The 5 quickest returns on your green investment

By Darrell Dunn, Computerworld

'There is so much 'fat' inside most data centers, that it's not that difficult to make a business case where you can make operations greener and save money at the same time,' says Simon Mingay, an analyst at Gartner. Here are five fairly straightforward improvements that don't take years to implement or bring return. ...continue reading 'The 5 quickest returns on your green investment'

EnterpriseDB open-sources GridSQL

EnterpriseDB announced Tuesday that it is open-sourcing GridSQL, its grid product for data warehousing and business intelligence (BI) applications, under the GPLv2 license. The product works alongside EnterpriseDB's main offerings, a PostgreSQL-based open-source database and an application server. ...continue reading 'EnterpriseDB open-sources GridSQL'

EMC buys Pi to round out cloud computing unit

Storage giant EMC continues to push into the consumer territory: Its latest move is to acquire Pi, a company whose software and services will help users keep track of their personal data. ...continue reading 'EMC buys Pi to round out cloud computing unit'

IBM and EU launch cloud computing initiative

IBM and the EU have launched a joint research initiative to develop new virtualization and grid technologies for cloud computing, which will enable the sharing of IT services. ...continue reading 'IBM and EU launch cloud computing initiative'