Recent Articles
-
Rackable Systems to Acquire SGI for $25M Cash
Data center server and storage vendor Rackable Systems plans to acquire all the assets of once mighty Silicon Graphics for approximately $25 million in cash, Rackable Systems announced Wednesday morning. The announcement coincides with Silicon Graphics filing again for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Rackable Systems said in a prepared statement announcing the deal that the combined…
-
Intel’s New Nehalem Drives Virtualization, Cloud Computing
Intel’s touting its latest Nehalem EP-based quad-core processors as the biggest platform advancement in 10 years, aiming to provide organizations with enhanced virtualization and cloud computing capabilities. Analysts say virtualization and cloud computing are major drivers for future server demand, and Gartner predicts virtualization will be the top technology initiative customers undertake this year. >>…
-
Dell`s PC Pricing Conundrum
Has Dell learned its lesson about pricing products for the channel? Since the computer manufacturer re-entered the channel nearly 18 months ago, it’s dodged issues of conflict for what it offers registered partners for prices on products and what customers can find by shopping direct on Dell’s Web site. Now Dell is engaging the channel…
-
Open Cloud Manifesto Ensures Migration, Not Identity Management
The controversial “Open Cloud Manifesto” is intended to ensure users of Web-based applications such as those offered by Salesforce.com, IBM and Microsoft have the ability to port their data to new providers should they choose to switch services. However, the limitation of cloud services is the lack of secure inter-cloud communications and data exchange between…
-
Intel`s Xeon 5500 Greens Servers and Conquers Virtual Worlds
With the launch of Intel’s new Xeon 5500 processors, it’s obvious that data centers will turn to the latest CPU to consolidate servers and embrace virtualization in the data center. But, what isn’t so obvious is what the Xeon 5500 means to the traditional desktop infrastructure. A Xeon 5500 based server has the potential to…