Archive for January, 2010

Propalms, Inc. Wholly Owned Subsidiary Focus Systems Pushes Further Into Cloud Computing (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)

NORTH YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND–(Marketwire - 01/28/10) - Propalms, Inc. (Pinksheets: PRPM - News ) is pleased to announce the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary Focus Systems, a provider of Remote Desktop and VoIP phone systems to the SMB market, has completed an agreement to roll out its Remote Desktop solution with a prominent law firm located in Washington State. The remote environment provides for…

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Datacentre power metric meets with resistance (vnunet.com)

Jack Clark, V3.co.uk , Thursday 28 January 2010 at 15:10:00 Power usage effectiveness is a useful metric, but its use in the public sphere can inflate its importance and encourage misconceptions, argues Jack Clark Power usage effectiveness (PUE) is a powerful term because it gives a ballpark reading of the efficiency with which a datacentre consumes electricity. It is also a young term. It began …

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Ideas International Joins The Green Grid (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

SYDNEY—-Ideas International , the leading global supplier of actionable comparative intelligence on enterprise IT infrastructure, today announced its membership in The Green Grid.

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Wikimedia hires open-source veteran as CTO (CNET)

Danese Cooper, a former open-source community specialist at Sun and Intel, now will work on technology for Wikipedia and other projects.

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Looking Beyond the Recovery at Davos (BusinessWeek)

Much of the first few days of Davos have been preoccupied with the speed and scale of recovery and the reform program for the financial sector. It was good to spend time looking at another dimension of change in the global economy today: the impact of technology on business models, value creation, …

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