Data Center Management

Novell Puts Platespin Data Center Management Front and Center — Novell claims to be the first and only vendor to provide complete data center management of the entire workload lifecycle, across multiple operating systems, multiple hypervisors, physical and virtual environments. - LAS VEGAS--Novell on Dec. 3 will introduce four new data workload management software packages emanating from its $205 million acquisition of Platespin eight months ago. Novell claims to be the first and only vendor to provide complete data center management of the entire workload lifecycle, acro...... [Tags: acquisition, data center management, eight months, las vegas, lifecycle]

Sun Upgrades Its HPC Clustered Storage Packages — At the Supercomputing conference in Austin, Texas, Sun unveils products for the high-performance computing market. Sun is showing preconfigured clustered storage and computing hardware-software packages and data center management software designed specifically for HPC systems like those at well-known labs such as Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. - One of the mainstays of Sun Microsystems' business over the 26 years of its existence has been high-performance computing. On Nov. 18, at the Supercomputing conference in Austin, Texas, Sun unveiled a list of new products aimed squarely at that market. Sun introduced new preconfigured... [Tags: alamos national laboratory, austin texas, center management software, data center management, existence]

CA Officially Moves into the SAAS World — CA expands its word-of-mouth software-as-a-service offerings with current and planned packages that range across its enterprise IT management and governance portfolios. CA has been developing hosted versions of some of its server-based data management products for about four years. - It might seem on the surface to be a little late in the game, but data center management software maker CA is now officially in the on-demand software service business. In actuality, CA has been developing hosted versions of some of its server-based data management products for about four yea...... [Tags: actuality, center management software, data center management, data management, demand software]

Woven to introduce datacenter switch, management tools — Woven Systems this week is expected to unveil a compact datacenter fabric switch and management system designed to let users incrementally upgrade networks to 10 Gigabit Ethernet with increasing insight and control.Woven's 1RU EFX 500 switch sports 24 10Gbps Ethernet ports intended to let users grow their datacenter network cores from small server and storage clusters to thousands of external 10G Ethernet devices. The Woven Fabric Manager software offers resource provisioning, real-time visualization, reporting, and analysis for Woven's entire datacenter switching product line.[ Keep up on the latest networking news with our Networking Report newsletter. And discover the top-rated IT... [Tags: 10 gigabit, active market, availability features, band management, center customers]

SAP mulling future of hosting business — As it prepares to launch its long-awaited Business ByDesign on-demand ERP product, SAP is mulling over the future of its hosting division. Options under consideration include a sale, partnership, or a move to integrate the unit's services staff back into the parent corporation.The company's main competencies lie in software services and support, not data-center management, SAP spokesman Christoph Liedtke said Tuesday.Liedtke stressed that SAP has not yet made any decision regarding the hosting business.Meanwhile, SAP is getting ready to launch Business ByDesign on a broader basis.The company previously scaled back roll-out plans for the service, choosing instead to initially focus... [Tags: bill mcdermott, business collaboration, bydesign, china, data center management]

Novell Gets CMDB Through Acquisition of Managed Objects — The key technology Novell is picking up is a CMDB (configuration management database), which is becoming a trendy item for IT companies to have in their tool chests because it brings order and control to rapidly changing data center environments. They are not cheap, but they have long-range ROI benefits. - Novell added a major piece to its data center management software portfolio Oct. 15 when it acquired privately held Managed Objects. Terms of the deal were not made available. Managed Objects, which has been in business in the Washington, D.C. area since 1997, makes business service management so...... [Tags: acquisition, business service, center management software, cmdb configuration management, configuration management database]

H-P Software’s New Name — Was this H-P’s naming consultant? For those of you worried that Hewlett-Packard is short on solutions, the company this week moved to assuage those concerns. On Thursday, the tech giant — which is in the process of laying off more than 24,000 workers as it integrates services company Electronic Data Systems Inc. — informed employees that it would also be reorganizing its software division and renaming it H-P Software and Solutions. While the name change is jargony (this blog has long lamented the word “solution,” especially the “end-to-end solution,” as meaningless tech gobbledygook), H-P’s software restructuring does have a... [Tags: business customers, business intelligence software, business software sales, communication software, data center management]

