Tag Archives: IT

Telecom Slowdown? Seven Reasons for Hope

Posted on January 30, 2009 by Jose Miguel Cansado

We have seen recent announcement of job cuts in almost all Telecom and Tech companies, including Microsoft and Google only to name those that are new to those announcements. GigaOm recently echoed a recruitment firm report that estimated almost 200,000 … Continue reading →

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Modular Data Centers: Containers for Clouds

Posted on December 4, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Mike Manos, Microsoft Data Center Chief, has unveiled in his blog the design of future “Generation 4″ Microsoft data centers. With the mission to provide massive easy-to-scale computing infrastructure to power the Cloud, Microsoft envisions pre-assembled containers equipped with a … Continue reading →

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Telecom at the Speed of Moore’s Law

Posted on September 23, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

While the IT industry has Moore’s law in their DNA, the Telecom industry (both telcos and vendors) have not yet been able to embrace the concept and many analyst keep raising doubts about the sustainability of Telecommunications decreasing margins. Microprocessors, … Continue reading →

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IBM Supercomputer Sets Record, or rather not?

Posted on June 9, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

With a total of 116,640 processor cores, including AMD Opteron processors as well as 12,960 IBM Cell processors similar to those created for the PlayStation 3, IBM has broken the one petaflop mark with the new Supercomputer commissioned by the American military … Continue reading →

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