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Microsoft Postpones Iowa Data Center
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| A day after reporting flat revenue for its online services business,
| Microsoft said it is postponing construction on a planned data center in
| Iowa.
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| It's one of several other cost-cutting measures the software giant announced
| along with a disappointing financial report Thursday, including laying off
| around 5,000 people, reducing the use of vendors and lowering marketing
| spending.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/158265/microsoft_postpones_iowa_data_center.html?tk=rss_news
It's like a firing line. Microsoft is shrinking.
Related:
Open-source software in the data center
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| Linux, Apache and other open-source applications have long been used to power
| Web and file servers. But when it comes to managing the data center, many
| companies have held back. Now, though, some users have turned into big
| believers that open source works here, too.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=data_center&articleId=9057879&taxonomyId=52&intsrc=kc_feat
Sun Plans To Close Its Data Centers
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| In an interview, Sun's chief technology officer of information technology,
| John Dutra, balked at committing to the 2015 goal, and cautioned that
| Cinque's post was more of a "vision" than a "tactical plan." But Sun's drive
| to reduce its in-house computing hardware is real. In five years, Dutra says,
| more efficient servers and virtualization--the conversion of multiple
| computers into software that can be run on a single machine--will allow Sun
| to do away with five of its eight data centers, reducing both the centers'
| square footage and data consumption by around 50%.
|
| [...]
|
| Still, revamping its internal server systems could save Sun money and create
| less of an environmental footprint. More important, says Carr, Sun's other
| motive may be inspiring an industry shift--one that could mean more high-end
| server sales and reverse a growing trend toward sales of cheaper Windows and
| Linux servers.
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http://www.forbes.com/2008/01/11/sun-virtualization-data-tech-intel-cx_ag_0111sun.html?partner=yahootix
Opening Up Data Center Management
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| Open Source Offers Front-End Savings & Flexibility, But Consider The TCO
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http://www.processor.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles%2Fp2942%2F20p42%2F20p42.asp&guid=&searchtype=&WordList=&bJumpTo=True
Oxford University goes for storage magic
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| on Edwards, an IT Officer for the two faculties, said: "We knew that finding
| an affordable solution that could work seamlessly in a Netware environment
| and that would effectively transition us to a networked storage model while
| giving us reliability, support, and ease of use was going to be a challenge.
| Like most educational establishments, for us, money is not a bottomless pit.
| Our servers and direct-attach storage infrastructure were dated and we wanted
| to deploy a cost-effective, network-based data protection solution that would
| work with our Novell and Linux servers."
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http://www.techworld.com/storage/news/index.cfm?newsID=10181&pagtype=samechan
Linux startup moves desktop Windows to the data center
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| In the Solid ICE client interface, users can browse a selection of virtual
| machines and start the ones with the applications they need. Client systems
| may be Linux or Microsoft Windows PCs, thin clients, or, for customers who
| want to convert old PCs to lightweight systems, Linux machines running
| Qumranet's "miniOS." miniOS is just enough to get the Solid ICE session
| started and let the user launch his or her virtual system.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/092407-linux-virtualization.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
Levanta Beefs Up Management Team in Preparation for Expansion Into Data Center
Automation
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| "As Linux moves into mainstream business-critical deployments, customers are
| looking for sophisticated enterprise-grade system management solutions for
| Linux," said Eric Gries, CEO of Levanta.
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http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-levanta-beefs-up-management-team-preparation-expansion-into-/2007/09/17/2942950.htm
HP Courts Open-Source Community With 'Investments'
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| Anne Livermore, head of Hewlett-Packard's Technology Solutions Group, laid
| out for the open source community the areas in which it has to focus to help
| build the data centers of the future.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20070809/tc_cmp/201307366
ElasticDrive Beta 0.1.6 - Amazon S3 FileSystem
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| Enomaly Inc has announced the release of ElasticDrive. ElasticDrive is a
| network block device based upon the Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service).
| ElasticDrive provides a caching block device driver which pushes blocks to
| and from S3 as if they were being written to a local block device.
|
| [...]
|
| ElasticDrive provides this service through a virtual NBD service. The NBD
| service translates from standard NBD to S3 packets transparently, so that the
| client (the kernel) sees a generic block device. NBD is supported on almost
| every linux kernel (including EC2). Simply modprobe nbd, and you are ready to
| use ElasticDrive.
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http://opensourceblog.itproportal.com/?p=396
IGNUM Selects SWsoft Virtuozzo for Linux, Windows in the Czech Republic
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| IGNUM began offering Virtuozzo-powered VPS hosting services in
| mid-April. Two-thirds of those customers are using the Linux
| platform, while the rest are using Windows.
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http://www.webknowhow.net/news/press/070730SWsoft.html
Qlusters CTO on the Datacenter Revolution
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| A greater emphasis on costs in recent years has driven datacenters
| to migrate from proprietary Unix systems to industry-standard server
| hardware and Linux operating systems.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/55094.html
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