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A server infrastructure lies at the heart of nearly every enterprise. From hardware to applications, the server room is a vital part of the IT backbone of every organization. Purchasing decisions are rarely made lightly. Make Your Nominations ServerWatch’s second annual product excellence program is off and running. Time to nominate your favorite server products. […]

Last week, the ballot box on the Second Annual ServerWatch Product Excellence Awards was sealed shut and the votes were counted. This week, we bring you the results. What server hardware and software stood out in the hearts and minds of ServerWatch readers? Whether open source or commercial, from big vendor or small, this year’s […]

Egenera’s Blade Frame offering has long been known for incorporating two of the hottest technology trends into a single product: virtualization and blades. Egenera is decoupling its PAN Manager software from Blade Frame and making it available for other vendors’ hardware platforms. Need a Definition? Egenera’s BladeFrame line is a server blade system powered by […]

As enterprises implement collaboration applications to increase staff productivity and cut costs, they are increasing the risk of security breaches, according to a survey conducted for Rohati Systems that was released today.

Sean Michael Kerner weighs in on the chatter about whether Oracle is planning on killing off openSolaris after it completes its acquisition of Sun.

Last week, voting wrapped up for the Third Annual ServerWatch Product Excellence Awards. The anticipation has been building for a week, but we can now bring you the results. The ServerWatch Product Excellence Awards results are in. Find out what this year’s choices are for favorite gear and tools. After two years of holding this […]

It’s not surprising that Xen would chose a word synonymous with enlightenment for its open source portability standard. Xen describes Project Kensho as providing a powerful, multi-hypervisor toolkit designed to leverage the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) Open Virtualization Format (OVF) to enable ISVs and enterprises to more easily create hypervisor-independent, portable enterprise application workloads. […]

Yahoo! has donated its Traffic Server software to the Apache Software Foundation as open source. Traffic Server is a high performance HTTP/1.1 caching proxy server Yahoo has used internally since acquiring its original developers, Inktomi, in 2002.

Virtualization main players have long been touting the efficiency benefits of their technology. Now VMware is aiming to go one better, taking virtualization to the cloud with the release of vSphere 4.0. With the release of vSphere 4.0, VMware readies the “mainframe of the 21st century,” offering enterprises using virtualization a cloud computing adoption road […]

Green computing is as much about saving money as it is about resources. Nowhere is this more apparent than IT. Each Monday, the Enterprise IT Planet Green Blog reports the latest environmental-related IT news. Below are some of this week’s stories. Organizers and researchers of the Sixth Data Centers Europe 2010 conference announce that APC […]

The EPA is moving forward with a specification to certify storage devices in the data center, such as enterprise hard drives and SSDs. The Enterprise IT Planet Green blog explains. The Energy Star certification for data centers is moving forward with an expected announcement on final standards expected soon. In the meantime, EPA is moving […]

The votes are in. From application servers to virtualization tools, readers have voiced their opinions and noted their top picks for software, hardware, and more. If we had to pick a common thread running through all of the categories, it would be innovation. The results showed that open source products from start-up companies were on […]