IBM toes the green line with energy-efficient modular data centers
Big Blue announced today that it was introducing a suite of new energy efficient technologies and services to help businesses struggling with surging costs and tougher sustainability requirements. The big push is for “modular”: IBM will sell miniature versions of its data centers that come pre-assembled and cut energy consumption in half.
Its offerings will include:
* An enterprise-class data center, standardized to between 5,000 square feet and 20,000 square feet to help managers bring new installations… Continue Reading
Virtualization trend continues — into mobile phones
VirtualLogix, a Sunnyvale, Calif. company, said it has raised $16 million in a second round of funding to push “virtualization” software to things such as iPods, mobile phones, traffic lights and digital watches.
Virtualization allows multiple operating systems to run simultaneously on hardware devices, allowing companies to make more efficient use of that hardware. This helps them trim the outlays they make on hardware.
Virtualization is all the rage. Intel just pumped $218.5 million into well-regarded virtualization… Continue Reading