Making Data Centers Smarter and Greener

By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Facebook has saved $1.3 billion in the last three years by making its data centers more energy efficient. That’s enough energy to power 40,000 houses a year and saves on carbon emissions the equivalent of taking 50,000 cars off the road, said Charlie Manese, vice president of […]

UTSA Hosts the Open BigCloud Symposium

By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Some of the biggest trends in technology today are the cloud, a fancy name for data centers, and big data, the massive bits and bytes of information flowing through those data centers. At the University of Texas at San Antonio, more than 100 people met Wednesday to […]