Server and data center

The big server push

ITworld staff — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:43:08 -0500

Rather than cutting and running as they face deepening economic woes, IT executives behind server and virtualization efforts are pushing harder to complete their projects. It's easy to understand why: Many server and virtualization projects deliver the kinds of cost savings that businesses crave right now. "These projects affect costs... and they affect revenue," says Dennis Smith, first vice president of advanced engineering at The Bank of New York Mellon Corp.

Slow-growing green

ITworld staff — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:32:46 -0500

Could saving the Earth -- and your company's bottom line -- be as simple as using fresh air to cool your data center? It's not quite that simple, but it can be one step toward those goals, because companies that use natural air to cool their facilities are seeing big benefits on both the environmental and financial fronts.

Half of data centers surveyed plan 2009 cutbacks

ITworld staff — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:41:45 -0500

About half of data centers are responding to the economic crisis by cutting their budgets an average of 15% for 2009, according to a new survey by the AFCOM Data Center Institute.

The top underreported tech stories of 2008

ITworld staff — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:56:17 -0500

There's a huge amount of noise out there, and it often obscures the quiet little stories that could help IT work more efficiently and more profitably. Here are seven important IT stories that you might have missed in 2008.

Credit crunch takes toll on data center spending

ITworld staff — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:26:33 -0500

The deepening financial crisis is causing more businesses to lower their data center budgets for 2009, with spending on training and new hardware likely to feel the brunt of the cutbacks, according to a survey from Afcom, an association for data center workers.

Best practices for controlling and managing virtual machines

ksullivan — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:12:47 -0500

This is the final segment of a three part article that looks at the impact of server virtualization on data center management, security and compliance and suggests best practices to control and manage the virtual data center.

Bank scores with server virtualization

ITworld staff — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:59:45 -0500

They say old habits die hard. It's a adage that's certainly true for ICICI Bank's senior GM and the Group CTO, Pravir Vohra. As a man who was part of the team that popularized online banking and helped create a new revenue stream for ICICI Bank, Vohra is already known as an IT leader who can make a difference.

Virtual server sprawl kills cost savings, experts warn

ITworld staff — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:52:19 -0500

Virtual server sprawl can eliminate the cost savings so many IT shops covet when they embrace server virtualization, warns a Boeing IT professional who is leading a virtualization initiative at t

Wanted: A long-term data center strategy

ITworld staff — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:48:20 -0500

Gartner's data on energy consumption, virtualization, cloud

ITworld staff — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:27:59 -0500

Gartner's 27th annual data center conference is producing no shortage of research related to energy consumption, virtualization, cloud computing and other hot enterprise topics.