Going green at the U.S. Open
Last year, when more than 7.3 million unique users visited the USOpen.org Web site managed by IBM during the 2007 U.S. Open, server virtualization was a critical component behind the vendor's ability to scale computing capacity as needed. For the 2008 tournament, which kicked off Aug. 25, "green IT" has taken center court.
Nexus 7000 aims for data center dominance
Building a big data center and looking for a switch to match? How do 256 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports and nearly 1.7 terabits of capacity sound? That's what Cisco is offering with its brand new Nexus 7000 Series data center switches.
Oracle looks to Utah for green data center
Oracle will consolidate computing facilities from its many acquisitions in a remotely managed data center near Salt Lake City, partly to cut its second-largest data center cost: energy.
Is Google your next data center?
Jonathan Snyder's five-person team at Dreambuilder Investments LLC isn't your typical IT organization. Or is it? The New York-based company, which buys and sells defaulted residential mortgages, uses Salesforce.com Inc.'s Force.com as its financial services platform. It backs up data using EMC Corp.'s hosted MozyPro service. Dreambuilder's server is hosted by RackForce Networks Inc. in Canada, and its e-mail is handled by Apptix Inc., a hosted exchange in Herndon, Va.
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VMware ESX Server in the Enterprise
By Edward L. Haletky
Published Dec 29, 2007 by Prentice Hall.
Enter now! | Official rules | Sample chapter
Green IT
By Toby Velte, Anthony Velte, Robert C. Elsenpeter
To be published Oct. 10, 2008 by McGraw Hill Professional
Enter now! | Official rules | About the book
