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    1. Time Warner Cable Buys NaviSite for $230 Million

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      Time Warner Cable Buys NaviSite for $230 Million
      The cloud computing buyout binge blitz is on. Time Warner Cable will acquire managed hosting and cloud services provider NaviSite for $230 million, marking the second deal in a week in which a major network operator has bought a cloud service provider. Last Thursday Verizon said it would buy Terremark for $1.4 billion. Time Warner Cable (TWC) said it would pay $5.50 for each share of NaviSite (NAVI) , representing a 33 percent premium to today’s closing price of $4.13. Time Warner said it saw hosting and cloud services as a “great opportunity.”
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    2. BT launches on-premise private datacentre service

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      BT launches on-premise private datacentre service
      Dan Worth, V3.co.uk, Tuesday 1 February 2011 at 17:26:00 Telco allows firms to create private cloud system to meet security challenges BT has launched a datacentre service aimed at enterprises that want to take advantage of a cloud model for application hosting and delivery, but need to maintain security and have direct access to their information. BT Virtual Data Centre Private (VDC Private) provides the ability to host applications and information in a virtualised datacentre system that is hosted, managed and maintained on site by BT, in effect a private cloud. Richard Oliver, head of strategy and marketing at BT iNet, told V3.co.uk that the offering is designed for companies in sectors such as finance and government, and enables them to benefit from virtualisation while maintaining security. "Many organisations understand the benefits of a virtualised datacentre to save space, improve cooling and virtualise applications ...
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    3. Telehouse Receives the Carbon Trust Standard Award

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      Telehouse Receives the Carbon Trust Standard Award
      Company's two London sites have been awarded the Carbon Trust Standard. Telehouse, a colocation, dedicated data center and business continuity solutions firm and an IT operations management provider, today announced that its two London sites have been awarded the Carbon Trust Standard. The company articulates that based on a rigorous, independent assessment, the Carbon Trust Standard certifies that organizations have measured, managed and reduced their carbon emissions across their own operations, and are committed to reducing them year-on-year. It received the award after improving its carbon efficiency by 12 percent, relative to turnover1. The award means that the company has joined the group of nearly 500 certified organizations which have already cut carbon emissions by over 3 million tonnes of CO2e.
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    4. why low pue ain't so green - by peter judge

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      why low pue ain't so green - by peter judge
      --> So you’re doing your bit to make your data center more efficient, to reduce emissions. But what if you found the effort was wasted? What if, after tweaking the cooling till you’re wasting the absolute minimum of energy, you worked out the carbon footprint of your higly-efficient data centre, and found it was still  responsible for more emissions than a less-efficient one over the border, somewhere else? Does that sound unfair? It could quite easily be the case, And there are other factors which could make it even more complicated. Let’s start with carbon intensity - the amount of CO2 released to deliver a unit of electricity. Consider the carbon intensity of your IT equipment, and you might find that an efficient data centre could have a higher carbon internsity than an inefficient one. The reason is that, electricity has a different carbon footprint, depending on how it ...
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    5. Data Foundry Gets Funding from JPMorgan

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      Data Foundry Gets Funding from JPMorgan
      JPMorgan Chase will provide debt financing for a new data center in Austin, Texas being built by colocation provider Data Foundry, the companies said today. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. will be the sole lender for the company’s Texas 1 facility, the first segment of a 40-acre, 100-megawatt data center campus known as the Data Ranch. The amount of the funding was not announced. The first phase of the two-phase project includes 130,000 square feet of data center and disaster recovery space and is planned for completion in the second quarter of 2011.
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    6. Over nine months after Government launched CRC Scheme growing number of organisations turn to software solution

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      Over nine months after Government launched CRC Scheme growing number of organisations turn to software solution
      With the 1st April opening date looming for the submission of footprint and annual reports to the Environment Agency as part of the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC), Landmark Information Group is urging companies to ensure they are on target to meet the stringent deadlines. Many companies have already recognised the extensive time and resource needed to collate the vast amounts of data the CRC requires and have turned to products such as Landmark's Carbon Counter to assist.
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    7. Uk Crc - global lessons

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      Uk Crc - global lessons
      As the UK data center sector faces the reality of the Carbon Reduction Commitment Scheme (CRC) its experiences are being monitored around the world. A commitment to carbon reduction has been made across all ‘developed’ economies and all of these have substantial data center sectors with growing energy needs. There are obvious local differences in terms of political disposition towards carbon-based legislation and taxation, the maturity of the local data center sector and its perceived importance to the wider economy but the whole history of energy efficiency in data centers has been characterized by knowledge shared between markets. This gives the experience of the UK CRC scheme wider relevance and application.
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    8. Green challenges to conquering China

