Data Center | Blog Post | Julius Neudorfer Wednesday, November 9, 2011
While NASA won’t be launching anymore rockets for a while, HP seems to be stepping in with a Project Moonshot of its own. In a nod to the history of NASA’s original space race to the moon, it has even named the first "launch" platform "Redstone," like the original rocket that America’s first astronaut, Alan Shepard, rode into space. Continue Reading »
Networking | Blog Post | Mike Vizard Monday, October 24, 2011
Network vendors are in a partisan battle over the future of Ethernet switching technology in the enterprise. About the only thing the two sides do agree on is that the existing spanning tree algorithm used in most switches today is not up to meeting the demands of thousands of virtual servers on the network. Continue Reading »
Data Center | Blog Post | Mike Vizard Wednesday, August 3, 2011
One of the fundamental issues with distributed computing has been that in order to scale any application, it generally requires the addition of another server. But deploying that server obviously takes a fair amount of time to provision, which tends to make distributed computing a little cumbersome. Continue Reading »
Data Center | Blog Post | Julius Neudorfer Friday, June 10, 2011
The World’s Most Efficient Data Center was just announced in Las Vegas, the betting capital of the world, at the HP Discover 2011 conference. In the ongoing PUE wars, HP is betting that it has won the challenge, with its EcoPOD. Continue Reading »
Data Center | Blog Post | Mike Vizard Thursday, June 2, 2011
Fortunately for most, IT organizations don’t go about building a new data center every day, which is a good thing because not many have the core competency required to do so. Continue Reading »
