Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Tag: Data Centers
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Technical Potpourri
“The time has come,” the Walrus said, “To talk of many things: big data, extreme computing, energy efficiency, and autonomous vehicles.
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IT’s Not Easy Being Green (Actually, It Is Easy If You Try)
In the interview, I pointed out that the most obvious way to reduce computing-related energy consumption is simply to power down and turn off those systems not being used – QED. However, that is insufficient alone. After all, one presumably wants to do some computing. Thus, systems and infrastructure must be designed for energy and…
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Random Musings
Like many of you, I give lots of public (and not so public) presentations, on a variety of topics. A couple of those were recently captured and placed on the web.
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Web and Service Futures
As many of us shopped online for holiday gifts, I also found myself thinking about the rise of effective electronic retailing from the Strum und Drang that was the dot.com boom and bust.