PC Blade Daily Links 2007-02-12

[Daily Post from ClearCube] PC Blade Daily: Monitoring and Managing IT

“Effective management software solutions ensure that regardless of what devices or which locations are in use, data remains secure and users remain protected.”

CIO India: Blade Servers - Early Adopters Offer Their Tips, Tricks

“While blade servers can offer tremendous benefits for the data center, early adopters of the technology warn fellow IT implementers to plan very carefully.”

Rick Barnard’s Blog: N+1 DR - The 72 Hour Rule Is Now 15 Minutes (for Multiple Datacenters)

“Large enterprises can have tens of thousands of servers spread out over multiple data centers around the world. Building and maintaining a complex data center environment twice is too expensive.”

IBM Eye: Embittered HP

“IBM touts its advantages over HP here, including such things as power conservation, cost to operate and processor speed. Furthermore, IBM offers to buy your HP blade for a couple grand and replace your chassis for next to nothing if you buy enough blades.”

The Register: ‘World First’ Quantum Computer Set to Debut Next Week

“Vancouver-based D-Wave says it has built a quantum computer with 16 qubits - the quantum world’s version of a digital bit, but which simultaneously encodes 1 and 0, so can carry more information and solve problems more quickly.” (via OS News)

Dark Reading: Encryption Set to Go Mainstream

“Instead of encrypting in only a few specific areas, companies are increasing their use of encryption across multiple applications — including email and backup — as well as across hardware, including file servers, mobile devices, and laptop computers.”