Archive for August, 2009


CA to Showcase Comprehensive Virtualization Management Solutions for – PR Newswire
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — (VMworld, Moscone Center) — CA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CA) today announced that it is showcasing its integrated virtualization management solutions for VMware environments at VMworld 2009. “Virtualization can

AMD Ships Low-Power Operton EE for Cloud Computing – NewsFactor Network
Advanced Micro Devices is shipping its power-sipping Opteron EE processor, code-named Istanbul, for cloud-computing environments. AMD’s six-core 40W ACP Opteron EE is designed for dense data centers. An analyst said AMD needs the Opteron EE to

Switch and Data to Present at Kaufman Bros. 12th Annual Investor – PR Inside
Switch and Data (NASDAQ:SDXC), a leading provider of network neutral data center and Internet exchange services, today announced that senior management will be presenting at the Kaufman Bros. 12 th Annual Investor Conference taking place September 9

Intel says data centers much too cold – The Register
Intel wants you to know that data centers are wasting energy – and money – by over-cooling their servers, burdened by warranties that may prevent them from aggressively raising their temperature. That study included results from a recent Liebert

EMC acquires cloud support vendor FastScale – Computerworld
IDG News Service – EMC has acquired FastScale Technology, a vendor of software for data centers, in an effort to focus on supporting private cloud infrastructures, the company announced Monday. With the acquisition, EMC will focus on increasing the

HP Labs uses lasers to cut energy usage inside data centers – Venturebeat.com
HP Labs researchers have demonstrated a way to use lasers to replace a lot of the electronics that connect servers to racks in data centers, a development that could one day make commercial computers much more power efficient, faster and cheaper. The

Mellanox Announces ConnectX-2, An Advanced High-Performance, Low Power – PR Inside
Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ:MLNX) (TASE:MLNX), a leading supplier of end-to-end connectivity solutions for data center servers and storage, today announced the availability of its ConnectX-2 line of I/O adapter device products which expands



EMC acquires cloud support vendor FastScale – Computerworld
IDG News Service – EMC has acquired FastScale Technology, a vendor of software for data centers, in an effort to focus on supporting private cloud infrastructures, the company announced Monday. With the acquisition, EMC will focus on increasing the

AMD Rolls Out 40-Watt Six-Core Opteron – eWeek
AMD is unveiling a 40-watt version of its six-core Istanbul Opteron processor aimed at dense data center environments, cloud computing platforms and Web 2.0 applications, which are looking for greater density and lower power consumption. AMD

Intel says data centers much too cold – The Register
Intel wants you to know that data centers are wasting energy – and money – by over-cooling their servers, burdened by warranties that may prevent them from aggressively raising their temperature. That study included results from a recent Liebert

CA to Showcase Comprehensive Virtualization Management Solutions for – PR Newswire
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — (VMworld, Moscone Center) — CA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CA) today announced that it is showcasing its integrated virtualization management solutions for VMware environments at VMworld 2009. “Virtualization can

Mellanox Announces ConnectX-2, An Advanced High-Performance, Low Power – PR Inside
Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ:MLNX) (TASE:MLNX), a leading supplier of end-to-end connectivity solutions for data center servers and storage, today announced the availability of its ConnectX-2 line of I/O adapter device products which expands

NTT America s New Data Center Aims To Harpoon Twitter s Fail Whale – TechCrunch
NTT America announced today that it has leased a new 15,000 square foot data center in Santa Clara, CA. Big deal, you might think, a network provider expands its capacity. Except this network provider has a very high-profile client: Twitter. Though

HP Labs uses lasers to cut energy usage inside data centers – Venturebeat.com
HP Labs researchers have demonstrated a way to use lasers to replace a lot of the electronics that connect servers to racks in data centers, a development that could one day make commercial computers much more power efficient, faster and cheaper. The

AMD Ships Low-Power Operton EE for Cloud Computing – NewsFactor Network
Advanced Micro Devices is shipping its power-sipping Opteron EE processor, code-named Istanbul, for cloud-computing environments. AMD’s six-core 40W ACP Opteron EE is designed for dense data centers. An analyst said AMD needs the Opteron EE to



Local Web hosting company growing in wake of merger – Houston Chronicle
Doug Erwin, CEO of The Planet, looks over the company’s data center. He had to meld different corporate cultures. T hree years ago, investors bought two stagnant Web-hosting companies and merged them into what is now known as The Planet. They tasked



