Stealthy startup SeaMicro isn’t saying much about its technology, which aims to “revolutionize the data center landscape” by slashing the power used in IT operations. The company recently got a $9.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to…
Building a data center cost model is an important step in managing your data center capital costs and ongoing operational costs. A data center cost model lets you understand how incremental growth impacts costs. A data center cost model allows…
Will a server consolidation project that cuts total servers by 50% through virtualization cut operating costs by that much? Not even close. That’s just one of the data center energy efficiency tips that hit the cutting room floor as my…
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…
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…
