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Video Tutor Rick Thompson
Rick Thompson is VP Research and Operations for Greentech Media, which offers critical business information to the green technology market. Most recently, he was Senior Analyst at Heavy Reading, the market research arm of Light Reading. Previously, Rick was a Principal at PointEast Research, VP of Marketing at PanGo Networks, and Director of Product Management and Marketing at Sycamore Networks.
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jennwallace07
jennwallace07   12/14/2009   2 comments
why was my link to "start your own board" 's text displayed in improper ordering of linkage labels and contextual page relevancy . sigh.
aum007
aum007   9/30/2008   2 comments
Having heard a lot about the chrome browser from google and in particular its ability to shut down individual tabs without interfering with other tabs as well as getting a decent reading of resources used by each individual tab and also...
aum007
aum007   9/7/2008   1 comment
The following is a Hypthotechical situation which if it plays out will have interesting implications for Telecommuting and Virtualization Industry. Since,its election time,I am looking at Socio-economic Problem,naming rising Oil prices...
kalwar.g
kalwar.g   8/13/2008   4 comments
Internet is truly an infrastructure for the information age. As one of the major technology medium, Internet has been major areas of research. It is a medium of effective communications, flexible in cost and features, not specific piece of...
hnicolassuero
hnicolassuero   8/1/2008   1 comment
I think that Green IT will help us to reduce money and much more.  What do you think about Green IT
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What impact does green IT have on data center design?
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What impact does Green IT have on product architecture?
What renewable energy sources are available to provide clean energy to enterprise data centers?
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