Infrastructure

For the IT staff at Bryant University in Smithfield, R.I., the focus for the last couple of years has been on consolidation. The first goal was to centralize servers that had been scattered across the campus into two physical locations, and the next step was to use virtualization technologies to consolidate things even more.

IBM is due to officially unveil its DB2 9 database, previously codenamed

This may be the year that blade servers finally cast off their bad rap. Introduced in 2001, blade servers were supposed to change the computing landscape, but questions about reliability, power consumption and heat output put a damper on adoption.

IBM is due to officially unveil its DB2 9 database, previously codenamed

With its announcement last month of Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Corp. is one step closer to its goal of becoming a player in the booming enterprise business intelligence (BI) market.

Most IT organizations estimate their standard infrastructure expenses based on servers, telecommunications and desktops. Few consider the cost of the electricity required to power and cool the equipment. With today

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Internet service provider (ISP) Vonage Inc. is offering a mashup of a USB memory stick and a pre-loaded softphone as yet another way of enticing mobile users to sign up for the company's Web-based long distance calling service.