Gartner describes the EMEA Q4 2014 server market results as "unremarkable" due to the combination of a strong US dollar and political/economical instability dampening market demand despite potential growth prospects.

Which growth prospects? The analyst points out install-base refresh, big data projects and cloud computing expansion. However Q4 2014 server shipments are down by -0.7% Y-o-Y, while revenues reach $3.6 billion with 1.2% Y-o-Y growth.

Overall 2014 sees shipments dropping by -2.5% while revenues grow by 2.1%.

Fujitsu and Asetek announce a global purchase agreement bringing Asetek RackCDU D2C liquid cooling technology to the Fujitsu High Performance Computing (HPC) server product portfolio.

Acetek claims RackCDU cooling can help datacentres save over 50% of cooling power and around 21% of overall energy use. It also allows a 2.5-5x increase in server density, thus eliminating the need for expensive build outs.

“This agreement is a significant milestone for Asetek and its stakeholders,” Asetek says. “Our collaboration with Fujitsu ushers in a new stage in the adoption of RackCDU. With its global reach and industry position, Fujitsu is poised to drive adoption of Asetek liquid cooling in data centers worldwide.”

By Cees Links, CEO GreenPeak Technologies

GreenPeak Technologies CEO Cees Links writes this white paper providing an overview of the most important contenders around the IoT Wireless Communication Standards. We are looking at wireless networking technologies.

Overview of the different IoT wireless communication standards (mapped on the ISO layering model)

For the sake of argument and to keep it simple, I have left out the cellular standards, although we do recognize that they do play an important role in the IoT (and the so-called M2M business). I also left out RFID, which can be quite useful for the IoT for security purposes, but is less contentious as it is more an electronic bar code replacement instead of doing real (two-way) communication as such. 
Also for simplicity we have left out the proprietary pseudo standards like ANT+, Z-Wave and EnOcean, for the simple reason that, like other “non-standard” proprietary standards, in the long run, they will not be able to survive against industry accepted international standards.

Aurora Multimedia uses ISE 2015 to launch a new AV technology-- IPBaseT, supposedly the first to deliver 4K video with "zero" compression and latency over IP, together with audio, control and video wall processing.

IP and AV standard support includes MPEG2, H.264, J.265, JPEG2000, IP USB, HTTP and Dante, among others. However, to take full advantage of the much lauded zero latency installers need to network via fibre optic cabling.

At ISE Aurora showed a couple IPBaseT products, the first being the IPX-TC1. User-assignable as either transmitter or receiver, the unit features x2 HDMI inputs, x1 HDMI output and an RJ-45 1G ethernet port for connectivity with LAN-based devices. An expansion option allows digital audio de-embedding of any source before sending to any Dante-enabled device.