Puneet Mehrotra: Published in Hindustan Times, Friday July 13th, 2007
The trouble with industrial growth is that it needs energy – which costs money, an increasingly, hurts the environment too. And, in the 21st century that belongs to computers, gizmos and electronic items, energy issues will get a serious ring in the coming days, as the debate on carbon emissions, global warming and climate change gets hotter.
Global demand for energy is expected to grow 53 per cent by 2030, and 70 per cent of this demand will come from China and India. As demand grows alongside, calls for affordability “intelligent” energy could be the way out of troubles.
If you thought computers were non-polluting and consumed very little energy and data centres the most environment friendly workspace you need to think again. According to analyst firm IDC, roughly 50 cents is spent on energy for every dollar of computer hardware. This is expected to increase by 54 per cent to 71 cents over the next four years. On the other hand, an intelligent green energy data centre means substantial savings. On an average, for a 25,000 square-foot data centre it could achieve 42 per cent energy savings. This saving equates to 7,439 tonnes of carbon emissions saved per year!
The information technology industry is leading a revolution of sorts by turning green in a manner no industry has ever done before. It is worth emphasising that this time “green technology” isn’t just about sound bytes to impress activists but concrete action and organisational policy. Opportunities lie in green technology like never before in history and organisations are seeing it as a way to create new profit centres while trying to help the environmental cause. Read more
Larry’s Column
I’ve come to believe that our accomplishments are a direct result of our expectations. Somehow we develop a mental list of the things we expect to accomplish both in our personal life and our business life, and somehow we manage to develop strategies to bring those expectations to reality. Most of the time this mental activity is done unconsciously in the background and that is fine if we are happy or fulfilled with the results.
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Foundry Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FDRY), a performance and total solutions leader for end-to-end switching and routing, today announced the world’s most powerful and energy efficient routing switch optimized to address growing capacity and performance needs within the data center, high-performance computing (HPC), and Internet Exchange Points (IXP). With 1,536 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports or 128 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10-GbE) ports and approximately 2.2 Billion packets per second (Bpps) of throughput, the BigIron RX-32 has the industry’s greatest performance per rack unit, making it the most powerful Ethernet switch with the lowest Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) available today. Read more
Foundry Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FDRY), a performance and total solutions leader for end-to-end switching and routing, today announced the world’s most powerful and energy efficient routing switch optimized to address growing capacity and performance needs within the data center, high-performance computing (HPC), and Internet Exchange Points (IXP). With 1,536 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports or 128 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10-GbE) ports and approximately 2.2 Billion packets per second (Bpps) of throughput, the BigIron RX-32 has the industry’s greatest performance per rack unit, making it the most powerful Ethernet switch with the lowest Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) available today. Read more
The evolution of 3D printers driven by severe pricing pressures has made concept modeling and rapid prototyping affordable to most end users. Undoubtedly, the growing trend toward rapid manufacturing has taken the industry to the next level.
New analysis from Frost & Sullivan (www.testandmeasurement.frost.com), World Rapid Prototyping Equipment Markets, reveals that the market earned revenues of $300.0 million in 2006 and estimates this to reach $859.4 million in 2013. Read more
In an age where competition is hot and even a small competitive advantage can provide the edge. Consider a service you simply cannot do without in this age and time. That’s right you guessed it right, it’s the Bar Code department. Read more
