Energy Star for servers may be ready by year's end, EPA says
The EPA said an Energy Star rating for servers could be ready by the end of the year, although the amount of information it offers will be limited at first.
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Intel, AMD gather steam as chip price war cools
Sun's 'Open Work' program sheds light on telecommute savings
HP's new blade appliance is like a preloaded fridge
HP to Users: No Need to Worry About The Future of Our Systems
Rackable Systems unveils high-density servers
Mac clone maker ventures onto Apple's server turf
Arm to duel with Intel in the server space
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HP adding solid-state memory to its servers
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Q&A: What Roadrunner's petaflop Top500 milestone is all about
The Top500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers passed a milestone Wednesday with the first system to achieve peak performance of 1 petaflop, or one quadrillion floating point operations per second. Erich Strohmaier, a computer scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, was one of the founding editors of the Top500 list back in 1993. He talked with IDG News Service about the performance gains the list has seen, the quad-core processors that are coming to dominate it and mistakes that can creep in when the list is put together.
Beyond the Physical
Not every IT demand can be fulfilled by shoehorning more resources inside the shrinking corporate data center. You need to know when and what to let go, says columnist Mark Hall.
Explainer: VMware's Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
VDI consists of four basic components: a client to access the virtual machines, a broker to direct the clients to the appropriate VMs, the virtualization server and the VMs that are used as the desktop. Edward L. Haletky explains more.
Idle Servers Eat Energy
Mark Hall reports that idle servers are the devil's tools, eating up energy while doing nothing.
Opinion: VMware, Citrix duke it out over desktop virtualization
Desktop virtualization will be successful on only a limited basis, says CIO magazine's Kevin Fogarty, because most end users don't want it.
Opinion: Why 'no Macs' is no longer a defensible IT strategy
More users are demanding Macs in the enterprise. Thanks to key computing shifts, supporting their appetite for Apple is now a straightforward option for IT.
Not Dead Yet
IBM's hoary AS/400 minicomputer lives on. And Frank Hayes wonders why.
Power Play
Government regulation of electricity consumption in data centers may or may not be a good thing. But it will definitely be a bad thing if you're not ready for it.
The Green IT Two-Step
Most IT managers follow conventional wisdom, adding capacity to do more business, says columnist Howard Rubin. What they should be looking for is the "right" capacity.
Face-off: Virtualization Takes Center Stage
Frank Hayes says 2008 is the year to wrap our brains around the whole virtualization idea. Mark Hall disagrees.
All it takes is a couple hours and about $125 to breathe new life into an old laptop. Here's how.
Is Microsoft's Golden Age over? What are Gates' most memorable quotes? Find out in
Computerworld's complete coverage of the end of the Bill Gates era at Microsoft.
There are some things your CIO definitely doesn't want to hear. Also don't miss the flipside,
Five things you should always tell your boss.
With its latest version, Mozilla's browser continues to raise the bar for what Web browsers should be.
Reviews, analyses, how-tos, visual tours, hot issues and predictions about Microsoft's new OS.
Four years from now, the IT field will be a vastly different place. Will you be ready?
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