grid data in comment and analysis
Why must IT go green?
Comment The National Grid is reaching breaking point. In the data centre, where supply rather than price is the issue, energy has mattered for some time. The electricity company EDF has warned it is no longer able to increase supply to data centres and... [03 Dec 2007]
It's not easy being green
Comment The National Grid leads to further losses of nearly eight per cent of the remaining power through resistive heat dissipation, and further inefficiencies at substations and distribution to local points of usage account for yet more waste. [25 Jul 2007]
Virtualisation gets trendy
Comment Virtualisation is now involved in the most trendy fields in the industry including data centre automation, utility computing, green computing, security, business continuity, blades, grid and SOA. Grid computing is also an example of resource... [15 May 2007]
Leader: Open systems, open minds
Leader Physicists will be the first to benefit from the world's biggest computing grid, being built to help process the vast amounts of data which will flow from CERN's particle smashing experiments. But with this grid - because of the huge amount of... [24 Nov 2005]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Service management
Comment Perhaps this disinterest is unsurprising given the frequent misinformation surrounding these facilities - both virtualisation and grid are terms used in different ways by different vendors and it can be difficult for any end user organisation to... [20 Oct 2005]
Leader: Thank you 2003
Leader Our list of things that get discussed a lot now but which you probably shouldn't be losing sleep over include 3G, grid computing, biometrics and malicious hacking. If we were to make a list of things that will move your business in 2004 we'd... [23 Dec 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Mobile ringtones, power blackouts and corporate governance
Comment Meanwhile Midwest ISO was having trouble with its "state estimator", a computer program that reports on whether the electricity grid is in trouble. Computer systems within the North American energy grid are supposed to be secure and a failure of... [01 Dec 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Offshoring, those DPA emails and Oracle 10g
Comment The g in 10g stands for grid. A grid is a network which is managed as a single resource and it is applying the concept not just to its database but also to its application server and to storage management. [21 Sep 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: IBM and grid computing
Comment In this snapshot look at a recent key development, Robin Bloor and his team consider which the concept of 'grid computing' and an IBM initiative However, this project is slightly different in that IBM is hoping to learn a great deal about the... [25 Nov 2001]
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