AMD has announced new low-voltage versions of its quad-core Opteron processor as well as changes to its management lineup.

IBM's z10 has arrived, but the company has not provided much support for open-source application use. With the rise in sophistication of open-source programs, this important part of the IT landscape is being missed. Open source development is often more cost-effective than traditional programming, and the programs are up-to-date and often more robust.

ASHRAE Technical Committee 9.9 released a new book on data center cooling case studies and best practices. This is ASHRAE's seventh book on data centers.

A Forsythe Solutions Group expert discusses tactics to keep data centers cool during the summer, including blocking out windows.

AMD plans to release its six-core Opteron processor by the second half of 2009, followed by a 12 core processor less than one year later.

Many companies are using virtualization technology somewhere in their environment; including test, development, and production. But, does virtualization make data center disaster recovery easy? In some cases, the answer is yes. Richard Jones explains what's so great about virtualization in disaster recovery, as well as the limits of the technology.

Incremental data center energy-efficiency improvement will not meet increasing demand for power. IT pros need to get radical and move beyond raised floors and hot aisle/cold aisle.

With the z10, IBM's mainframe can serve as the hub of the new multimedia data center. A new enterprise architecture concept using the mainframe as the hub of the hub is on the horizon. Indeed, IBM has already recommended six areas where the mainframe can be applied as the hub core. The key advantages include: lower costs, more green-computing energy savings, greater robustness, better security, higher scalability, and increased architectural flexibility in the data center and across the distributed enterprise.

Cirba has included mainframes in its newest updates, which add workload benchmarking, analysis and features to facilitate cross-platform consolidation and planning.

Big Blue is pushing iDataPlex, a blade/rack server hybrid, for Web 2.0 companies, but research labs seeking dense computing environments could also benefit.