CDW Report: Energy Efficient IT Efforts Yield Significant Savings, Yet – Earthtimes
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, energy use in the nation’s data centers doubled between 2000 and 2006 and is projected to double again by 2011. The Energy Efficient IT Report examines where energy efficiency ranks in IT

SureView partners with HID Global to offer Access Control Management – Security Systems News
TAMPA, Fla. SureView Systems on Aug. 24 announced a partnership with HID Global to offer a turn-key, hosted, Web-based access control services solution for central stations, security integrators and dealers. The system utilizes SureView s Immix

Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup – WHIR
Verio Attracts Resellers with Free Month of VPS Hosting : Companies looking to boost revenues are finding Verio’s Free VPS promotion the right fit for getting started as Hosting Reseller. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — There were a number of web

Henkel Awards Unisys Five-Year Global Outsourcing Contract – PR Inside
Unisys Corporation (NYSE:UIS) today announced that its German subsidiary has won a five-year contract for information technology (IT) outsourcing services from Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, a global manufacturer of industrial, personal and household products

DataPipe Rolls Out 3PAR Cloud-Agile Assured and Secured Services – TMCnet
FREMONT, CA, Aug 31, 2009 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — 3PAR(R) (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today that managed global IT service provider and 3PAR Cloud-Agile partner DataPipe now offers differentiated virtual

CDW Names Thomas E. Richards President and Chief Operating Officer – Earthtimes
VERNON HILLS, Ill. – (Business Wire) CDW Corporation, a leading provider of technology products and services to business, government and education, announced today that Thomas E. Richards will join the company as president and chief operating officer

Access Server-Hosted Windows Applications Anywhere – Computerworld
PC World – You probably run Office and other software directly from a PC hard drive. But server-side tools can put any Windows application into the cloud, keeping virtual instances of your applications ready at any time. This nimble system lets you



Access Server-Hosted Windows Applications Anywhere – Computerworld
PC World – You probably run Office and other software directly from a PC hard drive. But server-side tools can put any Windows application into the cloud, keeping virtual instances of your applications ready at any time. This nimble system lets you

Intalio Partners With Mellanox Technologies to Deliver First High – PR Newswire
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ — Intalio, Inc., The Private Cloud Company, announced a strategic partnership with Mellanox Technologies, a leading supplier of end-to-end connectivity solutions for data center servers and storage. Through this

OpenAjax Alliance Delivers Secure Mashup Software – eWeek
The OpenAjax Alliance, a group of companies, open source projects and organizations dedicated to delivering interoperable Asynchronous JavaScript and X M L (AJAX) technologies, has announced the approval and availability of OpenAjax Hub 2.0 as an

Hosting.com Moves VPS Products to the Cloud – Introduces Cloud VPS and – PR Newswire
DENVER, Aug. 27 /PRNewswire/ — Hosting.com , the first name in global managed hosting and colocation solutions, today announced that it is launching Cloud VPS , an enhanced version of its prior virtual private server (VPS) solutions. The new



Commex Technologies Joins the VMware Technology Alliance Partner – PR Inside
Commex Technologies Ltd., a provider of innovative high-performance solutions for x86 multicore systems, today announced it has joined the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program. The VMware TAP program helps technology vendors integrate

Peer 1 to install Juniper MX960 routers – it World Canada
The server hosting company will spend $1 million to add the Ethernet Services Routers to three data centres in Canada. Peer 1 Network Enterprises Inc. of Vancouver plans to spend more than $1 million upgrading the routers in its Canadian data centres

Iomega unveils new Linux-based, entry-level NAS server – Computerworld
Computerworld – EMC Corp.’s Iomega Corp. unit yesterday introduced its next-generation quad-drive desktop NAS server, which offers a storage capacity of up to 8TB, iSCSI connectivity for block-level data transfer, multiple RAID configurations and



PowerDNN Upgrades Private DotNetNuke Cloud Infrastructure – WHIR
Verio Attracts Resellers with Free Month of VPS Hosting : Companies looking to boost revenues are finding Verio’s Free VPS promotion the right fit for getting started as Hosting Reseller. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — DotNetNuke solutions provider



Apple releases new system – The Washington Times
NEW YORK | While Microsoft Corp. prepares to release the next incarnation of Windows on Oct. 22, Apple Inc. is cutting ahead, launching a new version of its operating system for Mac computers. Apple’s new Snow Leopard software, released Friday, isn’t

