Rotating green matter?: So while AMD and Intel have been shouting in our ear about how they are putting money in our pockets by making their processors more power efficient, storage vendors have been eerily silent. Now they're starting to get the green religion too. Green storage starts with management tools like thin provisioning (hey look, we were green already!) but is moving toward power management technolog Rotating green matter?: So while AMD and Intel have been shouting in our ear about how they are putting money in our pockets by making their processors more power efficient, storage vendors have been eerily silent. Now they’re starting to get the green religion too. Green storage starts with management tools like thin provisioning (hey look, we were green already!) but is moving toward power management technologies like MAID (massive arrays of idle disk) and Hitachi Data Systems’ PSSS (Power Savings Storage Service). Ted Samson outlines these developments in yesterday’s Sustainable IT. And don’t miss his video interview on the subject with HDS CTO Hu Yoshida. Deja vu all over again: In his October 1 blog post, “All the Wood Behind One Arrow,” Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced that Sun would be combining its Storage and Server product teams to “focus on the evolution and convergence of computing.” Does that portend a datacenter without arrays? Mario Apicella says grab a camera and take some souvenir photos, because stand-alone storage has booked an appointment for a makeover. Server-side mashups: For “rich enterprise application” frameworks JackBe Presto and Nexaweb Enterprise Web 2.0 Suite, rich AJAX clients (and in the case of Nexaweb, also Java clients) live to be windows into back-end data resources. These toolkits shine in exposing server-side resources as data services, and creating business dashboards and other clients for interacting with data. See Peter Wayner’s review, “Refining the art of enterprise Web apps.” Technology Industry