Reviewers are starting to get their mitts on AMD’s six-core “Istanbul” server chip and the news looks good from a virtualization standpoint. Anandtech found that while slower than some Intel Xeons, the platform’s affinity to virtualization, power savings and cost…
Datacenter Operators Planning for Economy, Energy Efficiency
IT managers are feeling the economic pinch and they’re planning accordingly. Thirty-five percent of the 120 data center, facility and IT managers polled in Emerson Network Power’s Data Center Users Group (DCUG) survey have delayed plans to expand or build…
Virtualization and IPTV Meet at Microsoft Mediaroom
Datacenters as broadcasters? Not as far-fetched as it would have seemed a scant couple of years ago. If Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) services like AT&T U-verse take off in the U.S., where subscribers expect home theater quality HD video and…
1E's NightWatchman Coming to Servers
1E is already providing centrally managed power management for PCs, but now the company is eying servers. I know what you’re thinking: better to let those servers just do their jobs. But 1E thinks there’s plenty of potential energy savings…
Virtuals Machines to Outnumber Physical Servers in EU
Virtualization is poised to help crowd out physical servers in Europe in 2009 according to IDC. iTWire reports: According to IDC the number of server systems shipped with a virtualization platform reached 358,000 units in 2008 and, it says, “the…
Green IT News Roundup – Thursday, May 14
Oracle Snaps Up Virtual Iron, Plans Virtualization Push – ChannelWeb Oracle said Virtual Iron’s dynamic resource and capacity management technology complements the core features of Oracle VM by providing tools for capacity management, power management and easy virtualization integration with…
Virtualization Pays Off
…or at least IT managers that have implemented the technology in their datacenters seem to think so. This TechRepublic blog post offers us these encouraging words: Even in these fragile economic times, CIOs are investing in virtualization. A 2008…
Intel Nehalem vs. AMD Shanghai… Fight!
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…
AMD Istanbul: 6-Core Roadmap to Greener Datacenters
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…
Green IT Strategies for Beginners
Jenaly Technology Group’s CTO, MJ Shoer, explores some Green IT basics by focusing in on three ways businesses can improve their impact on the environment and cut the cost of their tech operations. Covered are server virtualization, electronic documents (aka…
