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Data Centers: Tech Giants Turn to Fluid Dynamics to Achieve Greater Energy Efficiency

By Dick Weisinger

Both Facebook and eBay are reporting that they’ve been able to save money and become more energy efficient by making changes to the way that their data centers are cooled.  Facebook and eBay both were represented by panelists at a

Cloud Computing: Gartner Hype Cycle shows Cloud Computing at Peak

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner Research has released their 2010 Hype Cycle Report for Emerging Technologies.  This year again the graph tracks the relative position of Cloud Computing by plotting Visibility versus Time. Cloud computing remains at a peak on the hype curve.  Back

Cloud Computing: Novell Says the Analysts are Wrong

By Dick Weisinger

OK.  We’ve seen it in report after report.  Cloud computing adoption is taking the world of IT by storm.  But a new report by Novell says previous research about cloud computing has been off the mark.  The report comes to

Cloud Computing: CIOs & CSOs Worried about Security

By Dick Weisinger

62 percent.  That’s close to two-thirds of the CIOs and CSOs from a group of 12,847 business executives that said that they had no faith or confidence in the security of the cloud.  Of the 49 percent of the executives

Cloud Computing: How Safe? How Much Trust?

By Dick Weisinger

The reason repeated over and again for why many organizations are reluctant to use cloud computing is the risk.  There is the risk that sensitive data will be remote to the organization, that cloud data can be easily compromised or