For situations where there is limited space to build or expand a data center, Cisco is providing a new solution in the form of containerized data centers. Cisco's modular infrastructure with a railing system enables site administrator to access the server rack, and the container is also designed to be power efficient and quick to deploy.

Bricks and mortar data centers can take a long time to build and require a big cash outlay upfront. The containerized data center, by contrast, can rapidly deploy anywhere in 90 to 120 days. The container can be sued for Cisco gear as well as third-party equipment from other vendors. Cisco containers can fit up to 16 racks of servers, delivering up to 44RU of available rack space. The modules also include built in fire suppression and humidity and airflow control systems.

Business people in the IT industry are often very busy people. Even though you may be busy, it's very important to keep in touch with your customers and make them feel satisfied. Having a telephone number for customers to call you can help them keep in touch, but it can be overwhelming to answer all of them at once. That's why a Corporate Ring Back can be a useful tool for your business telephone system. There are some online websites that can help set that up for you.

The ringback tone is an audible signal that can be heard by the caller while the phone line they called is still busy. The tone is typically repeated in a loop, and many businesses use it to reassure the caller, who is usually a prospect or customer, that their call will be answered soon. Some businesses, however, use the ring back more effectively by mentioning products, services or special deals in the tone. Some play music as the ring back so that callers remain entertained and will stay on the line.

Microsoft servers are evolving yet again with the latest buzz around the upcoming release of the Server 8 protocol. The company recently held a three day workshop where they invited in over 30 tech journalist for a formal introduction to the Windows Server 8 platform.

The keynote speaker was Bill Laing, the man responsible for managing everything related to Windows Server and Windows Azure platforms. According to Laing, Microsoft took much of their inspiration for Windows Server 8 from their Azure cloud server platform. It represents one of the biggest evolutions of the Windows Server platform since 2000, and offers some advanced new capabilities with the Server Manager tool. This will allow users to efficiently manage a large number of servers from a single machine. They have also made major changes to clustering, remote access, file system storage and virtualization.

Skytap is a provider of cloud servers and automation software, which has recently launched new products to enable businesses to easily create virtual clouds. The new Skytap software offerings feature services like configuration routing and self-service cloud orchestration, which allows for the replication of in-house network environments in the cloud.

The new services utilize server resource sharing to lower costs and increase efficiency. The company offers shared server resources such as HP Application Life-cycle Management, MySQL database and Microsoft Team Foundation Server. These services and more have been designed to be easily configured and managed by end users without the need for IT support. Thanks to the streamlined configuration process, companies can now move their networks to the cloud more quickly and with less redundancy and cost. Configuration routing recreates a standard server hub/spoke model in the cloud.

Microsoft has announced that it will patch a critical bug in its Windows software for servers, along with two other vulnerabilities in PowerPoint. Microsoft has classified the server software update shipping May 10 as "critical", which is the highest treat ranking in its four-step score.

The update will patch Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, which are the three still-supported versions of its server OS. The vulnerability exists in the newest version Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1, but Windows desktop OS including Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 are not affected. It is not known which server component Microsoft will patch, but there is speculation it could be an Active Directory component or the DHCP component. Because the patch is for servers, it's likely that network administrators will require a day or two to test the fix before applying it.

For more than a year a team of three very smart Facebook engineers set out to reinvent a server rack farm for the 21st century. The result of their work is the company's new data center in Prineville, Oregon which is revolutionary in every sense of the word, from its site selection and construction which did away with costly refrigerated air conditioning and plumbing to the design of the server racks, the power supply and distribution and the circuit board design.

This innovation has resulted in a new level of energy efficiency unmatched in the industry. In public comments Zuckerburg made clear that this is a win-win strategy for the IT industry, because it provides big cost savings of up to 24% on operating costs while also allowing companies to tout the bright green slogan that "Efficiency is Profitable."

Cisco fancies itself as a server maker these days, and they continue to launch new products at a rapid fire pace. The latest of these are the new Nexus converged switches. The company is also hoping to get a leg up on its peers by talking about the servers it plans to produce using Intel's future "Westmere-EX" Xeon E7 high-end processors. TheNexus switch family runs the NX-OS and features converged storage and server networking.

Like other switch-makers, Cisco wants to chase the financial services and other HPC centers that need super high-speed 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches, so it is offering up its first Nexus product aimed at speed freaks. A port-to-port hop inside the Nexus 3000 takes only 1 microsecond. The Nexus 3064 has 48 SFP+ ports that run at 10GE speeds and another four QSFP+ ports that are rated at 40GE speeds . These are very similar to the speeds of the Arista Networks 7050S-64 rack-topper that came out this week.

Extreme Networks has introduced two new switches, Open Fabric data centre and Server rack, to make efficient cloud applications. This includes 20Tb Black Diamond X8 chassis and the Summit X60 series of server rack switches.
According to the company, high performance, low latency and energy efficiency are the main benefits of the new top of server racks switches. These Open fabric data centre products are notably helpful to the ExtremeX operating systems. Jon Oltsik, principal analyst of the group said, "This conglomeration of cloud and data centre with server racks and data centre switches will transit virtualized servers from 1GbE to 10GbE".
The company offers great variety of server cabinets and server racks that includes:
• Prism PI Floor Standing Server Cabinets & Server Racks
• USpace Value Floor Standing Server Cabinets
• Co-Location Server Racks

ARM Holdings is seeking the support of software makers for its plan to put its low-power processors in servers, company executives said this week.
Most of the software written for servers is designed to run on x86 chips made by Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. ARM and x86 architecture use different instruction sets, so software would need to rewritten to run on servers containing ARM processors.

ARM has set up a dedicated team to chase the server opportunity and will reach out to virtualization software makers and server OS companies to write applications for the company's processors, said Vice President of Software Alliances James McNiven during a webcast of the company's server analyst conference.
ARM is a dominant player in the mobile device market with the processor designs it develops and licenses, but it has almost no presence in the server market. As more servers connect to the Internet, ARM sees an opportunity to put processors in servers that execute web-related tasks such as search and social networking transactions.

The Microsoft Windows Home Server 2011 Unleashed is the most comprehensive, practical and useful guide to the newest version of Windows Home Server 2011. The author, Paul McFedries shows how to use the Windows Home Server to simplify everything from file sharing to media sharing, backup to security.

This Windows Home Server 2011 Unleashed eBook contains real world examples. The author guides the readers through new features ranging from the Dashboard and Launchpad to Remote Web Access and Alert Viewer. This eBook has network configurations and step by step solutions that are easily understood and can be used by those with no computer server experience. McFredries also reveals how Home Server's hidden business class features can be utilized to save more time and get better performance.