Thursday, July 2, 2009

White Paper Spotlight Avoidable Mistakes that Compromise Cooling Performance in Data Centers and Network Rooms Avoidable mistakes that are routinely made when installing cooling systems and racks in data centers or network rooms compromise availability and increase costs. These unintentional flaws create hot-spots, decrease fault tolerance, decrease efficiency, and reduce cooling capacity.

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Multiple Masters Can Better Serve Next-Generation Designs
To date, most server, embedded and storage systems typically have had a single-master in their hierarchy. One CPU is designated the master and enumerates all the components in the entire system, allocates memory to the end-points and manages most of the transactions -- staying true to its designation of a master.

Three Steps to Energy Sustainability in the Data Center
Growing political, environmental and financial concerns have put the spotlight squarely on data center energy consumption recently. The enormous amount of energy consumed by data centers has gone from being a concern to a potential power crisis. Energy consumption within data centers in the U.S. is doubling every five years.1 By 2010, three percent of all power consumed in the U.S. will be located directly in data centers.2

Technology News (Storage, Hardware, Networking, Software, Systems, Gadgets)
Fujifilm UK deploys DataCore's SANmelody SAN infrastructure
DataCore Software Corp., a provider of storage virtualization, business continuity and disaster recovery software solutions, announced Wednesday that together with DataCore's trained and accredited partner, Vcentral, it has installed SANmelody as the storage area network (SAN) virtual infrastructure at Fujifilm UK.

VirtenSys delivers solution to virtualize servers' DAS, disk drives
VirtenSys Ltd., a provider of PCI Express-based I/O Virtualization (IOV) switches for data centers, announced Wednesday its virtualization of storage controllers and disk drives in servers. With this achievement, VirtenSys consolidates and optimizes the most commonly deployed networking and storage connectivity in servers.

Lenovo launches servers equipped for virtualization, expanded data storage, and green technology
Lenovo recently launched its latest line of servers, the ThinkServer TD200 and TD200x tower servers as well as the RD210 and RD220 rack servers. The new servers offer small- to mid-sized businesses the latest in performance with several choices of Intel Xeon 5500 Series processors and vastly expanded memory and data storage.

Autodesk deploys Silver Peak Systems for WAN acceleration
Silver Peak Systems Inc., a provider of scalable WAN (wide area network) acceleration, announced Monday that Autodesk Inc., a global provider of 2D and 3D design and engineering software, has deployed Silver Peak solutions globally as a strategic platform for WAN acceleration.

Lexar Media announces Crucial TAA compliant memory for desktops, servers, notebooks
Lexar Media Inc., a global provider of memory products for digital media, announced Wednesday the availability of a full line of Crucial memory products that are compliant with the country of origin requirements of the Trade Agreements Act (TAA) of 1979.

SGI debuts x86 servers with on-board quad data rate InfiniBand
SGI introduced its Rackable x86 scale-out servers to support both on-board Quad Data Rate (QDR) 40Gb InfiniBand and 10Gb Ethernet connections.

Gefen debuts DVI-3500 KVM extension solution
Connectivity solutions provider, Gefen Inc. announced Tuesday availability of its new DVI-3500HD. This long-range sender/receiver extension system delivers video in the DVI format with USB (universal serial bus) peripherals, RS-232 control and analog audio up to 6600 feet (2 kilometers) in distance over fiber optic cables. The DVI-3500HD also supports extended resolutions up to 1920x1200.

Micron debuts 34 nm high-density NAND products
Micron Technology Inc. announced Tuesday mass production of new NAND flash memory products using its 34-nanometer (nm) process technology.

Sun unveils VirtualBox 3.0 with server virtualization features
Sun Microsystems Inc. announced Tuesday a new version of Sun VirtualBox, its high performance, cross-platform virtualization software. VirtualBox 3.0 is capable of creating and running multi-processor virtual machines that can handle heavyweight server-class workloads, and also delivers enhanced graphics support for desktop-class workloads.

Dell adds Vostro 1220 to its ultra-portable Vostro laptop lineup
Dell Inc. announced Tuesday the latest addition to its expanding line of Vostro laptops, the 12.1-inch Vostro 1220. This ultra-portable laptop has been designed for business travelers who are unwilling to compromise performance, battery life and security for a thin and lightweight design.

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