I like this.
This is where technology should be headed a bit more in my opinion.
There is so much natural energy to be harvested out there... pretty much everywhere. If you have wind, there's energy.. if you have tides, there's energy.. if you have sun, there's energy...
How about using that energy to power a data center??
With the emergence of the internet and since nowadays "everything" (maybe not... but probably close) is generally "computed" in one way or another it seems to me that using these natural resources to power these huge electricity sucking centers only makes sense.
A company out in Texas called Baryonyx Corporation is behind this.
They're planning to run about 100 wind turbines to power the data center and they're also planning to develop hydrogen fuel cells and solar power...
In my opinion, this is innovation.
You can read an article here:
Wind-Powered Data Center Planned
by Rich Miller
For Data Center Knowledge
Monday, July 20, 2009
Thursday, July 16, 2009
The war heats up: Microsoft VS Google
With Google announcing their new OS on the way and Microsoft announcing that Office 10 will have free online tools to compete with Google's free "Google Apps"... looks like this is just heating up.
Microsoft have long had a hold on the operating systems market as well a large percentage of office based software.
This CNN article gives some numbers as well as describing the combatants...
Microsoft have long had a hold on the operating systems market as well a large percentage of office based software.
This CNN article gives some numbers as well as describing the combatants...
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Google will have desktop OS
As it's been reported in many places... Google will be releasing "Google Chrome" operating system.
I've heard about this for some time. Everything (well, not everything) often starts as a rumour.. this one did long ago.
Here's an article on pcmag.com.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2349836,00.asp
I've heard about this for some time. Everything (well, not everything) often starts as a rumour.. this one did long ago.
Here's an article on pcmag.com.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2349836,00.asp
Sunday, July 05, 2009
Recent internet traffic spikes and outages
Just read this article about the recent outtages and other problems due to the overwhelming traffic that occured over the internet after the death of "The king of pop" Michael Jackson.
I've often thought of these cloud based systems as very solid architectures... and really they are.
When I think of Google, I think of an almost unsinkable ship (almost... remember the Titanic??).
But in the last couple of weeks... we've seen many of these very large systems crumble under the huge spike in traffic.
Is Michael Jackson telling us not to use Google Apps?
By Christopher Dawson
I've often thought of these cloud based systems as very solid architectures... and really they are.
When I think of Google, I think of an almost unsinkable ship (almost... remember the Titanic??).
But in the last couple of weeks... we've seen many of these very large systems crumble under the huge spike in traffic.
Is Michael Jackson telling us not to use Google Apps?
By Christopher Dawson
Monday, March 09, 2009
Google Android for desktop?
I'm sure some if not all of you have heard of Google Android.
InfoWorld has an article stating that Google Android will be released by year's end... the birth of the "Google OS" that we've heard of for some time.
Another Linux based OS.... Windows beware.
InfoWorld
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