Snappy Fax Network Server 2.14.1.1 – ZDNet Australia
Trial download 6.7M Fax Server can simultaneously send and receive multiple faxes using inexpensive fax modems, no expensive dedicated fax boards are required. The Fax server receives incoming faxes and prints them automatically. Outgoing fax jobs



PowerDNN Upgrades Private DotNetNuke Cloud Infrastructure – WHIR
Verio Attracts Resellers with Free Month of VPS Hosting : Companies looking to boost revenues are finding Verio’s Free VPS promotion the right fit for getting started as Hosting Reseller. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — DotNetNuke solutions provider



EP&C Plans Data Centers in Dallas and Sacremento – WHIR
Verio Attracts Resellers with Free Month of VPS Hosting : Companies looking to boost revenues are finding Verio’s Free VPS promotion the right fit for getting started as Hosting Reseller. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Energy Parametrics

A Key to Greener Data Centers: Smarter Storage – CNN Money
( gigaom.com ) — Data storage can account for up to 40 percent of the energy consumed by a data center. Yikes but at the same time, it s not hard to see why storage vendors are busy building technologies that can help data center operators

Breach Security and Gigamon Partner to Provide Enterprises with Best – Newsblaze.com
CARLSBAD, Calif. – (BUSINESS WIRE) – Breach Security, Inc., the leader in web application integrity, security and PCI compliance, and Gigamon, a leading global provider of intelligent data access networking products, today announced a partnership to

Electrical Efficiency Measurement for Data Centers – Computerworld
Data center electrical efficiency is rarely planned or managed. The unfortunate result is that most data centers waste substantial amounts of electricity. This paper explains how data center efficiency can be measured, evaluated, and modeled

10 Ways to Increase Power System Availability in Data Centers – IT World
Data centers rely on a continuous supply of clean electricity. However, anything from a subtle power system design flaw to a failure in the electrical grid can easily bring down even the most modern and sophisticated data center. Fortunately

EMC Leaders Mourn Passing of Co-Founder Dick Egan, The ‘E’ in EMC – PR Newswire
HOPKINTON, Mass., Aug. 29 /PRNewswire/ — Thirty years ago this week, Richard J. “Dick” Egan and his friend and college roommate, Roger Marino, filed incorporation papers with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to form EMC Corporation. The two

Emerson has two data centers in the Midwest – Times-Republican
The recent opening of the Emerson Data Center in St. Louis, Mo., has completed the company’s major U.S. data center projects slated for this year, the company announced recently. Earlier in 2009, Emerson opened the data center in Marshalltown, which

Dell Enhances Virtualization, Consolidation for Next-Generation – StreetInsider.com
– New Dell/EMC CX4 Storage Arrays with 10-Gigabit Ethernet — New Storage Consolidation Services for Dell/EMC Implementations — New Networking Solutions for Server Blades ROUND ROCK, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Dell today announced new high-speed



PowerDNN Upgrades Private DotNetNuke Cloud Infrastructure – WHIR
Verio Attracts Resellers with Free Month of VPS Hosting : Companies looking to boost revenues are finding Verio’s Free VPS promotion the right fit for getting started as Hosting Reseller. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — DotNetNuke solutions provider



PowerDNN Upgrades Private DotNetNuke Cloud Infrastructure – WHIR
Verio Attracts Resellers with Free Month of VPS Hosting : Companies looking to boost revenues are finding Verio’s Free VPS promotion the right fit for getting started as Hosting Reseller. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — DotNetNuke solutions provider



EP&C Plans Data Centers in Dallas and Sacremento – WHIR
Verio Attracts Resellers with Free Month of VPS Hosting : Companies looking to boost revenues are finding Verio’s Free VPS promotion the right fit for getting started as Hosting Reseller. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Energy Parametrics

Tata Comm to set up data centers at Pune, Chennai, Delhi – Financial Express
Updated: Thursday, Aug 27, 2009 at 1854 hrs IST Airtel launches m-Commerce on voice Local charges for BSNL North East subscribers AUSPI wants Rs 2,020 cr as base price for 3G aucti Mumbai: Tata group company, Tata Communications, plans to set up

Scalable Energy Efficient Data Centers – PhysOrg
Scalability using identical network elements: fat tree built from 4-port switches, with 16 hosts organized into 4 pods, and full bisection bandwidth at each fat-tree level. (PhysOrg.com) — To protect their systems from network failures and to make



