Final IPv4 addresses to be issued within months, NRO warns The global body in charge of allocating Internet addresses expects to hand out the final blocks of IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4) addresses to regional registrars early next year, it said Monday. Those allocations would mark a depletion at the global level of IPv4 addresses — something that has been anticipated for years — and put further pressure on network operators to switch to the newer IPv6 address system, which has massively more addresses available

Share By  Jessica Davis on 2010-05-24 As IT organizations move infrastructure to the cloud and data centers suck up more power, the search is on for affordable sources of renewable energy.

2010 Data Center Trends Report Corporate America has made some painful adjustments over the past year, but for data center managers, the pressure to contain costs has always been unrelenting–it’s impossible to maintain a low profile when your area of responsibility consumes the bulk of the IT budget. This year in particular, though, we’re really feeling the heat, and not just from overloaded racks. Just 30% of the 370 respondents to our latest InformationWeek Analytics data center survey say they’ll see larger budgets for 2010 compared with 2009, yet half expect resource demands to increase

Moving to the cloud: Big savings, but plan ahead Some might say that San Diego-based Amylin Pharmaceuticals was pushed into the cloud. The 23-year-old company’s data center had been running at 100% capacity and IT executives feared inevitable performance problems, but the company was reluctant to build another site due to the poor economic climate. “We had already done significant virtualizing of our servers and couldn’t cram anything more onto our data center infrastructure