A bout of natural disasters has data center professionals rechecking their disaster recovery plans.




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IT shops call on HP and Oracle to kiss and make up
With new leadership at HP, the time is now for Oracle and HP to restart stalled negotiations on Intel Itanium support.




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HP ships VirtualSystem for VMware: News in brief
HP, chasing more converged infrastructure business, delivers three versions of its VirtualSystem for VMware; Sentilla measures cloud savings; more news.




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Raritan tracks data center assets: News in brief
Raritan?s new asset management tags help data center managers keep tabs on their infrastructure; and other data center facilities news.




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IT shops try new tools to up server-to-admin ratios
A mainstay of Web 2.0 companies, DevOps-inspired configuration management tools are turning out to be a good fit in the traditional enterprise.




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Airbus buys HP PODs: Data center news in brief
The European aircraft manufacturer Airbus will deploy HP containerized data centers in Toulouse, France and Hamburg, Germany.




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Dell preps monster PowerEdge server to take on Oracle?s Exadata
Once the king of commodity servers, Dell is building a PowerEdge box that will compete with some of the biggest SMP systems on the market.




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Facebook Open Compute Foundation to speed hardware innovation
In phase two of Facebook?s Open Compute Project, speakers at today?s Open Compute Summit imagined a world with greater hardware innovation and more interoperability.




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Shell-shocked HP enterprise shops look forward to uneventful 2012
After a tumultuous 2011, things are finally looking up for loyal Hewlett-Packard enterprise customers. But HP isn?t out of the woods yet.




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Oracle woos Sun faithful with Solaris 11
Oracle went back to Sun?s Wall Street roots to make the case for Solaris 11 and continued investment in the legacy Unix platform.




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