Rackspace hires to align with MySQL offshoot
March 9, 2010
number of former Sun Microsystems employees who worked on Drizzle, an offshoot of the MySQL open-source database, have ended up at cloud infrastructure provider Rackspace, where they will continue their efforts, developer Jay Pipes wrote in a blog post Monday.
Sentilla’s energy management tool gets chargeback feature
March 9, 2010
Sentilla has released an update to its input center energy management tool, which lets IT and facilities staff track the energy usage of servers and other equipment. The latest version is a software-only product that adds a chargeback capability, allowing companies to bill individual business units …
VMware unveils experimental projects on new Web site
March 9, 2010
This just in from VMware: “Fling is defined as ‘a brief casual relationship.’” That text actually appears on a site VMware created to share internal engineering projects — software cipher that is interesting but not yet ready for VMware’s flagship virtualization products.
Sun’s open source chief leaves following Oracle merger
March 9, 2010
Sun’s chief open source officer, Simon Phipps, has left the company following its acquisition by Oracle, the executive announced in his blog Tuesday. “Today is my last day of employment at Sun (well, it became Oracle on March 1st in the UK but you know what I mean),” Phipps wrote. “I am a few months…
Modular documents centers: A fast, secretive option that’s spreading
March 9, 2010
When Australian firm WesTrac needed to expand its details center capacity quickly, the company bought the equivalent of a Band-Aid for its server needs: A containerized notes center. The company, which supplies Caterpillar sort heavy-machinery to Australian customers and others, found itself with to…
EMC offers deduplication, thin provisioning for VMware on Celerra
March 9, 2010
EMC today announced an upgrade to the management software on its Celerra network-attached storage (NAS) arrays that will allow administrators to apply deduplication, thin provisioning and business continuity tools to goods stored in VMware environments.
Cisco unveils next Web core router
March 9, 2010
Cisco Systems on Tuesday introduced its next-generation World Wide Web core router, the CRS-3, with about three times the capacity of its current platform. “The Net will scale faster than any of us anticipate,” Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers said during a webcast Tuesday dawn announcing the pr…