The Green Grid consortium has issued a set of guidelines to solve one of the trickiest issues facing sustainable computing - how to measure the efficiency of a data centre.
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EMC and Microsoft Renew Alliance Despite Virtualization Conflict
Microsoft and data storage giant EMC are renewing their product partnership, despite growing competition in the fast-growing area of virtualization.
Toshiba Looks to Cut Costs as NAND Flash Memory Prices Fall
Toshiba is looking to cut costs by £2.3 billion in the next year as the company looks to deal with the falling prices of NAND flash memory. Toshiba, which is also a major player in the worldwide PC market, and Samsung are struggling as ...
Sun To Sign EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres
The computer manufacturer has today announced its firm intention to be the first systems vendor to endorse the EU best practices for energy efficient data centre design.
Sun Cools Down the Data Centre
The IT industry has a poor record of wasting energy in data centres, says server maker Sun Microsystems. But the company wants to make amends: it has attacked the source of the problem, and rewritten the rules for cooling and power.
Seagate Solves Firmware Issue, Offers Fix for HDD Owners
Seagate has isolated a potential firmware issue in certain products, including some Barracuda 7200.11 hard drives and related drive families based on this product platform, manufactured through December 2008
HP ProLiant DL185 G5 Storage Server Is Capable, Quick
With the ProLiant DL185 G5, Hewlett-Packard introduces a major update to the management software that improves usability over earlier versions of HP Storage Server Management Console. The ProLiant DL185 G5 can be configured as either a ...
Intel Atom Processor Road Map Springs a Leak
Intel will shrink its Atom processor to 32-nanometres in the second half of 2010, and the company is developing this chip and a new netbook platform under the codename “Medfield”, according to a research note that UBS analy ...
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery: How to Prepare Your Business
Companies frequently don't like to think about business continuity, disaster recovery, the expense of hot sites or even off-site storage. But, if you can't afford to lose it, then BC/DR is for you.
Direct-Attached Storage Coming of Age in Web 2.0 World
Despite talk about iSCSI, Fibre Channel and 4/10GB Ethernet connectivity, analystss estimate that DAS still comprises about 70 percent of the entire data storage market
Dell Confirms ‘Adamo’ Luxury Laptop at Las Vegas Expo
Dell confirms that it has developed an ultrathin, luxury laptop code-named Adamo, in an effort to counter what Apple achieved with the MacBook Air.
SanDisk Sees 2009 as the Year of SSD Notebooks
The company believes SSDs are poised to enter mainstream corporate notebooks in 2009. Fast new SanDisk G3 drives will become available in midyear in capacities of 60GB, 120GB and 240GB.