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Today’s organizations face an urgent need to develop energy-efficient and environmentally responsible data centers. Data centers are growing at a tremendous rate,but energy costs are becoming a proportionally higher part of their operational budget. Analysts estimate that within a few years,the cost...

This overview discusses actual situation in nanotechnology market, shows growth trends and presents related forcasts.

Green fad finally gets the lemmings to look at virtual applications. Power savings are real, no matter how you enter in the numbers. TCO costs are much lower by dumping the PC on the desk for the majority of users. Some partners have been begging to help their customers with this transition.  Most...

Nuance has just sued a startup (Vlingo) founded by one of it's own founders. While Nuance has instigated a number of patent-infringement lawsuits over the years, they have never won a case. In combination with Nuance's history of acquisitions and lack of strong innovation, this could mean that Nuance...

Bertrand Cambou, CEO of Spansion, has an opinion on Numonyx' push into phase-change memories: "Phase-change memory is pure marketing fluff." Although Cambou is correct that existing Numonyx phase change memories are not ready for prime time, the situation will be quite different below 32nm, which...

1. Power consumes more than the cost of the PC. 2.  Virtualization of PC's can reduce the IT budget.

According to the media and several prominent individuals, SaaS is the future of the software business.  The “old-fashioned” licensed software model is doomed.  Yet the most profitable and biggest software companies have only a limited presence in SaaS.  Does this mean they are out of...

* USB 2.0 provides external data rates of 480 Mbps sustained.  eSATA, an external version of the SATA interface currently provides data rates of 3 Gbps sustained  * Next generation USB will have 5 Gbps and next generation eSATA will have 6 Gbps data rates * Recently several laptop and external...

* Oerlikon sold its disk drive sputtering assets to Intevac and exits the hard disk drive business  * Oerlikon, in a former incarnation as Balzers used to be one of the major players in the disk sputtering equipment market but had lost most of its business over the last 10 years  * Despite...

At $199 the iPhone with iPod capabilities looks like an iPod killer. Will Apple kill off its own golden goose or is it planning a new product to move the iPod back up the ladder. Have we overlooked something in the long term of iPhone vs. iPod?