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Predicting 2010
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With the economy and the industry recovering, both innovation and competition are on the rise
By Danny Bradbury
2009 was a heck of a year for the computing industry, as for many other sectors. We faced unprecedented belt-tightening in the enterprise sector, just as we saw technological trends as diverse as cloud computing, microblogging and electronic books come to fruition. Google found itself at loggerheads with the entire newspaper industry; Twitter had a reported 32.1 million users by May 2009; Windows 7 launched, replacing the debacle that was Vista, and 51 per cent of respondents in an IDC survey reported they would install the new OS by the end of 2010.
What else is likely to happen in 2010? Backbone consulted a lineup of analysts and vendor companies to get a sense of what they thought would be significant trends in the coming year. The results are stimulating, to say the least.
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First Wind-cooled Data Center
February 17, 2010 By Charlie Bess
Categories: General Green Tech
HP just opened the large 360,000 sq. ft. Wynyard data center. This Green Data Center project was underway at EDS before the HP purchase. It uses the continuously blowing cool North Sea air and a unique multilevel low pressure airflow design to minimize the cost of cooling. "The air runs through a...
IT and Hockey
February 16, 2010 By Atos Origin
Categories: General
No high sticking on the hockey rink If we had to hazard a guess, we’d estimate that a very small portion of the planet knows the word “Zamboni.” For those of you who don’t hail from geographically cold climates, a Zamboni – note it is a proper name with a capital “Z” – is the tractor-like machine...
A more organic approach to computer security
February 15, 2010 By Charlie Bess
Categories: General Security
I was catching up on my reading the other day and I came across an article on using Swarm Intelligence techniques to identify computer malware, describing research from Wake Forest University and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). In my predictions for 2010 I listed security as one of...
W2 Community Media Arts Centre - Official Opening in Time for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics
February 12, 2010 By Jon Husband
Categories: General Social Networking
Unfortunately, it's coming to be called the Spring Olympics .. but seriously, there's lots of snow at Whistler. Also ... the 2101 Winter Olympics will be the first in history to have an independent media centre. The rise of social media over the last five years means that the accreditation of...
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With the economy and the industry recovering, both innovation and competition are on the rise
By Danny Bradbury
2009 was a heck of a year for the computing industry, as for many other sectors. We faced unprecedented belt-tightening in the enterprise sector, just as we saw technological trends as diverse as cloud computing, microblogging and electronic books come to fruition. Google found itself at loggerheads with the entire newspaper industry; Twitter had a reported 32.1 million users by May 2009; Windows 7 launched, replacing the debacle that was Vista, and 51 per cent of respondents in an IDC survey reported they would install the new OS by the end of 2010. What else is likely to happen in 2010? Backbone consulted a lineup of analysts and vendor companies to get a sense of what they thought would be significant trends in the coming year. The results are stimulating, to say the least.
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First Wind-cooled Data CenterFebruary 17, 2010 By Charlie Bess
Categories: General Green Tech
HP just opened the large 360,000 sq. ft. Wynyard data center. This Green Data Center project was underway at EDS before the HP purchase. It uses the continuously blowing cool North Sea air and a unique multilevel low pressure airflow design to minimize the cost of cooling. "The air runs through a...
IT and Hockey
February 16, 2010 By Atos Origin
Categories: General
No high sticking on the hockey rink If we had to hazard a guess, we’d estimate that a very small portion of the planet knows the word “Zamboni.” For those of you who don’t hail from geographically cold climates, a Zamboni – note it is a proper name with a capital “Z” – is the tractor-like machine...
A more organic approach to computer security
February 15, 2010 By Charlie Bess
Categories: General Security
I was catching up on my reading the other day and I came across an article on using Swarm Intelligence techniques to identify computer malware, describing research from Wake Forest University and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). In my predictions for 2010 I listed security as one of...
W2 Community Media Arts Centre - Official Opening in Time for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics
February 12, 2010 By Jon Husband
Categories: General Social Networking
Unfortunately, it's coming to be called the Spring Olympics .. but seriously, there's lots of snow at Whistler. Also ... the 2101 Winter Olympics will be the first in history to have an independent media centre. The rise of social media over the last five years means that the accreditation of...
read more Blog posts
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