In this podcast, reporter Michael Johnson delves into storage virtualization technology, speaking with Don Fautt, LSI director of software marketing, and Doug Jury, LSI’s director of software business sales. Catherine Girardeau tackles power efficiency in the data center, speaking with Dave Vellante and William Souder about Vellante’s Wikibon ...

Intel IT has designed a new system to reduce energy costs, recycle excess heat, and the reduce environmental impact of the data center. In Part 2 of this podcast, Intel IT Data Center Design Engineer Doug Garday plugs in some numbers that show potential energy cost savings, amount of heat ...

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 ...

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.

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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 ...

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

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.

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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.

The energy savings from green technologies in green data centers can be huge. According to Mike Rigodanzo, senior vice president of technology services for Hewlett Packard, energy savings on the power bill range from 20-45 percent, depending on the starting point. As a result, IT managers now consider the management ...

In this podcast, Cisco’s Senior Director of Data Center Marketing, Douglas Gourlay, talks with PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau about optimizing the green data center. What role is virtualization playing in power savings across the IT organization? How much power - and cost - are green data center innovations saving?

GM’s Electrovan drove only once, but spawned the quest for hydrogen-powered vehicles that continues to this day. While at the GM Heritage Center in Sterling Heights, Mich., I got an introduction to the vehicle and its sister, the Electrovair.

With many data centers built more than a decade ago, facilities no longer fit current and future requirements from a business perspective. In addition, security requirements have evolved exponentially along with capacity issues like power and space shortages. Join BearingPoint Senior Manager and Technologist Gabe Leung, as he explores ...

Business Technology is HP’s strategy for the enterprise. Olivier Helleboid, VP Adaptive Infrastructure at HP, talks about how customers have benefited from HP’s Adaptive Infrastructure approach. Learn how a company can use its information technology infrastructure as a strategic asset.

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Biometric-enabled smart cards have helped the Department of Defense stop hundreds of thousands of unauthorized individuals (including several known terrorists and criminals) from gaining access to U.S. military facilities around the world.

However, according to Mary Dixon, deputy director of the Defense Manpower Data Center, who spoke at the 6th Annual ...

In this Thought Leaders podcast brought to you by SAVVIS, James Richardson, senior vice president at Cisco discusses how Cisco is helping enterprise CIOs prepare for the Web 2.0 world. He also sheds some light on Services Oriented Network Architecture (SONA) and its value for the Enterprise and the role virtualization plays in the Web 2.0 world.

Utility computing is not a new concept, but the technologies that make it viable are finally maturing. Properly deployed, utility computing can increase server utilization rates, reduce the requirement to build overcapacity and lower operating costs. This podcast identifies key success factors for organizations hoping to capture the benefits of ...

What would you store if you could afford one terabyte — that’s 1,000 gigabytes — of hard disk space? In this podcast, Doug Pickford, director of product and market strategy for enterprise products with Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, talks with PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau about Hitachi GST’s industry milestone, the ...

Market data services in today’s global financial services institutions can prove to be an ever- escalating issue that can have a severe bottom-line impact. If market data services are not carefully planned for and service levels drop, it can cost a financial services firm dearly.

In this podcast, Farid Moussavi, managing ...

In this Thought Leaders podcast, brought to you by SAVVIS, Andy Schroepfer, president & founder of Tier 1 Research, discusses his view on the hosting industry, including the market forecast and segmentation, future growth areas, and how the buyer — not the supplier — is driving the future of ...

Fulton County is the most populous county in Georgia, encompassing 11 different cities, including Atlanta. The Information Technology department supports the computing needs for more than 7,000 government employees within 42 departments spread across 225 buildings. The IT department protects hundreds of data center servers, 7,000 desktops, 1,500 laptops, and ...

In this Thought Leaders podcast brought to you by SAVVIS, Rona Shuchat, research director, IDC, shares her unique perspective, gained through the study of the strategic impact of telecommunications and web hosting. She discusses what’s interesting in corporate networking, such as deep packet inspection, the use of web-based portals ...