{"id":3026,"date":"2009-07-31T09:27:34","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T14:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2009\/07\/31\/numbers-volume-21\/"},"modified":"2009-07-31T09:27:34","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T14:27:34","slug":"numbers-volume-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2009\/07\/31\/numbers-volume-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Numbers, Volume 21"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\"Amtrak<\/a><\/p>\n

“You’re over qualified.”<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Jobless rates for men and women older than 55 are at their highest level since the Great Depression<\/a><\/b>, government data show. White men over 55 had a record 6.5% unemployment rate<\/b> in the second quarter, far above the previous post-Depression high of 5.4% in 1983<\/b>. The j<\/b>obless rate for older black men was higher \u2014 10.5%<\/b> \u2014 but more than a percentage point below its 1983 peak<\/b>.<\/p>\n

The most remarkable change is in the unemployment rate for black women: 12.2%, far below the historic peak of 20% in 1983<\/b>. Hispanic unemployment is about 6 percentage points below historic highs, too.<\/p>\n

In other words, this recession has shrunk the racial gap in unemployment, largely because white men are doing so much worse than usual.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

While it’s great to see said racial gap narrowing – for sure – this kind of stuff infuriates me as I’ve been watching my dad suffer through this. I can’t imagine what junk-yard, dystopia my generation is going to end up in when we’re too expensive for “The Free Market.” It’s enough to make you want to start up a steady diet of Donut Burgers<\/a> so you’ll never make it long enough to find out.<\/p>\n

Care, but don’t ask<\/a><\/h2>\n
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According to SearchDataCenter.com’s Data Center Decisions purchasing intentions survey<\/a>, 84% of 670 respondents said that reducing data center power consumption was important<\/b>. And yet according to the same report, 36% didn’t know how their power bills compared with the previous year<\/b>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Like “green numbers”? Keep an eye on Greenmonk<\/a> for the new Green Numbers<\/a> series, like the first one right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One man’s “business critical data” is another man’s MIPS in a corner<\/a><\/h2>\n
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If Google collapsed or had their data centers in Silicon Valley interrupted with the loss of Google docs, YouTube, Google search, Maps and similarly Microsoft and\/or Yahoo went offline\u2026 I\u2019d suspect the whole notion that 70% of business critical data resides of mainframes would be laughable<\/b>. Yes, a large percentage of purely text based transactional data is on mainframes and yes the value of those transactions exceeds any other platform, but that is far from 70% of anything much these days<\/b>\u2026 Increasingly these days startups, SME\u2019s and Web 2.0 business don\u2019t use mainframes for even their text based transactional data.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Snail Mail<\/a><\/h2>\n

\n\"Grandma<\/a><\/p>\n

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In the past 20 years, 200,000 mailboxes have vanished from city streets, rural routes and suburban neighborhoods<\/b> \u2014 more than the 175,000 that remain<\/b>. In the Washington area alone, half the blue boxes that were on the streets nine years ago have been pulled up and taken to warehouses to molt in storage or be sold for scrap<\/b>, leaving 4,071 mailboxes remaining in the District, Northern Virginia and the Maryland suburbs<\/b>.<\/p>\n

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That downward trend is only accelerating. The [US] Postal Service projects a decline of about 10 billion pieces of mail in each of the next two years<\/b>, going from a high of 213 billion pieces of mail in 2006 to 170 billion projected for 2010<\/b>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Spiceworks<\/a><\/h2>\n
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To date, it appears like the model is working: Spiceworks IT Desktop is used to control 35 million devices<\/b>. Also, the vendor has encouraged MSPs (who number 65,000<\/b>, according to Spiceworks) to use its tools to develop services for their customers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Remember 2005? Totally.<\/a><\/h2>\n
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