Cloudy picture for cloud computing
Apr. 30, 2008
LAS VEGAS -- You can call it cloud computing. You can call it grid computing. You can call it on-demand computing. Just don't call it the next big thing – at least not yet.
Evolution of Internet powers massive particle physics grid
Apr. 22, 2008
An evolution of Internet technologies is powering the worldwide grid supporting CERN's giant particle accelerator.
Green technology: hype or must-have?
Apr. 21, 2008
An onslaught of
Employees love stale cake
Apr. 11, 2008
Keith and Jason talk about the latest scary security news from RSA, the batch of acquisition news, and why employees love free gadgets and free food.
Yahoo offers free supercomputing to Hadoop developers
Mar. 25, 2008
Yahoo has teamed with Computational Research Laboratories (CRL), a lab run by India's Tata Group, to offer supercomputing facilities free to academic institutions in India that are researching large scale computing, ...
EMC buys Pi to round out cloud computing unit
Feb. 22, 2008
Storage giant EMC continues to push into the consumer territory: Its latest move is to acquire Pi, a company whose software and services will help users keep track of their personal data.
Data center power: the cost reality
Feb. 18, 2008
U.S. data centers rack up billions in electricity costs annually. How to get power costs under control before the energy crisis hits you
Where to turn for advice about data-center power consumption
Feb. 18, 2008
The Green Grid, SNIA Green Storage Initiative, the Green Data Project and the EPA with its Energy Star program are all working on ways to better assess how much data center power enterprises need.
Virtualization/On-demand/Grid
Feb. 18, 2008
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Two ways to measure data-center power consumption
Feb. 18, 2008
The Green Grid consortium has created the PUE and DCIE metrics for measuring data center power consumption.
Green Grid lays out ambitious action program
Feb. 08, 2008
A lack of EU regulatory or voluntary initiatives addressing the energy efficiency of data centers risked the creation of
Wanted: Energy efficiency standards for data centers
Feb. 06, 2008
Companies in the midst of consolidating their data need standards for rating the energy efficiency of physical data-center design and tools for monitoring and managing energy consumption in multivendor environments, ...
IBM’s SHARE, Green Grid, Linux Expo, Comptel, NANOG, outsourcing event on tap in February ...
Jan. 31, 2008
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Power management company goes green
Jan. 31, 2008
Power management company, Cassatt has joined the Green Grid, a nonprofit consortium dedicated to improving energy efficiency in data centers.
IBM uses grid to advance cancer diagnosis and treatment
Jan. 29, 2008
IBM researchers and a team of doctors are building a database of digital images that they hope will enable oncologists to diagnose and treat cancer patients faster and with more success.
How Microsoft is going green
Jan. 09, 2008
Microsoft is deep into a corporatewide evaluation of how it can become a more environmentally friendly corporation.
The IT department is dead, author argues
Jan. 07, 2008
The IT department is dead, and it is a shift to utility computing that will kill this corporate career path. So predicts Nicholas Carr in his new book, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World from Edison to Google.
Storage grid standards: heralding an end to proprietary storage management
May. 21, 2007
Grid expert Mark Linesch discusses how standards work on storage grids could finally get multivendor storage systems to interoperate.
IBM targets healthcare market with grid computing
May. 16, 2007
Hospitals have unique and challenging storage needs, as they are required to store every X-ray and medical record they create, and IBM is reaching out to that market with a system being unveiled Wednesday at a ...
Keeping data warehouses from becoming data graveyards
Apr. 09, 2007
Scientists have more data than they know what to do with, so University of Southern California researchers are trying to figure out a way to help them make the most of it.
The Green Grid examines data center energy issues
Feb. 27, 2007
Last year, I wrote about an organization that AMD and other industry members such as HP, IBM and Sun were launching to focus squarely on the energy issues that are becoming increasingly thorny in today's data centers.
Grid computing comes of age
Mar. 20, 2006
This is the year that grid computing will move with a bang into mainstream corporate America, say analysts at firms such as The 451 Group. Businesses in biotech, the sciences and financial services industries already ...
Grid standard groups unite to form Open Grid Forum
Jun. 26, 2006
Two former dueling grid groups Monday made good on their February promise to merge with the mission of speeding the adoption of grid technology worldwide.
Enterprise Grid Alliance offers storage, data requirements for grids
Mar. 27, 2006
The Enterprise Grid Alliance (EGA) Monday released its data and storage provisioning requirements for enterprise grids as part of its ongoing effort to foster development of interoperable grid products and best ...
HP's StorageWorks Grid garners mixed reaction
Sep. 20, 2004
HP's road map for a dynamically reconfigurable storage grid is drawing praise, although customers and industry observers also are questioning the pace at which the company plans to roll it out.
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