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George Slessman, CEO of IO
Featured in the Data RoundUp this week:
If you haven’t done so already, make sure to download our latest whitepaper on Transforming the Data Center (link is below), and check out our YouTube channel for an informative talk by our CEO at last year’s Uptime Symposium on the topic.
Data Center 2.0: The Roadmap for Data Center Transformation (IO) CIO organizations that don’t focus strategic attention and investment in the data center physical infrastructure are destined to be left behind. The good news is that when it comes to data centers, the future has already arrived—in the form of Data Center 2.0.
Data Center 2.0: Reality Strikes (YouTube) IO’s CEO George Slessman, delivers the keynote at the 2012 Uptime Symposium, exploring how the reality of data center infrastructure delivered through standards-based hardware and software technology is increasing data center performance, reducing costs, increasing efficiency, and enabling the future cloud transformation.
More Good News About the “Scientific Accident That May Change the World” (KCET) More than 100 micro super-capacitors can be produced on a single disc in 30 min or less.
Kiss Your Postal Mailbox Goodbye for 5$/month (VentureBeat) In a digital age, is the U.S. postal service really ripe for disruption?
Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud (TEDTalks) Educational researcher Sugata Mitra is the winner of the 2013 TED Prize. His wish: Build a School in the Cloud, where children can explore and learn from one another.
What Happens When the Machines Take All of Our Jobs? (LinkedIn/TEDTalks) MIT’s Andrew McAfee says technology is changing so rapidly that “our machines have started to demonstrate skills that they have never, ever had before”.
Cyborg Tech Rises at Mobile World Congress (C|Net) Gear that places humans and sophisticated technologies in extremely tight proximity, almost approaching the cybernetic, was everywhere.
Street Lights, Security Systems & Sewers? They’re Hackable Too (NPR) Whether you know it or not, you are surrounded by a network of machines that are talking to each other.
