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The pace of change in the colocation market continues to accelerate, and it is absolutely critical that we all adopt new technologies to help us keep pace with this change. Software is the only choice to provide the transparency required to optimize data center operations throughout the lifecycle of these assets. That was one of the key takeaways from the recent Innovation Summit that Schneider Electric hosted in Hong Kong for some 1,000 customers. Front and center at the Summit was EcoStruxure , the Schneider Electric architecture for enabling the intelligent operation of buildings, power systems and data centers. For this audience, we focused on EcoStruxure’s data center capabilities. Attendees were able to kick the tires of EcoStruxure in the Innovation Hub area, and they appeared to immediately grasp that the technology is real, able to help optimize data center operations today. EcoStruxure leverages advancements in Internet of Things (IoT) technology to deliver innovations at...

Court Recognizes First Amendment Right to Anonymity Even After Speakers Lose Lawsuits Anonymous online speakers may be able to keep their identities secret even after they lose lawsuits brought against them, a federal appellate court ruled last week. The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Signature Management Team, LLC v. John Doe is a victory for online speakers because it recognized that the First Amendment’s protections for anonymous speech do not end once a party suing the anonymous speaker prevails. Instead, the court ruled that revealing anonymous speakers’ identities has far-reaching consequences that must be weighed against opposing parties’ and the general public’s rights to learn speakers’ names once they’ve been found to have violated the law. This is good news, because many vulnerable speakers will self-censor unless they have the ability to speak anonymously and thereby avoid retaliation for their whistleblowing or unpopular views. The r...

Stupid Patent of the Month: Bad Patent Goes Down Using Procedures at Patent Office Threatened by Supreme Court Case At the height of the first dot-com bubble, many patent applications were filed that took common ideas and put them on the Internet . This month’s stupid patent, U.S. Patent No. 6,738,155 (“the ’155 patent”), is a good example of that trend. The patent is titled “System and method of providing publishing and printing services via a communications network.” Generally, it relates to a “printing and publishing system” that provides “workflow services…using a communication network.” The original application was filed in 1999, and the patent issued in 2004. The ’155 patent has a significant litigation history. Starting in 2013, its owner 1  CTP Innovations, LLC, filed over 50 lawsuits alleging infringement, and told a court  it intended to file as many as 200 additional cases. CTP claimed  [PDF] that infringement of its patent was “ubiquitous” by the...