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Open publishing platform Lulu is known for making a global print-on-demand, disc manufacturing, and distribution and fulfillment network available to independent authors, filmmakers and other individuals. For several years, creators have been able to make everything from hard-cover and paperback boo...
Dropbox, a cloud service that lets users store and share documents and media files over any device, has introduced a paid version of its product aimed at businesses. Known as "Dropbox for Teams," this comes with new administrative controls, centralized billing and phone support and, of course, more ...
Facebook is planning to build a massive new data center in the industrial town of Lulea in Swedish Lapland, about 70 miles from the Arctic Circle. The data center will consist of three buildings, the first of which will cover about 33,000 square yards, Facebook spokesperson Alex Kirschner told TechN...
For the first time in the search engine's history, Google revealed just how much electricity it takes to power its massive computing infrastructure. Google announced that for the year 2010, it used 2.6 million megawatt-hours of energy to run its data centers, search mechanisms, Gmail, YouTube and di...
Another global security mess is in the making, on the heels of the publication of thousands of sensitive security documents obtained by WikiLeaks. However, in this particular instance, WikiLeaks insists it didn't mean to do it. Last week, WikiLeaks reportedly made some 134,000 diplomatic cables avai...
IBM is working on a 120-petabyte storage array that will consist of 200,000 disk drives, according to the MIT Technology Review. The array is expected to store about 1 trillion files. It's being developed for a client that needs a new supercomputer for detailed simulations of real-world phenomena. S...
Over the past few decades, most IT shops have followed a somewhat similar trajectory: Starting from a centralized model, computing resources, much like the cosmological Big Bang, have exploded outwards to become ever-more-distributed and decentralized. This makes sense given market dynamics. Comput...
I'm in the midst of doing the biggest tablet review I've ever attempted, and I have to admit I'm rather impressed with a number of the Android offerings. The funny thing is, the ones closest to the phone work the best, suggesting there is a bit of a Windows XP/Vista event going on in this space. Whi...
Google's privacy-conscious initiatives are often born in Germany. Heeding the objections to Street View, which rained down from national authorities and wary Germans, Google introduced an opt-out feature that allowed people to officially request that their homes be blurred out -- nearly 250,000 appl...
Google announced Friday it will discontinue its Google Health service, a program launched three years ago to allow users to upload and store electronic health records in a central, online repository. The service was designed to provide users with an online database where they could manage personal m...
For almost a year, service providers and their clients have been the focus of spear-phishing and other intrusions that have resulted in large-scale direct and indirect data breaches. It's scary stuff, and the worst of it is far from over. Largely, these breaches have come in two flavors: system int...
Even established e-commerce companies find that the right hosting partner can make a difference by performing a gap assessment that addresses specific requirements for application, network, physical and database compliance. Custom vulnerability scripts and software that ensures application, network,...
The collapse of Amazon Web Services' Elastic Cloud Compute left several large websites out of commission on Thursday. Amazon reportedly attributed the problems to what it called "a networking event" that caused runaway re-mirroring of Elastic Block Storage volumes. The resulting cascade took down ...
It may be an increasingly digital, electronic and paperless world, but that doesn't mean it doesn't use a lot of energy. In particular, data centers -- those places that store, maintain, and manage all the bits and bytes that keep things humming -- use tremendous amounts of energy. Greening these ce...
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