Friday, February 10th, 2012 9:39 am

Virtual world: Digital replaces real content

Pittsburgh (ip-192.com): Digital imagery, Facebook updates, online music collections, email threads and other immaterial artifacts of today's online world may be as precious to teenagers as a favorite book that a parent once read to them or a T-shirt worn at a music festival, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) researchers say. The very fact that virtual [...]

PUE: Measurers to make data centers green

San Francisco (ip-192.com): In a major breakthrough, government agencies in the U.S., Europe and Japan agreed earlier this year to recommend an industry measure called Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) as a worldwide standard. PUE was developed by the Green Grid Association, a Portland based group of IT vendors and users that promote resource efficiency in [...]

Cloud management: Novell supports Baracus

Waltham (ip-192.com): The open source project Baracus, a multiplatform cloud management tool, is now supported by Novell, Inc. At its core, Baracus is a network based boot manager, power controller and provisioning engine designed to manage highly scalable system deployments. It provides complete audit and logging of all events for entire data centers, clusters, or [...]

Java: Apple, Oracle team up through OpenJDK

Cupertino (ip-192.com): Apple and Oracle will work together through the OpenJDK project on the next Java release SE7, both companies said in a joint statement. Apple will contribute several components to the open source project, including the 32- and 64-bit Java virtual machines, class libraries, a network stack, and the foundation for a new graphical [...]