2011 – the year Ireland became ‘home of the cloud’

Explore siliconrepublic.com (Dec 22 2011) Cloud Computing

... and Ireland has been at the cusp of this revolution ever since Apple came to Cork in the 1980s and Intel began making chips to power the PC revolution in the 1990s. In recent weeks, Kinsale-based Avego ma......systec, Marketo, Commence, Pivot, Engine Yard, Pinger, Datapac, Fort and Citrix, to name but a few. Dell expects to recruit 150 people in the next two years with the creation of its ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Europe   Massachusetts Institute of Technology

IT Minds Quest for 'Holy Grail' of Data Center Metrics

Explore Wired News (Dec 9 2011) Servers

...ws. But there’s no shortage of IT minds trying to figure it out. Last month, in partnership with Intel, data-center management software vendor iTRACS took up the challenge of developing a metric — a sin......ackle it,” says John Pflueger, a Green Grid board member and principal environmental strategist for Dell. “And we quickly came to the realization that there were some really good reasons behind that.” ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Gartner   The Green Grid

Facebook Expands Green Open Hardware Push

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Nov 23 2011) Servers

...t point, the company has been using systems from traditional OEMs. Facebook worked with chip makers Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, as well as systems makers Hewlett-Packard and Dell, to create the custom servers. The aim was to build systems that offer the performance needed to ru... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Intel   Google

Vendors Are Blocking Data Centres Energy Cuts

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Nov 18 2011) Servers

...as manufacturers specify a conservative operating temperature for the products. Earlier this year, Dell announced that it had increased the upper temperature limits for some its equipment, so data centre......re. Without this, many data centre operators are unwilling to risk equipment failure even though an Intel study conducted in 2008 suggested that the failure rate of a facility running at 35C was 4.5 percen... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   ASHRAE   Facebook

AMD's big new number: 16 cores for your server

Explore Technology News (Nov 14 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...84GB memory per CPU. The new Opterons hit the market with good support from HP, Cray, AMAX, IBM and Dell. ZDNet UK reviewed the Dell server based on the 16-core AMD Opteron. AMD also outlined a new platform, the Opteron 3000 Series,......rs to be aimed at ARM and Atom based servers. Now the big question: Will any of this make a dent in Intel’s server market share? In ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   IBM   ZDNet UK

why Moonshot matters - by peter judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Nov 6 2011)

...the movement definitely favours that architecture. And for HP to go with ARM, is one in the eye for Intel’s plans for microservers. Dell spoke out for the Intel version at Intel’s IDF show, and HP has taken its custom elsewhere. Intel’s architecture may be less efficient, according to analysts, but the chip giant can get new process... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Amazon.com   Intel

Power Assure and ABB Presenting "Breakthroughs in Data Center Reliability and ...

Explore Home | Benzinga.com (Oct 29 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...udith Capital, and a grant from the Department of Energy. Power Assure partners include ABB, Cisco, Dell, IBM, Intel, Raritan, UL and VMware. Power Assure is a registered trademark of Power Assure, Inc. All product n... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Cisco   Department of Energy

Can Open Hardware Transform the Data Center?

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Oct 28 2011) Cloud Computing

...te Summit in New York featured appearances from executives for some of the sector’s leading names – Intel, Dell, Amazon, Facebook, Red Hat and Goldman Sachs. The audience was filled with data center thought lead... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Intel   Google

Intel, Dell Join Facebook’s Efficiency Project

Explore environmentalleader.com (Oct 28 2011) Servers

Intel, Dell, Mozilla, Rackspace and Netflix have all joined Facebook’s Open Compute Project, which aims to incr... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Cisco   Facebook

Will Your Next Server Be Designed by Facebook?

Explore ReadWriteWeb (Oct 27 2011)

...ent. If you're still doubting how real this is, consider the list of companies that have signed on: Intel, ASUS, Dell, Huawei, Rackspace, Netflix, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs and a little software vendor by the name of R... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Intel   Google

Facebook letting Open Compute Project go. Will it fly?

Explore GigaOM (Oct 27 2011)

...re for Goldman Sachs; Mark Roienigk, the COO of Rackspace; and Jason Waxman, general manager of Intel’s data center group. Frank Frankovsky, Facebook’s director of hardware and supply chain, is executi......erty contributions from Red Hat– which will certify OCP servers. Other contributions came from AMD, Dell, and Cloudera. Arista Networks is also now an official member of OCP, although has no specific cont... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   Intel   Hewlett Packard

Component-level rightsizing to reduce datacenter power, costs

Explore zdnetasia.com (Sep 16 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...toward "micro-focusing on component savings". Citing a survey jointly conducted by IBM, Samsung and Dell, the Samsung executive then pointed out that one of the datacenter management "pinch points" revolv......ss as a Competitive Advantage. I so agree with this article. In fact, in January 2011 at our annual Intel IT Leadership Summit... Definitely mobile social networking is a buzz word in Asia at the moment. B... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Google   Oracle

Power Assure CTO Provides Insights into Data Center Energy Efficiency Rating ...

