Some data center doings in today’s roundup. AOL flips the switch on its “lights out” data center; SmartCube emerges as a low-cost container player in its native Brazil; and is virtualization hamstrung by storage infrastructures? Also, Tesla makes Panasonic the official supplier of batteries for its Model S and GM bets big on recycling. AOL [...]
Read more Today’s 10: AOL goes ‘unmanned’ for new data center
Lately: A look at how Amazon’s Kindle Fire browser, Silk, could further blur the lines between the cloud and mobile devices. Google boosts its support for residential solar – with its checkbook, of course. Iceland hopes to lure data center operators with its chill, renewables-friendly ways. Also, Intel readies new Atoms as it works to unseat [...]
Read more Today’s 10: Amazon’s Silk road to cloud domination
Today: Facebook discovers that its servers can take the heat resulting in cold aisles that are anything but. Also, Feds grab Instapaper’s server; startups take aim at cloud-unfriendly relational databases; and SolidFire plans SSD arrays that it says will (paradoxically) lead to lower data storage costs. Intriguing! All that, plus IBM’s HUGE energy savings in [...]
Read more Today’s 10 – Facebook gives new meaning to cold aisles
Today, some rumblings indicate that notebook manufacturers may be falling out of love with Intel and into ARM’s, well, arms! SemiAccurate has an interesting analysis that points to some potentially interesting tech coming from ARM and AMD. Also, cloud security and disaster recovery are attracting talent and attention; Microsoft’s looking beyond single-server virtualization; and Google [...]
A virtualization-heavy list today, so let’s get started. VMware’s licensing cost structure shows signs of adaptability; Symantec discovers that virtualization and cloud tech fail to live up to their potential for many IT shops; and the Payment Card Industry sounds the alarm on credit card data stored in virtualized environments. All that, plus Intel’s vision [...]
Today: Home solar firm, SolarCity, has found a huge benefactor in Google; now’s not the time to be shy about the cloud’s green attributes (competitive advantages?); and NJ will soon be the home to the largest private solar power plant thanks, in part, to publishing giant McGraw Hill. And in a sign that ARM-powered servers [...]
Tsk tsk… The Consumer Electronics Association finds that when it comes to saving energy, consumers are game. Unfortunately, accomplishing it eludes them. Also, Violin’s flash-based data storage story keeps resonating with VCs; ARM’s journey to the data center might make a pitstop at PCs courtesy of Windows 8; and a cleantech incubator sprouts in San [...]
Read more Today’s 10 – Tuesday, June 7
Today, Steve Jobs is expected to take the stage at WWDC 2011 and finally pull the curtain open on its cloud offering (and a little thing called iOS 5, and for Mac lovers, OS X “Lion”). Here’s what some top online IT publications are saying… Steve Jobs and the iCloud announcement: What his public appearance [...]
Read more Today’s 10: Apple iCloud Edition
Today: AMD is making its case for GPUs in the data center; buzz surrounds Facebook’s infrastructure-related announcement on Thursday; and how Dow saves big by pushing sustainability across its operations. AMD will out the ‘Southern Islands’ GPU architecture early – SemiAccurate Hadoop and MapReduce?! Already a hit in HPC circles, the GPU sets its sights [...]
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