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For more than a year a team of three very smart Facebook engineers set out to reinvent a server rack farm for the 21st century. The result of their work is the company's new data center in Prineville, Oregon which is revolutionary in every sense of the word, from its site selection and construction which did away with costly refrigerated air conditioning and plumbing to the design of the server racks, the power supply and distribution and the circuit board design.

This innovation has resulted in a new level of energy efficiency unmatched in the industry. In public comments Zuckerburg made clear that this is a win-win strategy for the IT industry, because it provides big cost savings of up to 24% on operating costs while also allowing companies to tout the bright green slogan that "Efficiency is Profitable."

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You may be a busy business person, particularly if you run a high tech computer business. As you react to a number of demands today, you should still keep in mind of your long term future goals particularly your retirement goals. At the end of the day, you are working today in order to save money and grow a nest egg so that you can retire comfortably in your golden years. Therefore, you should make it a priority to conduct SIPP research online so that you are aware of the various pension plan options available. The SIPP refers to the self invested personal pension and it is offered in the United Kingdom as a government sponsored pension scheme. The main benefit of SIPPs as compared to other pension plans is that SIPPs enable individuals to take full control in making their investment decisions. Business owners tend to be savvy investors too, and SIPPs are thus a more preferable option for them that gives them more choice and freedom.

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Cisco fancies itself as a server maker these days, and they continue to launch new products at a rapid fire pace. The latest of these are the new Nexus converged switches. The company is also hoping to get a leg up on its peers by talking about the servers it plans to produce using Intel's future "Westmere-EX" Xeon E7 high-end processors. TheNexus switch family runs the NX-OS and features converged storage and server networking.

Like other switch-makers, Cisco wants to chase the financial services and other HPC centers that need super high-speed 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches, so it is offering up its first Nexus product aimed at speed freaks. A port-to-port hop inside the Nexus 3000 takes only 1 microsecond. The Nexus 3064 has 48 SFP+ ports that run at 10GE speeds and another four QSFP+ ports that are rated at 40GE speeds . These are very similar to the speeds of the Arista Networks 7050S-64 rack-topper that came out this week.