Data center in a box – add power & network and away we go!

Living life in the SME sector we’re more used to having to deal with this :-
 
 
Than this :-
 
 
Microsoft are supposedly adding servers at a rate of 10,000 per month. One way they’re doing this is with “container data centers” – basically prefab data centres in a trailer! It seems these things come ready [...]

Going green across the pond ?!

Mayor Bloomberg Orders Taxi Cabs to Be Hybrid by 2012
So our friends across the pond are going green!?
The proposed new hybrid vehicles are twice as economical to run – getting 35 miles per gallon to the measley 14 miles per gallon of the current big yellow machines.
However – much as we admire the [...]