Last Tuesday, February 14, I briefly attended CloudConnect 2012 at Santa Clara Convention Center.

The Green Data Center Conference 2012 hosted by the Global Strategic Management Institute took place on January 31 through February 2 in San Diego, California.

I have a high regard for those that create intellectual property as well as the protections created to encourage creativity and the remunerative incentive to create works of all kinds.

Not that I want to spend time doing so, but I would bet that if one performed a search to find out what are the two most over used words related to data centers and technology over the past several years, those two would be “Cloud” and “Green.”

Not that I want to spend time doing so, but I would bet that if one performed a search to find out what are the two most over used words related to data centers and technology over the past several years, those two would be “Cloud” and “Green.”

About a month ago, I read an article about Instagram (http://instagr.am/) a great mobile app that has attracted a lot of attention of late (OK, I must be a little slow on the uptake based on when the app was originally released).

OK, you didn’t really think that I was going to march through a list that long did you?

Just to set your expectations, today’s blog is not about finding alien life somewhere else in the Universe, although I wish someone would make that discovery.

A substantially significant aspect of most data center developments revolves around income taxes, property taxes and incentives.

In today’s issue of the Data Center Knowledge email newsletter, there was an article about Clustered Systems’ new blade server enclosure that configures 16 blades into a 20 kW chassis