The simple answer to this question is yes. But what makes Perfect Search a green technology? According to Perfect Search Corp. Software Engineer Lynn Bendixsen, Perfect Search is green (video) because of the amount of data it can fit onto a single server. Not only can the Perfect Search appliance hold more information, it ... Read more »

People live and work in a data intensive world. For a long time data was stored using hardware, such as external hard drives and data server centers (for larger companies), but there is a new generation of data storage systems emerging. In a recent post at Always On, Greg Ness discusses the rise of powerful software th ... Read more »

Both are powerful green business solutions. The Bloom Box is being hailed as a "Holy Grail of a power source." Bloom Energy is about to go public with its "power plant in a box" that, according to reports, is already being used by major corporations such as eBay and FedEx. eBay says the Bloom Boxes provide five times as mu ... Read more »

Throwing hardware at the problem may be great for the companies selling the hardware, but from licensing to energy costs more hardware means more cost, and folks these days are a bit more cautious when it comes to pulling the trigger. Read more »