IBM Green Storage Reduce Overall Costs...Drive Green Benefits

Just came across this IBM Webcast Green Storage Reduce Overall Costs...Drive Green Benefits at https://www.brainshark.com/ibmdco/vu?pi=801112262
It discuss the techniques, from storage virtualization, to deduplication, through tiered storage, which help stem information explosion and drive green benefits.

IBM Webcast - Remote Managed Infrastructure Services reducing costs

I recently viewed this good IBM webcast on Remote Managed Infrastructure Services RMIS: Reduce costs through a more flexible, reliable and efficient IT infrastructure. It is more meaningful in current times where organizations want to do more with less. In this webcast IBM shares how its Remote Managed Infrastructure Services (RMIS) can provide 24x7 coverage with an advanced suite of services to help maintain and administer an organization's infrastructure environment more efficiently and flexibly - from a client's site or from an IBM facility. In the webcast IBM's client, Dufry also share how they deployed RMIS and the benefits they have realized. The link to the webcast is
http://event.on24.com/r.htm?e=148713&s=1&k=BF0E46997DD0AEEB181709C29F987556

Google Adsense on Android and iPhone

Google is bringing its adsense progran to mobile applications for mobo app developers. Probabbly the inspiration comes from the Apple app store, which has been a source of making money for the developers. However, the adsense program is applicable to developers which have 100,000 pages views per day and application should be free. That appears a little stringent criteria but allow only the quality developers to stay in the race.
As compared to adsense for blogs or website, Google has definately created a filter by not engaging the end users, which might not help it attend the same pouplarity as on the web. Mobile industry is still to witness some break through refinements in ad-sharing revenue models.

HP comes up with new cloud computing services

Here comes another announcement on Cloud, this time by HP. Last week IBM announced its new cloud computing services under the brand cloudburst and smart business, targeted at building internal cloud, accessing private clouds and public cloud.
HP's announcement has to do more with services than the hardware. HP announced two services, first being Cloud Discovery Workshop, which helps customers understand cloud computing and what it will take to leverage the technology. The service educates customers about cloud computing, looks at how it fits in their IT service provider strategy, examines best practices, details the opportunities and risks, and shows the results that can be expected.

The second one is Cloud Road Map Service, aimed at helping customers plan for and adopt cloud computing as part of their IT and business strategy. This includes helping customers assess their requirements, understand how the adoption of cloud computing might impact their corporate culture and create a specific road map, including what can be expected and what the timing is.

Dynamics of Intel - Nokia alliance

If Intel and Nokia would not have joined hands they must have been competing in the MID, Netbook segment. Nokia has been struggling to make its enty into the MID Netbook space.
With the increasing penetration of Atom processor in the MIDs UMDs it becomes difficult for Nokia to compete on ARM based processor.
Nothing specific has been divulged about the products on which the two would collaborate, rather the partnership has been termed as a technology partnership.

In a bid to oversimplify this, it can simply be seen as a broader supplier base for Intel's chips and for Nokia, easier entry into the MID segment, in which it has not been so successful in past.
Moreover, it can offer some resistance to increasing competition from Apple, Palm RIM.

From Intel's perspective, licensing Nokia's HSPA/3G modem technologies can provide it definate milage in powering netbooks/notebooks with 3G internet access.
Besides this, Intel's mobile platform Moblin can be used by the two for mutual benefit.

Free Cooling Evaluation Tool for Datacenters at the green grid

the Green Grid (http://www.thegreengrid.org/) hosts a free datacenter cooling evaluation tool.
This online tool has been developed to help data center and facilities managers easily determine how much free cooling and free evaporative cooling is available for individual data centers. The realness of the tool is quite obvious from the fact tha it uses zip codes in the United States and Canada to input specific variables - such as local energy costs, IT load, and facility load - to determine the energy savings for individual facilities.

ARM to come up dual core for smartphones

ARM would come up with dual core processor cores to power smart phones by 2010. Vendors such as iPhone and Palm currently use Arm cortex 8 core in their smartphones.

According to ARM "The A8 is just a single core while the A9 will be dual-core, all the way up to quad-core, to give smartphones an even bigger performance boost". As the smartphones are becoming increasingly demanding in terms of functionality, the software those phones run on gets increasingly sophisticated.

However, one issue to watch would be the power efficiency of A9 as compared to A8.