Weather in Barcelona: Turns out the climate in Barcelona is pretty much the same as that in Hammer's Rev F, according to AMD. Ted Samson has taken a close look at Barcelona from an energy perspective, and the results are exciting if you want top performance that won't lead to immediate ice-cap melting. In further Barcelona news, Tom Yager has been comparing the AMD and Intel processors, and he's reaching conclus Weather in Barcelona: Turns out the climate in Barcelona is pretty much the same as that in Hammer’s Rev F, according to AMD. Ted Samson has taken a close look at Barcelona from an energy perspective, and the results are exciting if you want top performance that won’t lead to immediate ice-cap melting. In further Barcelona news, Tom Yager has been comparing the AMD and Intel processors, and he’s reaching conclusions that will matter to you if new servers are in your future.Building a better Internet: There’s a lot to like about the Internet as it stands: information is widely available, you can work from pretty much anywhere, and it’s become much, much easier to follow your favorite sports team. With all that, there are still some things that could be better, and most of them have to do with security. Roger Grimes has been thinking about the needs of the next Internet, and he has ideas that could make things much better–and that you could use today to make significant parts of your network applications more secure.Virtual systems, real event: Our third Virtualization Executive Forum is coming to New York City on September 24 and 25, and this one will be the broadest and deepest yet. Our theme is, “Mastering virtualization from the datacenter to the desktop,” and we’re taking it seriously. We’ll have sterling keynotes from Burton Group analyst Chris Wolf and USi CTO Toby Ford, who is pushing virtualization as far as it can go. We’ve got more case studies than ever before — three cases studies apiece to be presented in sessions on server virtualization, desktop virtualization, application virtualization, storage virtualization, and file system virtualization. And Deep Ender Paul Venezia’s technical track on server virtualization is back, with sessions on planning, p2V migration, monitoring and management, and scaling and DR. We’re aiming to make the tech track as interactive as possible; feed the discussion, and get Paul’s panels of experts working on your problem by submitting it to State Your Case. See you in New York! Technology Industry