Giant vendor Hewlett-Packard this week revealed it was consolidating its 85 global datacentres down to just six in a bid to simplify its internal IT infrastructure and rein in costs.
HP is releasing a new line of "green" storage products that, according to the company, will require half the power and cooling of its current systems.
Auckland-based Mainfreight will undertake three major IT projects, including the building of a "greenfield" datacentre and the migration of SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005, in the first half of the year.
Auckland-based DB Breweries has spent NZ$1 million on datacentre equipment -- including servers and storage solutions -- from Hewlett-Packard to support its SAP rollout which began last September.
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison on Wednesday unveiled its first ever hardware product a storage server with embedded software designed to work with the company's databases and be used in a grid. The Exadata programmable storage server aims to put database intelligence next to each drive.
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The company says its server software has now been tested for compatibility with products from firms such as EMC, Siemens, IBM and Hewlett-Packard.
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