Today, Steve Jobs is expected to take the stage at WWDC 2011 and finally pull the curtain open on its cloud offering (and a little thing called iOS 5, and for Mac lovers, OS X “Lion”). Here’s what some top online IT publications are saying… Steve Jobs and the iCloud announcement: What his public appearance […]
Archives for June 2011
Traits of an evolved, efficient data center build
FacilityBlog over at Today’s Facility Manager has some great quotes from Jakob Carnemark, an SVP with construction giant Skanska USA. In essence, he says that in order to keep pace with exploding data center demand, it’s time to break from the past and adopt agile, energy saving and cost effective strategies for getting IT facilities […]
Power Assure software, Universal Electric gear connect on energy management
The energy management integration train is picking up steam. Today Power Assure announced that its EM/4 software has been certified for use with Universal Electric’s STARLINE Critical Power Monitor meters, which are found in the latter company’s power STARLINE Busway and Raceway power distribution systems distribution equipment for data centers. What does this mean? Essentially, the […]
Today’s 10 – Wednesday, June 1
Today: GPUs giveth in terms of powerful and energy efficient computing, but they also taketh away — your strong password’s effectiveness, that is. Also: Despite Amazon and other cloud provider’s knack for grabbing headlines, private clouds are business’ top choice. And though the cloud is hailed for its energy-saving potential, Green Monk’s Tom Raftery argues […]
