The IT and consumer electronics industries have a long way to travel in terms of improving power efficiency of electronic systems and devices, a Hewlett-Packard researcher argues in the latest issue of the Association for Computing Machinery's flagship journal.

"We've made tremendous progress over the past several years," said HP Labs distinguished technologist Parthasarathy Ranganathan, in an interview with IDG. "But when you look at the fundamental limits," the industry could make quantum leaps in efficiency, he said.

How much so?

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Like most other sources of alternative energy, the wind can be intermittent. It does not blow uniformly, so power output from wind turbines rises and falls. And when the wind doesn’t blow at all, output drops to zero.

Intermittency is not much of a problem now in the United States, since there are relatively few wind farms and plenty of interconnected conventional power plants to pick up the slack when wind output falls, keeping the power supply stable.

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Increasing energy prices, the hidden cost of carbon, growing risks from energy supply disruption and climate-change compliance issues are four key reasons why finance executives need a multi-year efficiency strategy to maximize costs savings, meet carbon reduction goals and make financial decisions based on total cost of ownership, according to a Verdantix study.

A key finding of the report indicates that the energy-efficiency plan should include investments with a short payback period, such as installing lighting controls, in combination with larger energy efficiency projects such as voltage

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While Google has been a strong supporter of green data centers (GigaOM Pro, subscription required), the search engine giant, along with a group of tech companies, are protesting one specific data center efficiency standard: the recently updated 90.1 building efficiency standard from the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE).

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When ENKI first entered the pay-as-you-go, on-demand, managed computing services market 4 years ago, the term "Cloud Computing" wasn't even in common use.  Since then, Cloud Computing has come to be commonly accepted to denote on-demand computing delivered over the Internet.   Businesses using applications in the cloud (SaaS, or Software-as-a-Service) have come to expect that they will not need to add any staff to manage those applications.  However, companies that want to use cloud computing to replace their in-house or colocated datacenters for production co

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Currently, I am studying data center site selection, and have been asking the question what is wrong with data centers having 1% of the cost being in the land when other commercial real estate will typically have land 20-25% of the cost.  One big thing most miss is land is not a cost, it is a non-depreciable asset. 

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Google's Public Policy blog has a post with some of the most innovative data center operators.

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Majority Believe G-Cloud Should Be Opt-In, Rather Than Mandatory
London, UK – 12 April 2010 – Public sector IT buyers do not want use of the proposed government G-Cloud to be mandatory, according to a new report. K2 Advisory’s report “Cloud Computing – A Step-Change for IT Services,” which analyses the developing market for cloud services, More >

by Jason Kincaid on Apr 12, 2010
When you think of developer-focused web computing services, the first thing that probably comes to mind is Amazon’s hugely popular AWS, which includes S3 (storage) and EC2 (processing).  Google has its own web computing service — namely, Google App Engine — and the search giant is looking to significantly More >

In case you missed the announcement, Access Gateway now includes unlimited connections to XenApp and XenDesktop as part of the platform. If you're using Citrix Secure Gateway for remote access to your hosted applications or desktops, now's the perfect time to consider replacing Secure Gateway with Access Gateway VPX.

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Google today is hosting a cloud computing conference for CIOs — dubbed Atmosphere — at its Mountain View, Calif. headquarters, where we’ll be reporting from throughout the day. First up on the agenda is the unveiling of a rewritten Google Docs, tweaked to present information in real time as well as to enable better syncing More >

April showers couldn’t dampen Google’s enthusiasm for the 400 CIOs in town for a cloud computing pitch.
(Credit: Tom Krazit/CNET)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–Google wants to be the next big enterprise software company.
Truth be told, Google wants to be the next big everything. Monday’s target was the budding Web-based enterprise software market, as Google pulled out all the More >

See us at Summit - and we'll show you some tips, tricks, and short cuts to navigating the Citrix Marketing Concierge.

We'll be at Summit May 10th - May 12th in the Partner Innovation Center located on the 2nd floor across from the breakout rooms.  Stop by and ask "what's new?"

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» Cloning VirtualBox images (or how I save hours a day when ...By Joshua Hoover

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First Glance at Mandriva Enterprise Server 5.1OS NewsThe company has provided trial versions in the form of installation discs and VirtualBox images. For my journey into the Enterprise side of Mandriva, ...

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VirtualBox vs VMware | The Linux Action Show! Season 11 Episode 6 ...VirtualBox vs VMware | Linux Action Show s11e06. This week on The Linux Action Show! Novell kicks SCO in the face in a mother freaking punch fight! Google hires a dog to burn down Ogg Theora's hospital. ...

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VMware Workstation Out; Sun's VirtualBox InNetworkComputing.comTaking a queue from my Twitter clan (four votes for VirtualBox, one for Ubuntu and KVM, and no votes for VMware Server), I installed VirtualBox and I am ...

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Up and Running With Enterprise Monitoring in Under 60 MinutesLinux PR (press release)... is a virtual appliance based on an open source framework called Zabbix and can be deployed on top of virtualization systems like VMWare and VirtualBox. ...

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