New SIGOPS Chair Happy with SOSP 2007 Contributions
Doug Terry of Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, the new chair of the ACM’s Special Interest Group on Operating Systems, is delighted that his colleagues again will be playing a key role during this year’s Symposium on Operating Systems Principles.
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IBM Partners with CloudShield for Network Security Blade Server
The BladeCenter PN41 is a new kind of blade server. It is not a generic X64 or Power blade, but rather a device using a specialized processor from Intel and a set of systems software encoded on the blade that allows it to do deep packet inspect and network traffic shaping in an effort to cope with viruses, other kinds of malware, and denial of service attacks on networks.
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The i Edition of the BladeCenter S Finally Launches
IBM has been talking up the single-socket, dual-core JS12 Power6-based blade server and its BladeCenter S wall-powered blade server chassis pretty hard in recent months, and beginning on May 30, the company will start shipping the so-called i Edition Express prebundled and discounted version of this machinery expressly for supporting the new i 6.1 operating system and its RPG and COBOL workloads.
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IBM Goes Stateless and Cooler with iDataPlex Servers
The evolution from tower to rack to blade to future servers continues apace, and IBM is cooking up a new line of custom-built servers called the iDataPlex that it hopes will make it the king of the so-called Web 2.0 hill.
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