Canada's push to overhaul data centers and data management
Canadian government CIO Corinne Charette highlights her focus on streamlining data centers, information management and the next generation of electronic government
New IBM mainframe a 'data center in a box'
Big Blue's zEnterprise uses RISC and x86-based blades, and can manage up to 100,000 virtual machines simultaneously, the company says.
Dell ships infected motherboards
Some replacement motherboards from Dell shipped with malicious code embedded in them, reigniting debates about the trustworthiness of technology.
Task Force recommends a metric for measuring data center efficiency
Industry and government have put a premium on data center energy efficiency, frequently using energy efficiency metrics. But the metrics haven't always been applied clearly and consistently.
Agencies trying to wring more value from virtualization
Despite challenges, agencies hope to fully adopt client, server and storage virtualization by 2015.
Do feds believe in data center consolidation?
Federal respondents to a MeritTalk/Net App survey recognize the benefits of consolidation but have doubts about how quickly the number of servers can be reduced, if at all.
Dell doubles down on data centers, services
Dell plans to double the size of its $16 billion data center and technology services business and move away from being a PC supplier.
Why 2010 is the year of the virtual data center
Agencies focused on virtualized servers for greater efficiency are seeing only half of the picture, according to Christopher Poelker, vice president of Enterprise Solutions at FalconStor Software. A look at why 2010 will emerge as the year for virtualized storage virtual data centers.
Lessons from the private cloud
Ahmed Mahmoud, chief information officer of AMD, which has run a private cloud for about 10 years, talks about his experiences with data movement, latency, licensing and security issues.
Data center consolidation improves cross-agency cooperation
The federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative emerges as an enabler of information sharing across government.
Flatten your network to consolidate data centers
Network consolidation -- "flattening" -- is not the only component, but it is a key element of simplifying data center operations and improving data center performance, some industry experts say.
Army steps up data center consolidation after imposing server moratorium
The Army's effort at data center consolidation is in step with today’s announcement from President Barack Obama that all federal agencies must consolidate and reduce data centers.
Scientists creating advanced computer simulation of nuclear reactor
A $122 million project, the first of three Energy Department R&D programs to be announced this year, will use the world's fastest supercomputers to create a high-fidelity "virtual reactor" to help engineers improve the performance and safety of current nuclear reactors and design the next generation.
You call that a data center? These are data centers!
Data Center Knowledge details a list of the 10 largest data centers in the world. How big can they get?
Agency IT gets greener with promotional carbon credits
Federal agencies are benefitting from a program that allows agency IT departments to purchase new data servers and receive offsetting carbon emissions credits.
Standard approach to computing spells doom for data centers
The established mentality of standardizing on inefficient platforms is killing our data centers and networks in terms of power, space, and cooling, says Criterion HPS President Mike Dillard, former chairman of the CIA’s Information Policy Board. Unless organizations better tune their systems, no power grid will be able to support the massive amounts of processing and data crunching that is coming.
Nations agree to global data center metrics
A consortium of international interests has chosen a standardized energy efficiency metric.
Intel introduces 6-core chips with cloud-secure features
The chips are Intel's first server and workstation processors built on 32-nanometer technology, and include Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions and Trusted Execution Technology, which Intel said will add security to cloud computing environments.
DHS lags in oversight for data center, IG says
Homeland Security Department officials haven't reviewed invoices for more than $160 million in spending related to DHS' primary data center operating on Navy property,
Virtualization increases the need for reality management in IT
Virtualization has reduced data center footprints, but little has been done to disentangle the duplication and complexity of information and applications sitting in those servers, observes Francis Hsu, an information executive working for the Homeland Security Department.
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