Super Nerds to the rescue

Behind every U.S. soldier in modern warfare, there is an arsenal of technological support. Does that extend to not-so-real-but-wish-they-were superheroes? My suspicion is that Superman's Fortress of Solitude is powered by a...
If you want to make a green data center omelet…

...you'll have to break a few eggs. The road to an environmentally friendly data center can be a bumpy one, which is not surprising when the path less traveled has innovative technologies and practices that haven’t been, ahem, road-tested. [caption id="" align="alignright" width="320"...
Futuristic data centers: Computing the origins of the universe

Remember CERN's data conundrum? In a nutshell, they've got 15 petabytes to deal with and have run...
Round ’em up and move ’em out

The Uptime Institute has started a fun way to encourage companies to cut down on wasted server resources. Known as the Server Roundup, the contest features lots of cowboy imagery, a silly video and a