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Infographic: Want to know how much time, energy and resources are wasted in healthcare paperwork?  Tons, according to GE. The company has created a neat video infographic highlighting the tremendous amount of waste — not to mention the negative impact to patient care — surrounding dead-tree record keeping and billing in the healthcare industry (embedded [...]

Read more Go paperless: Electronic medical records by the numbers

by Pedro Hernandez on September 3, 2010 · 0 comments

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Want another reason to go paperless? How about this interesting stat from an Investopedia article on outrageously overpriced products over at Yahoo Finance: Over the life of your printer, you’ll probably pay more than 500% of the total price of the printer itself on ink refill cartridges. At $30, a 42ml cartridge of black printer [...]

Read more Go paperless: Blood costs less than printer ink

by Pedro Hernandez on September 3, 2010 · 0 comments

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In case there’s any doubt that Cisco is taking the smart grid seriously, Earth2Tech’s Katie Fehrenbacher is reporting today that the computer networking giant is buying up San Francisco-based wireless smart grid networking firm Arch Rock. Terms, as they say, are undisclosed (drat!). The main draw? “Arch Rock’s wireless mesh technology enhances Cisco’s IP-based, end-to-end [...]

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by Pedro Hernandez on September 2, 2010 · 0 comments

3PAR data center storage

How high will they go? HP one-upped Dell with a roughly $2.1 billion bid to snag storage virtualization and thin provisioning firm 3PAR. At stake is nothing less than cloud domination! Actually, no, but close. IT vendors are scrambling to build their cloud portfolios, which rests on offering technologies and platforms that can scale to [...]

Read more 3PAR bidding war update: HP offers $2.1 billion

by Pedro Hernandez on September 2, 2010 · 0 comments

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Overclocking processors is a common enough tweak for computer enthusiasts. Not so much in the data center, though. Why? First, no sysadmin will risk a server’s stability or voiding the warranty on an expensive piece of hardware. Also, why put added strain on a facility’s cooling systems? Enter liquid cooling. Submerging computer hardware into inert [...]

Read more Dawn of the liquid-cooled, overclocked data centers?

by Pedro Hernandez on September 1, 2010 · 0 comments

WhipTail: SSDs for effective and efficient VDI

August 31, 2010
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Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) makes a lot of sense on paper. Centralize management and maintenance by servers handle the brunt of the heavy lifting and let your employees interact with technologically lean, energy-efficient thin clients. In reality — and despite the claims of VDI vendors — companies have a couple of concerns, performance being chief [...]

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GreenRay earns certs for plug-and-play solar module

August 31, 2010
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The fledgling residential plug and play solar market got a little more momentum this week thanks to GreenRay, Inc. The Westford, Mass. startup announced that its SunSine 200 AC module, a device that links solar arrays to a home’s electrical system has met the UL 1741 standard, earning the ETL mark from Intertek. So pleased [...]

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LG to debut 31-inch OLED prototype at ISA

August 30, 2010
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Another tradeshow, another OLED prototype. Though low-power OLED displays are common enough on handhelds, they’re taking their sweet time transitioning to the home theater sizes. LG is exacerbating this sad state of affairs by showing off its latest, 31-inch, .11-inch thick 3D OLED display during IFA this week in Germany. At first blush, it looks [...]

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3PAR: Hints of a green storage bidding war

August 26, 2010
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Last year, EMC and NetApp battled it out for DataDomain, whose claim to fame was a strong data deduplication portfolio. Data deduplication, as its name suggests, helps data center operators keep their energy and storage hardware costs in check by eliminating identical sets of data that would otherwise take up room on oftentimes pricey storage [...]

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TierPoint goes geothermal

August 26, 2010
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TierPoint, a provider of colocation and telecom services, is gearing up for a new $8.2 million data center build in Spokane, Wash. One of the hallmarks of the project will be low-power geothermal cooling. According to Greg Zemp, a TierPoint partner, utilizing this unconventional method of lowering IT hardware temps not only reduces energy costs [...]

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Kindle’s kinder to the environment

August 25, 2010
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Are e-readers really all that much better for the environment than books? The answer to that question is a resounding yes, at least according to Cleantech. The numbers break down thusly: A typical book has a 7.5 kilograms (~17 pounds) of carbon footprint. The iPad’s weighs in at 130 kilograms. The Kindle is estimated to [...]

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