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Irish outsourcing firm Gem changes tack; plans 10% cut instead of previously planned 900 new hires
By Tarry Singh at 7 May, 2010, 6:04 am
A £19.5m investment which would have resulted in up to 900 new jobs in Northern Ireland has been put on ice, the Belfast Telegraph can reveal. In a double blow, outsourcing firm Gem yesterday told its 800 staff that 10% of the workforce is also facing the axe. The grim announcement affects 60 workers in [...]
Read More >>Greenpeace: Cloud Computing will make the world a much warmer place
By Tarry Singh at 2 April, 2010, 2:11 am
I and my co-author proposed a vision paper suggesting a fiscally driven multi-state level policy where energy companies can use a common strategy to drive down the waste and increase efficiency while still staying competitive. That paper was called “Smart Metering the Clouds” . This was supposed to help us all stop the massive build-out [...]
Read More >>EPA to launch Energy Star ratings for Data Center by June 2010; Europe, China and India are in as well
By Tarry Singh at 7 February, 2010, 1:54 pm
EPA’s Portfolio Manager will also be amended so you can rate your Data Center yourself. The EPA already rates the energy efficiency of 18 types of buildings, including offices and hospitals. The main criteria for those are floor space and hours of operation, but it needed a different system for data centers. The measurement will [...]
Read More >>Read full report here: Smart2020 – low carbon economy with green data centers
By Tarry Singh at 16 January, 2010, 12:27 pm
Smart 2020 Enabling the low carbon economy in the information age
Read More >>Apple’s App Store Infographic story : How developers are getting super rich!
By Tarry Singh at 12 January, 2010, 11:40 am
Infographic works a lot better for visually enslaved folks like me, how about you? Nice piece of work those guys at Column Five Media do, maybe I gotta check it out later.
Read More >>Google applies to become a Utility Giant with Google Energy
By Tarry Singh at 8 January, 2010, 11:38 am
The Internet search company, which consumes vast amounts of electricity to run the computers in its data centers, created a subsidiary last month called Google Energy. It then applied for approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to be allowed to buy and sell power much like utilities do. Google said it did not have [...]
Read More >>Welcome new Corporate Enterprise: Virgin America builds Clouds with Open Source
By Tarry Singh at 2 November, 2009, 1:26 pm
This confirms my faith and belief with the discussion I was having with the Malaysian official who is driving the Govt 2020 Vision on open source. It sounds naive and yes enterprise software with cool powerpoint slides may win the board rooms but today the new CIOs are not the traditionally older ones who just [...]
Read More >>Malaysia IT Showcase 2009 ends succesfully: Managing more with less!
By Tarry Singh at 17 October, 2009, 4:32 am
The conference was a blast. I have never taken so many notes on a conference. Also because I had to orchestrate/chair it but it was very intriguing. My take-aways: – I met some very influential VCs there – I met the members of the Malaysian Govt. – I met/made friends with several top CIOs in [...]
Read More >>Billionaire Soros to invest $1Bn in clean tech
By Tarry Singh at 15 October, 2009, 12:37 pm
For those who might be wondering who George Soros is would have found the answer that he’s already given away some $6Bn since 1979. Soros said he will invest $1 billion in clean-energy technologies and will provide $100 million–$10 million each year for the next 10 years–for the new Climate Policy Initiative, a watchdog-type foundation [...]
Read More >>Who has the bigger hypervisor footprint: VMware ESX/ESXi OR Hyper-V/Hyper-V Win 2008?
By Tarry Singh at 25 August, 2009, 9:53 am
Jeff Woolsey is going after VMware again, and this time its about the footprint of the hypervisor. The question or more notably the things to ask should be these: – How good-enough is Hyper-V vs VMware ESX – How cheaper is Hyper-V vs VMware ESX – How stable is Hyper-V vs VMware ESX – How [...]
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