http://serverspecs.blogs.techtarget.com A SearchDataCenter.com blog Thu, 15 May 2008 21:24:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yesterday I went to an Aperture-sponsored event in downtown Chicago that Andrew Fanara from the federal Environmental Protection Agency spoke at. Much of it was information that he has spoken about before and that we've reported, all of it around the data center energy efficiency issue that the EPA has ... http://serverspecs.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/15/how-a-virtualization-and-server-consolidation-project-can-hurt-your-pue/ As a managed hosting company, Contegix by necessity has to contend with every major operating system. But to run its own business, Contegix is an open source shop. “We run Red Hat Enterprise Linux,” said CEO Matthew Porter, “and we use Hyperic as the core of our management and ... http://serverspecs.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/15/using-agent-based-monitoring-despite-reservations/  Trends in data center power was the topic at AFCOM New England Chapter’s meeting this week, and apparently it’s a subject that resonates with members—at least judging by the nearly 100 attendees who showed up. (As the New England chapter enters its third year, President Rocko Graziano, whose real job ... http://serverspecs.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/14/afcom-new-englands-power-trends/ Since the announcement by Microsoft at AFCOM that they would be using containers like Rackable's Ice Cube in their new data centers, much attention has been focused on the container-based set-up. Sun led the way with their Blackbox, and now Dell is releasing their own containerized data center. But not everyone ... http://serverspecs.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/14/container-based-data-centers-one-size-fits-all/ At the beginning of this year, Redmond Magazine announced its Editors' Choice Awards, handing VMware ESX the trophy for being "most reliable." In second place? The IBM mainframe. Why am I mentioning it now when the awards were handed out in January? Well, because I didn't know of them. A couple ... http://serverspecs.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/13/vmware-esx-more-reliable-than-the-mainframe-says-mag/ The latest version of Opalis Software Inc.'s flagship IT process automation server software was released a couple weeks ago. Among the enhanced features of the Opalis Integration Server 5.5 is a customizable executive dashboard designed to give high-level IT and other managers the ability to drill into graphs and get ... http://serverspecs.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/12/business-intelligence-meets-it-process-automation/ Gabriel Consulting Group, based in Beaverton, Ore., has finished its annual survey of Unix users, and found that IBM narrowly topped Hewlett-Packard in customer satisfaction. Last year, IBM had a little more breathing room. But Dan Olds, a principal at the consultancy, said that Big Blue and HP are practically in ... http://serverspecs.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/12/hp-climbs-up-the-ladder-in-unix-customer-satisfaction-survey/ The Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star program is trying to collect information from anyone with a data center to help the EPA get a sense of what's happening nationally with data center energy consumption. In this video from the Uptime Institute Symposium, the EPA's Andrew Fanara discusses how data center managers ... http://serverspecs.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/05/support-the-national-data-center-energy-efficiency-information-program/ Three Hewlett-Packard user groups -- Encompass, ITUG (International Tandem Users Group), and HP-Interex -- are consolidating into one big one called Connect. The groups announced their intention to merge earlier this year, and just recently the membership of all three voted to do so. The new merged group will have more ... http://serverspecs.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/05/hp-user-groups-merge/ Last week at the Uptime Institute Symposium, I met with Ken Ostereich of Cassatt and we chatted about the need for a radical change in data center design and operations in order to achieve the Uptime Institute's challenge for end users to reduce energy consumption in the data center by ... http://serverspecs.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/02/data-center-efficiency-innovation-in-groundhog-day-rut/