Data Center

Fri, November 06, 2009 - A data center start-up is exiting stealth mode with technology that reduces power and cooling costs by analyzing the energy consumption of IT equipment and applications.

Thu, November 05, 2009 - If the size of your Google cloud is starting to look like Act IV of A Perfect Storm, you'll probably be interested in the company's latest feature, Google Dashboard--a one-stop shopping overview of all your Google cloud services, with links to preferences and privacy settings for each. (The Dashboard link is somewhat buried on your account settings page, so you might want to bookmark google.com/dashboard.)

Wed, November 04, 2009 - The private cloud packages developed by Cisco and EMC could integrate with existing internal clouds.

Wed, November 04, 2009 - Companies need to explore a multitude of related cloud expenses to ensure that costs don't ultimately outweigh the technology's benefits. Chris Curran shares some key questions regarding architecture, process and flexibility.

Wed, November 04, 2009 - Cisco Systems, EMC and VMware hope to soon sign the first Asian customers for their cloud-computing partnership and Acadia joint venture.

Tue, November 03, 2009 - Cisco, EMC and VMware today joined forces to sell products as a private cloud offering to enterprises. Called the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition, the announcement was called "unprecedented," something destined to lead to "greater IT infrastructure flexibility."

Tue, November 03, 2009 - Rackspace suffered another data center failure Tuesday that caused outages for its cloud computing customers, the third such incident since late June.

Tue, November 03, 2009 - Cisco and EMC this week unveiled their anticipated collaboration, which will provide integrated products and services for customers building private cloud computing infrastructures.

Mon, November 02, 2009 - Cost savings generated by replacing U.S. workers with IT persons from India was cited as a benefit of private cloud computing Monday afternoon by a Unisys official at a technical conference.

Mon, November 02, 2009 - Event management vendor ArcSight will soon start selling a new version of its product, designed to mine unstructured computer logfiles for signs of hacking or illegal activity.