Rackspace reports that its cloud computing service is “degraded,” with many customers reporting their sites are unreachable. The company attributed the problem to an unusual load spike in the storage system supporting its cloud platform. The outage came several hours…
Cloud computing is a relatively new data storage and processing concept that has all the top tech companies competing for cloud domination. Imagine the ability to access your files from any computer at any place on earth, coupled with the…
Thu, January 21, 2010 — Computerworld — Industrial Light & Magic has been replacing its servers with the hottest new IBM (IBM) BladeCenters — literally, the hottest. For every new rack ILM brings in, it cuts overall power use in…
We’ve been talking about “aligning IT with the business” since SOA first took legs but you rarely see concrete examples of what that really means. It sounds much more grand and lofty than it really is. To put it in…
As data centers get warmer, the environment gets less forgiving. That lesson was learned the hard way at the University of Pennsylvania, which on Tuesday had to shut off the IT systems supporting the school’s financial, research and student services.…
