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The Green Grid welcomes individuals

February 27, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez

The Green Grid logo

It used to be that if you wanted to be a member of The Green Grid, you had to belong to a member organization. That’s no longer the case. The Green Grid is accepting individual memberships. Here’s what the $400 annual fee gets you: Admittance to the members-only Web site with exclusive, early access to documents before […]

Filed Under: Green IT Tagged With: The Green Grid

Survey: EMR most commonly supported mobile app in hospitals

February 23, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

DrChrono EMR

Right now, businesses are struggling with the consumerization of IT, or BYOD (bring your own device) as many have taken to calling it. Basically, it’s the introduction of consumer gadgets like the iPad and Android smartphones into a company’s technology mix. It can cause problems like corporate data residing on a personally-owned phone that your […]

Filed Under: Gadgets & Mobile, Stats & Figures Tagged With: electronic medical records, EMR, healthcare, iPad, mobile, survey

ARM’s a good influence on Windows 8 power management

February 17, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Windows 8

With Windows 8, Microsoft is looking to make the operating system and the software that runs on it more efficient. This is important for this version of Windows because there will be a variant, called Windows on ARM (ARM), that runs on tablet-friendly ARM processors. In an MSDN blog post,  Steven Sinofsky, president of Windows and Windows […]

Filed Under: Green IT Tagged With: Microsoft, PC, Power Management, software, tablet, Windows 8

State of the SMB cloud market

February 16, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Clouds

Yesterday, Parallels released its SMB Cloud Insights report. And according to the company’s forecast, the global SMB cloud services market is growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 26 percent and is on track to reach $68 billion by 2014. So, small- and medium-sized businesses are taking to the cloud in increasing numbers, which makes […]

Filed Under: Cloud Computing, Stats & Figures Tagged With: cloud, Cloud Computing, forecast, small business, SMB, statistics, stats

NASA jettisons mainframes, looks to the cloud

February 12, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

NASA's last mainframe

It’s the end of an era. “Marshall Space Flight Center powered down NASA’s last mainframe, the IBM Z9 Mainframe,” says Linda Cureton in her NASA Blog post. The powerful, refrigerator-sized computers that were once a hallmark of corporate and research data centers have steadily lost ground to off-the-shelf servers over the years. Mind you, mainframes still alive and kicking, […]

Filed Under: Cloud Computing, Green IT Tagged With: AT&T, cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloudscaling, mainframe, NASA, OpenStack, Piston Cloud Computing, startups

Flash fever strikes the data storage industry

February 11, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

EMC VFCache

What a week for storage, specifically for flash vendors. It started early in the week with news that EMC’s officially unveiled VFCache (formerly “Project Lightning”), a PCIe add-on card for servers. That’s right, EMC’s is entering the flash cache field pioneered by Fusion-io. But rather than targeting web and cloud services providers, EMC wants those […]

Filed Under: Green IT, Storage Tagged With: EMC, flash storage, Hitachi, SSD, Virident

Green IT: Nicira intros network virtualization tech, EMC follows flash startups

February 7, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Nicira logo

Not that I planned it this way, but yesterday I wrote two articles for the IT Business Edge network, each with a neat little Green IT component. The first is about Nicira, a startup that emerged from stealth this week despite offering a product that’s been commercially available since July 2011. But let’s not get […]

Filed Under: Green IT, Storage Tagged With: EMC, network virtualization, Nicira, Storage, Virtualization

Nokia puts suppliers on notice with anti-conflict mineral policy

February 4, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Rare earth mining and its associated trade bankrolls a lot of the violence that’s gripping the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). And given the convoluted supply chains that have become a hallmark of today’s global economy, these “conflict minerals” can wind up in your electronics. That’s a problem. Nokia has taken an official stance on […]

Filed Under: Gadgets & Mobile Tagged With: conflict minerals, Congo, Nokia

SeaMicro looks beyond Atom for more server sales

February 4, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

SeaMicro - Xeon server

This is an interesting turn of events. Lately, startups like Calxeda and SeaMicro have been making waves by enticing data center operators with the promise of potent yet power-sipping servers using low-watt processors that are decidedly non-standard on servers. Namely, ARM- and Intel Atom-based chips, respectively. Now it turns out that SeaMicro sees some value, or at least […]

Filed Under: Green IT, Servers Tagged With: Intel Atom, Intel Xeon, SeaMicro, server

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