External Data Center News

Deal with smart meter maker Itron to advance smart grid comms

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Judges say provider’s security services are better than any in-house solution

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IBM uses it to conserve energy and make database applications perform better

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Marin County voted to stop an ongoing SAP project, implicitly accepting that it wasted over $30 million on software and related implementation services from Deloitte Consulting.

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Important information for Toshiba Satellite T135, T135D and Satellite Pro T130 owners - The US Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada announced a recall following over 100 cases of...

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Product announcements, company announcements and more from VMworld, day two

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Company declines to offer more than HP’s latest $33-per-share bid

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VMware customers attending VMworld are taking a look at Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization software, but say it would be problematic to start over after investing heavily in VMware.

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More than 400 attendees gathered for Tuesday’s DatacenterDynamics Washington DC 2010 conference. Here’s a look at scenes from key panels and presentations from the conference.

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Facebook has responded to Greenpeace International's latest critiique, defending its decision to build an energy-efficient custom data center as the best path to reducing its carbon output.

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mattokeefe: Cisco + Watercooling http://www.inleveren.nu/images/ciscowaterkoeling.jpg

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mattokeefe: @sh1mmer are you guys planning to update cloud-peering.com? Can you suggest other cloud datacenter maps? Thx

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mattokeefe: Check out this SlideShare presentation : The Cloud's Hidden Lock-in: Network Latency http://slidesha.re/4vS5zT

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HP today raised the price of its takeover offer for storage vendor 3PAR to $33 a share. The board of 3PAR says the latest HP offer is a "superior proposal" compared to an updated $32 a share bid from rival suitor Dell.

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Hewlett-Packard officially won storage vendor 3Par after Dell declined to match a $33 a share, or $2.4 billion, bid.

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Samsung has announced the launch of its Galaxy Tab (GT-P1000) tablet computer, the nearest rival to Apple's iPad. Here are the specs.

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3Par said Hewlett-Packard has raised its offer to $33 a share for the storage company, or $2.4 billion, after Dell countered with a $32 a share offer.

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A key milestone in Tata’s $430 million plan for growth in the region

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It's not always easy lugging 30-ton data center containers around to trade shows, and not all expo floors have space to accommodate them. To adapt, vendors are shrinking the container to fit on a table-top.

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For the first time in a long time Apple yesterday streamed live video from its iPod announcement in San Francisco. Mac performance was good, iPhone? Not so much.

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On Wednesday we published our 5,000th article since Data Center Knowledge was launched in 2005. These 5,000 news stories provide a thorough research record of the data center industry over the past five years.

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news from day 3 of the VMworld conference in San Francisco, featuring news announcements from VMware, HP, Novell, SingTel, isilon, 3PAR, Fusion-io and the Distributed Management Task Force.

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With forecasters predicting a very active hurricane season, experts say IT managers must review business continuity and disaster recovery plans to ensure they are prepared for potential power outages and data center damage.

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Adds to other regional offerings with new data center build

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But servers are still an issue, for more than just RIM

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Virtualization has not stripped Windows of its relevance, a Microsoft official said in response to VMware CEO Paul Maritz’s argument that operating systems are no longer the center of innovation in the IT world.

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Ten highlights from VMworld, the massive virtualization conference.

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Couldn’t make it to San Fran? Here we cover the latest in VMworld news

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VMworld 2010 Day 2 roundup: The conference kicked into high gear as VMware announced acquisitions and partnerships and elaborated on its IT as a service strategy.

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Private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe has acquired a majority interest in data center service provider Peak 10, highlighting the private equity sector's keen interest in the data center industry.

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Greenpeace grabbed a fresh round of headlines today with a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg restating its objections to Facebook's energy sourcing for its new data center in Oregon.

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Spring Framework founder Rod Johnson says fragmentation probably won't happen, though Oracle's behavior isn't helping

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The Federal Communications Commission said it was seeking comment on two "under-developed issues" on net neutrality following the joint Google-Verizon policy proposal penned last month.

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Environmental activist organization Greenpeace just won't get off Facebook's case for planning to invest in a data center facility that happens to be powered by "dirty coal-fired electricity." The...

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For the first time since 1995, IBM has begun shipping a water-cooled mainframe. Big Blue will now offer a version of its huge zEnterprise mainframe that uses a water-cooled heat exchanger.

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Apple held its highly-anticipated press event today, and for the first time in recent memory, streamed it live via the Web. Cult of Mac reports that Apple decided to stream the event to test its...

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Most of the talk about IT energy efficiency has focused on the data center, but office equipment like PCs and printers can offer plenty of opportunity to cut costs as well. Fujitsu is rolling out some new services Wednesday that aim to help companies tackle both areas at once, and it claims they can reduce a company's IT energy bills by 20 percent on average.

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Brocade will soon unveil 100Gbps Ethernet additions to its switching and routing product line, in what the company claims is its most significant Ethernet/IP product rollout since acquiring Foundry Networks in 2008.

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IBM next week will add water-cooling to a mainframe offering for the first time in 15 years; the company has started offering the technology fror blade servers and supercomputers in recent years.

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Salesforce.com rolled out a new service on Wednesday that integrates business-contact information with its own CRM (customer relationship management) application and Chatter collaboration software.

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There's lots of news coming out of VMworld, including announcements from NetApp (NTAP), Brocade communications (BRCD), BLADE Networks, NTT America, Compellent (CML), Isilon (ISLN) and Xsigo Systems.

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Data center developer DuPont Fabros Technology (DFT) has gained access to an additional $15 million in funding through an expansion of an existing credit line.

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After a successful test in Australia, Fujitsu is launching a portfolio of green IT services that it says will help the average enterprise reduce its carbon footprint and energy costs.Kartik...

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Apple will live stream today's highly-anticipated new product announcements, reportedly to load-test the capabilities of its new 500,000 square foot data center in North Carolina.

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Changwa Telecoms considers second cloud computing data center

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The new offering joins Verizon's Computing as a Service (CaaS) portfolio of cloud computing services

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