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  • IBM's new mainframe, the zEnterprise 196, is a leviathan

    Every new IBM mainframe says something about the times we live in, and today's latest mainframe release is no different. The zEnterprise system, as it is now called, has become a cross-platform management system, a sovereign of other systems.

    Written by Patrick Thibodeau22 July 10 22:09
  • Amazon and IBM are the 'cloud champions,' report says

    Amazon and IBM are the "cloud champions" according to a new report, but Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Red Hat and VMware are also among the list of heavyweights in the emerging cloud computing field.

    Written by Jon Brodkin16 July 10 05:47
  • VMware co-founder tackles virtualization at Cisco

    The five visionary tech executives who created VMware and launched the x86 virtualization market have kept low public profiles in recent years, with four leaving VMware as the company gets remade by owner EMC.

    Written by Jon Brodkin29 June 10 09:24
  • Amazon EC2 creator launches private cloud start-up

    The "private cloud" is a popular phrase in IT these days, but often a meaningless one, with tech vendors slapping the label on any old product that happens to make an existing IT function slightly more efficient.

    Written by Jon Brodkin24 June 10 01:33
  • Brocade, HP unveil data center extensions

    Brocade this week unveiled data center products available from OEM HP that are designed to support next-generation Fibre Channel rollouts anchored to optimizing application performance and scaling virtual machines.

    Written by Jim Duffy24 June 10 02:39
  • Another Data Center Headache: Log Data Exploding

    Following the March, 2004, bombings in Madrid, Spain, law enforcement searching for leads on those responsible for the attacks focused on the cell phones used by the terrorists and requested that European telecommunications providers turn over their call data. The only problem: It took the companies weeks to find the relevant data.

    Written by Robert Lemos30 April 09 09:11
  • When the FBI Raids a Data Center: A Rare Danger

    As part of coordinated raids in early April, FBI agents seized computers from a data center at 2323 Bryan Street in Dallas, Texas, attempting to gather evidence in an ongoing investigation of two men and their various companies accused of defrauding AT&T and Verizon for more than US$6 million.

    Written by Robert Lemos23 April 09 09:39
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