If the rumors are to be believed, a major web company is getting ready to deploy servers based on ARM’s low-power chips. According to Charlie Demerjian’s post at Semi Accurate, Facebook will be the first to make that jump. (With Smooth-Stone, perhaps?) Though mainly a designer of chips for smartphones and mobiles — essentially a […]
Archives for August 2010
Oracle Virtualization’s “desktop-to-datacenter” play
How do you make a grab for a bigger slice of the virtualization market in the face of VMware’s expansive portfolio? By going in whole hog. The software company is undergoing a product realignment, corralling all of its virtualization technologies under the Oracle Virtualization banner in a product development and branding exercise that, if all […]
USPS green roof thrives in Manhattan
Scientific American has a neat article and slideshow that details the $5 million, 65,000-square-foot green roof atop the United States Postal Service’s Morgan Processing and Distribution Center in New York City. Installed in 2008, today it not only plays host to a thriving assortment of trees and flowers — and million dollar views — it […]
Follow Friday Tweetfest of Awesomeness: Green Jobs Edition
Gloomy employment picture? Not if you’re an cleantech and energy efficiency expert! It’s been a while since I cooked up one of my spectacularly popular Twitter follow lists (cue crickets, tumbleweeds), so I thought that this would be a good time to spotlight some great Twitter accounts for launching your new green career (in IT […]
Verizon pushes green retail in R.I.
What do you do when your store is damaged by flooding? Rebuild it greener! That’s what Verizon Wireless did after flooding back in March wrecked its Warwick, Rhode Island storefront (399 Bald Hill Road). Five months later, the remodeled 4,000 square foot store is up for LEED Silver certification. Thanks to energy and water efficiency […]
Viridity completes $8M Series B round, lands big customers
Data center energy management firm Viridity Software this week raised $8 million in a second round of funding from Battery Ventures and North Bridge Venture Partners, bringing its total haul to date to $15 million. More than just monitoring energy usage — a common enough capability these days — the Amesbury, Mass.-based startup develops software […]
Fusio-io expands product line, signs Dell as OEM
Fusion-io has added new hardware to its PCI Express based storage card lineup, giving servers a lot more high-performance solid-state storage to make short work of all those transactions. The company’s new ioMemory Module doubles the storage capacity of their existing PCIe card lineup, up to 1.28TB and boosting sustained IOPS to 285,000. Not too […]
Intel buys McAfee: New era of secure (green) clouds?
In a whopper of deal, Intel today announced that it is acquiring McAfee for $7.68 billion. On the surface it looks like Intel is elbowing into the software space, but snagging one of the premier IT security firms is also indicative of a three-pronged plan of attack for cloud computing and data centers. Intel’s CEO, […]
Green data centers: $13.8B U.S. market by 2015
In just five short years, the market for green data centers in the United States will more than triple to $13.81 billion dollars by 2015 from today’s $3.82 billion, according to a forecast from Environmental Leader Insights. During that time, the U.S. Government will emerge as an important market driver. As it seeks to modernize […]
What if solar enjoyed Facebook-like adoption…
Infographic: One Block off the Grid (1BOG) has just posted a neat infographic that envisions what it would be like if solar panel installs followed the same trajectory as Facebook’s rate of adoption. Did you know that if that were the case, the U.S. could be completely powered by solar in just three and a […]
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