Jeff Burt

BladeLogic is taking a more holistic view of the data center. With the launch of BladeLogic Release 7 automation suite, the Lexington, Mass., company is enabling IT administrators to synchronize configuration management across the disparate groups of people within the data center. Currently, management software addresses individual aspects within data centers, but there is nothing […]

Virtual Iron and PlateSpin are joining forces to help end users not only assess the best opportunities for virtualization in their data centers, but to make the deployment of virtualized environments faster and easier. PlateSpins PowerConvert and PowerRecon software will support Virtual Irons data center virtualization and management platform. At the same time, starting next […]

HOUSTON—It was all business for Mark Hurd on Sept. 18. In his keynote address here at the HP Technology Forum, Hurd, Hewlett-Packards president and CEO, talked about the companys plans for helping customers consolidate their business centers, manage their infrastructures and pare their expenses. However, outside of a humorous aside, he didnt mention the controversy […]

HOUSTON—Hewlett-Packard is opening up three more competency centers around the world to help customers looking to implement service-oriented architectures. The SOA centers—in Bangalore, India, Singapore and Cupertino, Calif.—are part of a larger $500 million investment HP is making in the technology, which calls for integrating services to create service-enabled applications tied together for specific business […]

IT administrators and their counterparts in the facilities department traditionally have had little need to work together on issues related to corporate data centers. The IT folks were in charge of the technology brought in, while the facilities were more concerned about not only the data center, but all aspects of a companys operations, from […]

Buoyed by a second quarter that saw gains in server and storage revenue—including more than $100 million in sales of its “Niagara”-based systems—Sun Microsystems is returning to Wall Street Sept. 13 to stake its claim as a top solutions company. In New York, Sun will unveil upgrades to its low-end SPARC systems as well as […]

Fujitsu Computer Systems virtualized infrastructure is now ready to run SAPs SOA applications. The Sunnyvale, Calif., companys FlexFrame for MySAP Business Suite has been certified to support the software makers growing service-oriented architecture initiative, said Pat Hanford, director of alliances at Fujitsu. “Well be able to run any SAP service on any server at any […]

Stratus Technologies is adding to its growing telecommunication capabilities with the $10 million purchase of Emergent Network Solutions. Although the deal closed in August, Stratus is waiting until Sept. 12 at the Fall VON show in Boston to announce the deal. Stratus counts telecom as one of the key verticals it targets, one in which […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—The idea of using DC power distribution throughout the data center as a way of saving on power and cooling costs continues to gain headway. At the Data Center World conference here Sept. 11, an official with EYP Mission Critical Facilities—an engineering firm that includes data centers among its specialties—told more than 100 attendees […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—Despite the rapid rise of power and cooling costs in the data center, the technology industry—vendors and users alike—have fallen down on addressing the issues, according to an official with chip maker Advanced Micro Devices. In his keynote speech at the Data Center World conference here on Sept. 11, Bruce Shaw, vice president of […]

Silicon Graphics is getting rid of the high-end MIPS/Irix hardware that it has been making for almost two decades, but it is throwing a lifeline to those customers who need the systems beyond the end of 2006. In a support notice, SGI said it will discontinue general production of its Origin 3600 and 350 servers […]

Hewlett-Packard is putting the latest Itanium 2 processor into its line of Integrity systems and later this year will expand the capabilities of the virtualization software that runs on the servers. The Palo Alto, Calif., company is refreshing its entire high-end server line with Intels Itanium 2 9000 series and adding two new entry-level servers—the […]