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18 hours ago ago from Data Center Knowledge

Amazon Web Services experienced an outage in one of the East Coast availability zones for its EC2 service early Wednesday due to power problems in a data center in northern Virginia. Failures in a power distribution unit (PDU) resulted in some servers in the data center losing power for about 45 minutes. It took several more hours to get customer instances back online, with all but a small number of applications restored within five hours. ...

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The Ominous Return of Closed Architectures

6 hours ago ago from VMblog.com - Virtualization Technology News and Information for Everyone

The Ominous Return of Closed Architectures The Ominous Return of Closed Architectures   A Contributed Article by Lloyd Carney, CEO of Xsigo Systems In the world of IT, "open" is practically synonymous with "good." The terms "open source," "open standards," and "open systems" all imply efficiency and cost effectiveness. But there is a trend towards closed system architectures that reverse this cycle. For two examples, ...

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Data center questions and answers.

1 hour, 31 minutes ago ago from The Server Room

I've culled these data center related questions from search engine traffic to the blog this week. The first question is about 277VAC power. 277VAC is the low voltage component of 480Y277 (hot to neutral). 277 is used to provide lighting in industrial plants that generally use 480 3 phase power. Since most data center equipment universal power supplies top out at 250VAC, 277 really isn't useful for anything except lighting. The ...

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Microsoft Volume License site practically useless at the moment.

13 hours ago ago from Absoblogginlutely!

Microsoft their licensing site and in the process managed to break the functionality that allows you to request access back to the licenses that you could see before the upgrade. After wasting an hour trying to obtain our licenses online and 2 hours on the phone to try and speak to someone I eventually twittered my frustration and got a message back from Microsoft_VLSC to say they were aware of the problem and offered some help.  I'm ...

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HP Products Reduce Server Sprawl, Consumption Costs

4 hours ago ago from En Pointe Technology Blog

The main idea with many of HP’s products is consolidation: put more work onto less servers, and thereby save time, money and work. Tools like Hewlett Packard’s Insight Control and Insight Dynamics VSE help you improve and quicken your business transactions and server management with less reduplication through its cloud hosting. Insight Dynamics is an integrated command center, and is one of the ways you can reduce server sprawl and ...

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16 hours ago ago from Washington Post - Tech

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4 hours ago ago from PopEater

Emerson (NYSE: EMR) announced today that it has successfully completed its tender offer for all of the outstanding shares of common stock of Avocent Corporation (NASDAQ: AVCT). The offer expired at 5 p.m. EST on Thursday, December 10, 2009. A total of approximately 43.2 million shares of Avocent common stock were tendered, representing approximately 97 percent of Avocent’s outstanding shares, including approximately 2.5 million shares ...

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Frost & Sullivan Hosts Free Webinar: Digital Power Management and Latest Trends in Architectures: What's in for DC-DC Converter Vendors?

21 hours ago ago from PopEater

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1 hour, 50 minutes ago ago from PopEater

Industrial Nanotech, Inc. (Pink Sheets:INTK), an emerging global leader in nanoscience solutions, today announced that the Company’s patented Nansulate® thermal insulation and energy saving coatings have been accepted by, and are on display at, the Chicago Center for Green Technology. The company’s Independent Sales Representative in Chicago, Scott Madura, arranged for the inclusion of the nanotechnology-based green products in the Center, ...

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