HP serves up 'cookie sheet'

Hewlett-Packard has unveiled its own variant on the 'cookie sheet' minimalist server design championed by Google and imitated by commercial server makers, says The Register.

Taking out weight and cost in servers among hyperscale data centre operators is as important as power conservation and performance, which is one of the things that makes these upper-crust customers different from even large commercial server buyers, and worlds away from small and medium businesses.

But hyperscale shops buy tens or hundreds of thousands of servers a year, which is the main reason why HP is getting in on the act.

Hitachi has released the Hitachi High Availability Manager, the industry's first open systems storage array clustering technology that delivers 100% accessibility of business-critical data assets and offers customers future-proofing of their storage investments over time, states SkyNewswire..

In the current climate of economic slowdown and capital constraint, the need for an efficiency optimised storage infrastructure has become paramount.

Compounding this challenge is the significant operational risk associated with data migrations as legacy storage systems come off lease, or as a result of extended or unexpected downtime.

Tokyo-based technology company, Fujitsu, announced an expansion of its global storage portfolio under a re-branded name, Eternus, and introduced two entry-level 'redundant array of independent discs' storage systems, reports eWeek.

The new storage systems offer features such as reduced power consumption, simplified management and improved redundancy.

The company's CentricStor virtual tape system and the FibreCat TX entry-level tape systems have been renamed Eternus CS and Eternus LT, respectively.