Posted by Soulskill (52% noise) View Skip BobB-nw writes with this excerpt from NetworkWorld: “NFL IT guru David Port claims he doesn’t have a favorite football team, but on Sunday he’ll be working his 25th Super Bowl. As the league’s vice president of information technology,...

Posted by timothy (42% noise) View Skip minutetraders writes “According to some sources, by next year Cisco Systems will be in the blade server business. ChannelWeb has a story, confirmed by several sources, that the San Jose, Calif.-based networking behemoth is readying blade servers, code-na...

The ego cluster is 1950 blades each with 16 cores and 64 GB memory.  4xDDR IB and 1GB/s GigE networks.    Every blade is based on a TYAN motherboard with 4 sockets and AMD Opteron 8347 HE ( Barcelona b3) CPUs cadenced at 1.9 GHz (nope, not the fastest by any means).  Dawning...

Had I not been mired in preparing for our Mobilize 08 conference, which kicks off tomorrow, I would surely have attended Cisco’s analyst day, if only to find out how the company with some $40 billion in annual sales plans to keep growing in the face of a tighter global economy. What would have...

For a while there, covering the chip industry was like covering a race run by a rabbit and a cheetah. AMD was the rabbit, while Intel — with its much larger market cap and greater profits — was the cheetah. Evey now and then the rabbit would fool you into thinking he was going to pull ah...

While I don’t think we’ve gotten to a nailed-down understanding of cloud computing, there is one way to slice that is interesting, and often overlooking: dividing up the types of cloud computing users, primarily along the lines of ISVs and IT departments. If “cloud computing”...

I remember being a kid and having a big secret that I couldn’t tell anyone. Stuff like Bobby has a crush on Susie or Jeffrey has a tail. Okay, I didn’t know anyone who had a tail but you can imagine how hard it would be for a 10 year old to keep a secret like that.   A few months ago we com...

While it hasn’t yet decided to offer a cloud computing service, Hewlett-Packard today said it will combine its high-performance computing unit with it’s Web 2.0 and cloud computing infrastructure businesses to create the Scalability Computing Initiative, a name that will refer both to a ...

So it turns out, we are gonna move all the servers to 1 location. Expect a new rack diagram soonish ;) I hate politics. Moving it all to 1 place is both a blessing and a curse. Naturally, its logistically easier for us. But it also means we are facing potential power and airco issues at the single l...

In a triumph of PR right up there with suggesting that Intel executives ever badgered Microsoft executives into doing anything, IBM this week introduced a new generation of mainframe computers. The IBM System z10 is smaller, faster, cooler, has more memory, more storage -- more of everything in fact...