Explore MyHostNews (Aug 23 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...udith Capital, and a grant from the Department of Energy. Power Assure partners include ABB, Cisco, Dell, IBM, Intel, Raritan, UL and VMware. Research, evaluate and learn more about website hosting at FindMyHost.com.... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Gartner   Cisco

Data Center Energy Efficiency Needs To Include Software And Networking, Expert Says

Explore Network Computing (Aug 22 2011) Cloud Computing , Networking , Servers

...ficiency and cloud computing held last week near San Francisco. The initiative was co-founded by Intel and Google, and includes tech industry giants such as Microsoft, VMware and Cisco Systems, as well ......d Google, and includes tech industry giants such as Microsoft, VMware and Cisco Systems, as well as Dell and Samsung, which were co-sponsors of the conference. The group's goal is to reduce carbon dioxide... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Google   Cisco

Shifting to Chiller-Less Data

Explore Scientific Computing (Aug 2 2011) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers

...footprint, data centers worldwide are prioritizing reduction in the cost of infrastructure cooling. Dell’s Fresh Air cooling solution combined with servers using Intel Xeon processors running at higher ambient temperatures will provide a breakthrough in efficiency fo... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Google   Yahoo

Amd, Hp, Others Aim to Use Wind, Solar Power for Data Centers

Explore eweek.com (Aug 1 2011) Solar , Wind , Cloud Computing

...he said. Technology vendors—from systems makers to networking companies to chip makers like AMD and Intel—all are looking to drive up the energy efficiency of their products. At the same time, there is a g......ent as well, including through the use of alternative methods of powering and cooling. For example, Dell officials on July 28 announced that they would warranty some of their server, storage and networkin... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Hewlett Packard   Dell

Fulcrum Microsystems

Explore ecommercetimes.com (Jul 26 2011) Cloud Computing

energy efficiency and service delivery. Intel also noted that 10-GbE networks are one of today's fastest-growing data center market segments, and......ously made. The Adamo laptop line from 2009 was a notable effort, though it suffered serious flaws. Dell appears to have learned from that lesson in creating the XPS 15z. (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Cisco   IBM

Dell follows the networking acquisition binge with Force10 buy

Explore GigaOM (Jul 20 2011) Networking

...ing a shift akin to what happened in servers after the introduction of virtualization. Yesterday, Intel announced the acquisition of a networking chip company that is Intel’s means of capitalizing on that trend. So with Dell moving into this sector with Force10, its relentless focus on the bottom line might make it better... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Cisco   Dell

Australia - taking a holistic approach to the data center

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Jul 13 2011) Cloud Computing

...ting support and data center services, as well as upgrades to existing data center facilities using Intel and UNIX-based servers and Storage Works P9500 from HP. HP, and possibly the products, would have h......government's data center migration panel along with other international and local players including Dell, Fujitsu, Dimension Data, The Frame Group and more. Australia's government has also launched a numb... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Fujitsu   Intel   Data Center Strategy

Facebook's Open Compute Project shares 2x Server v2.0 future and Storage Server v1.0

Explore greenm3.com (Jun 23 2011) Servers , Storage

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Facebook   Dell

How microservers could change the data center

Explore Federal Computer Week (May 27 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...and Internet-style workloads that are increasingly common at agencies and other big enterprises. Dell joins some smaller players and recently introduced its initial line of microservers, Intel has begun shipping the first of several processors designed specifically for use in microservers, a... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Unisys   Data Center Knowledge

Interop's green streak - by Doug Mohney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (May 12 2011)

... to see better cooling systems – typically a physical infrastructure thing – show up besides HP and Dell promoting the latest and greatest in servers. Speaking of cooling, Schneider Electric – a divisio...... efficiency, with a performance per watt roughly five times greater than “industry standard” (i.e., Intel) processors. Tilera gets better performance through the ability to put CPUs to a low-power sleep mo... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Doug Mohney   Dell

The Argument For and Against Low-power Servers

Explore itbusinessedge.com (Mar 24 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...vide the most bang for the buck -- performance/watt in industry parlance. Can they do the job? Take Dell's new PowerEdge C5000 micro servers, for example. These are the company's third-generation, low-pow......any's third-generation, low-power machines sporting AMD's Phenom II and Athlon II chips, along with Intel's Xeon E3-1200 processors. While the initial C5000s were targeted at such high-density, low-cost ap... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Facebook   Dell

Fusion-io, Intel Tout Enterprise SSD Flash

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 4 2011) Storage

...storage-class memory. Fusion-io grew rapidly in 2010, and hired Steve Wozniak as a Chief Scientist. Dell, HP and IBM are selling its products, and the company claims more than half of the Fortune 50 as cu......formance and utilizes higher speed SATA bus interfaces on the recently introduced second generation Intel Core processor-based platforms. StorageReview.com has a (really) in-depth look at the 250GB SSD 510... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   IBM   Dell