Today Dell made of flurry of virtualization related announcements. Among the most intriguing are two, quasi-turnkey virtual infrastructure packages, one for full-fledged datacenters and another for SMBs: Data Center Virtualization Configuration: The unified virtualization platform with pre-configured architectures combines Dell…
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Well, maybe not hate but a seething indifference definitely. First, some perspective.If you buy a new household appliance and power consumption is a concern, you look for the Energy Star label. Simple.For IT managers, it’s not that easy.The EPA expanded…
Read more Does Energy Star for Computer Servers Hate Virtualization?
…Eco Solutions being the actual name of a slate of IT products and services that they offer. Today, HP announced that they have expanded the program by offering 22 efficient ProLiant G6 product lines, double of what they had before….
Read more HP Expands Eco Solutions with AMD Istanbul, Energy Star 5.0 PCs
So SSDs may be out of your price range but you still want your storage arrays to be energy efficient, right? Supermicro has the 1U, 2U, 3U or 4U chassis for you. The company has outfitted its new barest…
Read more Supermicro Debuts Energy Efficient Storage Servers Chassis
What is 80 Plus? If you have been eying components for a new PC or server build, or perused the spec sheets on some systems destined for your datacenter or server room, you likely came across the term 80 Plus….
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On the surface, it would seem counterintuitive to consider mainframes–the hulking computing flagships of IT–as a green technology. But that’s exactly IBM’s message and it does have its merits. While you may have to make some accommodations in you datacenter…
Read more IBM: Mainframes are Green, Really
DailyTech took a look at the marketing war of words between Intel and AMD in the server chip realm, specifically when it comes to the former’s Nehalem Xeon and the latter’s Shanghai Opteron. We all love a good fight, but…
Read more Intel Nehalem vs. AMD Shanghai… Fight!
Today’s new quad-core Opteron EE is just the start… It’s Opteron’s sixth birthday, and the chip wars just got interesting again. Sure, the company just launched a power-sipping, quad-core Shanghai chip (more on that later) but the latest salvo was…
Read more AMD Istanbul: 6-Core Roadmap to Greener Datacenters
Tom Friedman to data centers: ‘Get ready for carbon tax’ – TechTarget If there’s anything a data center manager can take from a Tom Friedman talk on disappearing sea ice and petro-dictatorships, it’s this: A carbon emission tax on…
Wondering what will become of Sun’s data center greening initiatives now that it’s getting gobbled up by database giant Oracle. The good news, according to Channel Insider, is that they’ll continue for the time being. Sun’s partners will get a…
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