Google provided a look inside its data center operations at the Google Data Center Efficiency Summit held Wednesday (April 1, 2009) in Mountain View, Calif. The presentations included a video tour of a Google data center, which showcased the companys use of shipping containers to store servers and storage. Four years after the first reports […]
According to Prasanna Krishnan, an associate at Menlo Park, Calif.-based venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson and also a panelist at the Wharton conference, the easiest examples for most people to grasp may be consumer web applications such as Microsoft’s Hotmail, Google’s Gmail and YouTube, and Yahoo’s Flickr photo-sharing service. Consumers run only their browsers […]
Awareness announces next generation of communication: “Grugging” New form of hyper-micro-blogging to be released in Summer 2009 Waltham, MA — April 1, 2009 —Awareness Inc., the leader in Social Media Marketing, today announced the next generation in communication, termed “grugging”. Chief Technology Officer, David Carter explained: “We started in the business of content management for […]
IBM will sell a suite of Web-based collaboration software for businesses, including contact management, instant messaging and file sharing programs, the computing giant’s biggest effort to date to sell software as a service. The move to be announced on Wednesday pits International Business Machines Corp against companies that are already established in the fledgling market […]