Resources for IT Managers
Evergreen Systems announced a new product offer that combines Evergreen’s process improvement consulting with HP’s Data Center Automation enterprise software offering. The integrated, solution-oriented offer guarantees prospects a return on their technology investment through operations cost savings. Evergreen’s announcement comes one day after HP announced major product upgrades to its … [Read more...]
In time for Halloween, HP has launched "What Haunts Your Data Center?" – a Halloween-focused education campaign. HP is featuring six animated data center characters that attempt to bring to life the scary monsters that haunt IT managers’ dreams. Photo by Brain Hancock The cast of data center monsters include: Dracula, The Data Center Energy Sucking Vampire Frankenstein, The … [Read more...]
EMC Corporation has announced two new software solutions aimed at helping customers automate configuration and compliance management across their physical and virtual information infrastructures. Announced today, EMC Server Configuration Manager and EMC Configuration Analytics Manager provide customers with a unified approach for managing their IT infrastructures – including servers, … [Read more...]
Cisco Systems and Microsoft have teamed up to bring a new networking appliance for enterprises designed specifically for use in branch offices. The new product called Windows Server on WAAS (Wide Area Application Services) is now available for purchase. Windows Server® on WAAS reduces the cost and complexity of providing IT services in branch locations with accelerated access to centralized … [Read more...]
CA, one of the world's largest independent software companies, and Opalis Software Inc., a market leader in IT process automation software, have announced an OEM partnership that will enhance CA’s Data Center Automation offerings with the award-winning IT process automation technology from Opalis. The joint technology solutions will further enable enterprises to drive down IT operational … [Read more...]
TrendPoint Systems, a leader in data center energy management solutions announced a four-point plan aimed at dramatically reducing energy costs and carbon emissions at data centers. A recent study by McKinsey & Co. predicted that data centers will surpass the airline industry as the largest source of carbon dioxide emissions by 2020 and called for data centers to double their energy … [Read more...]
Microsoft's answer to VMware's systems-management product will be released commercially in September according to Kevin Turner, Microsoft's chief operating officer. These remarks are in contrast to those made by Diane Prescott, product manager for System Center. She said on the team blog that Virtual Machine Manager 2008 would be released in the fourth quarter of 2008. This however contradicted … [Read more...]
HP today announced the world's first two-in-one server blade. The HP ProLiant BL2x220c G5 combines two independent servers in a single blade. This offers customers with scale-out environments improved data center performance, reduced floor space and lower power usage. The HP ProLiant BL2x220c G5 offers three times the density of traditional 1U rack-mount servers. This addresses the data growth … [Read more...]