1. Microsoft, Google Vie to Sell U.S. Cloud Mail

    Explore Article Business News & Financial News (Jul 26 2010)

    Microsoft, Google Vie to Sell U.S. Cloud Mail A new front has opened in the battle between Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp.: selling Web-based email and other software to the federal government. The two technology ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Microsoft   General Services Administration   Google

  2. Data Centers: For When The Cloud is Not Enough

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jul 22 2010)

    Data Centers: For When The Cloud is Not Enough ...lf model, Facebook and Twitter are following the lead of other huge “Internet-scale” companies like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and eBay, who all build custom data centers to maximize gains in performance and cost. Scali... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Amazon.com   eBay   Digital Realty

  3. The Technology Inside Apple’s New iDataCenter

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jul 21 2010)

    The Technology Inside Apple’s New iDataCenter ...ystems using chilled water (meaning Apple won’t be going “chiller-less” to save energy, as Google and Microsoft have done). Apple’s data center operations are overseen by Olivier Sanche, who previously directed... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   IBM   eBay   Apple

  4. Complexity of Data Center Construction Projects requires challenging the status quo, site selection example

    Explore Article greenm3.com (Jul 20 2010)

    Complexity of Data Center Construction Projects requires challenging the status quo, site selection example ... tenant ‘Its like the decision to go to IBM in the 80s. Its hard to argue against a location where Microsoft or Google has placed one of its facilities.’ Tying into the power conversation is that of water. With the si... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   IBM   Microsoft   Phil Horstmann

  5. Google Boosts Data Center Spending

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jul 19 2010)

    Google Boosts Data Center Spending ... requires between $200 million and $600 million in investment. Here’s a look at the recent trend in Google’s capital expenditures: Google’s fresh investment in its infrastructure comes as rival Microsoft has also resumed active development of data center construction projects. Microsoft has recently begun construction on a new data center at its campus in Quincy, Washington, and has a... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Microsoft   Google

  6. Rackspace Backs the Open Source Cloud

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jul 19 2010)

    Rackspace Backs the Open Source Cloud ...velopment and growth, while also providing a competitive counterpoint to proprietary platforms from Google and Microsoft. OpenStack will be of particular interest to web hosting companies, who have been leading adopters ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Rackspace   Microsoft   Google

  7. The instant new-build data center - by Doug Mohney

    Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jul 15 2010)

    The instant new-build data center - by Doug Mohney ...ross Europe. Many companies are already on the data center container bandwagon, including IBM, HP, Google, and Microsoft; the U.S. military and certain government agencies love the concept since you can build a transport... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Doug Mohney   IBM   Microsoft

  8. Rumor Patrol: Microsoft Eyeing N.C. Site?

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jul 2 2010)

    Rumor Patrol: Microsoft Eyeing N.C. Site? Is Microsoft focusing on North Carolina in its search for major data center in the Mid-Atlantic region? Back in ......l. The incentives bill expands on earlier measures passed to attract major data center projects for Google and Apple. The North Carolina law allows data centers to pay a one percent “privilege tax” on data ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Microsoft   Apple   Google

  9. Wikipedia To Add A U.s. Data Center

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jul 2 2010)

    Wikipedia To Add A U.s. Data Center ...cyclopedia Wikipedia, which is among the busiest sites in the world, along with web properties from Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Yahoo. Wikimedia has a primary data center in Tampa, as well as a facility in Amsterd... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Netherlands   Microsoft   Yahoo

  10. Google: How We’re Making the Web Faster

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jun 23 2010)

    Google: How We’re Making the Web Faster At last year’s Velocity conference, Google detailed how faster web pages were boosting its bottom line. This year the search giant is showcasi......d of their browsers with each new release since Chrome’s debut. “This competition is working. They (Microsoft and Mozilla) are doing a better job working on speed.” Targeting Core Protocols One of the foundati... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Microsoft   Google

  11. Stop Buying Hardware! - by Peter Judge

    Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jun 21 2010)

    Stop Buying Hardware! - by Peter Judge ...et that allowance fairly so it doesn’t encourage excess buying sprees). Stand up to companies like Microsoft, who attempt to drive upgrades by phasing out support (for instance for Windows XP on older system......I’m sitting at a PC that was freed up by a neighbour company downsizing, and writing this blog on a Google server. I replaced my very old home PC this week, when several components wore out - ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Microsoft   Google   Peter Judge

  12. The Top 250 Players in the Cloud Computing Ecosystem

    Explore Article .NET DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL (Jun 18 2010)

    The Top 250 Players in the Cloud Computing Ecosystem ...r technology to any other supported hypervisor." One example: Abiquo 1.5 can convert from VMware to Microsoft Hyper-V, through a single drag-and-drop operation. Adaptive Computing - Manager of some of the worl......tana Cloud, which it says "is architected to complement Cloud infrastructure providers like Amazon, Google, Joyent and others." Targeted at rapid development, in particular web applications that need to sca... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Amazon.com   Iceland   Europe

  13. Microsoft's Christian Belady says time to move on, PUE was the past, Time to optimize the Whole

    Explore Article greenm3.com (Jun 11 2010)

