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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

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

iPad EMR startup DrChrono attracts $2.8M

January 26, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

DrChrono EMR

This is awesome. NYT Bits Blog has a story today on Silicon Valley startup DrChrono and how it raised $2.8 million from Yuri Milner, in addition to the $1.3 million funded by Y-Combinator and 500 Startups, among others. DrChrono is an electronic medical record (EMR) platform that’s taking advantage of the growing popularity of iPads in […]

Filed Under: Green IT Tagged With: electronic medical records, EMR, financing, funding, startup, VC, venture capital

5 tips for a greener PC in 2012

January 11, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

New Year’s resolutions can be hard to keep, but lowering your personal computing’s carbon footprint is super easy. Not only will you save on energy costs, but you’ll save money and you’ll be more nimble and flexible in how technology is incorporated into your life. And if one of your resolutions this year was to […]

Filed Under: Green IT Tagged With: cloud, Cloud Computing, cloud storage, green computer, guide, printer, tips, Ultrabooks

SSDs sales rise, prices drop below $1 per GB in 2012

January 10, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez

Later this year, solid-state drives (SSDs) are expected to drop beneath that magical barrier that really spurs adoption: $1 per gigabyte (GB) from a relatively lofty $1.56 in 2011. According to IDC, SSDs will reach this milestone in the second half of 2012. (Pro tip: hold off on that upgrade ’til then.) Mind you, SSDs are still […]

Filed Under: Green IT, Storage Tagged With: hard drive, SSD, Storage

CES 2012: 5 green gadgets to watch

January 9, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is nearly upon us and this year there are plenty of gadgets to warm the hearts of green geeks… If they know where to look. CES is where electronics makers debut their cool new gear with the hopes that they will end up in your living room, or more recently, […]

Filed Under: Gadgets & Mobile, Green IT Tagged With: CES, Consumer Electronics Show, Kindle, LG, Mirasol display, OLED, SSD, Ultrabooks

3 reasons the iPad hasn’t kicked off the paperless office (yet)

December 30, 2011 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

iPad 2 - White

iPads are everywhere, at least around these parts. And they’re starting to pop up in a lot of offices, too, with a good share of SMBs willing to take the plunge. With these sleek, connected tablets in hand, you’d think you would no longer need to lug around printouts of spreadsheets, memos and other documents. […]

Filed Under: Gadgets & Mobile, Green IT Tagged With: Apple, Flipboard, iOS, iPad, paperless, tablets

Can Intel’s Atom help green healthcare IT?

December 28, 2011 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Healthcare IT

Intel’s taking an interesting direction in marketing its latest Atom N2600 and N2800 processors, a.k.a. “Cedar Trail.” Sure, the company is talking up all the whiz-bang stuff its low-power, 32nm chips can do for consumers, like pump out 1080 video and stretch battery life for to up to 10 hours. But Intel’s also betting that healthcare […]

Filed Under: Gadgets & Mobile, Green IT Tagged With: ARM, healthcare IT, Intel, Intel Atom, iPad, tablets

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