Energy and Environment
Computer Scientists Propose New Way to Build Datacenters
Sunday, August 24th, 2008Interesting developments in the Data Center design. Data Centers and their efficiency - data and electrical - are rapidly coming to be the number on priority for IT design specialists:
Typically, computers are connected by a network architecture that consists of a “tree” of routing and switching elements regulated by specialized equipment, with expensive, non-commodity switches [...]
Data Centers Will Follow the Sun and Chase the Wind
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008I heard this idea from Steve O’Donnell 2 years, but I am delighted to see so many of those previously radical ideas now being seriously considered:
Data centers’ ability to suck up inordinate amounts of electricity is turning them into the Hummers of the computing world. And much like Hummers, their power-guzzling ways means [...]
The brilliant new generation of Serbian businesses
Friday, June 27th, 2008Originally posted at the Belgrade Foreign Visitors Club
There has been plenty of talk over the last few years about the need to attract talented Serbs from the Diaspora back to Serbia to lead the next generation of Serbian businesses with their unique blend of Western know-how and understanding of Serbian culture.
I have recently come [...]