Server stacks may have small footprints but the cooling requirements are high and with that said climate control and de-humidification equipment have to keep running for 24 hours a day 365 days a year. These cooling and other environmental control measures consume huge amounts of electricity and that is the problem. There are certain technologies [...]
As technology advances you’d only expect to have cleaner and better technologies due to advancements in better component designs and other innovations that should have reduced the consumption of electricity for the many data centers companies maintain to handle their myriad of programs and information stores. Guess again, for environmentalists are pointing out and they [...]
The banking sector with their diversified services and customer relations needs has benefited much form the advent of Web Services. Self-checking web pages that send data directly to their servers through secure lines encrypted to military standards and many more seemingly impossible stuff a few years back. The sheer number of products and services a [...]
Accounting applications to accounting, finance staff and management only, and so on and so forth allowing people access to the information that is designed for them. The task may be great but imagine not having dedicated terminals for each and every user. A user from one department can access their sets of programs anywhere, even [...]
This might be very difficult for say the accounting department does not want everybody to see their work and so does R&D which may be developing new products. Rising costs is driving the industry nuts and this may be the only way they can survive with less people and resources. A unified computational environment is [...]
Many companies know that one day; they need to combine all the information of the company into one single system that has everything they need to know in one program. That is far from true for all companies have several departments, each department has its own IT people, these departments use different sets of information [...]
With the advent of more powerful servers that have several multi-core processors stacked one after the other and the advent of tera-byte storage capacities has greatly increased the power and storage capacities of such search engines but people still want more. They want focused and exact results you don’t have to pay for and developers [...]
The internet’s evolution into WEB 2.0 is going at breakneck speeds and many CIO’s are feeling the heat. While the younger members of your staff may be proficient and knowledgeable at these matters, you might be shrugging off going into the fray of WEB 2.0, but you might just have to adapt for the change [...]
The concept is there but a final agreement of industry leaders is still in the works. Offering Software as a Service, promoters are seeing this as the next step for the internet and they are working hard to create their unique niches in the said application. Many are still wary of the concept but some [...]
Their expansion in several avenues of the IT industry has surprised many due to their long history of sticking to projects that work for them best like their OS systems, Office and other back-end systems. Even publicly announcing that they would be opening their doors once again to some of their key technologies for competitors [...]