Datacenter check-ups: After tweaking two datacenters in two weeks, Paul Venezia has some valuable advice for anyone who's looking to monitor their own datacenter gear. He has written a couple of new plug-ins for Nagios and Cacti monitoring programs, and is willing to share: the first one, for Nagios, is on Paul's blog now, with the second (for Cacti) coming soon. Keep an eye out for more. Silicon's last hurrah?: Datacenter check-ups: After tweaking two datacenters in two weeks, Paul Venezia has some valuable advice for anyone who’s looking to monitor their own datacenter gear. He has written a couple of new plug-ins for Nagios and Cacti monitoring programs, and is willing to share: the first one, for Nagios, is on Paul’s blog now, with the second (for Cacti) coming soon. Keep an eye out for more. Silicon’s last hurrah?: After seeing the news from last month’s Intel Developer Forum, Tom Yager thinks the writing may be on the wall for silicon chips. Does the introduction of Hafium – a less-leaky, less-power-hungry element – into chip production herald the future? Read the latest from Mr. Yager and post your comments.Roam where you want to: Some hard work by the folks at DiVitas and Avaya bore excellent fruit for road warriors who are constantly in and out of offices. As shown in this video recorded at Interop HotStage, you can roll a call from your cell phone to a desktop phone and back. That should save on those roaming charges… Technology Industry