If you want more proof that ARM has data center ambitions, look no further than this article in eWeek. During the Hot Chips conference at Stanford this week, ARM’s architecture program manager, Dave Brash, said that the Cortex A, code-named Eagle, will feature virtualization support. Already, according to Brash, companies including VMware are working hypervisors […]
Qualcomm bets $2B on Mirasol – Color Kindles on the horizon?
Qualcomm is investing $2 billion to manufacture its low-power Mirasol display technology thanks to a new “major client”. It’s also a signal that it’s confident that it will make a huge splash, particularly as tablets and e-readers become staples of consumers’ gadget bags. Mirasol takes a cue from nature — specifically butterfly wings — for […]
Dell cuts 18.2M pounds of packaging
Since 2008, Dell has been able to reduce product packaging by 18.2 million pounds. For comparison’s sake, that’s the equivalent of “226 fully-loaded 18-wheelers or almost 4,184 small pick-ups,” according to a company statement. The statistic comes from the company’s latest corporate sustainability report. Dell attributes its success to a “three C’s” strategy, which stands […]
Is Facebook transitioning to ARM servers?
If the rumors are to be believed, a major web company is getting ready to deploy servers based on ARM’s low-power chips. According to Charlie Demerjian’s post at Semi Accurate, Facebook will be the first to make that jump. (With Smooth-Stone, perhaps?) Though mainly a designer of chips for smartphones and mobiles — essentially a […]
Oracle Virtualization’s “desktop-to-datacenter” play
How do you make a grab for a bigger slice of the virtualization market in the face of VMware’s expansive portfolio? By going in whole hog. The software company is undergoing a product realignment, corralling all of its virtualization technologies under the Oracle Virtualization banner in a product development and branding exercise that, if all […]
USPS green roof thrives in Manhattan
Scientific American has a neat article and slideshow that details the $5 million, 65,000-square-foot green roof atop the United States Postal Service’s Morgan Processing and Distribution Center in New York City. Installed in 2008, today it not only plays host to a thriving assortment of trees and flowers — and million dollar views — it […]
Follow Friday Tweetfest of Awesomeness: Green Jobs Edition
Gloomy employment picture? Not if you’re an cleantech and energy efficiency expert! It’s been a while since I cooked up one of my spectacularly popular Twitter follow lists (cue crickets, tumbleweeds), so I thought that this would be a good time to spotlight some great Twitter accounts for launching your new green career (in IT […]
Verizon pushes green retail in R.I.
What do you do when your store is damaged by flooding? Rebuild it greener! That’s what Verizon Wireless did after flooding back in March wrecked its Warwick, Rhode Island storefront (399 Bald Hill Road). Five months later, the remodeled 4,000 square foot store is up for LEED Silver certification. Thanks to energy and water efficiency […]
Viridity completes $8M Series B round, lands big customers
Data center energy management firm Viridity Software this week raised $8 million in a second round of funding from Battery Ventures and North Bridge Venture Partners, bringing its total haul to date to $15 million. More than just monitoring energy usage — a common enough capability these days — the Amesbury, Mass.-based startup develops software […]
Fusio-io expands product line, signs Dell as OEM
Fusion-io has added new hardware to its PCI Express based storage card lineup, giving servers a lot more high-performance solid-state storage to make short work of all those transactions. The company’s new ioMemory Module doubles the storage capacity of their existing PCIe card lineup, up to 1.28TB and boosting sustained IOPS to 285,000. Not too […]
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