryption support and new mobility features. Also, new switches bring that improved speed to SAN and critical infrastructure systems.
By Alex Handy
6/27/2008 2:19:00 PM - Relevance: 2 Points
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News Briefs: June 15, 2008
VMware certifies thin client devices, visionapp completes its virtualized application delivery infrastructure, PlateSpin now works with XenServer and Sonasoft creates a backup program for mailboxes.
By Systems Management News Team
6/15/2008 9:00:00 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: 1 Points
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Maker Faire Filled With Wild Systems
Old equipment and computers see new life at the Maker Faire in San Mateo, Calif. A giant talking skull, a robotic head that mimics human speech and a remote-controlled R2-D2 were just some of the highlights this year.
By Alex Handy
6/10/2008 10:00:00 PM - Relevance: 1 Points
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Data Center Briefs: June 1, 2008
HP buys data centers from BT Group, bringing the companies even closer together. Also, data center specialist QSGI buys IT services provider Contemporary Computer Services Inc.
By Systems Management News Team
6/1/2008 9:00:00 AM - Relevance: 5 Points
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VirtualLogix Offers Virtualization for Communications Devices
The new virtualization product, VLX vHA, provides high-availability assurances for virtualization equipment. It is designed to work with high-end systems, including those with multicore processors.
By Michelle Savage
6/1/2008 8:41:00 AM - Relevance: 1 Points
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Cisco Completes Nuova Purchase
Cisco announced the completion of their purchase of data center switch start-up Nuova Systems, which it has held an 80 percent stake in since 2006.
By Michelle Savage
5/22/2008 4:41:00 PM - Relevance: 5 Points
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The Storage Rack: The Impending RAID Crisis
The amount of space RAID provides keeps growing, but so does the amount of time needed to rebuild failed RAID systems. This situation cannot continue much longer.
By Mike New
5/15/2008 7:00:00 AM - Relevance: 1 Points
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Red Hat Turns ON 2.0
JBoss Operations Network version 2.0 flips the switches and reads the dials for Red Hat's middleware stack. Monitoring capabilities and trend analysis are some more features included in this release.
By Alex Handy
5/6/2008 10:51:00 AM - Relevance: 1 Points
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At Interop, Best Practices for Data Center Standardization
Organizations can achieve greater cost savings, business flexibility and employee satisfaction by setting both physical and logical standards for their data centers. Also, new products tackle data storage, power monitoring and more.
By David Rubinstein
5/1/2008 12:14:00 PM - Relevance: 1 Points
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