Uploading your music to the cloud isn't as simple as you might think. As more data is stored online, the cloud takes more and more energy to maintain, forcing companies to get into the business of getting power as cheaply as possible.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»
Yesterday we heard about the Open Compute Project. Facebook's director of hardware design, Frank Frankovsky, tells us about part two of the social network’s plan to spur suppliers to build the products it needs.READ»
In trying to match the speed of your mind, the search giant just gave its servers up to 20 times more work. That's not great for its energy bill or its carbon footprint. And all those seconds you'll save on searching? You're likely to spend them on Google anyway. READ»
Forget Intel versus AMD--that was a chip-maker battle of yesteryear. Now the real CPU war is happening in smartphones and servers, where Intel is playing a desperate game of catch-up to ARM and a few new contenders.READ»
Intel posted a whopping 34% jump in sales in the second quarter of this year, which makes it the chip giant's most profitable quarter ever. Isn't this supposed to be a recession?READ»
AMD hasn't given up its fight in the CPU battle against rival Intel: It's now reaching for the next computing revolution--the cloud. A slew of new powerful but cheap AMD chips are out. They also prove desktop supercomputing is en ...READ»
The computer server industry may not sound like a hotbed for innovation to you, but SeaMicro thinks differently. It's just rocked the server world with a super-computer-like product that's smaller and more power-efficient than any ...READ»
Theplanet.com Host serves more than 20,000 businesses worldwide and more than 15.7 million Web sites with 40 percent of customers located outside of North America. It has more than 48,500 servers under management with six wholly owned ...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»
In case you're living in a lead-lined, radio wave-proof, soundproofed bunker, it's Michael Jackson's funeral today. But given that the event of his death nearly crashed the Web, will his funeral create even more problems online?Okay, ...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»
On Sunday, the UK's Times reported that performing two Google [GOOG] searches uses about as much energy as a kettle takes to boil. But Google says that estimate is inflated. Alex Wissner-Gross, the Harvard scientist quoted in the ...READ»
After Sarah Palin's email account was breached, the McCain campaign promised swift retribution. The hammer of justice fell last week on David Kernell, the son of a Tennessee state lawmaker. The 20 year-old University of Tennessee ...READ»
This summer, the Department of Justice cracked the biggest case of identity theft in history. While we are thankful to the Justice Department for its hard work in bringing the identity thieves to justice, it does not negate the fact ...READ»
Over the last year, Web 2.0 became cloudy. Yes, once upon a time, Sergey and Larry defined their vision for Google as an effort “to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible.” As a result of this ...READ»
