Technology

Amit Varma’s My Friend, Sancho

Amit Varma, one of the earliest Indian bloggers, who will be getting his first novel “My Friend, Sancho” published by Hachette India in April 2009 has decided to crowd source the cover page design. Amit is looking for something that is different from what we see in our bookstores (don’t all authors want that?) and hence the Cover Design competition but if they dont receive any worthy entries then a winner would be picked who would get Rs 5000/- but his art wont be on the cover.

23andMe.com - Making DNA interesting

I first heard about 23andme.com, a super intelligent web service, on Diggnation and it was hard not to get instantly sucked into the whole concept. I don’t know if it’s the geek in me that makes the concept so fascinating but I think it deserve to be talked about. The site and business has been [...]

BigFlix Service Review

I have been a BigFlix subscriber for over past 6 months and have decided not to renew my subscription. My account screen tells me that I have watched around 97 movies so that should put to rest any credibility issues about this review. BigFlix has two service offerings - Streaming as well as rental. This review talks only about the rental service.

Green Data Center : Organizational Solutions

This is part 3 of a 3-part series about Green Data center
After discussing the technology solutions for Green data center, lets take a look at the organizational changes that would be required.

Management or Organizational Approaches
Incentive backed programs
The CIO office will have to ensure that energy optimization and reduction is energy cost is part of IT [...]

Green Data Center: Technology Solutions

This is part 2 of a 3-part series.
The Greening of IT can be looked at from two perspectives, technology oriented approaches and management or organizational approach. Let’s discuss the technology approach to begin with.
Technology Approaches:
Server Consolidation
A long standing myth in data centers has been that each application requires its own server for security and stability [...]