Technology, Media & Telecom News by GLG Council Members
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Energy-efficient green home building trends
July 2, 2009
Development Achieves Both LEED Gold and Certified Green Status with GE Ecomagination | www.housingzone.com
An increased transition toward green building construction in other states beyond California, as well as state and federal legislation in support of alternative and/or efficient energy sources such as compact fluorescent lamp, light emitting diode technology, solar, and geothermal energy, and national energy grid enhancements will lead to improved American energy efficiency, energy independence,environmental...
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Solid-state lighting & energy-efficient products get stimulus boost
July 2, 2009
DOE Finalizes SSL Program and Stimulus Monies | www.solidstatelightingdesign.com
President Obama and Secretary Chu announced a $346 million investment from the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act,” otherwise known as the U.S. economic stimulus package, to expand and accelerate the development, deployment, and use of energy efficient technologies in all major types of commercial buildings, in addition to new and existing homes and save Americans billions of dollars annuall...
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Smart Meters won't make the Grid Smart, with current technology
July 2, 2009
WSJ - Smart Meter, Dumb Idea? | online.wsj.com
Without control of small site energy loads, information only systems (Smart Meters, Google Power Meter and Greenbox) are of limited use in controlling energy use or in responding to real time pricing. One way low bandwidth systems will not meet the needs of Internet savvy end users in managing energy use and reducing peak loads. Two way broadband, easy to use, browser based controls are essential...
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P.J. LouisPresidentPJ Louis LLC
AT&T – Commits to a 2009 Launch of Femtocells! What About the DAS? What About Vodafone?
July 1, 2009
AT&T on Track for Femto Launch | www.unstrung.com
This is good news. For femtocell advocates it will be a time to see how the operational data tracks with the theories.
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The Era of Digital Newspaper Industry
July 1, 2009
WSJ publisher calls Google ‘digital vampire’ | www.crainsnewyork.com
Google Long Honey Moon of Free Content Might Soon be Over. Newspaper Industry Turning into Digital Newspaper Industry and "Googlepaper Industry". New Approaches Sought in the Effort of Coupling High Demand Content with High Online Technology Solutions.
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Deployment Challenges may delay the launch even further
July 1, 2009
AT&T on Track for Femto Launch | www.unstrung.com
Still many issues with launch of 3G femtocells, especially with management of devices, may cause additional delay. With vendor consolidation, it is not clear where femtocell vendor may fall and that could add additional confusion and risk.
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Dell Storage Solutions - Are they too late???
July 1, 2009
Dell puts customers on fast track to storage efficiency | www.nationmultimedia.com
Dell is known for its trend of following competition into the market and being late to the game. What is not known is the solutions capability of the Dell brand – a significant negative point. In 2007, Dell had a $6 billion global services revenue (including Virtualization, Microsoft and Storage competencies) that predominantly both current and prospect customers were not aware existed.
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Hans van RietschoteTechnical AdvisorQLAYER NV
Dell providing free consultancy to boost sales of their PowerVault DL2000
July 1, 2009
Dell puts customers on fast track to storage efficiency | www.nationmultimedia.com
The backup market is competitive and at the same time very sticky, meaning once customers buy a backup solution they will stick with it. This means that the only place for growth is in the SMB space where customers are shopping for price. De-duplication is a great cost savings features so very attractive to the SMB customer.
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Hans van RietschoteTechnical AdvisorQLAYER NV
Cisco slowly making strategy changes as the world moves to cloud services
July 1, 2009
Cisco Won't Take on Amazon in Cloud | www.pcworld.com
Cisco is realizing that over time more and more of their current customers will be moving to cloud based services, but unlike others they will not provide cloud "capacity" instead focusing on Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings and the "tools" needed to run an efficient cloud offering.
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Clear and strong entrance in DeDup storage from Dell
July 1, 2009
Dell puts customers on fast track to storage efficiency | www.nationmultimedia.com
Dell seems to take the rolling ball on deduplication technology with both services and solutions. It illustrates the key strategy aspect of this technology both for a financial perspective and a pure IT point of view. Dell wishes to come back in user mind and be considered, again, as a key trusted partner in that space. Partnership with CommVault, one of the few gems and pure data protection ISVplayers,...
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