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Some people exist in a verbal world wanting to talk in person or on the phone. Writing is too much work. And Drawing is not even something they attempt.
But, think about this.
“I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.”
If you want the truth and less lies, you may want to draw more. This is one reason why I have chosen Galaxy Note smartphones and tablets as my main devices. Oh and a pad of paper.
Amazon.com revolutionized retailing by tracking customer habits and allow them to rank items and write comments. With Amazon Kindle Mayday feature most focus on the tech support issue, but the game changer is for Amazon to collect more data from consumers to create the next game change.
Here is the Mayday feature.
News sites are focusing on the tech support feature and a bit on how to sell more.
Amazon launches Mayday, a virtual Genius Bar for theKindle Fire ...
Amazon may be trotting out new versions of its Kindle Fire tablets and an updated software platform for them, but its also introducing a unique ...+Show more
How the Kindle Fire's 'Mayday' Feature Will Help AmazonSell More ...
Wired-Sep 26, 2013Amazon's Mayday tech support for Kindle Fire HDX puts a tiny helper on your screen when you need it most. But the exchange between you ...+Show more
Amazon if they do this right is going to have an ability to connect to consumers in a way that no one else can.
I have my Kindle Fire HDX on order so I'll be able to see how it works.
National Geographic has a post on a new dam on the Nile River in Ethiopia.
Water Wars: Egyptians Condemn Ethiopia's Nile Dam Project
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam along the Nile has ignited a water debate between Egypt and Ethiopia.
Photograph by Cameron Davidson, Corbis
As the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam takes shape, tempers rise.
What caught my eye was how much fresh water is imported to Egypt.
A total of "98 percent of Egypt's freshwater comes from outside its borders, and it has exceptionally little leverage," said Angus Blair, an economic and political analyst at Cairo's Signet Institute.
Besides the water supply the dam will change power generation capacities.
Egypt fears that storing water behind the Ethiopian dam will reduce the capacity of its own Lake Nasser (thereby reducing the power-generating capacity of Egypt's giant hydroelectric plant at Aswan). Ethiopian officials have sought to allay fears by pointing out that storing water in the cooler climes of the Ethiopian lowlands will ensure much less water is lost to evaporation, but Egyptians are unconvinced.
"The production of electricity at the Aswan High Dam is likely to drop by almost 40 percent should the Ethiopian dam be built," concluded Nader Noureddin, a professor of agriculture at Cairo University.
For years, when anyone asked me what I thought about IO Data Centers, I said the company is looking to be bought or go IPO. Well now IO has filed a confidential S1 for IPO.
Modular data center specialist IO files for IPO
SEP. 24, 2013 - 10:56 AM PDTNo Comments
photo: IOSUMMARY:Modular data center manufacturer IO has filed a confidential S-1 form and plans to go public in the near future. The company has made a name for itself selling fully contained data centers that take up only 462 square feet of floor space.
I wonder how many of you are looking to buy the IPO shares and are putting your buy orders in. Talking to my friends, we will be watching the IO stock to see if it flies, goes sideways, or ???
I have a post on the Top 5 Data Center Construction companies. This post is a list of the Top 5 Modular Data Center Construction companies. This list is based on conversations at conferences, bars, e-mail and phone calls and what companies come up. If you don't already have these companies on your RFI list, you may now.
The Smart Alternative to a Brick-and-Mortar Data Center: Dell MDC
Intelligent Connectivity and Flexibility: The Dell Modular Data Center
Take a look at the hyperefficient, snap-together, flexible choice over the traditional brick-and-mortar or pod-type data center: the Dell™ Modular Data Center (MDC) solution. Many key benefits make the Dell MDC a compelling alternative for your data center solution. Read a few of those benefits:
- Speed: The Dell MDC can be designed, built, and up and running 75 percent faster than a traditional data center.
- Efficient: Designed for hyperefficiency, the Dell MDC choice provides important advantages for flexible growth and cost reduction. When you choose an MDC from Dell, the Dell Data Center Solutions (DCS) engineering team works hard to optimize your entire data center to reduce operational costs. Best of all, the MDC is modular, so you can add only the modules you need, incrementally, as you grow, without substantial up-front costs.
- Flexible: Where the competition force fits IT into a rigid shipping container, we collaborate with customers like you to custom build your MDC.
2. HP POD (Performance Optimized Datacenters)
HP Performance Optimized Data Centers (HP PODs) are a portfolio of breakthrough, modular data centers that help enterprises rapidly and efficiently expand data center capacity and meet increasing service level agreements. Compared to traditional brick-and-mortar data centers, HP PODs help you scale capacity on demand, reduce capital expenditures and increase energy efficiency.
Along with our complete portfolio of HP POD solutions, HP provides turnkey solutions that help customers deliver on their data center strategies saving time and maximizing performance.
Your mission critical applications are too important to be housed in the same data center with other customers in a data center located hundreds of miles from your operations team. A Compass dedicated data center is built for you alone to control your operational costs, enhance security, and simplify your day to day operations like moves, adds and changes; and it can be delivered within six (6) months of pad ready site. The benefits of a having a dedicated facility would be worthless if it wasn’t located where you needed it, and that’s why Compass will build your new data center exactly where you want it.
4. AST Modular
AST Modular offers a range of fully integrated modular data centers which provide unmatched flexibility, resiliency, and energy efficiency. Our offering includes containerized ISO datacenters, NON ISO modular datacenters and datacenter modular rooms. The three systems offer a scalable method of quickly developing data centre capacity, require minimal work on site and can be operational in a fraction of the time it takes for a traditional build. -
5. Commscope Data Center Solutions
Discover data center solutions that evolve with your needs
Data centers are at the center of everything a business does, and modern applications are demanding more and more of them than ever before. IT operations are struggling to meet demand, manage costs and maximize uptime in the face of several key challenges:
