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  Last week’s first look at Windows 8 has thrown up more questions than answers, but shows Microsoft is on the right track. Depending on how you look at, the Windows 8 sneak-peek was a stroke of genius or a knee-jerk response to a changing world. Where I think Microsoft has got it right is responding to the expectations of a new generation of users who, in just a few short years, have become spoiled by the immediate access to information offered by smartphones.   Look at one example [...]

Green initiatives are becoming more prevalent throughout our society . From February 1-3, 2011 GSMI will be holding the fourth installment of the Green Data Center Conference. This event will bring energy efficiency and performance issues to the forefront. Case studies and analysis will be presented by a wide variety of industry experts. Best practices, revolutionary equipment, management techniques and innovations in the data center environment will be offered and analyzed through a cost benefit [...]

The National Department of Homeland Security is currently sponsoring October 2010 as the 7th annual cyber security awareness month.  According to recent IBM data, “The average company’s computer infrastructure is attacked nearly 60,000 times every day.” These staggering numbers continue to rise, year by year, with no sign that the threat is going to slow. “According to IBM X-Force research, new computer vulnerabilities increased by 36 percent in the first half of 2010”. The rapid [...]

Below is an interview from our June 2010 Green Data Center Conference (GDCON) with one of the leading experts on data center efficiency, KC Mares. The information KC offers in his presentation derives from ten years of experience striving for data center efficiency. At the 2010 Green Data Center Conference, KC’s session analyzed the following key factors in Data Center sustainability: Creating data centers which have a PUE between 1.03 – 1.08 Building energy efficient and low cost [...]