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EMC Corporation has announced new generations of its Isilon scale-out NAS hardware and software for managing the challenges of “big data.” Isilon’s new hardware platform enables customers to choose from a range of drive configurations and combine them with a large, globally coherent cache and next-generation quad core processors to deliver optimum price-performance for accelerating big data access. “Not only has the big data era arrived, but it is already impacting our lives in a variety of ways, from the pursuit of personalised medicine to real-time social networking,” said Sam Grocott, vice president of marketing for Isilon. “The foundation of this transformational shift is scale-out storage, which delivers the simplicity, scale and ‘pay as you grow’ architecture big data requires, while also providing advanced enterprise functionality to ensure seamless integration with a broad range of mainstream IT environments.” Read more here … Related posts: Data centre energy management firm joins climate group
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EMC: Big data era has arrived
by Christopher Mims. Solar panels that transform light from the moon into usable quantities of energy: Fake ! Solar panels covering the moon that would transmit massive quantities of energy back to earth using lasers and microwaves: Real ! Or at least: proposed with a straight face. I think we can all agree that the slide labeled “Master Plan” pretty much sums it up. The company’s own description of the technology is almost as awesome: A shift from economical use of limited resources to the unlimited use of clean energy is the ultimate dream of all mankind. The LUNA RING, our lunar solar power generation concept, translates this dream into reality through ingenious ideas coupled with advanced space technologies
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Solar power from the moon is fake, but also real
Commissioners in Colorado’s Weld County have approved Harrison Resource Corporation’s plans for development of the Niobrara Energy Park. The 640-acre project is designed to integrate natural gas and renewable energy generation facilities, including solar and wind energy, with data centres and energy research. Niobrara Energy Park has received widespread support from researchers, government officials, and many others in the energy industry, including Dag Nummedal, director of the Colorado Energy Research Institute at the Colorado School of Mines, and David Hiller, executive director of the Colorado Renewable Energy Collaboratory. Nummedal stated in a letter of support that the park concept “moves beyond anything planned elsewhere in the US” due to its planned onsite energy storage facilities. Read more here … Related posts:
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Colorado energy park plan wins county approval
American journalist Mark Hertsgaard
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