In booth 419 at the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Expo (ECCE 2014) in Pittsburgh, PA, USA (14–18 September), GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a fabless developer of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power switching ...
GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a fabless developer of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power switching semiconductors for power conversion and control applications, has signed an exclusive worldwide distribution agreement with ...
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Asicminer, a Hong Kong–based bitcoin mining operation, has taken an unorthodox step to gain an advantage over other computing systems running the algorithms that generate the virtual currency. To save money on energy, Asicminer puts ...
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A little more than two years ago,Facebook had a revolutionary idea: Inspired by the model of open-source software, it would bring together a community – the Open Compute Project (OCP) – focused on the creation of open-source ...
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Facebook has proposed a new model for designing servers that it says will give businesses more choice in selecting components and a smarter way to upgrade systems when needs change, though it remains to be seen how widely its method will be ...
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Facebook's Open Compute Project is being expanded to incorporate ARM processors, providing new options for companies shopping for low-cost hardware to build out cloud computing environments. Chip vendors from both the ARM and x86 sides of ...
Catching up with many of the other unified communications vendors, Avaya today announced that its Aura platform now can be virtualized. Avaya has teamed with VMware to ensure that Aura - the company's UC platform for managing voice, video ...
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Several varieties of screws, bolts and nuts are used for different types of fastening applications. Each little hardware component has a unique role to play, and shoulder screws are no exception to this. These components are also commonly ...
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Many companies will now operate with a specific data centre, in which they house much of their technological equipment, including servers and network systems. These data centres are of vital importance to the operations of many businesses ...
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Leeds City Council authorities have approved the construction of a network-neutral datacentre worth £43m to improve the internet connectivity and cin the region. The datacentre called DC4, will have a floor-space of around ...
Sheffield start-up Iceotope can dramatically cut,by over 90%,the cooling overhead of data centres,and increases the computational density of server racks,by moving to liquid cooling. Conventional servers are cooled by air,with fans bowing ...
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Hotel chain De Vere Group has outsourced its IT to a private cloud from IT services firm ANS Group, reducing its 18 rack hosted data cente to three, in a bid to cut hosting costs. ANS Group will implement a private cloud to manage and ...
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Network World - A new kind of data center claiming to employ "the world's most efficient cooling system" turns the traditionally unbearable "hot aisle" between server racks into a rather pleasant air-conditioned hallway, all the while using ...
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Facebook has taken delivery of the first set of innovative server racks it helped design, technology that the company hopes other organizations with large data centers will adopt. The prototype racks represent some of the ...
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