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EMC: Big data era has arrived

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 07:09:13 +0000

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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Solar power from the moon is fake, but also real

Sat, 02 Apr 2011 00:57:27 +0000

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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Colorado energy park plan wins county approval

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:10:34 +0000

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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"The Inaction on Climate Change of the last decade was a crime" a review of Hot: Living Through the Next 50 Years on Earth

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:10:29 +0000

American journalist Mark Hertsgaard

Bioenergy- Overcoming the Roadblocks so we can use more waste biomass in India

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:38:59 +0000

Biomass resources have been in use for a variety of purposes for a very long time. Their

Preparing for Generation C | Roman Friedrich, Michael Peterson, and Alex K | Commentary | Business Spectator

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 07:57:02 +0000

Who is Colin? He is a member of a new generation that will be coming into its own over the next decade. Its members are typically realists and materialists. They are culturally liberal, though not necessarily politically progressive

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Data centre energy management firm joins climate group

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 20:11:13 +0000

Racktivity, a California-based firm that develops next-generation data centre power distribution and energy management solutions, has joined the Climate Savers Computing Initiative. Founded by Intel and Google in 2007, the Climate Savers Computing Initiative aims to help increase the deployment of energy efficient computing, storage and networking equipment and the global adoption of power management strategies and technologies. Read more here … Related posts: Climate Savers plan IT power management Webinar Data centre energy use to double in five years, agency warns IT energy management firm nabs $7.5 million

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Does Egypt hold any lessons for climate hawks?

Sat, 12 Feb 2011 20:53:43 +0000

And above all, we saw a new generation emerge — a generation that uses their own creativity and talent and technology to call for a government that represented their hopes and not their fears, a government that is responsive to their boundless aspirations. … it was the moral force of non-violence…. That’s Obama speaking Friday. I’ve been asked by a couple of ClimateProgress regulars if there are any lessons for climate hawks in the incredible Egyptian revolution. For instance, the 25-year-old Ian of “ What should Ian do with his life? ” fame asks I’m just wondering if you think it would be worth discussing Egypt in the thread this weekend

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Know Your Vegetable Seeds: The Lowdown on Heirloom, Hybrid, and Organic Seeds

Fri, 04 Feb 2011 01:03:45 +0000

Now’s the time of year when prudent green thumbs curl up with their favorite seed catalogs and plan their springtime gardens, selecting from a huge variety of vegetable seeds for sale from an equally large number of seed companies. Many companies commonly offer heirloom and organic seeds, but what sets these varieties apart from the rest? What makes an heirloom tomato different from a hybrid? Will the cucumber you grow from a non-organic seed still be organic? When is it organic? Whether or not the seeds you purchase are organic means only one thing: that the original seed-producing plant was grown according to organic standards

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In tears, Christiana Figueres tells youth that Cancun will be “insufficient” but a necessary step

Sat, 04 Dec 2010 23:07:20 +0000

The head of the Cancun climate talks fought back tears in a meeting with youth activists on Wednesday, as she frankly admitted the insufficient ambition of global leaders to protect the future. Brad Johnson, blogging onsite, has the story . The head of the Cancun climate talks fought back tears in a meeting with youth activists on Wednesday, as she frankly admitted the insufficient ambition of global leaders to protect the future. Christiana Figueres, who replaced Yvo de Boer as the Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change following last year’s negotiations in Copenhagen, teared up as she considered her responsibility to her daughters and the youth of the world. She told the activists, part of Tck Tck Tck’s Adopt a Negotiator program, that the Cancun negotiations will be “insufficient” and that “nothing will be highly ambitious,” because of the economic and political constraints. But she believes that “each one of use has the moral responsibility to do the absolute best that we can.” Asked what inspires her to lead the effort despite the challenges, she choked up as she answered that it is “the next generation”: It’s you. It’s the next generation. Look: We’re doing this but this has nothing to do with us

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