#DrinkConsciously Plastic is light, inert, resistant, durable and economic.Its defects are the incomplete impermeability to gases and water vapor and the low resistance to abrasion but the worst defect is the it’s not biodegradable. A plastic bottle can remain in water, or on the ground, from a minimum of 100 years to a maximum of […]
“A better world is a dream that begins to come true” said Mahatma Gandhi. What if there is someone who works to makes better Universe too? There’s a company, a former start-up in northern Italy, which has developed a technology that help reducing the amount of space debris that is polluting the precious orbits around […]
Reuse is the true essence of ecology, the pillar on which circular economy should rest. According to a Doxaresearch carried out for Subito.it, the economy of reuse that “prolongs object’s life” is growing and produced a wealth of 19 billion in 2016, one billion more than in 2015, which corresponds to almost 1 point of Pil. The unbridled consumerism of our times leads us […]
At the beginning of November we were invited to participate, presenting an idea, in the ItaliaCampania event (November 26, 2011), an initiative organized by the ItaliaCamp Association in partnership with the Industrial Union of Naples. ItaliaCampania is part of the project promoted by the ItaliaCamp Association, conceived with the aim of collecting through the competition […]
In the June-July issue 06-07 of MasterMeeting, a piece on greenIT is published where Barbara reports our initiative “Make the Cloud Green” and reports some speeches of a telephone interview she gave us on that occasion. Master Meeting is a magazine dedicated to the tourism business, it is also a guide that selects the best […]
At the end of the event we report a summary of the fundamental points discussed and addressed. We started with an introduction to the research project from which this first round table meeting was born and we analyzed the greenpeace document highlighting the pages where the errors due to the confusion of the term cloud […]
VMengine, the AWS User Group Naples in collaboration with Eurocloud Italia and the dept. of Computer Science and Systems Engineering of Federico II, invite you to attend the research table on GreenIT, in particular on the optimization of energy consumption of Cloud Providers’ datacenters and on the convenience of using public cloud computing to promote […]
Months ago we underlined at the bottom of the article: http://blog.vmengine.net/2008/05/30/marten-mickos-ceo-di-mysql-a-la-sapienza-di-roma/ related to the Roman conference of MySQL at Sapienza, about the future possibilities of creating performance using the new native ZFS filesystem of Solaris and the MySQL database engine. Well something was born, thanks to some features of the phenomenal ZFS filesystem and the […]
The First National Bank of Omaha (FNBO – Nebraska, USA) wanted to insure its data center against any power outage. So they built a new “underground” data center in Omaha, lined with concrete. The facility is powered by hydrogen fuel cells, fully operational “off the grid”, not connected to the national electricity grid. “If the […]