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Dan Costello talks containers

Posted Monday, November 02, 2009 4:05 PM by SmallCountry
Dan Costello and Christian Belady of Microsoft Global Foundation Services discuss the Chicago datacenter in a CNET video interview. Microsoft opened the facility in September, and are now using Container-based deployment simply plugged in to power and Read More...
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Saving the World 1 Watt at a time?

Posted Thursday, July 02, 2009 7:49 AM by SmallCountry
“Every little helps” according to Tesco’s and the nice lady rattling her Sally Army collection box. Unfortunately, in terms of our Ecology and Environment, that’s just not true. To change the post-industrial trends in fossil fuel dependency and carbon Read More...
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Lucky White Heather?

Posted Friday, December 19, 2008 6:46 PM by SmallCountry
Happy New Year. Its getting harder to stay cheery these days. We've all tried to stay positive as the sub-prime crisis spawned the credit crunch which smothered the global economy. But its easy to lose heart as pensions and house prices tumble and mighty Read More...
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Mike Manos on Generation 4 Datacentres

Posted Thursday, December 04, 2008 3:58 PM by SmallCountry
Mike Manos of Microsoft's Global Foundation Services has released some detail of ambitious plans for Microsoft's new generation of cloud compute infrastructure on his blog. This is the result of long painstaking multidisciplinary R&D from Dan Costello Read More...
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Facing West

Posted Thursday, August 21, 2008 4:01 AM by SmallCountry
In the 18th century the city of Glasgow amassed great wealth through trade with the New World. Opinions abound in the history books of why the Glasgow Tobacco Lords achieved a virtual monopoly on the weed trade, but it came down to one fundamentals- the Read More...
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Microsoft To Mainstream Containerized Data Centers

Posted Wednesday, April 09, 2008 6:02 PM by SmallCountry
Trends of consolidation can be seen in the migration of servers to fewer, larger more automated datacenter locations, and also in consolidation of the units within those datacenters. With the availability of advanced management tools and virtualisation Read More...
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£600m green investment for Scotland : Hi-Tech Scotland

Posted Monday, January 21, 2008 1:35 PM by SmallCountry
Internet Villages International announced that they will constructing datacentres on their 140 acre site in Lockerbie. The announcement of the creation of more datacentre space is hardly newsworthy, but there are a few unusual aspects to this project: Read More...
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Land of Fire and Ice

Posted Thursday, October 25, 2007 10:54 PM by SmallCountry
Iceland. Thoughts of bargain supermarket frozen turkey twizzlers, Viking epics, alternative rock band The Sugarcubes, may all be triggered when naming this barren and volcanic North Atlantic island nation. But soon Iceland may also be known as a world Read More...
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Head in the "Cloud"

Posted Friday, October 12, 2007 11:47 AM by SmallCountry
At the age of 24 I rode my bike across the 6.5km Columbia River bridge between Oregon and Washington state. Big river, big bridge. I remember thinking it would make a damn :-) good power plant. Upriver, past Portland and in the shadow of Mount Hood, I Read More...
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Wind problems?

Posted Tuesday, August 07, 2007 3:22 PM by SmallCountry
In Finland its completely Baltic from about October to April. So it is that they make the best of the Scandinavian Summer and the entire workforce downs tools for July and as much of August as they can get away with. So it is that the pages of the Trumpet Read More...
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The latest hot laptop

Posted Thursday, March 22, 2007 8:53 AM by SmallCountry
Increasingly people complain of hot laptops. My colleague James regularly scorches his fingers on his power supply. Indeed, your lap is a dangerous place to put the average Pentium M 2GHZ based notebook these days, with the trend to larger memory, more Read More...
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