…a.k.a: something to do during the Twitter (planned) outage of ’09. If you’ve been curious about vSphere, particularly what the private cloud-building platform means for your storage infrastructure, then the VMware Communities Roundtable has just the audio webcast/podcast for you….
Windows 7 *Hearts* Solid State Drives
The difference between SSDs and traditional hard drives go well beyond energy savings and fast I/O rates. There are some fundamental ways flash chips store data, which makes regular defrag and other drive optimization techniques that operating systems employ unsuitable…
Green IT News Roundup – Monday, May 4
Is there an immediate return on investment in virtualization? – Enterprise Management Quarterly As a solution architect, I find out that lots of IT managers hold a misleading idea that the implementation of a virtual system reduces the operation…
Verizon Expands Remote Backup and Restore Service: Model for Green Business Continuity?
One way to save money on an off-site backup infrastructure, plus the associated energy and management costs, is to pay a subscription fee to a firm that has already gone and built its share of geographically distributed datacenters. In Verizon’s…
Seagate Launches Green Barracuda LP Hard Drive
If you don want to pay a king’s ransom to outfit your PC with an energy-saving SSD — or you simply might not want to make the capacity trade-off — the next best thing to do is invest in an…
Green IT News Roundup – Tuesday, April 21
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…
Green IT News Roundup – Monday, April 20
Demo: How CloudRack Optimizes Energy Use – Data Center Knowledge The CloudRack C2 employs cabinet-level power distribution technology and fans in the rear of the enclosure, enabling server trays that contain no fans or power supplies. In this video from…
New HP Left Hand Line Makes SANs Virtual Server Friendly
HP is smoothing out SAN storage management for VMware shops with new Left Hand P4000 SAN hardware, Virtual SAN Appliance Software and the new StorageWorks SB40c Storage Blade. When deployed in conjunction with the new P4000 hardware and PSA software…
Green IT Glossary: Massive Array of Idle Disks (MAID)
MAID was born from the simple idea that not all storage is the same. “Mission critical” data best earns its keep on the fastest and most expensive storage arrays. They operate 24/7 and are given priority when it comes to…
Hot Hardware Reviews Western Digital 2TB Caviar Green Power Hard Drive
That’s right, 2TB. See, that’s why SSDs have a bit of a ways to go before they can challenge traditional disk drives. But that too appears to be changing. HotHardware put Western Digital’s mammoth Caviar Green through its paces to…
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