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“Most people slow down as the weather gets hotter. Purdue University has applied that logic to its data center, developing software that can slow server activity as temperature rises. This technique recently allowed Purdue’s data center to continue operating during several cooling outages, throttling down server activity to prevent the room from overheating.” Read more on [...] Found this article in Norway’s Computerworld. We all know change is inevitable but like with anything else touched by information technology, things accelerate. Don’t get behind! "The rate of change [in IT] has accelerated dramatically," says Alain Chesnais, president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and founder of Visual Transitions, which specializes in computer graphics [...] How to figure out what the cost implications (hopefully savings) of cloud computing are? There are as many different pricing models as there are players. Price per service being not the sole decision criteria, is certainly very important. Most major players offer some sort of ROI calculator or cost analyzer. Here’s what Amazon and Microsoft provide. Amazon [...] Over on Rough Type, Nicolas Carr’s blog, he points to a document dated from March 30, 1965. In this document Western Union describes its plan to build “a nationwide information utility, which will enable subscribers to obtain, economically, efficiently, immediately, the required information flow to facilitate the conduct of business and other affairs." Sound familiar? I [...] This week is the Microsoft (now annual?) Professional Developers Conference PDC 2009 in Los Angeles. We are expecting lots of news about current and future Microsoft products and news about the company’s cloud computing strategy. Microsoft, side by side with Amazon, Google, SalesForce and maybe Yahoo! is a player in the cloud computing space and [...] |
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