Denver provider Fortrust has added a suite of managed services to its data center services portfolio, allowing customers to outsource the management, monitoring and maintenance of their applications and information systems. Fortrust Managed Services are... Data Center Knowledge »
A diversion for a summer Friday: With some of the largest data centers being built in Iowa and Nebraska, Chris Kluge put together this video, titled "Down On The Server Farm," which he calls "a work song for the 21st century." It runs about 2 minutes, 30... (posted on 25 Jul 2008 by Data Center Knowledge)
The IBM POWER Model 520 9407-M15 or in short the M15 is a one core, 4.2 Ghz POWER6 server. It’s the successor of several System p systems (which i know nothing about), and of the System i Model 515 (9407-515). As such, it targets small... (posted on 25 Jul 2008 by Lukas Beeler's IT Blog)
The Massachusetts House of Representatives has approved $78 million for a state data center in Springfield, Mass. after a bitter debate over the location of the facility. The House voted 150-0 Thursday night to approve a $3 billion bond bill that... (posted on 25 Jul 2008 by Data Center Knowledge)
Catching up: Earlier this week Brocade Communications Systems (BRCD) announced plans to acquire Foundry Networks for $3 billion. This deal figures to be significant in the evolving battle for market share and mindshare in converged data center networks.... (posted on 24 Jul 2008 by Data Center Knowledge)
Here is a very fun web conference on logs and logging by ISC(2); all sections are interesting, here is what mine is about:"There are many other mechanisms of accountability in an organization, but logs are the one that pervades all IT. And if your IT is... (posted on 24 Jul 2008 by Anton Chuvakin on Security)
Brian “Krow” Aker chatted with Rackspace’s CTO a few months ago about memcached and Gearman.  Memcached is a distributed memory caching system that many large social networks use to handle all of their constant traffic.  Gearman is when a server calls... (posted on 24 Jul 2008 by Pulse 2)

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