APC to replace aircons with row-based cooling systems – Computerworld According to APC, air conditioners are the “second-highest consumer of power in the data center, next only to the IT equipment.” And citing a report by Gartner, the company said…
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Is the Cloud a Bandwidth Hog? – ITBusinessEdge For some time now, I’ve been saying that networking is the key element to cloud architectures. While that’s still true, it’s probably more accurate to say that adequate bandwidth will make or…
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AMD released six-core Opteron HE processors today that promise to up the performance per watt ante. Currently shipping in 2-,4- and 8-processor HP ProLiant servers, the new Istanbul chips boast an nice percent performance per watt boost over their…
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Platform leaps from grids to clouds – Channel Register There are some big differences in the software stack and hardware used by HPC grids and compute clouds, but both types of clusters have one thing in common: They need some…
Despite all of the eco-friendly strides HP is making, we mustn’t forget that they are also a printer company. HP yesterday took the lid off a new all-in-one they plan to launch in the Fall. In addition to scanning,…
Read more Conflicted: HP Photosmart Premium with TouchSmart Web
HP Takes Aim at Cisco with Alcatel-Lucent Alliance – eWeek HP’s networking capabilities primarily lie within the data center, with switches that enable such communications as those between racks of server or between PCs and remote offices. What it didn’t…
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The greening of Apple OS X – Mother Nature Network OS X 1.6 solves that by allowing developers to create multithread software — software that can unlock the power of new multicore processors by letting one chip serve many tasks….
Computer manufacturers are starting to make it easy to recycle your retired computers and peripherals. It will take a little extra work on your part, but it’s worth it wouldn’t you say? So stop piling your old equipment in a…
Read more Computer Recycling Online Resources: Dell, HP & IBM
HP Designs New Server for ‘extreme’ Scale-out Computing – PC World The servers also omit features that HP says often aren’t required by large Internet companies, such as redundant power supplies and advanced management software. “In many cases these companies…
Verizon’s Public Cloud Aimed at Enterprise – PC World Customers using CaaS can manage their service through a console that allows them to provision resources as they wish, which also means if they decommission a resource, they will automatically stop…
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