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The high-performance servers allow the organization to filter donor statistics and quickly engage supporters in specific projects. This includes giving country offices, with only one HP ProLiant server each, the ability to simply access information from the headquarters’ data center. Additionally, the new HP ProLiant servers at its headquarters allow IFAW to save energy within the data center and provide a starting point for future virtualization projects.
Less than a third of respondents of a survey announced Monday, Nov. 15, by the MeriTalk government IT network said their agencies had submitted a final data center consolidation plan, which the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) made due in August. Despite these figures, 30 percent said their agencies would build a private cloud.
Rather than running as a VM in a cloud server Riverbed’s new Cloud Steelhead runs as part of the Amazon EC2 or Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) service provisioned for a fee of around $250/mo. Users can connect Steelhead appliances at their locations or even the Mobile Steelhead application on their laptops to a Cloud Steelhead instance that connects to their servers in the cloud.
The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world’s premier Linux certification organization, announced it has completed an extensive review and update of the exam objectives for the popular LPIC-1 and LPIC-2 certification programs. New versions of these exams will be published and available on April 1, 2009.
