Monthly Miscellaneous Technology Round-Up
A new month, a new technology round-up! Obvious from our last post, we at Key2Flex just like the entire IT world, blogged and tweeted about Apple’s anti-notebook tablet, iPad. A week later, this iPad buzz has been replaced by speculations that Google is creating a pro-netbook tablet that will rival iPad. Photos and a video of the Google Tablet mock-up said to be designed by Google Chrome’s designer Glen Murphy surfaced on the official Chromium site. Based on the website, Google Tablet’s sleek look very similar to iPad however one significant difference between the 2 is that the Google Tablet is multi-tasking.
On non-tablet news, HP recently rolled out a smaller version of their Performance-Optimized Datacenter aka POD, a 20-foot, 50,000 lbs containerized datacenter that can easily be transported in a cargo plane. Unlike other POD vendors, HP’s POD is non-proprietary meaning it can support other hardware brands. And just like it’s earlier 40-foot version, the smaller POD “can hold 10 racks of equipment, …maintain the cold aisle at temperatures as high as 90 degrees, and …features taller-than-usual 50U racks to separate and contain the hot and cold aisles.” [Reference: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/]
Meanwhile, PC enthusiasts are waiting for the first ever six-core processor, Gulftown by Intel and AMD’s Thuban, slated to be released early this year. While six-core processors are nothing new in servers, Gulftown and Thuban are targeted mostly for desktops and laptops. Gulftown, with a “32nm, six-core derivative of Bloomfield that’s armed with hyper threading, 12MB of L3 cache and all the goodness of LGA1366, is a 12-thread CPU” [Reference: http://www.hexus.net] is predicted by experts to be first picked up by Apple for its Mac Pro line.
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