How Your Data Center Can Beat Rising Energy Prices [11/13/2008]Greening your data center won't necessarily reduce your electricity bill, but it will save you money. Lots of money. Here's what you should be doing right now.
Social Networking Comes to the Data Center [11/05/2008]Think Facebook is all fun and games? Find out ways to turn a distraction into significant value-add for your enterprise.
Wrangling Virtual Machine Sprawl [09/30/2008]Virtually Speaking: Virtual machines are a big drain on storage resources, but with careful planning, you can control them.
Google, VMware Offer New Twist on OS Battlegrounds [09/25/2008]OS Roundup: Are Chrome and Virtual Datacenter OS putting a new spin on a long-standing model (and sticking it to Microsoft), or they the start of its dissolution?
Virtualization Comes to Storage [09/23/2008]Storage vendors may not have been front and center at VMworld, but their presence was strong and not coincidental.
Whatever Happened to ... Lotus Notes [09/23/2008]For Lotus Domino and Lotus Notes, longevity is both a blessing and a curse. To grow its base, Notes must move away from its legacy rep. Its aim: to replace corporate stodginess and become a hipper, full-fledged server-based application platform.
It's the Economy, Stupid [09/19/2008]VMware's strategy may be sound, but its ultimate success will be reliant on forces beyond its control.
Linux and the Enterprise Desktop, Revisited [09/17/2008]Operating System Roundup: It's getting increasingly harder to blame Microsoft for Linux's lack of success with the desktop market. Can the culprit be Linux itself?
Build a Solid Virtual Foundation [09/16/2008]Virtually Speaking: Good hardware is a fundamental component of an effective virtualization deployment. Quantifying ROI and other benefits is often critical to getting the hardware.
NetIQ Survey Reveals Virtual Reality [08/26/2008]Virtually Speaking: Virtual environments are growing wide but not deep. It's time to start wrangling the virtual sprawl.
Ubuntu, the User Friendly Linux Distro? [08/26/2008]What does it mean to be user friendly, and does emphasizing user friendliness mean ignoring other, equally important, values?
Keeping Cool in the Server Room [08/12/2008]As more processing power gets crammed into the same amount of real estate, it is becoming increasingly challenging to get rid of excess heat. The latest solution -- water.
The Switch Is On [08/07/2008]Hard-Core Hardware: Switch Communications' SuperNAP colo facility may be an indication that the internal data center could become an endangered specie within the next 10 years.
Virtual Panacea Found in Application Streaming [08/07/2008]For all its benefits, to some degree virtualization is a victim of its own success. Application streaming is one way to mitigate the side effects of increased density and added costs.
OS Roundup: The View Beyond Vista [08/06/2008]Has Microsoft written off Vista? The 18-month-old desktop OS has yet to gain significant traction, and rumblings of the next generation are starting to be heard.
Microsoft to Feather Nest With Apache [08/05/2008]Microsoft appears to be burying the tomahawk and buying in to Apache. Bruce Perens weighs in on whether to trust this peace offering.
Are You Being Paid Enough? [08/01/2008]The 2008 IT Salary Guide lists salaries for many tech positions in the United States, broken down by both specialty and region.
All Eyes on the Internal Environment [07/28/2008]The environment in your server room is nearly as important as the equipment itself. Find out which products are best for getting better acquainted.
Hard-Core Hardware: Green Is the New Black [07/24/2008]There's no denying green computing is a hot topic among IT vendors. As the IT messaging chorus grows louder, however, the soundtrack rings hollow and smacks of political correctness. Is green gear really about saving the planet afterall?
Virtually Speaking: Bye-Bye Operating System? [07/22/2008]While VMware makes sweeping proclamations that Windows is finished, some wonder if the hypervisor will universally displace the operating system. Will end users even notice?
OS Roundup: Looking Beyond Unix [07/16/2008]Unix, as an OS for consumers and artsy types? Linux, standard fare in the enterprise? Microsoft, moving beyond selling proprietary, packaged software? The times, indeed, are a-changing, and Enterprise Unix Roundup is changing, too.
Will Shakeup at VMware Lead to Shakeout? [07/11/2008]It didn't take long for theories about Diane Greene's departure to begin circulating. Was the culprit bad blood or simple strategy? As a former Microsoft exec takes the helm, CEO speculations continue, this time about the company's future.
Hard-Core Hardware: Hard Drive, RIP [07/10/2008]Our newest column kicks off with a discussion of why you should get ready for solid state server drives.
Virtually Speaking: All About Green [07/08/2008]How much of virtualization's success boils down to cost savings vs. softer benefits? Plus, Greene is out at VMware.
'Cheap' Storage Still Costly [07/03/2008]Worldwide enterprise storage costs are predicted to spike to more than $2 billion by 2009, according to IDC. Part of the reason: storage infrastructure.
Ready, Aim .... Fire Up the Gaming Server [07/01/2008]Setting up a gaming server is generally a piece of cake for most techies. The skills required transfer easily from the data center to home.
Windows Server 2008: Much Talk, Little Action [06/23/2008]Despite a host of new features and glowing press, Windows Server 2008 has yet to take the enterprise by storm. Has the bleeding edge hemorrhaged?
Dusting Off the Best Virtualization Program [06/20/2008]Sun's VirtualBox is a a solid, open source performer that is starting to turn lots of heads. Here's how to get it up and running.
Virtually Speaking: The Desktop, Revisited [06/17/2008]The virtual desktop is becoming hot, hot, hot. Will semantics or strategy separate it from similar technologies of yore?
Uncovering the Best Virtualization Program [06/13/2008]VMware has been around forever; Xen benefited from a lot of hype. Don't limit yourself to these. Consider VirtualBox, a solid, open source performer from Sun that is starting to turn lots of heads.
Linux File Systems, Revisited [06/05/2008]Contrary to popular opinion, Linux file systems will require changes to handle the 100TB environments that will become commonplace in the not-too-distant future.
10 Server Room Must-Haves [06/03/2008]The ServerWatch Product Excellence Awards results are in. Find out what this year's choices are for favorite gear and tools.
Mitigate Storage Media Lifecycle Risks [05/30/2008]Tape may not be glamorous, but it remains a key component of many storage infrastructures and accounts for a significant amount of IT spending. The medium itself carries several inherent risks when it comes to both buying and disposing.
Enterprise Unix Roundup: Disruption in the OS Market? Hardly [05/28/2008]A new report from Gartner on the operating system market promises to reveal big changes in that sector in coming years. Except it looks like the roadmap we've predicted all along.
News Apache Maven Goes Commercial [November 12, 2008]
The widely deployed, open source Java project management project has mapped out a plan to become a viable open source company.
Tutorials Internals of SQL Cluster Setup and Troubleshooting Tips [November 11, 2008]
Setting up SQL Cluster Setup is simple. After that it gets dicey. This article steps through SQL server setup functions, configuring a second node to be cluster-aware, and the all-registry entries and their significance created during the setup.
Reviews Zimbra Collaboration Server, Keeping the Discussion Going [October 7, 2008]
It's been more than a year since Yahoo! bought the open source mail server company Zimbra, and people are still talking about the technology. We put the most recent version through the paces.
