FOCUS NEWS TECHNOLOGY
Issue 11, Aug/Sept
IBM INCREASES CAPACITY-PER-WATT BY 60% WITH NEW MAINFRAME
IBM claims it has achieved massive performance improvements per watt with its new mainframe and system design for compute clusters, to be deployed in data centers. The company says its new zEnterprise mainframe server can deliver 60% more capacity than the previous- generation z10 mainframe, while using the same amount of energy.
IBM also rolled out a new system design that allows for integration of zEnterprise with select Power7-based and System x servers.
Emerson Network Power has announced the fi rst integration between some of its products with those of Avocent – the Huntsville, Alabama-based maker of KVM switches - which it acquired late last year for $1.2bn. Emerson’s Liebert MPX and MPH lines of PDU products are now supported by Avocent’s DSView 3 and Power Manager software.
A group of IT vendors and the US federal space agency have launched an open-source cloud platform. NASA donated intellectual property obtained in building its cloud platform,
The mainframe, used as part of the new system design, allows for management of more than 100,000 virtualized servers as a single system.
The new design allows workloads to run on a shared architecture, deployed as a single virtualized system. It combines the new mainframe with the new zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension and the new zEnterprise Unifi ed Resource Manager. The combination enables workload management across System z and some IBM blade servers.
Nebula, to the OpenStack project, and more than 25 companies made technological contributions in one way or another to the open-source project.
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) released the newest public review draft of performance testing standards for solid state storage devices before the standard is published. SNIA said that for wide market adoption of SSD to happen there needs to be a common process for testing products by various manufacturers.
Two multi-chip modules for zEnterprise mainframes
AMD has unveiled a new server processor platform, claiming the technology will more than double the amount of servers within the same power budget as its previous-generation platforms. The new Opteron 4000 Series platform provides four- and six- core performance at less than six watts per core, using 24 percent less power per core than the previous generation.
HP will become the primary supplier of hardware for Microsoft’s private cloud version of the Windows Azure platform. The companies have jointly developed an appliance that enables the platform’s deployment. The appliance is Microsoft-specifi ed hardware with Windows Azure and Microsoft SQL Azure. HP is one of the platform’s early adopters.
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