VMware Virtualization Offering More Than Just Virtualization for the Cloud: CEO Paul Maritz — VMware CEO and President Paul Maritz said in an interview that VMwares concept of the future of virtualization is more than just offering a way to build a cloud computing infrastructure. Instead, VMwares Virtual Datacenter OS will provide a new and more flexible way for enterprise to build and manage their data centers. In the interview, Maritz also talked about VMwares challenge from Microsoft and its relationship with EMC. - LAS VEGAS – For VMware CEO and President Paul Maritz, the future of virtualization and his companys upcoming data center management platform – Virtual DataCenter OS – is more than... [Tags: ceo, data center management, emc, engin, infrastructure]

Managing Large Web Server Farms: Microsoft's AutoPilot — Whenever you read stories about how Web companies like Facebook have 10,000 servers including 1800 database servers or that Google has one million servers, do you ever wonder how the system administrators that manage these services deal with deployment, patching, failure detection and system repair without going crazy? This post is the first in a series of posts that examines some of the technologies that successful Web companies use to manage large Web server farms. Last year, Michael Isard of Microsoft Research wrote a paper entitled Autopilot: Automatic Data Center Management which describes the technology that Windows Live and... [Tags: applications services, autopilot, data center management, database servers, deployment system]

Sun close to releasing xVM Server hypervisor — Sun has begun an early access program for its xVM Server hypervisor, a key component of its nascent virtualization product line, and intends to make a publicly downloadable version available within about a month, according to a blog post Thursday by Steve Wilson, vice president of xVM at Sun.Hypervisors allow users to run multiple operating systems on a single machine, providing benefits such as server consolidation. xVM Server supports Sun and non-Sun x86-x64 hardware, along with the Windows, Linux, and Solaris OSes. It represents the fourth and final of the initial products in Sun's virtualization suite, joining the already released... [Tags: datacenter management, enterprise class, government markets, graphical user interface, infoworld]

HP, Intel, Yahoo Team for Cloud Computing Research — HP, Intel and Yahoo will develop several test facilities for cloud computing infrastructure research and develop software, data center management and hardware in a large-scale cloud environment. The HP, Intel and Yahoo partnership joins other big names, including Google, IBM and VMware, which are pushing to expand cloud computing. - Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Yahoo have entered into a pact to create new research and development centers that will test the limits of cloud computing. The three IT giants announced plans July 29 to create what they are calling Cloud Computing Test Beds that will allow enterprises, universities...... [Tags: computing research, data center management, giants, google, hewlett packard]

Yahoo, Intel, and HP form cloud computing labs — Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and Yahoo are partnering for cloud computing research and education in order to advance the development and adoption of large-scale, data-intensive Internet-hosted applications and related IT infrastructure.By banding together, the trio of computer industry titans hopes to foster collaboration among vendors, universities, and government agencies around cloud computing, whose progress is hampered by "financial and logistical barriers," the companies said Tuesday.[ Read the related story Microsoft's cloud forms, and also learn more about what cloud computing really means and the new breed of utility computing and platform-as-a-service offerings. ]Intel, Yahoo and HP are forming the Cloud Computing Test Bed,... [Tags: apache software foundation, computing partners, computing software, data center management, data infrastructure]

HP, Yahoo, Intel Launch Cloud Computing Test Bed — The mystery announcemnet we mentioned yesterday was just released - Yahoo, Hewlett Packard and Intel are jointly announcing a new cloud computing research initiative called the Cloud Computing Test Bed. It’s being described as “a globally distributed, Internet-scale testing environment designed to encourage research on the software, data center management and hardware issues associated with cloud computing at a larger scale than ever before.” Other partners include partnered with the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) (which is distinct from the MDA, I believe, which is unfortunate), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)... [Tags: apache software foundation, computing project, computing research, computing software, data center management]

HP, Intel and Yahoo create cloud computing research centers — Hewlett Packard, Intel and Yahoo today announced a cloud computing research project to promote the growth of use of computing using centralized servers in the Internet “cloud.” The companies will create big data centers that researchers can tap for Internet-wide research. The initiative will promote collaboration among industry, academia and government by removing the financial and logistical barriers to research in data-intensive, large scale computing. Researchers can use the Internet-wide testing environment to explore cloud-computing software, data center management and hardware needs. While everyone will benefit from the test bed, the research will clearly pit Intel, HP and Yahoo against... [Tags: centralized servers, computing research, computing software, data center management, google]