http://www.serverwatch.com en-us Copyright 1996-2006 Jupitermedia Corporation rss@jupitermedia.com rss@jupitermedia.com http://backend.userland.com/rss http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3871741 http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3871741 New virtualization technology offerings and marketing promotions help Microsoft and partner Citrix kick off a 100-city tour to convince customers that flexibility in virtualization is the winning strategy. http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3871521 http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3871521 A new series of Cisco's x86 servers said to provide double-digit performance gains will be formally announced in the coming weeks. http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3871406 http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3871406 Facing an uphill fight against titans IBM, HP and Dell, the Japanese systems vendor believes it has its own secret sauce to take on the data center and gain cloud computing market share. http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3871306 http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3871306 Virtually Speaking: In the next battleground for the cloud, IBM's choice of Red Hat's virtualization technology may be changing the landscape, but don't count VMware out just yet. http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3871181 http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3871181 Red Hat extends its cloud computing technology to IBM. But what does it take to actually win a cloud deployment bid? http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3871131 http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3871131 The classic brand is reborn as a super-dense, all-in-one x86 server with an integrated SAN, while larger siblings will sport more than 1,000 cores for virtualized environments. http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3870956 http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3870956 Dell wants to help admins spend less time keeping x86 servers running. A new crop of Westmere-processor-based, self-healing machines are designed to be deployed and ignored. http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3870646 http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3870646 Among the big news this week in green data center management: Equinix was granted LEED certification for its 2009 retrofit of its Silicon Valley SV2 International Business Exchange facility, Neuwing Energy Ventures announced it successfully registered the first voluntary Energy Efficiency Certificates in the newly launched APX North American Renewables Registry, and more. http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3870026 http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3870026 A report from Broadpoint makes the argument that both chip makers will do better than expected because x86 server sales are poised to take off. No doubt IBM, HP and Dell are hoping that's the case. http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3869456 http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3869456 Since it's not always easy for sales people to help customers imagine what an environment built around virtualization technologies would look like, VMware built one in an 18-wheeler and is sending it across North America.