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How Green Is Green?
Explore Article Forbes.com (Dec 11 2009)
...heir carbon footprint than on the perceived return on investment. See Also: IBM: Back To The Future Cisco Software Takes On Microsoft, IBM IBM Bets On Beijing
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The Death of the PC
Explore Article Forbes.com (Dec 10 2009)
...on industry is pushing the technology as the next big thing in computing. Large tech companies like Microsoft and Cisco are bracing themselves in case it turns out to be just that. "In the entire computer industry, no t...
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Cisco vs. the World: Rough Seas Ahead?
Explore Article GigaOM (Nov 8 2009)
Cisco Systems, the Wall Street darling, might soon find itself in a street brawl with not only former enemies but......w markets are pitting the company against one-time supporters. It has already been skirmishing with Microsoft (in collaboration and unified communications) and Google, and soon it’s going to find itself locked...
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Data center design 101
Explore Article ZDNet Technology News (Oct 23 2009)
...s all you have to do is evaluate all of these vendor data center visions dancing around. The field: Cisco, Oracle, HP, IBM and VMware. You can toss Dell, Microsoft, Amazon and Google into the mix too. The big takeaways from Gartner’s talk on the vendor data cente...
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Webinar: Designing a Data Center for the Future
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Oct 20 2009)
...oday’s data center must be designed to be scalable, flexible and highly efficient. On October 29th, Cisco, Microsoft and Intel will team up to present: a live webcast on the unified and virtualized datacenter. For da...
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Tech Hermit Blog Returns
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Sep 22 2009)
...t and respect in time.” Shane was always pretty plugged into goings-on in data center operations at Microsoft, a trend that continues with the new team (whose members remain anonymous). A post today notes the ......departure follows the exit of Global Foundation Services corporate VP Debra Chrapaty, who is off to Cisco. (Read Full Article)
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Data Center Companies, Brand Recognition
Explore Article greenm3.com (Sep 22 2009)
... to the masses. United States Computer Software 56,647 2009 marks the first year-on-year decline in Microsoft’s public history, despite a game console division that continues to be profitable. As the market ma......nding more way to successfully use its brand to stand apart. United States Computer Services 22,030 Cisco is the leader in networking services but is still perceived as catching up in other parts of the co...
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New Vacancy in Microsoft’s Data Center Team, VP Debra Chrapaty Reportedly Leaving for Cisco
Explore Article greenm3.com (Sep 21 2009)
...a Chrapaty, who as vice president of global foundation services is among a small number of women in Microsoft's top technology ranks, is said to be taking a role at Cisco heading collaboration products, according to All Things D. A Microsoft representative declined comment, while Chrapaty and a Cisco representative were not immediately available for comment. Update 4:05 p.m. PT: A Microsoft representative confirmed Chrapaty is leaving Microsoft for Cisco, ...
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Roundup: Telco rumors, Ingram Micro, CBTS
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Sep 15 2009)
...and is backed by 12 suppliers. Equipment on show at the site will come from Avocent, APC, Brocade, Cisco, EMC, Fortinet, HP, HP ProCurve, IBM, Microsoft, Symantec and VMware. The Sydney facility is based on green datacentre practices and will undergo ... (Read Full Article)
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Cloud-Oriented Switch Start-up Valued at $230M
Explore Article SOA World Magazine (Sep 11 2009)
...ads the data center revolution for high-speed, cloud-ready networking, a proposition that, say, oh, Cisco might take exception to, but then Blade would retort that it holds a commanding 48% market share le......xus 1000V software switch, its widgetry works with all the hypervisors, VMware ESX 3.x and vSphere, Microsoft, Xen, KVM and OracleVM. It says it doesn’t entail complex changes to the hypervisor, it’s standards...
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Does Your Cloud Have a Green Lining?
Explore Article TechNewsWorld (Aug 27 2009)
Although the ultimate definition of "the cloud" remains elusive to vendors and end users alike, the cloud represents the next major paradigm shift in the IT industry and business computing. Coinciding with the emergence of cloud computing, green IT and sustainability are becoming integral components of corporate strategies in top-performing organizations.
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In the New Data Center, It’s Roofs Off and Taxes Down
Explore Article Technology (Aug 17 2009)
Google and Microsoft continue to spar over both their data center designs and how much information they reveal about the......d about Google’s eccentric methods. It continues to buy systems from companies like Dell, SGI and Cisco Systems, as it builds out some of the biggest data centers on the planet. “I can’t say how we compare to Go...
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Dell Plans to Move Deeper into Data Center
Explore Article eweek.com (Jul 14 2009)
...f of Dell's revenues. Dell also says the company won't offer an all-in-one data center solution, as Cisco and HP have. At the annual Dell analyst day, Dell executives say the company is looking to change i......he data center with a solutions-based approach will put it in tighter competition with the likes of Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and—after its expected purchase of Sun Microsystems—Oracle. However, Dell sai...
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Cisco Shows Off Its Hit List
Explore Article GigaOM (Jun 30 2009)
Cisco today outlined its plans for delivering IT services over the web (aka cloud services), and as part ...
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Ibm & Cloud Computing: The Big Blue Cloud - A Summary
Explore Article Linux (Jun 17 2009)
... the data flood is just accelerating.” Palmisano isn't alone in this thinking, earlier this week Cisco Systems, the mobile networking giant, released a report suggesting that global Internet traffic is growing ......ort suggesting that global Internet traffic is growing exponentially. Scientific American said that Cisco needed a newer term -- zettabyte, or one trillion gigabytes -- to measure both the amount of upload...
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Ibm to help clients fight costs and complexity
Explore Article The New York Times (Jun 16 2009)
...urces. The second set is virtual desktop services, in which personal computer software, either from Microsoft or open-source alternatives, is run on remote servers and piped to simple desktop machines equipped......ology. Most major technology suppliers have cloud-related hardware and software products, including Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems and Dell. But I.B.M., analysts say, is going further by offering...
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Google: The Data Center Is the Computer
Explore Article GigaOM (Jun 15 2009)
... few other characteristics of these warehouse-scale computers, which are owned by companies such as Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Yahoo. These computers are mostly built in-house, are fairly flexible and are f......e and software in these machines. Commodity hardware gets a boost here, which doesn’t bode well for Cisco’s (c csco) new blade servers or IBM’s efforts to create specialized hardware for different workload...
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Blade Network Technologies Delivers Cloud Ready, Virtual Machine-Aware Networking
Explore Article Marketwire (May 19 2009)
...re prone to security vulnerabilities when enabled for dynamic "live" migration of virtual machines. Cisco's alternative approach calls for a proprietary virtual switch that modifies the native VMware hyper......ualization offerings and releases, including KVM as part of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Xen, Microsoft's Hyper-V and VMware. Using blade server systems equipped with BLADE's 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet switch... (Read Full Article)
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Q+A-What are Larry Ellison's plans for Sun Micro?
Explore Article Reuters.com (May 10 2009)
...ter systems than if they only design the software. That's why Apple's iPhone is so much better than Microsoft phones. Q. Apple and Cisco have shown they can make hardware and software work together. What experience does Oracle have desi...
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Grading Google's carbon neutral claims
Explore Article Technology News (May 7 2009)
...s the available info on the carbon neutrality status of several big names in tech. This past March, Microsoft announced on its sustainability blog that the company plans to reduce its carbon emissions by 30 pe......t, Intel will reduce its global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 30 percent per from 2004 to 2010; Cisco will reduce by 25 percent from 2007 to 2012; and Oracle plans to reduce "by 6 ...
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