The basic premise of these bank disintermediaries is that they harness the networking power of the Web to match people who have excess cash with people in need of it or those who simply want to refinance credit card debt.
Rack disaggregation refers to the separation of those resources that currently exist in a rack, including compute, storage, networking and power distribution into discrete modules.
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Power companies and networking startups have spent years touting a technology called broadband-over-power lines, or BPL. In those systems, the utility sends a data signal across existing wires at a much higher frequency than electricity, so the two signals don't interfere.
Utilities hope that other uses for power line networking could help subsidize Internet service.
Google has about 900, 000 servers, so Facebook needs 27, 000 additional servers (plus power and networking infrastructure) for no obvious financial return.
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SoMoLend utilizes the power of social networking by allowing entrepreneurs to raise funds from friends, relatives, neighbors and even current customers and local banks.
The latest report also points out how local people are harnessing the power of social networking sites, including Facebook, to save theatres in their areas.
They are often connected via extremely weak links but as Google has pointed out converting weak links to strong links is where the real power of social networking lies.
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The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) created the table (or should we say, "tables") to showcase the "power of advanced networking" and joins a host of other wild ways to get your game on.
As the Internet expands and data centers multiply, networking hardware is only getting more power-hungry.
Forbes talked to Selby about social networking, film distribution and the power of fans.
Cherwenka, the Huffington Post blogger, believes Kutcher may be one of the first people to leverage the power of online social networking for widespread social good.
Founded in 2000, the HomePlug Powerline Alliance, Inc. is an industry-led initiative with 70 member companies that creates specifications and certification logo programs for using the power lines for reliable home networking and Smart Grid applications.
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More than 20 low-power designs including microservers, storage and networking systems use the Intel Atom processor S1200 family.
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Thursday morning I went to a power team meeting with some people in my Business Networking International (BNI) group.
Generic servers, generic storage, and generic networking will simply not be able to match the speed, power, and value of engineered systems, and the vendors currently in that space are scrambling to align with the emerging trend of richly integrated and optimized systems.
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There are networking technologies that use electrical wiring for data networking, and a wall socket can deliver data as well as power with no new wiring needed.
Other home networking technologies, including a few that use home phone lines and even power lines, are also gaining market attention.
The real power of OpenStack is its open standards across compute, storage and networking resources.
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These next-generation products, which target ultra high-performance systems for military, wireline communications, cloud networking, and compute and storage applications, will enable breakthrough levels of performance and power efficiencies not otherwise possible.
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While Napster is a consumer example of peer-to-peer computing, with the right networking technologies in place, businesses will be able to use it to harness the power of multiple computers connected to the Internet to run compute-intensive applications, he said.
Technology Group's diverse product portfolio includes switching, transceiver, communications controller, wireless and storage solutions that power the entire communications infrastructure, including enterprise, metro, home and storage networking.
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Using social networking technologies, they can quickly cut through the noise of everyday work, leverage the power of specialists and groups, and cut across organizational boundaries by simply opting-in.
Networking speeds--gigabits per second--go up exponentially, just the way computing power goes up exponentially under Moore's Law.
University of Michigan computer science and engineering professor Kang Shin and doctoral student Xinyu Zhang will present their new power management approach Sept. 21 at the ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking in Las Vegas.
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Solar power installer, Sungevity, announced today that Patrick Crane, former VP at the social networking giant LinkedIn, has joined the California-based company as its chief marketing officer (CMO).
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This means that economies of networking arise on the demand side of the market, as a result of the strengthening of the consumer bargaining power with product sellers.
The power of energy efficient lighting is not just in the emerging hardware, but in the software and networking that can maximize that hardware to deliver widespread economic benefit and truly change the way lighting is managed today.
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