An emerging class of extremely low-power servers is helping Internet companies and hosting providers to slash their energy bills, and proponents say they could have a role in the enterprise as well. The servers, offered by established players such as Dell and SGI as well as start-ups such as SeaMicro, cut power use by reducing server components to a minimum, aggregating fans and power supplies across several servers, and employing low-power processors normally used in netbooks and other mobile devices, such as Via’s Nano processor and Intel’s Atom chip .  Examples include Dell’s “Fortuna” server, which crams 12 mini servers based on Via Nano processors into a 2U chassis. It’s a fully functioning server with its own storage, memory, management controller and dual 1GbE cards, but each server consumes less than 30 watts of power at full load — far less than a typical server of the same size.

Get started in minutes with WordPress hosting Thursday 2nd September 2010 WordPress hosting takes just minutes to deploy, meaning users can be adding content to their new websites within the first hour, it has been reported. Writing for Network World, Frank Ohlhorst explained that the open-source custom web hosting platform allows businesses to create static content to be published online.

With IPv4 addresses running out rapidly, Verizon says businesses are better off adopting IPv6 sooner rather than later. And with 4G (long term evolution – LTE) and WiMAX devices with dedicated internet access, the demand for IP addresses will only increase, thus necessitating the adoption of IPv6 even sooner, William Schmidlapp, Verizon Business’s product manager for Internet dedicated access services, told Network World

The number of IPv4 addresses remaining has shrunk to 6.25 per cent of the total address pool in June from what was already considered a low ten per cent of IPv4 addresses unallocated in January according to a statement on the ARIN website from their president and CEO John Curran.