http://www.computerworld.com/ en_US (c) Copyright 2009 Computerworld, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:33:16 GMT 2009-07-04T10:33:16Z en_US (c) Copyright 2009 Computerworld, Inc. All Rights Reserved. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9134970 Microsoft on Monday said it is about to flip the switch on what will eventually be more than 1 million square feet of data center space in two facilities, one in Chicago, the other in Dublin, Ireland. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:12:00 GMT patrick_thibodeau@computerworld.com (Patrick Thibodeau) http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9134970 2009-06-30T11:12:00Z http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9134306 The Energy Star program for servers is a good first step, most agree, but it measures energy use only under limited circumstances and does not include popular hardware types, like blade servers -- at least not yet. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:01:00 GMT (Mary K. Pratt) http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9134306 2009-06-26T04:01:00Z http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9134678 The World Bank called a decline in industrial output a "collapse" and predicted that the global economy will shrink by 2.9% this year. It had previously forecast a 1.7% contraction. Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:46:00 GMT patrick_thibodeau@computerworld.com (Patrick Thibodeau) http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9134678 2009-06-23T10:46:00Z http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=339633 Used IT gear can be good and cheap -- if you're careful. Here's how to avoid the lemons. Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:01:00 GMT (Julie Sartain) http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=339633 2009-06-22T04:01:00Z http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9134509 During the Big Dig, the city of Boston erected a sign saying, "Rome wasn't built in a day. If it was, we would have hired their contractor." That's a good way to describe the general state of affairs regarding the ideal of divorcing services from hardware and pushing server management away from the physical layer. HP's BladeSystem Matrix goes a long way toward realizing this ideal of an automated datacenter, providing a wide array of very useful tools and functions, but falling just shy of the lofty goal of truly hands-free datacenter service deployment. Of course, nobody else has reached that particular goal either. Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:57:00 GMT (Paul Venezia) http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9134509 2009-06-17T18:57:00Z http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9134495 Hit hard by the recession, several states are looking to server farms and cloud computing facilities to help them keep jobs in their territories. The thinking: There's nothing like a data center to boost a state's economy. Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:44:00 GMT (Robert Lemos) http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9134495 2009-06-17T17:44:00Z http://www.computerworld.com/taxonomy/000/000/000/taxonomy_000000068_index.jsp View more Servers news and analysis from Computerworld.com http://www.computerworld.com/taxonomy/000/000/000/taxonomy_000000068_index.jsp