The current uptake in high performance computing means mostly good things, but it also comes with a few built-in challenges. The paradox of this particular progress is this: when you scale hardware, you oftentimes scale power consumption, right along with it. That’s where Intel’s Shesha Krishnapura has some good news ...

Enterprise computing has come a long way from the days of centralized mainframes in the 1970’s to the fully distributed desktops and laptops we see today. With the workplace becoming more technologically diverse and increasingly mobile, desktop IT workload grows exponentially with each new user and configuration. Is there a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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:
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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.

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

“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 ...

Yesterday, AMD announced that its new Barcelona chips were shipping. These are new quad-core CPUs aimed at use in enterprise datacenters. We have a conversation about what these new chips mean for AMD and some of the trends he sees evolving because of their release.

Straight Talk about HP BladeSystem, presented by Jason Newton. The problems addressed by BladeSystem c3000 and c7000 and HP’s unique approach to meeting those needs in big or small datacenters.

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The inventors of Sun Microsystems’ ZFS, Jeff Bonwick, distinguished engineer and storage CTO, and Bill Moore, hardware/software architect, tell me what was behind coming up with ZFS. It’s a file system. That sounds boring, right? But it’s not, since this technology is used in many of the world’s ...

The breakthrough technology streamlines datacenter operations between server, LAN and SAN domains, making it ‘change-ready.’ ONLY HP has it.

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Learn how to fill your empty box with the best blade technology in the industry to tackle the toughest datacenter problems.

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When Blue Cross Blue Shield was faced with the challenge of expanding their datacenter, they realized they were literally out of room, so they turned to HP and the c-Class Blade System.

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Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems, sat down with me recently to talk about a wide range of topics from trends in the datacenter to why he thinks more CEOs should blog.

Every week on the ScobleShow I’ll try to get to a different CEO and learn more about ...

Leostream is developing the next generation virtual datacenter management products - enabling companies to create a single pool of available storage and computing resources that they can deploy on demand. Founded in 2001 by a group of experienced industry executives and engineers, Leostream is based in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA.

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