Freebie console for freebie hypervisor
Server virtualization juggernaut VMware kicks off its VMworld fest in San Francisco today by rounding out its vCenter management tools for the new vSphere 4.0 stack, which wraps around the new ESX Server 4.0 hypervisor.…

Freebie console for freebie hypervisor
Server virtualization juggernaut VMware kicks off its VMworld fest in San Francisco today by rounding out its vCenter management tools for the new vSphere 4.0 stack, which wraps around the new ESX Server 4.0 hypervisor.…

Cool for school, not work?
Netbooks might be gaining popularity among consumers and college kids, but small and medium businesses (SMBs) are proving immune to their charms.…

The chips are up
Sometimes, the good news is that things are getting less bad. So it seems to be with the semiconductor industry. According to a report from the Semiconductor Manufacturing Association today, worldwide chip sales hit $18.2bn in July, up 5.3 per cent sequentially from the $17.2bn level set in June.…

Second-generation product
Iomega has introduced an updated desktop NAS box, a kind of pre-loaded Drobo, with added iSCSI block storage access.…

Second-generation product
Iomega has introduced an updated desktop NAS box, a kind of pre-loaded Drobo, with added iSCSI block storage access.…

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

What? You didn’t think we’d notice?
If the impending acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle was meant to be reassuring to Sun’s customers and to stabilize its sales, that sure didn’t work. Not with revenues down 30.6 per cent to $2.62bn and the company posting a $147m net loss in the fiscal fourth quarter ended in June.…

Frozen assets a waste of cash
Intel wants you to know that data centers are wasting energy – and money – by over-cooling their servers, burdened by warranties that may prevent them from aggressively raising their temperature.…

Hadoop for the future
Cloudera – the star-studded Silicon Valley startup that commercialized the epic number crunching of the open source Hadoop project – is now offering a version of its stuffed elephant distro for use on VMWare’s imminent vCloud.…

No new server chips until 2010
AMD is today expected to complete its rollout of the six-core Istanbul series of Opteron processors with the final chip in the family: a low-voltage part for two-socket servers.…