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ITEXPO West begins in: 42 Days. REGISTER NOW!   Featured Articles » Fonality Details Benefits of Cloud Telephony for Customer Service » Gluster's Trainer: The Importance of True Cloud Architecture » Feeling Chilly? Try Warming Up with a Nice Cloud Server, says Microsoft » Twilio, the Cloud-based VoIP/Skype App Enabler   Sponsor: InfoTECH Spotlight's Cloud Computing Excellence Award Cloud Computing is revolutionizing application and service delivery, storage, networking, security, and nearly every other area of technology. InfoTECH Spotlight's Cloud Computing Excellence Award seeks to recognize those vendors that have most effectively leveraged cloud computing and have made efforts to bring new, differentiated offerings to market. Final deadline to apply is August 10, 2011. APPLY NOW.   Top Stories » TechAmerica Foundation Releases Cloud Computing Guide for Federal Agencies » CA Announces Updated Products and Capabilities to Simplify Cloud Choice » With Help from Unisys, GSA Becomes First Federal Agency to Move to the Cloud » simyo Selects Funambol's Cloud Service for Mobile Devices   From The Expert Corner July 26, 2011 Feeling Chilly? Try Warming Up with a Nice Cloud Server, says Microsoft By Beecher Tuttle TMCnet Contributor Although a furnace and a server rack are rarely ever confused with each other, they do share two of the same traits: they both create heat and cost loads of money to power. The chief difference between the two is that heat is a negative byproduct of servers and the end-goal of furnaces. This strange correlation led the geeks over at Microsoft to come up with a novel idea: use the heat generated from large-scale computing equipment to keep businesses and residential buildings toasty warm. It sounds so foolishly simple it must be brilliant. The main concept behind Microsoft's (News - Alert) idea is the data furnace. The software giant's researchers have come up with a plan to place cloud computing equipment directly into the basement of buildings – rather than in server farms – and to combine it with the facility's ductwork and hot water pipes to create a new heating resource... Read More   Featured Video Interview with Symplified   TMCnet Free Premium Content » Moving to a SIP-Enabled Architecture » Can Your Center Keep Up with the Changes? » Creating a Better Customer Experience with At-Home Associates    Latest Blogs » Expert Opinion: Pandora is Less Engaging » Vince Flynn Predicts Tea Party Back in 1997?   Featured Channels » Cloud Telephony » Cloud Storage » Cloud Communications » Cloud CRM   Webinars Download One of Our Webinars Today to learn about new opportunities to enhance your business. http://www.tmcnet.com/webinar/   Contact Us   Company Directory    |    All Editors' Info   Become a TMCnet Columnist! Become a TMCnet columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of IP Communications professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the TMCnet Web site and this newsletter. Contact TMCnet Group Editorial Director, Erik Linask, at elinask@tmcnet.com for details.

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