24th June 2012 Archive
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Owning a cloud means learning to love the business
Start a beautiful relationship
One of the problems with trying to improve things is that not everyone appreciates it. Deploying a private cloud is tantamount to saying that the IT department needs to become a service provider, at least in part. But it also means that the business needs to start acting more like a service consumer. In principle, there is a …
Cloud Business 24 Jun 00:01
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Posner to Apple, Motorola: 'And don’t come back'
Case dismissed, with prejudice
Judge Richard Posner of Chicago has ended the Apple-versus-Motorola legal battle, at least in America: not only has he dismissed the case, he has done so “with prejudice”, meaning the two companies can’t defibrillate the lawsuit with a new filing. Earlier this month, Posner had warned the companies that dismissal was likely. …
Business 24 Jun 21:47
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Renewables good for 80 per cent of US demand by 2050
NREL spikes ‘can’t do baseload’ myth
One of the greatest objections made against the use of renewable energy for electricity supply, that only coal, gas or nuclear power can sustain a modern economy’s baseload power generation demand, has come under scrutiny in a new report by America’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory. In fact, the NREL’s Renewable …
Energy 24 Jun 22:30
