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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 […]

Today in Green IT: Thanks to a growing ecosystem of virtual desktop apps, the future of thin clients is looking more and more like the iPad. Also, despite the success of Amazon’s S3 platform, many IT managers won’t commit to cloud storage and Microsoft claims that its Hyper-V virtualization platform has helped Target eliminate nearly […]

Today: Intel gets serious about ARM’s data center ambitions; Seagate busts out new SSDs for enterprise environments; and Ted Turner dishes on where he’d place his bets if he got his start today. And in a geeky way of commemorating this St. Patrick’s Day, a link to a Data Center Knowledge post on how Dublin’s […]

Today: Microsoft wants to make data centers a thing of the past (wink, wink); Calxeda (formerly Smooth-Stone) thinks its ARM-based servers will represent the next big shift in IT computing hardware; and three neat gadgets — including one in beta — that will help you save energy now. Microsoft: Our Goal is to Eliminate the […]

Today: A new software-as-a-service building efficiency startup; data center energy sourcing is in the news; and HP bets big on energy monitoring and carbon accounting. Also, elastic clouds explained. Enjoy today’s links! Retroficiency: Software for Cutting the Fat Out of Retrofits – Greentech Media Retroficiency, a building efficiency SaaS startup, emerges with $800K in funding. […]

Today: The Green Grid’s Mark Monroe explains how the group is incorporating more factors into green data center design; VMware brings its virtualization and cloud management tech under one umbrella; and Brigdelux blazes a trail toward cheaper, silicon-based LED lighting. Video: Green Grid’s Executive Director on New Data Center Maturity Model – Environmental Leader Watch […]

Hello again! Back after a long weekend spent in the lovely Sunshine State. Today, Western Digital’s $4.3 billion acquisition of Hitachi’s hard drive unit still looms large, with not one, but two links devoted to the deal. Western Digital is feeling the pressure as energy efficient flash memory eats into its consumer hard drive business […]

Though its image has to shake off some coal dust, Facebook’s data center in Prineville Ore. is loaded with energy efficiency features. Also, HP and IBM are advancing powerful, low-power computing in the run-up to exascale computing; tape comes to the rescue after Gmail’s cloud fail; and Honeywell leverages open source for the smart grid […]

Apologies for the spotty updates. It’s what happens when you run a one-man show and life pries you away from your keyboard. Today’s first link is about Twitter, unsurprising given current events. (Twitter’s also somewhat to blame for the lack of updates here but I’m reluctant to jinx things by discussing it.) Helen Clarkson penned […]