Last month the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) celebrated its 10th anniversary. Apache is the underlying web server technology that powers most of the world’s web sites. According to Netcraft, 49.95% of web sites run on servers powered by Apache. The second closest web server technology belongs to Microsoft at 29.27%. …
May, 2009
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Google Obtains Patent for Water-Based Data Center
This week, the United States Patent Office awarded Google a patent for floating data centers. Filed in 2007, it took nearly two years to be approved and combines computing equipment with electrical generators to provide large-scale computer power from any body of water. Patent abstract: A system includes a floating …