Local Web hosting company growing in wake of merger – Houston Chronicle
Doug Erwin, CEO of The Planet, looks over the company’s data center. He had to meld different corporate cultures. T hree years ago, investors bought two stagnant Web-hosting companies and merged them into what is now known as The Planet. They tasked



PowerDNN Upgrades Private DotNetNuke Cloud Infrastructure – WHIR
Verio Attracts Resellers with Free Month of VPS Hosting : Companies looking to boost revenues are finding Verio’s Free VPS promotion the right fit for getting started as Hosting Reseller. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — DotNetNuke solutions provider



Fujitsu Frontech Accelerates Retail Solutions Development with – PR Inside
to develop a sales team dedicated to point-of-sale (POS) systems and handheld terminals, while fully integrating the manufacturing and sales of its retail solutions. By enhancing the company’s product competitiveness and expertise on the retailing

Riverbed to Showcase IT Infrastructure Performance Solutions at – MSN Money
Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, today announced its participation at VMworld 2009, taking place Aug. 31 – Sept. 3 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Now in its

Ranker.com Selects NewServers’ On-Demand Cloud Server Platform – PR Inside
NewServers : , the only server cloud that delivers dedicated servers instead of virtual instances on shared servers, today announced that the newly launched Ranker.com : data-sharing search and social media site has chosen NewServers to support its

Fry: Why a business wants its head in the IT clouds – Long Island Business News
Executives running businesses big and small have been hearing about a new way to run their IT departments with a very funny name: cloud computing. What s so interesting about cloud computing? Well, if you believe the hype, it means you might not



SharePointBoost Announces Partnership to sell products on SharePoint – WebWire
Minneapolis, Minn. and Beijing China SharePoint Hub, an e-commerce site focused exclusively on SharePoint products and services, and SharePoint Boost, a leading software provider dedicated to development of SharePoint Web Parts, Add-ons and

Iomega unveils new Linux-based, entry-level NAS server – IDG NEWS
EMC Corp.’s Iomega Corp. unit yesterday introduced its next-generation quad-drive desktop NAS server, which offers a storage capacity of up to 8TB, iSCSI connectivity for block-level data transfer, multiple RAID configurations and remote access and

Riverbed to Showcase IT Infrastructure Performance Solutions at – MSN Money
Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, today announced its participation at VMworld 2009, taking place Aug. 31 – Sept. 3 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Now in its

First look: New Mac OS Snow Leopard software not a dramatic change – San Jose Mercury News
NEW YORK While Microsoft prepares to release the next incarnation of Windows on Oct. 22, Apple is cutting ahead, launching a new version of its operating system for Mac computers on Friday. Apple’s new Snow Leopard software isn’t as big of a step

Ranker.com Selects NewServers’ On-Demand Cloud Server Platform – PR Inside
NewServers : , the only server cloud that delivers dedicated servers instead of virtual instances on shared servers, today announced that the newly launched Ranker.com : data-sharing search and social media site has chosen NewServers to support its

Fry: Why a business wants its head in the IT clouds – Long Island Business News
Executives running businesses big and small have been hearing about a new way to run their IT departments with a very funny name: cloud computing. What s so interesting about cloud computing? Well, if you believe the hype, it means you might not

Hosting.com Moves VPS Products to the Cloud – Introduces Cloud VPS and – PR Newswire
DENVER, Aug. 27 /PRNewswire/ — Hosting.com , the first name in global managed hosting and colocation solutions, today announced that it is launching Cloud VPS , an enhanced version of its prior virtual private server (VPS) solutions. The new

Myhosting.com Restructures Web Hosting Affiliate Program – WHIR
Verio Attracts Resellers with Free Month of VPS Hosting : Companies looking to boost revenues are finding Verio’s Free VPS promotion the right fit for getting started as Hosting Reseller. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting, email and


Aug 26

The Pervasive Datacenter – CNET News
Modern microprocessors are incredibly complex machines. And major iterations, such as Power7, incorporate a multitude of new features, approaches, and techniques that are collectively far beyond the scope of a piece such as this to describe

ORCS Web thrives even in down economy – Tech Journal South
CHARLOTTE, NC Web-hosting firm ORCS Web has managed to stay in the top half of lists of the fastest growing U.S. private companies for the last two years, despite the economic downturn. The company provides managed hosting solutions to clients in

