Instead of wasting all the excess heat your data center generates, wouldn’t it be more efficient to reuse it to heat offices, water, and more? With the growing number of data centers being built, now is the time to integrate energy saving and reuse methods. In part one of this ...

How should SmartClient technology integrate with web solutions? VP Development at Vertafore Chris Kinsman talks with Microsoft Architect Evangelist Bruce Kyle about how and why SmartClient deployment of Windows Forms deliver the most value to its financial services customers in the AMS 360 product. And he ...

2007 Utah Technology Council’s Hall of Fame inductee Bernard Daines has a rich legacy of innovation spanning several decades of achievements in the network communications industry, and is widely recognized as an expert in Ethernet technology.

Daines was the first to create the 100 megabit Ethernet Switch when he ...

Intel is launching an eight-year process of data center consolidation, as Brently Davis, communications and stakeholder manager, blogs on IT@Intel. In this video podcast, he discusses the benefits — reducing costs, improving server and storage utilization], creating higher density & more energy-efficient data centers — and challenges, like ...

Data centers today are under pressure from rising compute requirements, demand for storage capacity and energy costs. In this video podcast from IT@Intel, Alan Ross, principal engineer and enterprise architect with Intel IT, shares experiences, technology assessments and best practices around data center efficiency, virtualization and consolidation.

Transforming the data ...

Join BearingPoint managing director Daryouche Behboudi in exploring disaster recovery and the importance of technology architecture. When considering the technology architecture of your company, there are many factors to look at. Besides being cost-effective, one must determine if the plan is compatible with their firm’s standards and its ...

Gordon Moore’s Law will remain in effect for the foreseeable future. Intel Corporation’s new 45nm Penryn microprocessor relies on a new recipe that combines the element Hafnium and metal gate technology to increase performance and significantly reduce eco-unfriendly, wasteful electricity leaks.

Energy management and energy efficiency in data centers: Intel and HP are working together to save energy and money while boosting computing performance. The Climate Savers Computing Initiative is one way that Intel and HP are working to create sustainable high-performance technology for the enterprise. How do the energy ...

In this podcast, Director of Storage Management, Sean Derrington provides and overview of the 2007 Symantec State of the Data Center Report. The report addresses the challenges Data Center Managers globally. For more information, visit the News & Media section at www.symantec.com.

Over the past few years Virtualization has become the new IT buzzword, cropping up in technologies from the end-user client environment all the way back through the Data Center into application, storage, and delivery networks. While Virtualization is solid technology, one definition for this word doesn’t cover all parts ...

Jennifer Ellard and Dan Lamorena discuss strategies for High Availability and Disaster Recovery and IT organizations can determine the right solutions(s) for their critical applications. For more information, visit:
www.symantec.com/datacenter

Silicon Valley is not known for paying much attention to its own history but things are changing. The Computer History Museum’s 2007 Fellow Awards was sold out as much of Silicon Valley’s aristocracy turned out for a $250 fund raising dinner that paid tribute to four top technologists: Morris ...

Keynote Systems does testing and caching for Internet services around the world. They know more about the health of the Internet than probably any other company. Here you get a tour into their datacenter and control center. We talk about what happens there when something breaks on the Internet.

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This SNWSpotlight features Mitch Siegel of LSI talking about the state of the company, and Tom Edsall of Cisco on the future of the data center. SNWSpotlight is brought to you by LSI.

Join BearingPoint Managing Director, Tony Turni, as he highlights BearingPoint’s Global Delivery Centers’ (GDC) offshore capabilities and their evolution over the last ten years.

Offshore resources are a proven model, with the advantage of providing a higher level of work at a more cost efficient rate. Productivity has also evolved, ...

Chris Loeffler demonstrates Eaton’s new BladeUPS rack mounted battery backup and power distribution systems at the Data Center World show in Dallas.

Ashish Moondra, with help from Nathalie Reagins, demonstrates their new Cyclades PM42 manageable power strip at the Data Center World show in Dallas.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. September 25, 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc. introduced its first quad-core x64 (x86, 64-bit) systems, including the world’s smallest four-socket x64 server — which delivers up to twice the expandability and compute power as other servers, yet is half the size. The Sun Fire X4450 and

Rick Dallmann shows the new CXtec Fiber Enclosures and Modules to better manage fiber cabling in a data center. The cables and modules support the current 10Gbps speeds, but are ready for the future with a rating for 40Gbps.

Join BearingPoint technologist and managing director Frederic Veron as he and Kenneth Oestreich, director of product management and product marketing at Cassatt explore the active power management approach to utility computing and why the market is now ripe for the ability to actively control power status for machines.

We’ll ...

Jill Eckhaus, CEO, explains what AFCOM does, who belongs, and services the group provides. This interview happened at the Data Center World Conference in September 2007 in Dallas, one of their major member benefits.

Greg Malacane, Sr. Business Analyst @ Alchemy Solutions Group, provides an overview of a recent Business Value Analysis of Shinhan Bank in Korea, and where Shinhan found Business Value in standardizing its data center. http://go.symantec.com/shinhan

Backup power for data centers usually means a huge bank of heavy, expensive, and toxic batteries. ActivePower’s Martin Olsen explains how the company’s environmentally-friendly power backup system, powered by a 600 pound flywheel, saves space and money.

US data centers consumed 61 billion kW hours of electricity in 2006 - learn how Intel and the industry are applying technology and research to mitigate energy consumption.

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“People are the ultimate threat,” says Tim Casey, a senior strategic analyst for information security at Intel. “People write the viruses, people throw the bombs.” In this interview with PodTech’s Jason Lopez, Casey says that security is all about being ready to respond to anything — from viruses hopping off ...