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Report: $30B Worth of Idle Servers Sit in Data Centers

Working in partnership with Stanford University and TSO Logic, a provider of data center analytics tools, IT consulting firm Anthesis Group released a report this week that suggests there are 10 million physical servers deployed inside data centers around the world that are currently not actually being used. Continue reading

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President Obama Signs Executive Order to Promote Cybersecurity Threat Sharing

President Obama addressed an audience on Friday at the first-ever White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection at Stanford University. During the event he announced an executive order to direct the government and private sector to share cybersecurity threat information. “We’re going to have a single entity that’s analyzing… Continue reading

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Stanford Researchers Increase Cost Effectiveness of Cloud and Contribute to Cleantech

Companies are always looking for ways to reduce costs. Researchers at Stanford may have developed a way data centers and cloud providers can save money using existing infrastructure. Christina Delimitrou and Christos Kozyrakis looked at server utilization at Twitter for a month. They found CPU utilization was below 20 percent… Read More Continue reading

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