    Microsoft's Christian Belady says time to move on, PUE was the past, Time to optimize the Whole ...d pop your head up and look at the bigger picture and figure out how what you do affects the whole. Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon are thinking about the whole, and many others do too. Also, these are the peopl... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Amazon.com   Microsoft Research   Google

  14. Who will be next for Government Regulation? Google, Facebook or Apple

    Explore Article greenm3.com (Jun 11 2010)

    Who will be next for Government Regulation? Google, Facebook or Apple ...t regulated. SEC has a degree on financial regulation, but doesn't touch on the latest issues with Google, Apple, and Facebook. One side affect of the Microsoft anti-trust action is the governments of world feel good about taking on technology companies with r... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Google   Microsoft   Apple

  15. Muglia on Google, Azure, and the future of Windows Server

    Explore Article Technology News (Jun 9 2010)

    Muglia on Google, Azure, and the future of Windows Server ...plicating the software that, at one point, ran only in a company's own data center. Muglia (Credit: Microsoft) In an interview, the president of Microsoft's server and tools business talked about the shifts to the cloud, Google's role in the enterprise and the future of Microsoft's server products, including the next version of Windows Server, which he said will be a major upda... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Google   Bob Muglia   Microsoft

  16. Tusha: Power Economics Favor Huge Data Centers

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jun 3 2010)

    Tusha: Power Economics Favor Huge Data Centers ...ators are building facilities with 30 megawatts or more of power capacity, primarily companies like Google, Microsoft, Digital Realty Trust, i/o Data Centers and the SuperNAP team. Is building data centers a game for ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Microsoft   Google

  17. U.S. Falls From Internet Elite, Aims to Catch Iceland, Hungary

    Explore Article BusinessWeek (Jun 2 2010)

    U.S. Falls From Internet Elite, Aims to Catch Iceland, Hungary ...ies have expanded globally using the U.S. Internet as a base, Powell said. “Luxembourg doesn’t have Google or Facebook or Microsoft,” he said. --Editors: Steve Geimann, Joe Winski To contact the reporters on this story: Todd Shiel... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   At&T

  18. Data center build-out guru Mike Manos: Five data center game changers

    Explore Article Data Center (Jun 1 2010)

    Data center build-out guru Mike Manos: Five data center game changers ..., has had a major impact on the data center industry. As general manager of data center services at Microsoft, Manos oversaw Redmond's infrastructure ramp-up to compete with Google and pushed adoption of containerized data centers by using them in high-profile facilities. He is a... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Europe   Barack Obama   Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act.

  19. Growth of Biomass energy plants is a new source for a Green/Low Carbon Data Center,

    Explore Article greenm3.com (May 27 2010)

    Growth of Biomass energy plants is a new source for a Green/Low Carbon Data Center, ...eir data center put data centers close to their corporate offices like the bay area. You don't see Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook building data centers in the bay area. If you want to have a competitive adva... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Amazon.com   NPR   LEED

  20. Icelandic startup aims to deliver first green computing cloud

    Explore Article greenbang.com (May 25 2010)

    Icelandic startup aims to deliver first green computing cloud ..., there are no truly green cloud computing service providers today. While the world’s data giants — Google, Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo! — have successfully worked to make their existing servers highly energy efficient, thos... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Google

  21. Verne Global - Lowest Data Center TCO

    Explore Article Brockmann & Company (May 25 2010)

    Verne Global - Lowest Data Center TCO ...ty in major markets, where the cost of operation are so high. The major Internet service providers (Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo! to name a few) tend to operate their own data centers and are probably not interested in re... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Amazon.com   Iceland   Europe

  22. The Top 250 Players in Cloud Computing

    Explore Article AJAX & RIA Journal (May 23 2010)

    The Top 250 Players in Cloud Computing ...r technology to any other supported hypervisor." One example: Abiquo 1.5 can convert from VMware to Microsoft Hyper-V, through a single drag-and-drop operation. Adaptivity - Adaptivity "provides integrated sol......tana Cloud, which it says "is architected to complement Cloud infrastructure providers like Amazon, Google, Joyent and others." Targeted at rapid development, in particular web applications that need to sca... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Amazon.com   Iceland   Europe

  23. Google TV connects the Home TV viewers to the Data Center

    Explore Article greenm3.com (May 20 2010)

    Google TV connects the Home TV viewers to the Data Center ...Windows MediaCenter PC. Sony's participation would also signal future directions for Playstation 4. Google has launched a new platform that should worry Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and any others who want to leverage video. The YouTube acquisition allows... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Amazon.com   Microsoft   Intel

  24. Google unveils new cloud data storage for developers

    Explore Article ITWorld Canada (May 19 2010)

    Google unveils new cloud data storage for developers ...lopers. More than 5,000 developers are gathering at San Francisco's Moscone Center this week for Google I/O--featuring 80 sessions and over 100 demonstrations from developers showing off next-generaton W......s. The two companies confirmed the rumored acquisiti ... By: Rafael Ruffolo (5/19/2010 4:04:00 PM)Microsoft Corp. is totally revamping its Hotmail e-mail service this summer in an effort to curtail the popul... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Amazon.com   IBM   Sun Microsystems

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