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Die Klimaerwärmung “wegatmen”?

Neuentdeckte Schwefelmikroben sind wichtig für den Kohlenstoffkreislauf der Erde

Ein internationales Team aus WissenschafterInnen um den Mikrobiologen Alexander Loy von der Universität Wien hat neue Schwefelbakterien identifiziert, die eine wichtige Rolle für die globalen Schwefel- und Kohlenstoffkreisläufe spielen und daher Auswirkungen auf das Klima haben könnten. Die Bakterien können mittels Sulfatatmung die Bildung von Methan reduzieren. Die Ergebnisse der Studie erscheinen aktuell im Fachmagazin “The ISME Journal”. (more…)

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THE FUTURE OF CLOUD SERVICES

There is still quite a bit of interest in cloud services, and still no small demand for them. Due to this, there’s been a rush by all manner of service providers, both old and new, to provide cloud offerings to hungry customers. Indeed, of the roughly 20,000 North American service providers, just about 20 percent of these offer cloud services at this time, and this number is expected to grow sharply over the next few years. Yet at the same time, there will be a lot of attrition among these providers, if only because many of these organizations are only regional in nature, and offer only a small array of products — most of them just one or two.

At least that’s what Ashar Baig, a research director at Gigaom predicts. He provided his view on the near future and the recent past of cloud services at the recent ITEXPO in Las Vegas, Nevada. (more…)

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