I love to be on the water, ocean or lake. It doesn’t matter to me.  More to the point, I love to sail.  To me, there is nothing more peaceful than listening to the sound of the water rushing past the hull, and the wind humming through the rigging and sails en route to your destination. Of course, you could also take a big flashy power boat, but while they provide the thrill of skipping across the waves at high speeds, you’re often using up a lot of resources, i.e. fuel, and rattling your bones in the process.

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I manage to capture some screen shot to share over the Cisco UCS platform running with VMware vSphere 4

Summary tab it shows Cisco as the product manufacturer.

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By Tanapong Ittisakulchai

Amid rising costs, a challenging economy and an explosion in Web-based data, IT experts expect continued high growth in cloud computing.

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For the 3rd installment of our webinar recap series, we dive into what the future holds for cloud computing. In particular, will look at the role of platform-as-a-service in the broader cloud ecosystem. In particular, will 2010 be “the year of PaaS?” Read on for more about why platform-level services will be hot in 2010, More >

Google March 9 opened its Google Apps Marketplace, an online store selling enterprises business applications that integrate with and extend Google Apps.
The Google Apps Marketplace will let Google Apps users access business apps for project management, billing and accounting, travel management, and other services. This will provide third-party software developers a larger cloud computing channel More >

Monday, March 15
Cloud Computing IT Workshops | Developer Workshops | Developing for Microsoft Windows Azure Platform
Attend developer workshops with experts from the leading cloud computing platforms. It’s the only place where you can, in theory, build three cloud apps on three different clouds, guided by the folks behind that cloud, in a single day. More >

Merging public and private cloud computing infrastructures.
Charlotte Dunlap

There was much buzz about merging public and private cloud infrastructures at last week’s RSA Security Conference in San Francisco. As enterprises use virtualization to step up the creation of private clouds around their data centers, security vendors are working to steer More >

IBM Cloud Computing CTO to Keynote CloudSlam’10(TM) Conference
Company is Named Exclusive Diamond Collaborator for Conference March 23 – March 25 2010
TORONTO, March 8 /PRNewswire/ — CloudSlam’10™, a virtual conference developed to promote collaborative analysis of the latest trends and challenges in the world of Cloud Computing, will commence on March 23. CloudSlam’10™ is organized by More >

You must have noticed that Google has been slowly inching towards a culture of Online cloud computing, and most companies, individuals and businesses have adapted to the culture of cloud computing because of its obvious advantages. Cloud computing allows users to manage data, applications and information in a way that traditional software or hardware don’t More >

One conclusion I was able to draw from last week’s HIMSS show is that Software as a Service (SaaS) is the only way clinics and small medical practices are going to get health IT in time to collect that sweet, sweet stimulus cash.
From big SaaS companies like AllScripts to smaller ones like Practice Fusion, the More >

Intel Labs is showing off technology that would allow consumers to collect and analyze environmental data and then share it over the Internet. Originally posted at Nanotech - The Circuits Blog

Material sciences achievement in organocatalysts research could lead to more sustainable plastics, better recycling methods.

Dozens of companies are developing tools to get consumers involved in home energy management, but businesses are easier customers to serve, say smart-grid execs.

This year's MIT Energy conference provided showcase for energy entrepreneurs as investors and executives grappled with how to make giant energy business cleaner.

Investors say we've already experienced "mini bubbles" driven by hype or subsidies. But there remains a societal push for cleaner and domestic sources of energy.

A new report out today says IT departments still aren’t implementing optimum data centre practices, as a lack of automation, coupled with the proliferation of virtualisation technologies is leading to management sprawl.
IDC’s European Data Centre Management Survey 2010 has found that, despite continued economic pressures, large European organisations still expect their spending on staff working in data centre management to grow by 10 percent over the next year - approximately nine times the expected growth in IT spending in 2010.

NASA, which had been planning to build a new enterprise data center estimated to cost $1.5 billion, has done an abrupt about-face, announcing late last month that it was planning major changes to its data center strategy.
In an announcement posted on the site of NASA's long-term, multi-billion dollar IT transformation project, the Information Technology Infrastructure Integration Program (I3P), NASA said that it was postponing the release of a long-awaited request for proposal for the new data center in light of new White House policies and leadership changes at NASA.

"NASA intends to create

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 Meatloaf is one of those home cooked dishes that is packed with spices and other ingredients and yet it tastes delicious. We are here to unpack the tasty Parallels Desktop 5 build 9344 as it was just released steaming fresh from our developers oven today. The following are the new enhanced features: 

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Verizon took a leadership position in the green data center and general networking sapce when it enacted on Jan.

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Some of the UK’s 5,000 largest energy users - required to take part in the government’s Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) Energy Efficiency Scheme - may not find sufficient capacity available to meet automatic meter reading (AMR) requirements.
That’s according to energy procurement and carbon strategy consultancy, Power Efficiency, which has today warned that companies may not get the measures to improve their CRC league table performance in place before the close of the first year’s reporting on 31 March 2011.