Cloud Computing Weekly Poll: Do We Need A Radically Different Data Center? The Open Data Center Alliance launched today with the goal of making the modern data center more open, efficient and simpler to use. The group is developing a steering committee and a number of working groups to create requirements that will server as the basis for open, industry standards. These requirements would form the basis for how data… Alex Williams View comments
Internet of Things Connect Your Car to the Web With AutoBot Last week I was a judge at the Consumer Electronics Association's i-Stage competition, where 8 innovative startups competed to win a spot in January's CES trade show. All of the products presented were forward-looking, none more so than the winner: AutoBot. Developed by Louisville, Kentucky company Mavizon Technologies, AutoBot is a car appliance… Mobile Richard MacManus View comments
Cloud Computing A Call for a Radically Different Data Center A group of companies have formed an alliance to encourage cloud computing by making the data center radically different than it is today. The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) consists of about 70 companies that want data centers to be more efficient, simpler and open. The goal is to develop industry standards developed by a cross section of… Alex Williams View comments
E-Learning Schoology Aims to Fix One of the Greatest Pain Points of Education If you ask most students and instructors what they think of Learning Management Systems (LMS), you're probably going to get one of two responses: "What's a Learning Management System?" or "I really hate the system we have to use." (Typically, there's a company name attached.) And while it would be nice, I suppose, to do away with the… Audrey Watters View comments
E-Learning Survey Finds College Students Love Laptops But Not eReaders, Facebook But Not Twitter Want to know what the future workforce thinks of technology, how it uses search engines, social networking, and online collaborative tools? The recently released ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology gives some excellent insights into trends in college students' technology ownership, perceptions, skills, and habits. The… Audrey Watters View comments