ARM is getting a lot of attention lately. The chip designer, whose energy efficient processor technology powers the vast majority of the world’s smartphones and tablets, is benefiting greatly from the popularity of the iPad and other ARM-based devices. Even Microsoft, a long-time x86 devotee, has jumped on the ARM bandwagon for its Windows RT operating system […]
Linux Ships on a Third of Dell Netbooks
An interesting little factoid emerged today. According to David Finch, nearly a third of the netbooks sold by Dell ship with Linux, Ubuntu to be precise.OSNews reports:Even though Dell is only the fifth-largest manufacturer of netbooks in the world, it…
Is Google Chrome OS a Too-Thin Client Operating System?
John Gruber at Daring Fireball wrote a juicy post titled “Putting What Little We Actually Know About Chrome OS Into Context.” It’s a refreshingly sober take on the recent Google Chrome OS announcement, which spawned hyperbolic editorials. (Nuclear bomb, anyone?)…
Green IT News Roundup – Thursday, June 25
Virtualization: The coming display protocol wars – Washington Technology The future of desktop virtualization may hinge on display protocols. VMware and Citrix take different paths: Which company is likely to win? SOA vendors see cloud computing writing on datacenter walls…
Green IT News Roundup – Monday, June 15
Apple, Dell And HP Scrambling For Top Green Spot – RedOrbit “It’s really a green arms race, in which they’re trying to one up each other,” John Spooner, an analyst with Technology Business Research, said to Reuters News. “The good…
Green IT News Roundup – Wednesday, June 10
HP Designs New Server for ‘extreme’ Scale-out Computing – PC World The servers also omit features that HP says often aren’t required by large Internet companies, such as redundant power supplies and advanced management software. “In many cases these companies…
Green IT News Roundup – Friday, May 22
Happy Memorial Day weekend! Between the barbecues and all that running around, remember why we celebrate this holiday. Survey queries virtualisation benefits and cost savings – Techworld.com However, 55 percent admitted to the network analysis vendor that they experienced more…
SiCortex – Green, Open Source High Performance Computing
Curious about the vendor mentioned in the story about the new computers used by Royal Military College of Canada aircraft engineers, I pointed by browser to Maynard, MA-based SiCortex. I’m glad I did… Befitting the affinity many scientists and researchers…
Green IT News Roundup – Thursday, May 14
Oracle Snaps Up Virtual Iron, Plans Virtualization Push – ChannelWeb Oracle said Virtual Iron’s dynamic resource and capacity management technology complements the core features of Oracle VM by providing tools for capacity management, power management and easy virtualization integration with…
IBM: Mainframes are Green, Really
On the surface, it would seem counterintuitive to consider mainframes–the hulking computing flagships of IT–as a green technology. But that’s exactly IBM’s message and it does have its merits. While you may have to make some accommodations in you datacenter…
