Servers & Data Center

Need help sorting through the hype of cloud computing? Here's some IDC research on the benefits, barriers -- and what customers really want.

This developer pilot fish and his team talk with his company's telecom group about building a defense against network attacks -- a very active defense.

In Thursday's IT Blogwatch, we watch Steve Ballmer make up an unannounced product name on the spot -- because he wants us to love him? Not to mention how obituaries are written in Wyoming...

I'm late following up on my previous X4150 thoughts - I can blame conferences for that at least - but I shouldn't shirk my responsibilities.

It is very difficult, from a buyers perspective, to decide what that sweet spot is in terms of buying hardware. The current computer market, and more importantly the current computer climate, has completely changed the way that we look at buying computers.

This pilot fish sets up an efficient, effective system for backing up and verifying data, complete with redundancy for vital systems and periodic testing. His reward? He gets the boot.

This is really easy folks. You can pay Microsoft and other proprietary companies for your software, or you can go open source.

I seem to have been doing more conferences and meetings than anything else this year, and it's always fascinating to keep an ear out for what the latest buzz word.

Right now, it is cloud computing, but it is remarkable just how many people are using for a huge range of topics that may, or may not, be what others consider to be cloud computing.

Pilot fish has the on-call pager for the weekend, but he wants to spend some time with a friend having some problems, so he arranges for a co-worker to cover for him -- with less-than-perfect results.

I really hate the expression "both and". I was in a meeting once and asked, so what do you think is better for your company, Option A or Option B? And someone piped up and said, "both and" in a smug tone - I nearly jumped across the table. See, the question was about picking one or the other. There is rarely a "both and" answer, especially in technology, at least not in the real world of technology.

When it comes to high-performance computing, it's Linux in the lead and Microsoft scrambling to catch-up.

Getting business leaders and end users to share virtualized server capacity is a bit like convincing a group of people to share the same can of Coke.

It makes sense to relocate virtual storage structures (e.g. data, applications, VMs) and to occasionally move virtual applications as a best practice to keep centralized data centers as up to date as possible.

In today's podcast: SanDisk rejects Samsung acquisition bid; DHS not up to cybersecurity job; and VMware CEO says server OS is dead.

It's mid-February, and the server that contains all the year-end processing data and reports for this company goes down -- irretrievably.

In Wednesday's IT Blogwatch, we're wowed by the thought of a 786 gigaflops supercomputer sitting on a desktop. Not to mention proof you can buy anything online...

Sharon Gaudin reports: