Blog Title: Bladewatch

Bladewatch blog, technology news, commentary and general scripts/guides for deploying and supporting blades.

Patching the operating system remains key

Apple Insider For the second time in as many weeks, Apple has handed developers a new pre-release build of an upcoming maintenance and security release for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and asked that they spend the weekend testing the software. Mac OS X 10.5.5 build 9F9 comes exactly one week after the Mac maker began widespread read more..

Microsoft to help customers get virtual now

Microsoft and Press release REDMOND, Wash. ? Aug. 19, 2008 ? New licensing, expanded product support policies and a worldwide series of events from Microsoft Corp. help business customers create more dynamic datacenters and enterprise IT systems with virtualization software. Beginning Sept. 1, 2008, customers will be able to move any of 41 Microsoft server applications read more..

Dell gets carbon neutral

Greenbiz ROUND ROCK, Texas — Dell’s three-tiered plan to neutralize its carbon footprint has reached its goal five months early and saved the company $3 million, Dell said Wednesday. “It’s a piece of our overall strategy and one we’re pretty excited about,” Dane Parker, Dell’s director of environmental, health and safety, told GreenBiz.com. The company announced last year read more..

HP Blades and VMWare enable business functionality

Management Consultancy Online fashion business Asos has opted for server virtualisation to keep down the cost of a major IT upgrade to improve site functionality and availability. Asos has purchased 10 HP blade servers and VMware software, but said that without virtualisation the total bill would have been ?substantially more?. The hardware spend on standalone servers alone read more..

iomart brings new data center online

24-7 24-7PressRelease/ - GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, August 07, 2008 - The purpose-built data centre facility, was purchased by iomart last year, and following an 8 month upgrade and commissioning programme, is now open for business. iomart’s new facility offers approximately 410 square metres of fully resilient and highly secure data centre space. Recognising that power and environmental impact read more..

Virtualization talk continues

ITBusinessEdge You can always tell when a technology is about to go mainstream; the cutting edge starts to blur the lines with competing or related technologies. PCs become multimedia devices. Cell phones become ? well, you name it. The same seems to be happening with the highly praised virtual desktop. While it was once viewed as virtualization?s read more..

Achieving the performance you need is possible

CNN – Today, Oracle announced that Oracle WebLogic Server, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, together with Oracle Database 11g running on an HP ProLiant server, set a world record single-node result with the SPECjAppServer2004 industry standard benchmark.(1) – Oracle WebLogic Server 10g Release 3 with Oracle Database 11g, achieved 3,339.94 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard (jAppServer Operations Per Second). read more..

Trinity Mirror Group gets blades!

Computer Weekly Publisher Trinity Mirror group has migrated to blade servers following the upgrade of its publishing infrastructure for three newspapers. The company has just replaced the publishing system for the Daily Mirror, the Sunday Mirror and the Sunday People, which has now migrated to HP blade servers from Sun V880s. “We were putting too big a demand read more..

AT&T joins The Green Grid

Earth Times AT&T Joins Green Grid to Promote Data Center Energy Efficiency Company Also Assisting U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Developing ENERGY STAR Rating for Data Centers DALLAS, July 30 DALLAS, July 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) today announced its affiliate AT&T Services Inc. has joined The Green Grid, the global consortium dedicated to advancing energy read more..

Telecity brings new data center online

SourceWire New facility will provide growth capacity in one of Western Europe?s fastest growing network independent data centre markets. London, 30 July 2008: Telecity Group plc (’TelecityGroup’ or the ‘Group’), the leading pan-European operator of network independent data centres, today announces that it will open a second data centre in Milan. Ongoing customer demand and overall utilisation read more..