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 […]
Qualcomm bets $2B on Mirasol – Color Kindles on the horizon?
Qualcomm is investing $2 billion to manufacture its low-power Mirasol display technology thanks to a new “major client”. It’s also a signal that it’s confident that it will make a huge splash, particularly as tablets and e-readers become staples of consumers’ gadget bags. Mirasol takes a cue from nature — specifically butterfly wings — for […]
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 […]
Dell Streak scores green points for replaceable battery
Inside the hideous packaging that cradles Dell’s Android-powered Streak tablet is a welcome sight: a user-replaceable battery! It wasn’t hard to guess that the panel on the back of the Streak was a battery cover, but iFixit’s teardown shows just how accessible the Streak’s battery truly is (kudos!). This is great news for road warriors […]
Windy in Louisiana: Blade Dynamics to open plant, American Superconductor and Dow take stake
American Superconductor (AMSC) today announced that it had paid $8 million for a 25 percent stake in U.K.-based Blade Dynamics. Dow Chemical’s VC arm also made a minority equity investment in the wind turbine company, which is expanding into the Southern U.S. Blade Dynamics’ claim to fame is efficient rotor technology that reduces weight and […]
Smooth-Stone raises $48M for green, ARM-based servers
Smooth-Stone, an Austin, Texas-based startup that’s looking to improve data center efficiency with computer servers that feature non-traditional chip architectures, announced today that it has raised $48 million to develop ARM-based servers. The funds come from a mix of VCs and technology companies, most notably ARM, which has a vested interest in seeing its low-power […]
Stuxnet: Prelude to smart grid security threats
Have you heard of Stuxnet? Unless you run industrial or power control systems, the emergence of this nasty little piece of malware probably didn’t even cause the slightest blip on your radar. But that’s no reason to ignore it. Stuxnet targets Siemens Simatic WinCC, a Windows-based suite of software that’s used by industrial plants and […]
Green startups, time to bone up on net neutrality
To be honest, I have yet to fully wrap my head around the Google and Verizon net neutrality business (I generally leave that to smarter folks). But it looks like I may have to change my attitude. In this intriguing article that sailed across my Twitter stream today, Sustainablog’s Jeff McIntire-Strasburg explores “Why Net Neutrality […]
Urban wind gathers momentum
The problem with erecting wind turbines in big cities and other urban areas come down to several factors: size and noise, zoning laws, wind variability and intermittency, bird safety… But thanks to some new innovations, urban communities and a couple of “small wind” startups are poised to bring renewable energy to town squares and apartment […]
Green data centers: $41B market by 2015
There are big bucks to be made in the green data center space in the coming years, according to a forecast from Pike Research. Over the next half decade, energy efficient IT and supporting systems — particularly power and cooling — will grow yearly, green data center revenues from $7.5 billion today to $41.4 billion […]
