Hardware, licenses, applications, remote hands, even the expense of redundancy—none of it compares to the price of power in the data center; and power needs are increasing exponentially as processing intensifies and demand for rack space rises.
Data center power is partly to keep physical servers running, but it’s also to keep them cool enough to run: as servers increase in processing power, so does (more…)
Hosting companies are famous for offering rock bottom deals—loads of space for next to nothing. But often, those “deals” come at a high price, requiring a cookie-cutter approach that doesn’t work for today’s high energy, fast-reaction time companies.
With VMware’s vSphere, virtual hosting companies can offer additional operating systems, more than any other hypervisor, and the opportunity to use the latest cloud computing c (more…)
At the risk of sounding unkind, I need to discuss this subject, not in order to vent, but in an attempt to study the creatures that inhabit the outer grounds of my childrens’ HIGH PERFORMING MAGNET SCHOOL. Don’t forget it, anyone. No parents would actually state that overtly (false modesty is a perfected art among the upper middle class), but they shout it louder than ever with the revs of their Lexi engines, which form the sparkling sea (more…)
While most people don’t associate coffee farms with Hawaii, it is the only state in the Union that has the climate and soil where coffee plants can flourish. Rich, slightly acidic volcanic soil, sunny mornings with cloudy afternoons and over 60 inches of rain during the summer months provide the perfect environment to grow primo coffee.
There are numerous traditional Hawaiian coffees cultivated in the Hawaiian Isles, but for t (more…)