Dell today set a new standard for data center energy efficiency and flexibility with the PowerEdgeTM M-Series blade solution.

Cisco® today announced new products and tools to support high performance computing environments. The new Cisco SFS 3504 Multifabric Switch is a gateway switch designed to accelerate server to storage application performance using centralized high speed storage uplinks.

Cisco® announced today that Cedacri, a leading information technology (IT) provider for financial institutions in Italy, has chosen a Cisco data center infrastructure to help reduce the cost of winning new customers in Milan, one of Italy's key financial centers.

Cisco® (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced that the Cisco® Application Control Engine (ACE) module, a member of the Cisco family of Data Center 3.0 solutions, has been deployed at leading higher-education institutions to consolidate and virtualize data center resources, and to enable faster application delivery to students, administrators and faculty.

Cisco® today announced the integration of Cisco VFrame Data Center with VMware Virtual Infrastructure, a key solution for the Cisco vision of next generation data centers, called Data Center 3.0. The solutions and services that support Cisco Data Center 3.0 are designed to help customers better utilize their data center resources, deploy more robust business continuance, and enhance data security.

Foundry Networks®, Inc. a performance and total solutions leader for end-to-end switching and routing, today announced that the company will be a key participant in the first-annual Green Technology World Conference in Los Angeles.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced a comprehensive suite of programs and solutions that leverage Sun's technology innovations and help customers architect more energy efficient, eco responsible datacenters and save money. The Eco Innovation Initiative is an extension of Sun's Eco Responsibility Initiative, which was launched in November 2005.

As part of the company's ongoing commitment to greening its global operations, Sun Microsystems publicly unveiled three active, new datacenters in Santa Clara, California; Blackwater, U.K.; and Bangalore, India. Put into operation between January and June of this year, all three datacenters were built using breakthrough designs and next-generation energy efficient systems, power and cooling.

IN his keynote address at the recent LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, Novell president and chief executive Ron Hovsepian said developers needed to focus their efforts on virtualisation and other technologies that would drive the next-generation data centre.

IBM today announced a Big Green Linux initiative to help its clients further integrate Linux into the enterprise as a way to reduce costs and energy consumption by building cooler data centers.

HP today announced new tools and programs to help customers take further advantage of open source and Linux in their data centers.

Symantec Corp. unveiled a major release of the Veritas CommandCentral 5.0 product family, a key component of the company’s Storage United initiative to help enterprises address their most pressing storage challenges with a unified, software-oriented approach.