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Virtualization remains a hot topic with lots of the people we talk to. The opportunity to save money by improving utilization levels, to consolidate applications onto fewer servers and to provide a more agile and responsive IT service remain compelling drivers.
Plenty of challenges remain. Network World recently reported…
Are we seeing the slow death of the operating system?
Tideway has historically delivered its product as an appliance – that is, an integrated hardware and software solution – with the goal of making the product quick to deploy and reducing the pain associated with supporting our software on a…
I went to CloudCamp last night. For those who don’t know, CloudCamp is a series of UnConferences about Cloud Computing (as opposed to a conference about camping in places with inclement weather). You can find more information here.
This CloudCamp was the third to take place in London. The…
TKU (Tideway Knowledge Update) has recently been enhanced with the addition of hardware reference data. HRD, as we tend to call it, contains a wealth of information about common servers (you can read more about it here) and allows Tideway Foundation to provide a whole new set of useful dashboards and reports out of the box that highlight things like the biggest power consumers in the data centre, or servers which are peculiarly large for the compute power they provide.
For customers looking for candidate servers to decommission, this is great information to have.
This week’s Economist (October 23rd 2008) contains a special report on “Corporate IT”. A section of this talks about data centre and contains some great statistics. One of the more surprising statistics to many readers may be the statement that “nearly 30% [of servers] are no longer in use at all, but no one has bothered to remove them.”
How on earth could that happen?
Nick Carr’s blog recently reported on the current trend to package servers in shipping containers.
In this case, Microsoft plan to put 220 (wow!) shipping containers into the first floor of a new data centre. The past reports I have seen on using shipping containers as a means…
As we all know, the cost of servers has fallen dramatically over the last few years.
Simple economics tells us that when prices fall, demand rises. Sure enough, data centres around the world are now running out of space, power, cooling or all three. If you can cope with the…
Earlier this year, I worked with some of our customers on the DST (daylight savings time) problem. In case you are lucky enough not to have heard about the DST issue, here’s a quick explanation: The US has brought forward the start of DST to the second Sunday of March…
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