Network World on ServersThe latest server news, analysis, reviews and feature articles from NetworkWorld.comRackable Systems unveils high-density servers- June 23, 2008 Rackable Systems announced new rack-mount servers on Monday that aim to provide more processing power while reducing power consumption and taking up less space.http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/062308-rackable-systems-unveils-high-density.html Arm to duel with Intel in the server space- June 19, 2008 Arm wants to challenge Intel's server market dominance by plugging its multicore chip designs into servers, but the company faces an uphill battle, including the market's preference for x86 architecture and the lack of software infrastructure to support Arm's chips, analysts said.http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/061908-arm-to-duel-with-intel.html Looking back on the Top500- June 18, 2008 The Top500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers passed a milestone Wednesday with the first system to achieve peak performance of 1 petaflops, or one quadrillion floating point operations per second.http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/061808-looking-back-on-the.html Telligent server spurs collaboration- June 11, 2008 There's little argument that Telligent's Community Server can stand up to the rigors of hosting public-facing communities. This product is the force behind some of the biggest and most visible blogs on the Net, including MySpace, the National Football League, and National Geographic. An equal number of clients -- the likes of Dell, GlaxoSmithKline, and Ernst & Young -- use this platform for business-to-business and business-to-consumer communities.http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/061108-telligent-server-spurs.html Where to put your next data center- June 9, 2008 If data center location was paramount to Rodney McPearson, a data center project manager at Cimarex Energy Co., he wouldn't have two of his five data centers in the hurricane-prone locales of New Orleans and Houston and a third in the tornado hot spot of Tulsa, Okla. But geographic diversity is a big deal to McPearson, so instead of consolidating to a single facility in a safe location, his company decided it was better off keeping its servers spread out.http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/060908-where-to-put-your-next.html How to build your next data center- June 9, 2008 Today's data centers pack more processing power into smaller physical spaces than ever before. But too much of a good thing creates new challenges for next-generation data center design.http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/060908-how-to-build-your-next.html How to pay for your next data center- June 9, 2008 The first step in building a data center is learning to deal with sticker shock. New data center space costs at least US$1,500 per square foot to start, according to IDC. That means IT managers will first be asked this ROI question: Are you getting all that you can out of the data center space that you havehttp://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/060908-how-to-pay-for-your.html How to move your next data center- June 9, 2008 An IT guy walks into a bar ...http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/060908-how-to-move-your-next.html How to staff your next data center- June 9, 2008 Thanks to technology, it doesn't take a whole lot of people to run a data center. With new remote-management and automation capabilities, you need fewer data center staffers. For instance, Microsoft Corp. will staff its 500,000-square-foot Chicago data center with only 35 people. Read more about Microsoft's new data center.http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/060908-how-to-staff-your-next.html Sun aims to flood servers with solid-state drives- June 4, 2008 In a bid to remove hard drives from servers, Sun on Tuesday announced that it will offer solid-state drives (SSDs) later this year as a replacement for spinning disk drives.http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/060408-sun-aims-to-flood-servers.html |