http://www.eweek.com IT Infrastructure - RSS Feeds en-us Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:23:46 -0500 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:23:46 -0500 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:46:32 -0500 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/HP-vs-Cisco-Polar-Opposites-in-Data-Center-Strategies-582377/?kc=rss - 2010 is shaping up to be the Year of Unified Computing System Wars, and Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard have emerged as two of the main combatants in these skirmishes. IBM, naturally, would be the other big one. But outside of general information about its Blue Cloud initiative and partnersh...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/HP-vs-Cisco-Polar-Opposites-in-Data-Center-Strategies-582377/?kc=rss Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:35:46 -0500 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/Global-Telecoms-Set-Standard-for-VoiceSMS-Over-LTE-620339/?kc=rss - Long Term Evolution leaders AT amp;T, Verizon, Vodafone and Nokia joined eight other equipment vendors and device manufacturers Nov. 4 to announce a jointly developed technical profile for LTE voice and Short Message Service services. The companies said they hope the technical profile will pave t...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/Global-Telecoms-Set-Standard-for-VoiceSMS-Over-LTE-620339/?kc=rss Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:25:10 -0500 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/Top-10-Technologies-to-Consider-for-2010-745035/?kc=rss - ...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/Top-10-Technologies-to-Consider-for-2010-745035/?kc=rss Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:56:55 -0500 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/HP-Unveils-Converged-Data-Center-Strategy-301688/?kc=rss - Hewlett-Packard is pulling together a host of new and existing products and services to create a converged infrastructure solution that officials say will give businesses a clear alternative to more partner-driven offerings from the likes of Cisco Systems and IBM. HP officials rolled out their Conv...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/HP-Unveils-Converged-Data-Center-Strategy-301688/?kc=rss Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:48:42 -0500 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/Perot-Systems-Becomes-Dell-Services-609742/?kc=rss - Dell has completed its $3.9 billion offer to buy Perot Systems, a move that will give the PC maker a significantly larger services business. Perot will now become Dell Services, which will be headed by former Perot CEO Peter Altabef. Altabef will be president of Dell Services and will report to C...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/Perot-Systems-Becomes-Dell-Services-609742/?kc=rss Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:17:18 -0500 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/Neon-Updates-zPrime-Product-Aimed-at-IBM-Mainframes-191370/?kc=rss - Neon Enterprise Software has updated its zPrime product, which enables businesses to reduce the cost of their IBM mainframe environments. Neon's zPrime software makes it easier for enterprises to move more of their workloads from the more expensive IBM System z central processors to less expens...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/Neon-Updates-zPrime-Product-Aimed-at-IBM-Mainframes-191370/?kc=rss Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:13:00 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/The-Internet-40-Years-of-Breathtaking-Innovation-189564/?kc=rss - It was October 1969 and Paul McCartney was not dead. He even said so in a press conference. The 100-to-1 shot New York Mets won the World Series. The cold war between Russia and the United States was anything but with nuclear testing continuing unabated by both sides. The United States, though, w...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/The-Internet-40-Years-of-Breathtaking-Innovation-189564/?kc=rss Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:25:22 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/ICANN-Moves-Ahead-With-Multilingual-Domains-266800/?kc=rss - Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers approved Oct. 30 the new Internationalized Domain Name Fast Track Process to allow nations and territories to apply for Internet extensions reflecting their name – and made up of characters from their national language. Currently, Internet addr...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/ICANN-Moves-Ahead-With-Multilingual-Domains-266800/?kc=rss Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:10:04 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/AlcatelLucent-Rolls-Out-New-Smaller-Routers-192684/?kc=rss - Alcatel-Lucent on Oct. 28 introduced two IP routers designed to provide smaller communities with quot; the same advanced mobile, residential and business services currently delivered in larger metropolitan areas. The new products ... will extend the benefits of service routing further out into th...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/AlcatelLucent-Rolls-Out-New-Smaller-Routers-192684/?kc=rss Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:07:39 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/Tilera-Talks-100Core-Processor-376613/?kc=rss - At a time when Intel and Advanced Micro Devices are talking about six and eight cores on a chip, five-year-old Tilera is unveiling plans for a 100-core processor. Tilera, which over the past two years has rolled out chips with 36 and 64 processing cores, on Oct. 26 is announcing its third-gener...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/Tilera-Talks-100Core-Processor-376613/?kc=rss Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:53:31 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/Sun-Talks-Up-Solaris-for-Intel-Nehalem-EX-Chip-739370/?kc=rss - Sun Microsystems officials are touting the performance of the Solaris operating system when run on servers powered by Intel's upcoming quot;Nehalem EX quot; processors. In a recent white paper, Sun officials said the tight collaboration with Intel over the past two years has resulted in a Sola...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/Sun-Talks-Up-Solaris-for-Intel-Nehalem-EX-Chip-739370/?kc=rss Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:05:15 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/Union-Group-Seeks-Wider-Probe-of-IBM-Executives-871506/?kc=rss - A group that is looking to unionize IBMs U.S. workers is using the arrest Oct. 16 of hardware chief Robert Moffat on insider trading charges to ask federal regulators to investigate all company executives. Alliance@IBM, which comprises current and former IBM employees, has been highly critical of ...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/Union-Group-Seeks-Wider-Probe-of-IBM-Executives-871506/?kc=rss Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:57:44 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/HP-Nvidia-Team-Up-in-HPC-Project-658727/?kc=rss - Hewlett-Packard and Nvidia are providing key technologies to a project aimed at designing an experimental high-performance computing system. The two technology vendors are part of a project being overseen by the Georgia Institute of Technology, which announced Oct. 21 that it had received a fiv...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/HP-Nvidia-Team-Up-in-HPC-Project-658727/?kc=rss Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:07:21 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/Beleaguered-Sun-Forced-to-Lay-Off-3000-More-Employees-470385/?kc=rss - Beleaguered Sun Microsystems revealed Oct. 20 that it must trim about 3,000 jobs over the next 12 months, due largely to the delay in closing its planned merger with Oracle, which is currently under review by the European Commission. The EC, which monitors commercial competition in the 27 count...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/Beleaguered-Sun-Forced-to-Lay-Off-3000-More-Employees-470385/?kc=rss Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:40:58 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/New-IBM-VMControl-Eases-Management-of-Virtualized-Environments-697349/?kc=rss - IBM is unveiling software designed to give IT administrators a single point through which to manage their data center infrastructure, from servers to storage systems to networking devices. IBMs VMControl product for enterprises, announced Oct. 20, can be used in conjunction with the vendors Tivoli ...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/New-IBM-VMControl-Eases-Management-of-Virtualized-Environments-697349/?kc=rss