On this day in history, Galileo was forced to recant his Sun-centric theory, Pluto's moon Charon was discovered, and Virgin Atlantic flew its first transatlantic flight. What's today's news? Read on:READ»
An Apple patent gives us some clues about the cloud-based iTunes we're all expecting any moment now--namely, how it'll make streaming content a seamless experience. READ»
Apple may be about to embrace Nuance's clever voice recognition tech to power its future iPhone OS, relying on its as-yet-unused North Carolina data center to host all the code in the cloud.READ»
"The plans that I made when horizontal are working out now that I'm vertical." And one of those plans could be to catch up on the early news with iFive, to jump-start your morning.READ»
The social network is hoping hardware companies will take a page from the software open source movement and collaborate to spur innovation. They might be disappointed.READ»
iTunes music streaming has been rumored for a long while, but has never actually surfaced... But if you read between the lines of two pieces of news at the moment, it seems the time is finally ripe.READ»
3-D animation has traditionally been dominated by mammoth Hollywood studios, and for good reason--the amount of processing power that goes into 3-D animation usually requires dedicated server farms that are air-conditioned 24 hours ...READ»
Whenever we interview startups (which will be often here on FastCompany.TV) we hear "we're an Amazon shop" quite frequently. What does that mean? Well, for photosharing service SmugMug it means saving a ton of money by having Amazon ...READ»
In the debacle over China's Web attacks against Google, it's easy to forget that Google itself does some questionable things. Now there's a suggestion that its toolbar monitors your Web activity, even when you disable it.
The news ...READ»
IBM's 12.4 million, 6,000-square-foot facility at Syracuse University uses 50% less energy than typical data centers. It's ready for action, but is it as green as Big Blue claims?READ»
Search engines would be more efficient if they were decentralized, reports MIT's Technology Review. In other words, they'd be faster if they were run like bot-nets.
Bot-nets are networks of zombie computers whose processing resources ...READ»
Some cost-conscious server companies are beginning to use netbook hardware inside their machines to cut costs, according to The New York Times.
Intel's low-cost, low-power Atom CPU, which can be found in pretty much every netbook on ...READ»
Data centers aren't exactly known for their sustainability--the power hogs are responsible for 1.5% of all power use in the United States. But as cloud computing, the IT golden child that uses mega-data centers to store information, ...READ»
More information is trickling out about Apple's new data center in North Carolina--it seems it's going to be big. Amongst the biggest in the World, in fact. Are the folks at Cupertino shooting Apple into the cloud computing ...READ»
Data centers are the hidden energy vampires of the computer industry, using about 1.5% of all power in the United States. With energy consumption expected to double to 100 billion kilowatt hours (a $7.4 billion cost in energy bills), ...READ»
IBM broke ground on what is planned to be one of the world's most efficient data centers. The $12.4 million, 6,000 square foot center, located on the Syracuse University campus in New York, is being built with the goal of using ...READ»
After years of secrecy, Google revealed the inner workings of its ultra-energy efficient data centers at yesterday's Data Center Efficiency Summit.
Each of Google's servers comes with its own 12-volt lead-acid battery as a ...READ»
The phrase "going green" conjures up images of short showers, small houses, tiny cars--basically, minimal consumption. But according to Albert Esser, Vice President of Power and Data Center Infrastructure Solutions at ...READ»
SAS70 Type I & Type II audits are commonly performed on data centers,
co-location and managed services entities as part of today's ever growing
regulatory environment. The rise in software as a service (SaaS) and ASP
based ...READ»
