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How to build a solid server virtualization foundation

— Dramatic cost and agility benefits make server virtualization an essential part of any data center. Here's how to plan, deploy, and maintain a sound virtual infrastructure

Sep 09 03:13:00 am PDT / Computerworld Virtualization News»

Amazon Micro Instances – Rackspace Has Competition On The Lower End

— For a long time Amazon Web Services didn’t bother to focus on the light users. From the beginning, Rackspace offered plans catering to the low end VPS crowd with Linux Cloud Servers with 256 MB RAM available for 1.5 cents a hour (with an estimated monthly cost not including bandwidth consumption at $10.95). It wa...

Sep 09 12:40:19 am PDT / CloudAve »

HP introduces microserver for small businesses

— Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday announced a low-cost, entry-level server for small businesses that bundles advanced features in a small package.

Sep 08 04:46:00 am PDT / Computerworld Servers News»

Where is the point of demarcation with cloud services?

— The point of demarcation is important to service providers as it limits their exposure and risk, thus limiting their scope of responsibility and costs, but the growing popularity of cloud computing and hosted communications services promises to dramatically change the picture -- perhaps most dramatically in the wiring ...

Sep 07 10:14:00 am PDT / Computerworld SaaS News»

HP Goes into the Insta-Cloud Business

— HP’s got a private cloud-in-a-box scheme that it trotted out Monday ahead of VMworld called HP CloudStart that’s supposed to provide the cloud-smitten enterprise that’s hanging back everything it needs to get cloud-borne in a mere 30 days complements of HP’s Cloud Consulting Services, so what it’s gonna cost ...

Sep 06 07:15:00 am PDT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

Choosing Your Cloud Vendor

— Expanding on the " introduction to cloud computing" article, here are some additional suggestions for choosing a cloud service model provider. In a typical Cloud Computing data centre, an application set will generally be hosted over Virtual Machines running on a large number of Physical Machines. Total Cost of Own...

Sep 03 06:00:00 am PDT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

Apptio Launches Solution to Optimize Private Cloud Computing Investments

— Apptio, a provider of on-demand Technology Business Management (TBM) solutions, on Wednesday announced new capabilities that track the cost, quality and utilization of private cloud infrastructures. The new Private Cloud Business Management solution integrates with VMware and other IT systems to provide "charge by mete...

Sep 01 12:00:00 pm PDT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

Global Relo Redux

— Last fall I liked to say….a global move is technically just like a cross country move, only you fly to get there and it costs a lot more money. Here’s the skinny with 20-20 hindsight: Planning – you can plan to death, but it doesn’t change the workload Things – you can throw away things ...

Aug 26 05:11:44 pm PDT / Technology is Dead»

Against the Grain. Private Clouds as Cost Containment

— My father was an antique dealer that specialized in furniture refinishing. All of us children spent some amount of time down at the shop getting instruction in how to handle antiques from dishes to weapons to furniture. But each of us got special instruction in how to treat a piece of furniture. The man looked at a pi...

Aug 24 04:52:14 am PDT / DevCentral Weblogs»

Some Cloud Thoughts on a Clear and Sunny Day

— Cloud Computing is a deployment model and cloud computing is a business model. Cloud computing is not some silver bullet magical thing. It's not even easy *gasp* sometimes. As a deployment model cloud computing can it is simply summed up as on-demand, self-service, reliable, and low to no capital costs se...

Aug 22 11:11:02 am PDT / ProductionScale RSS Feed»

New SSDs: Smaller, and Yet Larger

— The prevailing theory is that IT spending will remain healthy as the economy slogs through the recession, particularly if that spending is aimed at streamlining data center infrastructure and lowering future operating costs. In that light, it's no

Aug 17 02:08:24 pm PDT / Arthur Cole»

ESG White Papper: Changing the Way

— This adage offers an accurate summary of how organizations currently purchase storage solutions. What is changing are the drivers that impact IT decision making—executives want IT to reduce costs and improve responsiveness to business requirements. From a technology perspective, there are always new storage innovatio...

