Minkels issues a white paper on server room design and layout-- applying the cubic meters (rather than square meters) or volume available as one of its basic layout principles. 

The company says its "volume method" enables the making of better choices quicker, particularly in cooling solution implementation.

The traditional approach using square meters leads to inappropriate initial choices leaing to an increased continuity risk during the data centre's life span. 

The white paper keeps the choice of cooling medium in mind-- if one designs a server Read more...

IEEE ratifies 1901™ Broadband over Power Line (BPL) standard, expecting its standard to be the key enabling technology for a wide range of applications including smart energy, transportation (AV in planes, trains etc) and LANs in the home and the enterprise.

Networking products that fully comply with IEEE 1901 will deliver data rates in excess of 500 Mbps in LAN applications. In first-mile/last-mile applications, IEEE 1901-compliant devices will achieve ranges of up to 1500 m. The technology specified by IEEE 1901 uses sophisticated modulation Read more...

Jon Peddie Research says the workstation market heads towards to pre-economic collapse levels as sales reach 849700 units in Q3 2010.

The market shows 31.8% Y-o-Y growth, stronger than what the analyst expects. 

The workstation volume leader for 2010 is HP with 40.5% market share. Dell takes second place with 37.5%. The analyst says while HP moves forward in the business, it believes Dell is able to keep up-- if willing. 

This year shows slow growth for professional graphics hardware, with WW units reaching 1.14m (down 9.5% sequentially). Read more...

WW server shipments grow 14.2% in Q3 2010 Y-O-Y, while revenue grows 15.3%, Gartner says. 

The company describes x86-based servers as the market's main driver-- with 14.9% unit growth and 29.5% revenue growth in Q3 2010.

Mainframes add to the quarter's revenue increase with 9.9% growth. 

Meanwhile RISC/Itanium Unix servers drop by 10.1% in shipments and 9.5% in vendor revenue compared to Q3 2009.

E. Europe shows the highest WW vendor revenue growth, with 33.3%, while W. Europe grows 8.8% in shipments and 5.7% in vendor revenue. 

EMEA server shipments Read more...