The contract with Bull includes technology refresh options during the contract period and Gregory said Lloyds is highly likely to consolidate the platforms. The data centre currently operates on 15 different platforms including an IBM mainframe...
It is also selling mainframes (the zSeries) to replace Linux server farms in ISP sites. The programme provides Linux developers and the open source community access to technology that would otherwise be out of their reach, and will probably result...
This has been tried before, of course, not two years ago and before the floor dropped out of the IT market. From considering storage software as an insurance policy in case of disk failure, it seems inevitable that end user organisations will be...
Most importantly, blades can improve flexibility and manageability while also reducing rack space requirements. A key reason for the interest in blade servers is the attractiveness of physical consolidation of IT resources for better management and...
Firstly, we don't have enough floor space in our prisons to deal with the number of fraudsters, thieves and illegal immigrants that such a database might reveal. That's where I fear the idea for a huge Whitehall 'super-database' of people's...
Other parameters include heat production and, consequently, the energy invested in data centre cooling. It depends on what hardware you're consolidating," says Martin Niemer, senior product marketing manager for EMEA at virtualisation pioneer...