Latest News – dBusinessNews.com
A3 Assists Shopping Giant Tanger in Building New Intranet Portal Technology Leader Helps Tanger Outlet Centers Provide Best Data Greensboro – Tech Leader A3 Helps SE Systems Mind the Store A3 Chosen as Preferred Partner for E-Commerce Development

DataChambers Selected to Host Recovery Datacenter for Charlotte Pipe – dBusinessNews.com
WINSTON-SALEM DataChambers, a North Carolina-based technology firm, today announced it has signed a new contract with Charlotte Pipe and Foundry, the nation’s leading maker of cast iron and plastic pipe and fittings. Under the terms of the

Amazon introduces Virtual Private Cloud service – CNET News
On the third anniversary of its Elastic Compute Cloud launch, Amazon Web Services late Tuesday announced a new service, the Virtual Private Cloud . Targeted at customers with existing IT investments, the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) service provides a

Vizioncore and iland to Demo Live Transatlantic Disaster Recovery at – StreetInsider.com
Running regularly throughout the conference at the Vizioncore booth #1402, the demonstration will provide both live and flash-based presentations (available at any time at the booth) of actual web servers failing over from the iland high-availability

Emerson and Sun Announce Global Sales Alliance; Design Energy – dBusinessNews.com
Emerson and Sun Announce Global Sales Alliance; Design Energy-Efficient Next-Generation Datacenter Solution for Sandia National Laboratories Columbus – COLUMBUS–Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson and a global leader in enabling Business

Hitachi Data Systems Unveils One of the Industry s Most Robust and – Businesswire.com
State-of-the-Art Facility Showcases the Hitachi Group Vision to Establish a Sustainable Data Storage Strategy for Its Customers SANTA CLARA, Calif.–( BUSINESS WIRE )–Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE



Amazon introduces Virtual Private Cloud service – CNET News
On the third anniversary of its Elastic Compute Cloud launch, Amazon Web Services late Tuesday announced a new service, the Virtual Private Cloud . Targeted at customers with existing IT investments, the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) service provides a

ORCS Web thrives even in down economy – Tech Journal South
CHARLOTTE, NC Web-hosting firm ORCS Web has managed to stay in the top half of lists of the fastest growing U.S. private companies for the last two years, despite the economic downturn. The company provides managed hosting solutions to clients in

Emerson and Sun Announce Global Sales Alliance; Design Energy – dBusinessNews.com
Emerson and Sun Announce Global Sales Alliance; Design Energy-Efficient Next-Generation Datacenter Solution for Sandia National Laboratories Columbus – COLUMBUS–Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson and a global leader in enabling Business

Vizioncore and iland to Demo Live Transatlantic Disaster Recovery at – StreetInsider.com
Running regularly throughout the conference at the Vizioncore booth #1402, the demonstration will provide both live and flash-based presentations (available at any time at the booth) of actual web servers failing over from the iland high-availability

Latest News – dBusinessNews.com
A3 Assists Shopping Giant Tanger in Building New Intranet Portal Technology Leader Helps Tanger Outlet Centers Provide Best Data Greensboro – Tech Leader A3 Helps SE Systems Mind the Store A3 Chosen as Preferred Partner for E-Commerce Development

Hitachi Data Systems Unveils One of the Industry s Most Robust and – Businesswire.com
State-of-the-Art Facility Showcases the Hitachi Group Vision to Establish a Sustainable Data Storage Strategy for Its Customers SANTA CLARA, Calif.–( BUSINESS WIRE )–Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE

Scripps Newspaper Division Begins Reorganization CINCINNATI — In a – dBusinessNews.com
Richard R. Devenuti Elected to Board of Directors of Convergys Cincinnati – Convergys Corporation , a global leader in relationship A Thorough Inspection Can Help Home Buyers Avoid Plumbing Problems Cincinnati, OH – The recession has dragged down



Fasthosts reveals non-profit websites grow amidst UK recession – WebWire
Fasthosts Internet Ltd, a leading web hosting provider and domain name registrar, today reported a marked increase in the number of .ORG domains registered by non-profit organisations during the past year. The domain suffix has out-grown in

Rancho Santa Monica Dev (OCBB: RSDV) CEO Seeing A Bright Future – Transworld News
Rancho Santa Monica Developments Inc . (OTCBB:RSDV), recently publicized the pre-production of a full feature film entitled Agave Surprise to be shot on location at Parayso Hotel in Tulum, Mexico, a property owned by RSDV. Best Damn Penny Stocks, a