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      Green challenges to conquering China
      DCDFOCUS: In 2008 Siemens opened its new Siemens Center Beijing, which according to Siemens is a cutting-edge and environmentally friendly 30-storey building covering 17,500 m sq. Can you tell us what makes this data center so significant, in terms of China and the broader Asia Pacific region? Yun Rui Feng: The Siemens Data Center supports over 20,000 users in China alone (both Siemens businesses and external customers), and many more throughout North East Asia. It is Siemen’s largest and most advanced data center in Asia. Many of the products and systems featured in the Beijing center are from Siemens, including the fire safety and security systems.
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    9. IBM Launching 42 Million Cloud Computing Center in Canada

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      IBM Launching 42 Million Cloud Computing Center in Canada
      January 31, 2011 -- On Monday, IT service provider giant IBM announced that it is planning its first cloud delivery center in Canada, the IBM Compute Cloud Centre, which it says will address “the growing demand from enterprises to reduce cost, increase efficiencies and access new technologies.” The $42 million facility will offer Canadian businesses the means to securely develop, host and test applications.
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    10. Government CRC Scheme To Be Scrapped?

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      Government CRC Scheme To Be Scrapped?
      The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme, formerly known as the Carbon Reduction Commitment, may be radically overhauled or even scrapped, according to a report in the Daily Telegraph. Details of the “stealth” tax featured in last October’s Comprehensive Spending Review and is due to hit over 5,000 businesses that have energy bills of more than £500,000 next year. It was hoped that the “green tax” would raise the Treasury over £1 billion per year by 2014/15.
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    11. More Construction Ahead in Northern Virginia

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      More Construction Ahead in Northern Virginia
      The data center building boom in northern Virginia appears likely to continue, as Grubb & Ellis reports that several new construction projects may be in the works. “Virginia has seen increasing design-build interest from the user community, with a number of operators rumored to be shopping for land to accommodate future data center campuses,” writes Bill Moser of Grubb & Ellis on the company’s Data Center Practice blog. “Both DLR (Digital Realty Trust) and DBT Development are rumored to be moving forward with design-build solutions in Ashburn for single tenant transactions of 150,000 square feet.”
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    12. Microsoft Eliminates Server Fans, Despite PUE Hit

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      Microsoft Eliminates Server Fans, Despite PUE Hit
      Not all steps that improve the energy efficiency of your data center will boost performance in key metrics for measuring “green” data centers. An example: removing fans from servers, which actually has an adverse effect on Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), the leading metric for data center efficiency. This dilemma was discussed in a new video from Microsoft featuring Dr. Dileep Bhandarkar, Chief Architect for Microsoft Global Foundation Services, which designs and builds Microsoft’s data centers. Bharkander discusses how Microsoft realized it was duplicating effort by using fans in both servers and air handlers in its data center environment. So it designed the latest version of its IT-PAC data center container module as a giant air handler, with airflow management that eliminated the need for fans in the servers.
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    13. IBM's Social Software: Unfriending Cisco, Google...

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      IBM's Social Software: Unfriending Cisco, Google...
      The new competition among the giants of enterprise software: Who is building the most social software? This week, the round goes to IBM. Big Blue is this week hosting a worldwide customer meeting in Orlando, at which it will show its latest social software for mobile business. The key announcements include collaboration software for smartphones and tablets, including iPads and iPhones, devices using Google’s Android, RIM’s Blackberry, and several Nokia devices.
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    14. Amazon S3 Cloud Stores 262 Billion Objects

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      Amazon S3 Cloud Stores 262 Billion Objects
      How big is Amazon’s cloud? It’s huge, and getting huger. Amazon Web Services said this week that its S3 cloud storage service housed 262 billion objects at year-end of 2010, more than doubling in size from 102 billion objects at the close of 2009. The peak request rate for S3 is now in excess of 200,000 requests per second, according to Amazon’s Jeff Barr. An analysis of new virtual server instances launched each day on Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing service, shows a similar growth curve, with activity more than doubling between 2009 and 2010. Check out this chart from the analysis by Cloudkick and Guy Rosen (Jack of All Clouds):
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    15. Mike Manos Takes Operations Post at AOL

