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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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Keep it in the Family

Posted Tuesday, October 27, 2009 4:07 PM by SmallCountry
Its not often that a technology blog references VARIETY magazine, the Hollywood equivalent of the Scottish Daily Record. Anyway, shortly after announcing the edgy new “Family Guy” marketing strategy for Windows 7, it seems that the funniest show on the Read More...
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Windows 7 Driving Touchscreen Evolution -- Microsoft Windows 7 -- InformationWeek

Posted Monday, October 26, 2009 3:55 PM by SmallCountry
More on the burst of touch-enabled PCs entering the market alongside Windows 7. Windows 7 Driving Touchscreen Evolution -- Microsoft Windows 7 -- InformationWeek Read More...
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Did PCs just get cool again?

Posted Friday, October 16, 2009 2:52 PM by SmallCountry
After years in the wilderness, is it cool to be a PC again? In 2006 Apple’s Mac adverts cast the PC as an anachronism contrasting David Mitchell’s bumbling and confused PC user with Robert Webb’s tousle-haired trendy young Mac dude . Some 3 years later, Read More...
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The Russians are coming: hackers target small firms - Scotsman.com Business

Posted Friday, September 25, 2009 9:47 AM by SmallCountry
Veteran technology and business journalist Bill Magee returns from a meeting with Microsoft’s top cyber-crime spooks to highlight the bad guys increasing focus on Small and Medium businesses – SMBs in Scotland must think about protecting their passwords Read More...
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Thanks to the Unique Way it is Funded…

Posted Tuesday, September 08, 2009 7:40 AM by SmallCountry
Food, clothing, shelter....and television. These seem to be the basic necessities for life, at least in those regions of the World with electricity supply. Studies have shown that homes seem to be happier when there is a telly in the corner of the living 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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Web World Order and the Baltic Border

Posted Wednesday, May 13, 2009 11:30 AM by SmallCountry
With global recession in the foreground threatening ruin for many in the developed World, it’s easy to forget other clear and present threats to commerce, society and our way of life. However, the growing threat of vandalism, crime and even espionage Read More...
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Friend, Foe or Friendster?

Posted Tuesday, March 24, 2009 10:43 PM by SmallCountry
Last week a close friend and business associate finally went over to TWITTER. For a 40 year old with 3 kids to suddenly come out of the closet and start tweeting was a big shock. Although he claimed it was a valuable Digital Marketing tool for his new Read More...
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Cheap as Chips

Posted Monday, March 02, 2009 4:43 PM by SmallCountry
Is it me or are computers getting much cheaper these days? A side effect of consumer doom and gloom is very keen prices for all the technological paraphernalia that we can't live without. Despite our weak Sterling we can buy a lot of computing power and 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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Cloud Capital and the Credit Crunch

Posted Friday, November 28, 2008 7:06 PM by SmallCountry
Cloud computing. Marketing pixie dust or IT Industry paradigm shift? The topic even had the Economist gushing about cloud computing's impact on business in their regular technology supplement in October. Analysts have wholeheartedly jumped on the bandwagon Read More...
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"We're Doomed!...

Posted Tuesday, October 21, 2008 9:10 AM by SmallCountry
...as Private Frazer was prone to shout whenever Captain Mainwaring's home guard faced a crisis. Likewise I have long bored colleagues with prophecies of doom for those failing to embrace new business models enabled by "cloud computing". "Doom" Read More...
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Off-grid data centre powered by tidal energy planned for Scotland | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Posted Friday, October 17, 2008 5:21 PM by SmallCountry
The rumoured Morgan Stanley initiative to utilise the Pentland Firth's renewable energy capacity has broken cover in the Guardian - Working with Atlantis, a turbine manufacturer, their ambitious plan to power a 150MW datacentre will bypass national grid Read More...
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