Can news be both surprising and unsurprising? Let’s start with the unsurprising part of the announcement that AMD is acquiring SeaMicro, which is that the startup has been taken off the market for a cool $334 million. Since it unstealthed in June 2010, the company has attracted customers like Google and Mozilla with a dense, […]
State of the SMB cloud market
Yesterday, Parallels released its SMB Cloud Insights report. And according to the company’s forecast, the global SMB cloud services market is growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 26 percent and is on track to reach $68 billion by 2014. So, small- and medium-sized businesses are taking to the cloud in increasing numbers, which makes […]
NASA jettisons mainframes, looks to the cloud
It’s the end of an era. “Marshall Space Flight Center powered down NASA’s last mainframe, the IBM Z9 Mainframe,” says Linda Cureton in her NASA Blog post. The powerful, refrigerator-sized computers that were once a hallmark of corporate and research data centers have steadily lost ground to off-the-shelf servers over the years. Mind you, mainframes still alive and kicking, […]
Google App Engine on ARM servers
HP got the industry buzzing this week when it announced plans to build server hardware based on low-power ARM processors. And while it will be a while before Project Moonshot’s tech hits data centers, that’s not stopping folks from dreaming up some big data implications. Better yet, some enterprising souls are already demonstrating what its […]
Infographic of the day: Cloud’s formation in 2011
What does the cloud look like in 2011? What’s it made of? Thanks to a survey conducted by BitNami, Cloud.com and cloud management firm Zenoss, we have a fascinating new snapshot of the cloud market. With the help of 500 IT professionals, the companies were able to get a bead on some of the factors […]
Today’s 10: Apple iCloud Edition
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 […]
Infographic of the day: 1 data center = 25K homes
Cloud computing is taking the IT industry by storm but behind the technology are massive data centers that consume a lot of energy. How much? According to some of the opening stats in an infographic cooked up by ABB, a utility and industrial automation firm, the energy requirements of the world’s data centers are large […]
Electronic medical records’ green potential lies in the cloud
Can electronic medical records (EMR) help hospitals, clinics and doctor’s offices go green? Yes, but not right away. Kaiser Permanente, a health care giant, used itself as a test case and the results are encouraging. Transitioning to electronic medical records can cut CO2 emissions by up to 1.7 million tons a year. The New York […]
Cloud, data center growth drives GE’s $520M Lineage Power buy
GE is venturing into the green data center energy space by acquiring Plano, Texas-based Lineage Power for just over a cool half-billion dollars. Citing growth in cloud and mobile computing — thanks, in part, to the 1.1 billion new smartphones the company expects to hop on wireless networks this year — GE’s Energy Services president and […]
Analysis: Microsoft’s Dynamics ERP cloud strategy
An Industry Voices Post: Cloud computing is emerging as a way to trim IT costs and achieve both energy savings and carbon reductions. A win-win-win, right? Essentially, yes, but as any techie can tell you, any change in IT strategy merits a good, nuanced examination about how it affects your business. I’m thrilled to have […]
