Categories: Data Centers

Microsoft and VMware Execs are Friendly Foes

Posted by: Aaron Ricadela on December 16

File this one under ‘frenemies’: The Microsoft exec in charge of its virtualization software business and category leader VMware’s CEO are good friends—even as Microsoft tries to squash VMware’s $2…

Stock Market Losses Bad, Say Investors. Stock Market Volatility Good, Says Equinix.

Posted by: Peter Burrows on October 22

Equinix, the largest pure-play maker of data centers, announced plans to build two pricey new facilities today, along with solid quarterly earnings which rose 77% from the year before. The…

Google’s Green Agenda

Posted by: Rob Hof on October 02

A few hours after Google issued a clean energy manifesto, CEO Eric Schmidt on Wednesday night held forth on the search giant’s plans and hopes for setting an entirely new…

Is HP-EDS Deal About the Cloud or the Heavy Metal?

Posted by: Rob Hof on May 13

Judging from Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd’s conference call this morning, ably reported by Between the Lines’ Larry Dignan, HP’s $14 billion purchase of Electronic Data Systems is all about cutting…

Xsigo Systems — The Next New Data Center Star?

Posted by: Peter Burrows on September 13

Keep an eye on Xsigo Systems, a new start-up that just had its coming out party after three years of developing its product. It makes what it calls an I/O…

Green Data Centers Blossom

Posted by: Olga Kharif on May 30

My colleague Rachael King is guest-blogging today on green data centers. Here’s her blog: When 365 Main finishes building its new data center in Newark, CA, later this year, it…

Rackable Goes Mobile. Does Two Make a Trend?

Posted by: Peter Burrows on March 26

Go to Sun.com today, and one of the revolving lead articles is “Project BlackBox Goes on Tour”. Project Blackbox, of course, is Sun’s data-center-in-a-shipping-container, that drew much interest when it…