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Data Center Briefs: August 15, 2008
By Systems Management News Team

August 15, 2008 — Borman Named Avocent CEO
Michael Borman has been named CEO of Avocent and was elected to the company’s Board of Directors. Borman, 53, previously was IBM’s vice president of worldwide sales in its software group. He also served as general manager of the iSeries and pSeries server lines, and started at IBM as a programmer in 1977. Before he joined IBM, Borman served as president and COO of Blue Martini Software. “Avocent has excellent opportunities to offer its customer base as well as new customers exciting new solutions to reduce costs and simplify their IT operations,” Borman said in a statement.

Accenture Creates Environmental Scorecard
Accenture released the Green Technology Suite, a set of tools to help organizations assess its environmental impact and address their carbon footprint. One of the main pieces in the Green Technology Suite is the Green Maturity Model, which assesses the environmental efficiency of IT. The maturity model produces a scorecard based on answers to 300 questions about working practice, office environment and other topics, according to Accenture.

SAVVIS Expands Singapore Facility
SAVVIS has expanded its Singapore Data Center, with the facility now at more than 18,000 square feet of raised floor space. The center has the full suite of SAVVIS Managed Hosting Services and allows financial customers the ability to host their trading applications with SAVVIS Proximity Hosting, according to the company. Customers can connect to the Singapore Exchange through low latency network access. Company executives said the expanded data center builds on SAVVIS’ investment in the region and helps the Asia Pacific market deal with growth.

VMware Releases Free Automating Tool
VMware has created a free scripting interface for administrators that need to manage multiple ESX hypervisors or VirtualCenter instances. The VMware Infrastructure Toolkit works on Windows and enhances automation of virtual data centers, according to the company. The VI Toolkit is based on the Microsoft PowerShell scripting language and lets administrators automate tasks like cloning or moving virtual machines in a VMware environment.

CRG West to Build in Santa Clara
Colocation space provider CRG West will build a three-building, 350,000 square-foot, 50 megawatt data center in Santa Clara. The company said the facility will be energy-efficient and will be powered by Silicon Valley Power. The facility will offer customers single-cabinet colocation space and custom-built cages of any size up to 20 megawatts. Customers will also be able to lease office space so they can have close proximity of operations staff to IT equipment, according to CRG West. Construction is expected to begin this month and the building is projected to be complete in the second quarter of 2009.

Internap Doubles Houston Center
Internet business solutions provider Internap has added 7,000 square feet of enterprise data center space to its Houston facility. The company said the expansion nearly doubles the site, which is now at 15,000 square feet of space for high-power density installations and redundant power. The new space has the power and cooling capability for about 60 companies. Internap executives said the center offers 150 watts per square foot of conditioned power, and the building can supposedly withstand more than 200 MPH winds. Additionally, the site features electrical substation feeds with integrated transformers and multiple carrier points of presence.

BladeCenters Now Available in ICE Cube
IBM’s BladeCenter servers are now offered in Rackable Systems’ ICE Cube modular data centers, the two companies said. BladeCenter is the only blade server platform available for ICE Cube implementations. It integrates servers, networks, storage and business applications in one system. IBM said this capability makes it ideal for packing large amounts of computing into portable data centers. BladeCenter meets Network Equipment-Building System technical requirements, and Rackable Systems executives said this opens a new opportunity for the company around products that meet NEBS requirements.

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