Aug 01 08:05:00 am PDT / NetApp - Analyst Reports»

NetApp Leads Evolution to 10-Gigabit Unified Ethernet Networking

— NetApp Support of Intel Adapter Gives Customers More Options to Reduce Costs and Improve Performance

Jul 29 01:05:00 am PDT / NetApp - Press Releases»

Cognizant strengthens its testing portfolio with Paris-based Galileo Performance acquisition

— Outsourced testing services have been growing significantly in reducing the cost of quality assurance and software maintenance and also ensuring tighter alignment of IT with business objectives and improved governance and risk mitigation, Cognizant said. Industry research firm IDC forecasts a five-year compound annual ...

Jun 17 04:53:16 pm PDT / Avastu Blog - Sustainable Global Clouds»

SeaMicro Releases Innovative Intel Atom Server

— I’ve been talking about the application low-power, low-cost processors to server workloads for years starting with The Case for Low-Cost, Low-Power Servers. Subsequent articles get into more detail: Microslice Servers, Low-Power Amdahl Blades for Data Intensive Computing, and Successfully Challenging the Server Tax ...

Jun 13 09:01:11 pm PDT / Perspectives»

The New World Order

— Industry trends come and go. The ones that stay with us and have lasting impact are those that fundamentally change the cost equation. Public clouds clearly pass this test. The potential savings approach 10x and, in cost sensitive industries, those that move to the cloud fastest will have a substantial cost advantage ...

Jun 05 06:34:58 am PDT / Perspectives»

C02K Doubter? Watch the Presidential address today

— Are you a Data Center professional who doubts that Carbon legislation is going to happen or that this initiative will never get off the ground? This afternoon President Obama plans to outline his intention to assess a cost for Carbon consumption at a conference highlighting his economic accomplishments to d...

Jun 02 09:20:26 am PDT / LooseBolts»

Dell: Netbooks won't replace laptops

— Netbooks may have won over many users with their relatively low cost and small size, but Dell doesn't see the lightweight machines ever replacing laptops with more powerful processors inside.

May 20 10:16:00 pm PDT / Computerworld Dell News»

Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage

— Today a new storage option for Amazon S3 has been launched: Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS). This new storage option enables customers to reduce their costs by storing non-critical, reproducible data at lower levels of redundancy. This has been an option that customers have been asking us about for some ti...

May 19 12:00:01 am PDT / All Things Distributed»

When Very Low-Power, Low-Cost Servers Don't Make Sense

— I am excited by very low power, very low cost servers and the impact they will have on our industry. There are many workloads where CPU is in excess and lower power and lower cost servers are the right answer. These are workloads that don’t fully exploit the capabilities of the underlying server. For these workloads...

May 18 05:09:47 am PDT / Perspectives»

Telepresence technology is catching on, but hold on to your wallet

— Telepresence -- the extreme high end of videoconferencing -- can save businesses 20% on travel costs. It requires a big upfront investment, but some large companies are already sold on it.

Apr 19 03:00:00 am PDT / Computerworld Cisco News»

Forrester: Controlling Storage Cost Amid High Growth

— Storage capacity has been growing fast for the past five years, and an end to the recession is only likely to spur further expansion as projects are re-funded. Recent data shows storage commanding a higher portion of the overall IT budget, but the amount of increased budget is likely not enough to fully accommodate the...

Feb 03 09:00:00 am PST / NetApp - Analyst Reports»

Cats vs. Container

— One of the shocking realizations of a global move is the cost of moving your animals, versus the cost of moving your belongings. In our case, we fit our ’stuff’ sans cars into a 20′ shipping container. The container contents wrapped, packed like an intricate puzzle, either scanned or unpacked by cus...

Jan 25 02:27:58 pm PST / Technology is Dead»

Rightsizing Servers to Achieve Cost and Power Savings in the Datacenter

— By Dileep Bhandarkar, Ph. D. Distinguished Engineer Global Foundation Services, Microsoft I speak about server rightsizing from time to time at technology conferences, and am surprised that the basic concepts are new to some people in the industry. A lot of people don’t realize the huge performan...

Dec 15 07:07:00 am PST / ms datacenters»

New blades have arrived

— HP has introduced the industry’s first high-availability, fault-tolerant blade server, which it says delivers the lowest total cost of ownership of any server in its class.

Jul 16 05:00:00 pm PDT / Servers/Hardware»

SaaS 2.0 Will Be All About Reducing The Cost Of Sales

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Dec 31 04:00:00 pm PST / cloud computing»

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