Mobile Data Center
Star- This one flew under my radar –
Dubbed Project Blackbox, the modular data centre combines computer servers and storage and network infrastructure, along with high-efficiency power and cooling. The prototype was designed to fit within the dimensions of a standard 6.1-metre shipping container, making the entire system easy to transport and set up.
Sun says a Blackbox can be deployed in one-tenth the time it takes to design, build and deploy a traditional data centre. It takes up one-third less space, and is 20 per cent more energy-efficient than a conventional set-up with equal computer power.
Snazzy.
Enron Emails
Cool tool –
The Enron Explorer lets you investigate the actions and reactions of Enron’s senior management team as the noose began to tighten.
200,000 internal emails made readable. The tool also provides social network context.
Iran Responds
AP –
Iran unexpectedly announced Wednesday that it would be holding military maneuvers in the Gulf this week, only days after U.S.-led navies held exercises in the same waterway.
Falling Through The Cracks
Bizarre –
A man convicted of terrorist offenses in Yemen has been fired from a job on the London Underground.
Mohammed Kamel Mostafa, son of radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, was identified by colleagues who saw his picture in the newspaper, The Sun reported. Mostafa was working as a laborer for a contractor.
Entertainingly enough Mostafa is listed on Wikipedia as a terrorist.
Globalizing Romanian Crime
UPI – Black globalization strengthened through white channels –
Britain is bracing to cope with a reported crime threat once Bulgaria and Romania join the European Union in January, London’s Sun newspaper said.
Citing a reportedly leaked government document, the Sun said up to 85 percent of cash machine crime in Britain has been linked to Romanian groups.
The government document expresses fears migrants from Bulgaria and Romania could add to organized crime in Britain with ATM crime, various street violencem fraud and sex trafficking, the Sun said.