A Google initiative to pay more for renewable energy at its data center in Lenoir, N.C. spurred a variety of reactions from readers. Some saw it as a step forward for green energy; others call it plain dumb.
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Google’s Green Energy Scheme: Laudable or Laughable?
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VDI Performance and Cost: A Deeper Dive
Recently in his blog, Art Wittmann took exception to a column in which I stated that capital expenditure (CapEx) could and should become a key factor in the evaluation of a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) project. Although the goal of saving money on hardware and software acquisitions should not replace the goal of reducing operational expenditures (OPEx), a VDI project that achieves both would be that much more appealing.
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Huawei Quits U.S. Market
Huawei announced Tuesday it is no longer interested in the U.S. market. The move follows a string of rulings by the U.S. government that stopped Huawei from bidding on both public and private contracts.
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Data Center Boom Heats Up
Cloud providers are racing to offer the best value and availability to customers, spurring over a million square feet of new data center development in the U.S.
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Skype and Google: The Unified Communications Killers?
From Skype and Google Hangouts to integrated HD Webcams and inexpensive video conference appliances, consumer technology is pushing aside ‘enterprise-grade’ products.
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IBM Makes Economic Case for All-Flash Arrays
IBM claims all-flash arrays are now more economical than traditional hard disks for Tier-1 storage. Is it time to ditch spinning disks?
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Google Wants To Pay More For Clean Power
Google is proposing to pay more than necessary for power in North Carolina to assure that its data center there runs on renewable energy.
In keeping with previous commitments to support renewable energy, Google on Friday announced that Duke Energy, which supplies power to Google’s Lenoir, N.C. data center, has agreed to implement a program to help
large companies like Google buy renewable power.
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Smaller Windows 8 tablets will be huge
Microsoft has confirmed that smaller Windows 8 tablets will come to market in the near future. These will fill a gap in the Windows ecosystem and boost demand for Windows 8 by addressing key downsides to the early Surface tablets.
Windows tablet sales seemed to start off impressively, but the overall results so far are mediocre at best. Microsoft isn’t sharing the numbers, but recent reports suggest that 1.5 million Surface tablets have sold, with 400,000 of them Surface Pro. The Surface Pro sold out almost instantly, but without actual sales data, it’s hard to know whether that’s impressive.
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The Evolution of Wireless Bridging
Wireless bridges that provide high-speed, site-to-site connectivity have boosted throughput from Mbps to 100Gbps, but challenges such as licensing and beam alignment remain.
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VMware Adds Interoperability With Ubuntu OpenStack Cloud
VMware has contributed plug-ins to the OpenStack Project that guarantees the project’s networking platform will recognize and work with virtual machines running under VMware’s vSphere management environment and VMware’s Nicira Network Virtualization Platform.
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