Servers & Data Center

After applying some updates to a Windows 2003 virtual server, this pilot fish comes in the next morning to find the server unresponsive. Then it happens again a few days later -- and soon it's happening every morning.

Microsoft announced more details of its Azure cloud computing plans for Windows yesterday. Ray Ozzie talked about how Microsoft's going to crush Amazon and VMware into itty-bitty pieces. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers are mostly impressed.
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Self service, drag and drop application provisioning store, combined with desktop personalization features, give end users more control of their virtualized desktops.

This IT shop is replacing its two print servers with a single new machine, which requires writing a script that makes changes to every PC in the company that prints. And that mostly works -- but there's still one PC left to find.

The company where this pilot fish works has part of its operations on a mainframe -- and mostly that's fine, though it's a little dicey when month-end reports are due. Then the system engineers announce they've got a great idea.

I'm preparing for a meeting with the Citrix folks today to talk about desktop virtualization and I'm looking for questions. Citrix is rolling the dice is it folds XenApp into its new XenDesktop offering. Will IT climb aboard?

I'm not sure if you have noticed, but slowly over the last year or so storage vendors have begun changing over their top tier offerings from Fibre Channel (FC) drives to either Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)  or Solid State Disk (SSD) drives in their arrays.

This IT boss stomps into the printer room in a big hurry, ignoring the signs warning not to wear loose clothing near the shredder -- and what happens next is predictable.

VMware's View 4 does graphics faster, lowers the cost per PC. But is that enough to overcome objections to broader adoption?

Let's face it, most backup administrators are typically under paid, under appreciated, and only become important in the eyes of upper management when things go wrong.

Programmer pilot fish uses a big-name software package to write quick and simple reports for some users. But when it's time to upgrade the hardware for the report server, things get complicated.

The new Ubuntu is more than just a good Linux desktop distribution; it's Canonical's shot at the business server big-time.

Do you ever wish that Google's search results would be more tailored to your social network? If so, Google's new Social Search experiment might be for you. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers dissect the idea, as if it were some kind of Web 2.0 frog. Not to mention Sleeveface...
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Will Apple's customers buy the 27-inch Cinema Display for use as a monitor? I think so; here's why.