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Yearly Archives: 2016

Data Centers: Project Natick — An Idea That’s Under Water

By Dick Weisinger

What if you put a data center under water?  Sounds crazy?  That’s what Microsoft is trying to do. Microsoft has started up a project that they’ve nicknamed Project Natick where they will investigate the operational efficiencies of data centers located…

Security and Encryption: Momentum for Data Encryption in the Cloud Grows

By Dick Weisinger

The number of companies using encryption to secure their data in the cloud has taken a big leap.  41 percent of businesses say that they are extensively encrypting their data, up from just 16 percent of businesses in 2005, according…

Robotics: Robots are Starting to Be Used for Healthcare, Agriculture, Education and More

By Dick Weisinger

Robots are gaining popularity fast.  IDC says that global spending on robotics and services are expected to climb to $135.4 billion by 2019 from $71 billion in 2015.  In particular, strong growth is expected in Asia and Japan where 65…

Storage: Google Pushes for Redesign of Disks to Optimize for Data Center/Cloud Use

By Dick Weisinger

Google is calling on the storage industry to develop hard drives that are designed with cloud computing in mind.  Current drive designs are based on the requirement of very high reliability for desktop and laptop computer use.  To accommodate that requirement, next generation…

Web Servers and SOA: Growth in Services Causes Shift from Apache to NGINX For Better Speed and Scalability

By Dick Weisinger

Apache and Microsoft IIS and Nano web server technology account for the majority of today’s production web servers.  But times change and technology evolves.  A relatively new open-source web server called nginx (Pronounced “Engine X”)  is slowly eroding market share…