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      Mike Manos Takes Operations Post at AOL
      Industry veteran Mike Manos has joined AOL as Senior Vice President of Technology Operations, the company said this week. Manos’ shift to AOL follows leadership posts in data center operations at Nokia and Digital Realty Trust and Microsoft’s Global Foundation Services. “Michael brings a wealth of valuable experience and expertise to the team,” said Alex Gounares, AOL Chief Technology Officer. “We are thrilled to have this highly sought after candidate on board as we continue to focus on developing best in class platform technologies that enable us to deliver excellent experiences to all of our users.”
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    16. After Verizon Buys Terremark, Savvis Relishes Being the Cool Kid

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      After Verizon Buys Terremark, Savvis Relishes Being the Cool Kid
      Jim Ousley, CEO and Chairman of Savvis is having a great day. Yesterday Verizon Communications agreed to buy rival data center and managed hosting company Terremark for $1.4 billion, and today he has joined a small group of companies that are suddenly sought after as potential acquisition targets. In response his firm’s stock has traded up closing almost 14 percent higher than yesterday’s close.
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    18. Christian Belady fills Daniel Costello's position at Microsoft

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      Christian Belady fills Daniel Costello's position at Microsoft
      I recently caught up with a data center executive to discuss who was moving where. I told him Mike Manos was moving. Reviewed a few people I heard had thrown their hat in for vacant positions. Where there was likely a change coming. One that just popped yesterday with a blog post in Christian Belady's move to fill the position Daniel Costello vacated at Microsoft when he went to Google.
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    19. LinkedIn: No Real-Time Data Center Backup?

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      LinkedIn: No Real-Time Data Center Backup?
      The business networking site LinkedIn announced plans yesterday for an initial public offering in which it hopes to raise at least $175 million. The company’s SEC filing contained an interesting tidbit: LinkedIn said it currently has no real-time backup data center, meaning a failure of its primary data center would knock its LinkedIn.com site offline.
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    20. Verizon Communications to Acquire Terremark for 14B

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      Verizon Communications to Acquire Terremark for 14B
      January 28, 2011 -- IT infrastructure provider Verizon Communications announced on Thursday it will acquire cloud services provider Terremark for $1.4 billion. Verizon says it will likely begin the tender offer between February 10 and February 17 for all shares of common stock of Terremark, which is a total of 35 percent per share over Thursday's closing price. Terremark's board of directors unanimously approved the deal, as it was also approved by the directors of Verizon present and voting.
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    21. Egyptian Networks Turn Off the Internet

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      Egyptian Networks Turn Off the Internet
      After day-long reports that Egyptian users access to social networks has been disrupted, Internet routing experts say tonight that the entire nation is largely cut off from the Internet. The notable exception appears to be the network providing connectivity for the Egyptian Stock Exchange. “In an action unprecedented in Internet history, the Egyptian government appears to have ordered service providers to shut down all international connections to the Internet,” writes James Cowie in an analysis on the Renesys blog. “Critical European-Asian fiber-optic routes through Egypt appear to be unaffected for now. But every Egyptian provider, every business, bank, Internet cafe, website, school, embassy, and government office that relied on the big four Egyptian ISPs for their Internet connectivity is now cut off from the rest of the world.”
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    22. Obtain Funding For A Data Center Project

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      Obtain Funding For A Data Center Project
      A data center project is an expensive proposition. So, it is important for IT personnel to make their case effectively and convincingly, especially when the time comes to seek funding from business management. This is especially true in these tough economic times, where budgets are tight and projects fiercely compete with each other for increasingly scarce funding. Thankfully, there are a number of good strategies IT personnel can apply to secure funding for a data center project.
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    24. Bloom Energy Serves up Electricity; will Corporate America follow? - By Doug Mohney

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      Bloom Energy Serves up Electricity; will Corporate America follow? - By Doug Mohney
      Fuel cell manufacturer Bloom Energy is going into the service business. The company is now going to sell energy as a service -- shades of cloud computing -- rather than simply sell its fuel cells, er Bloom Energy Servers to corporations.   Bloom says customers can immediately save anywhere from 5 to 20 percent on their energy bills and is bragging that it has over 20 MW and 200 new systems on order under the new program. More specifically, customers will be able to "lock in" their energy rates for 10 years by buying power from Bloom;  it will manage and maintain (and own) the systems on customer sites, with customers only paying for the electricity (cloud computing resources) consumed.   Net wins for customers include not having to shell out $750,000 to $800,000 per server up front -- one big whopping CapEx chunk right there -- having maintenance dealt with by Bloom directly ...
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