Servers & Data Center

It makes sense to relocate virtual storage structures (e.g. data, applications, VMs) and to occasionally move virtual applications as a best practice to keep centralized datacenters as up to date as possible.

In today's podcast: SanDisk rejects Samsung acquisition bid; DHS not up to cybersecurity job; and VMware CEO says server OS is dead.

It's mid-February, and the server that contains all the year-end processing data and reports for this company goes down -- irretrievably.

In Wednesday's IT Blogwatch, we're wowed by the thought of a 786 gigaflops supercomputer sitting on a desktop. Not to mention proof you can buy anything online...

Sharon Gaudin reports:

This computer room's big machines have big disk drives with removable platters -- and when they go bad, the computer operator finds a use for them.

In Monday's IT Blogwatch, we watch as VMware kicks off its user conference, while drooling competitors circle hungrily. Not to mention Trent Reznor, the Mac fanboi...

Patrick Thibodeau reports:

Welcome to a special IT Blogwatch EXTRA: watching bloggers' reactions to the Virginia Supreme Court decision -- that the state's anti-spam law is unconstitutional. Does that mean Jeremy Jaynes is free man? Not to mention a prize maze...

Grant Gross gives the goss:

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If you get audited and you are handed a list of issues that need to be remediated, please use a little common sense as you start figuring out how to check those boxes.

With VMworld, the world's largest virtualization gathering, about to start next week, it was probably only natural that rumors of a major M&A in this hot space would bubble up to the surface.

It's the early 1970s, and this pilot fish is working at a big university data center with a time-sharing system that allows him to do...well, the impossible.

In Thursday's IT Blogwatch, we're wowed by the Large Hadron Collider's enormous compute grid. Not to mention Kevin Kelly's Styrobot...

Sharon Gaudin reports:

In Wednesday's IT Blogwatch, we wonder how important the patches were on Patch Tuesday—critically important, it turns out—but Apple scores 18 vulnerabilities to Microsoft's paltry eight. Not to mention fun with Google Images...

Gregg Keizer reports:

If you really want to know why I'm so pro-Linux on servers, you need only look at the London Stock Exchange's total melt down on September 8th.

When I was first on the Internet, we didn't have Google, or even the Web, and We Liked It!

An approaching hurricane fortuitously recalls the famous statement on planning from Eisenhower. We should heed his words.