Cell-Phone Chips to the Rescue
It takes energy to run the computers inside data centers—and then more energy to cool them down. With demand for cloud computing growing rapidly, the companies that run these centers are looking for ways to save on energy costs. The microprocessors inside their computers look to be an ideal target.
For years, Intel and AMD have dominated the microprocessor market with high-performance chips. But as the cost of cooling chips becomes a bigger issue, these companies will face competition from low-power upstarts, some of which use chip architectures originally developed for cell phones and other mobile devices.
Should Companies That Use Open Source Software Pay a Tithe?
Gabriel Weinberg, founder of search engine Duck Duck Go, isn’t religious, which is one of the reasons he’s comfortable calling his latest project a "tithe," despite the connotations attached to the term.
Just about every startup on the planet benefits from the use of open source software–everything from database software PostgreSQL to the Apache web server–which is free to use.
Hundreds of Millions of Reasons to Believe in Cloud Storage
Portsmouth crime reduction partnership deploys cloud business intelligence
A business crime reduction partnership in Portsmouth has deployed a cloud-based business intelligence system from Hicom to help collate crime incidents and identify prolific offenders.
The Portsmouth Business Crime Reduction Partnership (PBCRP) has selected the NBIS (National Business Intelligence System) from Hicom. PBCRP operates across the entire city of Portsmouth ands works in collaboration with Portsmouth City Council, the police and other community organisations.
Fifty Years of Water Cooling
Everything we take for granted – the Internet, the Cloud, all that on demand media, stock markets, your checking account balance – has a physical reality in a place called a data center. We are as dependent on them as we are on our most critical pieces of infrastructure – power plants, water treatment facilities, hospitals. And it wasn’t always this way.
Cisco Takes Aim at the Virtual Desktop
As enterprise servers move to virtualized cloud infrastructure, Cisco sees a large market opportunity for delivering a virtual desktop to enterprises.
Cisco today announced a new effort called the Virtualization Experience Infrastructure (VXI), which leverages existing and new Cisco hardware and services to enable a fresh generation of endpoints for virtual desktop delivery. As part of the launch, Cisco announced a series of new Virtualization Experience Clients (VXC) that enable virtual desktop delivery on IP phones and mobile devices.
EMC, VMware Build Private Cloud for New York Hospital
How Cloud Computing Could Transform the Travel and Hospitality Industry
Every now and again a set of technologies comes together that could transform an industry. In terms of profitability, we all know that the airline industry has had more than its fair share of troubles. But the question that may need to be asked is whether these companies actually know what business they are in. Most of them operate under the assumption that they are in the business of flying people around the globe. In reality, they are part of the travel and hospitality industry, so maybe it’s time to rethink their entire business model.
Cloud computing ‘should be part of IT strategy’
The use of cloud computing offerings should be an important part of a company’s overall strategy for IT, it has been suggested.
This is according to Douglas Menefee, chief information officer of the Schumacher Group, who said that businesses should not make the mistake of viewing cloud computing as a separate entity to other IT operations.
"Develop your IT strategy – cloud is just part of it," he stated in comments reported by Forbes.
Cloud Computing Impact Debated At XTI Conference
Ask four different solution providers about their approach to such issues as cloud computing, and you’ll get four different answers.
That was the case a panel discussion Thursday on a look at the future of channel business models at the Xchange Tech Innovator conference, held this week in Las Vegas.
For solution providers with a primary focus on government, the move to cloud computing appears to be much slower than for those with more of a commercial customer focus.