However, before deploying new equipment in data centers, companies look for several critical features.
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Digital Realty executives said the most-expensive equipment in data centers is owned and maintained by tenants, not the landlord.
Digital Equipment and Data General (which inspired a bestselling book called The Soul of a New Machine) got rich selling them.
Intel and Microsoft grew big and ruled the planet, while the old guard of Digital Equipment, Data General and Wang were taken over, trivialized or snuffed.
As shown in a recent Samsung event, increasing utilization of enterprise equipment, including digital storage, keeps the equipment in data centers working even harder, resulting in even higher energy use.
Let us also remind ourselves that these predictions are coming from some of the most sophisticated market-watchers in the world, with all of the resources and research and equipment and data and full-time dedicated staffers that most investors could only dream of.
ViaSat ( VSAT - news - people ), which makes and services satellite equipment and data networks, hiring never stopped during the recession, in part because the firm has a big, steady client, the U.S. military, which is using ViaSat equipment in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The scope of automation is circumscribed by the management systems that control equipment in the data center.
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Big east-coast firms such as Digital Equipment Corporation and Data General were self-contained empires that focused on one product, mini-computers.
Along the way, HSBC incorporated Cisco equipment in its data centers and Cisco videoconferencing systems, including its high-end TelePresence technology, in its offices.
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But a large percentage of the equipment in the data center does not incorporate capabilities for fine grained energy management reporting and control.
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Stabilizing their altitude at 10, 000 feet, the Navy pilot initiated the emergency destruct plan for the sensitive data and equipment on board -- and considered ditching the plane into the sea.
Continuing to reduce the costs of on-line storage will require the management of stored content to optimize availability depending upon frequency of use and use of commodity storage and other data center equipment.
What's more is that the application acts as an extension of the firm's Preva fitness tracking console built into its 880 line of cardio equipment, and keeps data synced between devices and exercise machines through the cloud.
The deeper belief is that existing big businesses--which, as with the initial Internet revolution, will make up the majority of winners in the cloud craze, Clementi says--will not give up ownership of their data and equipment to another proprietor.
The graveyard of once-high-flying stocks includes Digital Equipment, Apollo Computer, Data General and Silicon Graphics (now SGI).
Carty reassured investors that sales of servers and data-storage equipment were holding up.
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It extends the reach of Preva Personal Accounts beyond Precor 880 cardio equipment, and syncs all data in the cloud for anytime, anywhere access.
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This puts Alcatel into the booming business of making data-networking equipment.
As most doctors don't know how to use those printers, hospitals need engineers to operate the printers and help convert images from computed tomography and other medical equipment to 3-D data that can be printed out.
Some of the industries within manufacturing that have shown the strongest growth over the last 12 months have included machine shops, manufacturers of metalworking machinery, plastics product manufacturing and manufacturers of electrical equipment and components, Sageworks data shows.
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Crosswave has advanced equipment to transport large amounts of data more efficiently than traditional telephone networks.
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The loss of the hi-tech equipment has focused attention on the data gathered by the tried-and-tested method of drilling through the ice by hand.
His father was obsessed with conserving cash to pay estate taxes, and managers were losing business because they refused to share design data about their refinery equipment.
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Intel , IBM and Cisco have piled into this arena during the last decade, bombarding traders with data on how their equipment can shave vital fractions of a second off of each trade.
Initiatives such as Argo have reached out to stakeholders that do not traditionally participate in scientific research in an effort to use existing marine traffic for the purpose of gathering scientific data and launching monitoring equipment.
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