Servers

Last week saw a pair of announcements that could profoundly affect the way that companies plan, deploy and manage their datacenter infrastructures. On the scale-up side of the house, CA announced that it has installed a new integrated IBM zEnterprise mainframe and BladeCenter Extension system. In th...

Server virtualization technology offers lots of benefits for administrators looking to consolidate to make more efficient use of resources, improve management, and save on power, cooling and floorspace. However, deploying server virtualization technology may lead to a few surprises. Let's walk thr...

Virtual machines have dramatically transformed the way IT organizations approach the computing architecture. Initially employed to provide greater efficiency, server virtualization has quickly revealed that its true benefits are in building an agile data center where resources can be started and sto...

Google has added new cloud capabilities to its rack-mounted Google Search Appliance. As of Monday, a new feature, Cloud Connect, lets users of Google Search Appliance 6.8 search content both within an enterprise's firewalls as well as content from Twitter, blogs and industry websites through Google ...

Deploying, managing and maintaining the high availability of the Microsoft Exchange 2010 email platform in enterprise environments is no small feat. Given the increased complexity of this new Microsoft platform, there are numerous key decisions to be made as the precursor to keeping Exchange running...

VMware on Tuesday announced two purchases aimed at furthering its vision of the future of IT. One is Integrien, which offers software that -performs real=time application and infrastructure performance analysis. The other is TriCipher, which offers secure access management and enterprise identity fe...

Working for a disaster recovery solutions designer is often difficult. After being bombarded by ad slogans, magazine articles and just plain life experience, many company executives are looking to achieve a mythical figure for server uptime. Perceived uptime of 99.999 percent -- or "five nines" --...

Microsoft announced a new revision of its SQL server software Wednesday, a version that the software maker is hailing as the "most complete information platform for managing, accessing and delivering information" in the corporate environment. "It's definitely a complete platform because it gets them...

For many years, a clear line has separated the capabilities of servers based on Intel's x86 microprocessor architecture and "enterprise class" systems leveraging RISC, EPIC and mainframe technologies. People may argue over the length and width of that line, but the traditional reliability, availabil...

Recent IT industry events have created a field day for those who think the news tend to come in "threes": Oracle said it would continue investing in Sun's Sparc- and X64-based systems and storage hardware. Intel introduced the Itanium processor 9300 series, which the company said delivers more than ...