Yes, I know A123 also pursued the smart grid market to provide utility-scale storage.
The Cayenne is a good example of success in over-engineering: it offers both the (somewhat) added storage utility of a mid-sized SUV, with the pleasant, roomy interior and higher driving position, combined with an astonishing sports-car like driving dynamic (especially in the S, Turbo, and Turbo S models), and, with proper options, phenomenal off-road capability (just watch the publicity video of a Cayenne Turbo S tearing up the sand dunes outside Dubai).
The first floor holds an office and some storage and utility rooms and three bedrooms are on the second floor.
Hardware is evolving rapidly into dynamic blocks of utility computing (and storage and networking) that can be standardized, widely deployed, and efficiently utilized.
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Wind turbines can only supply electricity when the wind blows, and as long as inexpensive energy storage remains elusive, utility companies will have to combine wind with a resource that can be banked in reserve, like gas.
Sun's announcement marks the information technology industry's latest step toward "utility computing, " a grid system in which companies pipe in data processing and storage from faraway server farms, says Nicholas Carr, author of The Big Switch, a book on utility computing published earlier this week.
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Major software companies, including Oracle, IBM, Google and even Amazon.com, are all beginning to offer their own forms of utility computing applications, such as software-as-a-service and rented storage and processing power.
MySQL's lighter-weight database system may also fit into Sun's ambitions of becoming a major player in "utility computing, " a model of information technology infrastructure that pipes in software applications, processing and storage over the Internet rather than from a company's own data centers.
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