Computers and technology within a data center inherently create a lot of waste. Though companies are trying to find ways to reduce the amount of waste and be more energy efficient, it’s not always being practiced as much as we would like. While companies like Google are doing their best to be on top of […]

As Google moves into becoming a world provider for cloud storage, there are a lot of things that the company needs to consider. As a technology powerhouse that’s already proved their abilities when it comes to serving people’s needs, there’s not much that Google can’t handle. That being said, the amount of data that internet […]

It’s no shocker that Google is always coming up with brilliant ways to improve technology. However, as much as this company is always one step ahead, there is no company out there that exists that can keep up with the amount of data storage this world uses. Or, is there? In a planet full of […]

The CIO of General Electric, Jim Fowler, is taking GE into the cloud. In the next three years, he plans to integrate 9,000 applications into a public IaaS. This will cause 30 of their data centers to now condense into just a few. This transition will not be an easy one. GE operates tens and […]

Decisions can have long-term ramifications that are not always easy to change. I do a lot of backcountry backpacking in the Sierra’s and a hike is often selected as much as a year in advance. Once a particular hike or route is selected, all other activities revolve around that hike. By the time you get […]