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    1. Here comes the rogue IT wave

      Now that the wave of investment in social media companies that produced IPOs for Facebook, LinkedIn and Yelp has fully washed through Silicon Valley into the public markets, venture capitalists are onto the Internet’s next new, new thing.

      For the partners of Benchmark Capital, a VC firm whose past investment has yielded a string of big IPOs including eBay, Juniper Networks and Red Hat, the next growth wave is coming from startups that boost the efficiency of products and services corporations deliver online.

      Businesses are interested in using new Internet software to reduce their IT costs, by optimizing all of their online communication and transactions, whether for internal IT services or external customer relationships.

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    2. Fortune's Oregon Data Center To Be Awarded Half Million USD from Energy

      SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Fortune Data Centers is opening its Oregon data center with the news that it is expected to achieve a half million dollar award from Energy Trust of Oregon. The data center delivers one of the highest levels of efficiency, with 99% efficient uninterrupted power supply (UPS) and a power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.16 in full economization mode as verified in a Level 5 commissioning process. Fortune earned this incentive for energy effi

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    3. Verne Global Honored as a Top Sustainable Solution at Rio+20

      Last night, sustainability legend Gro Harlem Brundtland, media guru and philanthropist Ted Turner, EU Commissioner for Climate Action Connie Hedegaard, and 150 VIP guests celebrated the first concrete outcome at Rio+20: The launch of Sustainia100. Verne Global, an innovative, UK-based developer of power conscious data center campuses, is proud to announce that the company has been chosen for this prestigious list of solutions.

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    4. Iceland's National Power Company Offers Data Centers the Most Competitive Power Prices in Europe

      Iceland's National Power Company Offers Data Centers the Most Competitive Power Prices in Europe

      Landsvirkjun, Iceland's national power company has announced its aim to power 1% of the European datacenter industry with electricity from renewable hydroelectric and geothermal sources by the year 2020. The estimated electric energy needed to achieve this target is around 1.5 TWh, about 10% of the company's current generation. The ambition is based on Iceland's ample renewable power development opportunities and the fact that the country has been attracting considerable datacenter industry investment drawn by the compelling power proposition, solid infrastructure, and world-class business environment. Landsvirkjun's power proposition is to provide the most competitive energy prices in Europe. Recent public quotes from the company offer fixed real rates of $43/MWh in 12 year contracts. In comparison, European average real market rates were from $65/MWh in 2011 on short term contracts with prices expected to increase considerably over the coming decade. In addition, Iceland ...

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    5. Datapipe Selected as One of New Jersey's 2011 Fifty Fastest Growing Companies

      Datapipe Selected as One of New Jersey's 2011 Fifty Fastest Growing Companies
      Datapipe, a leading provider of managed services and infrastructure for outsourced IT and cloud computing, has been named one of New Jersey's 2011 Fifty Fastest Growing Companies for the fourth consecutive year. The award program, produced by NJBIZ, New Jersey's premier business news publication, celebrates New Jersey's most dynamic companies who progressively contribute to the success of the state's economi
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    6. AP Telecom Appointed as Emerald Networks' Pre-Sales Manager for International ...

      AP Telecom Appointed as Emerald Networks' Pre-Sales Manager for International ...MarketWatch (press release)1, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- AP Telecom, a facilities-based telecom consulting and service company specializing in emerging markets, today announced that Emerald Networks has contracted AP Telecom to serve as overall Program Manager in the ...and more »
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    7. Colt manufactures and ships 500m(2) data centre to Iceland

      Colt manufactures and ships 500m(2) data centre to IcelandMarketWatch (press release)LONDON, Sep 27, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Colt, Europe's leading information delivery platform, today announced that Verne Global, a data centre developer and operator, has selected Colt's Modular Data Centre for its dual-sourced renewable energy ...and more »
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    8. GreenQloud Partners With Nimsoft to Provide Unified Monitoring for Carbon-Neutral Infrastructure-as-a-Service Offering

      GreenQloud Partners With Nimsoft to Provide Unified Monitoring for Carbon-Neutral Infrastructure-as-a-Service Offering
      Nimsoft, a CA Technologies company, today announced that GreenQloud has selected the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) to provide clients with 24x7 visibility into its unique, carbon-neutral compute cloud. As an integrated component of GreenQloud's Truly Green(TM) Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering, NMS will deliver comprehensive, intuitive monitoring of clients' critical applications, systems and network resources via customized portals.
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    9. Active Power Offers Online Energy Efficiency Calculator

      Active Power Offers Online Energy Efficiency Calculator
      Datacenter power consumption is anticipated to increase substantially over the next several years due to a rise in power density. This coupled with the fact that most datacenter operations are growing in physical size year over year means reducing energy consumption to grow efficiency and reduce costs are of paramount importance for the CIO and datacenter operator. To help with these efforts, Active Power (ACPW 1.20, -0.09, -6.98%) has introduced a simple, online energy efficiency calculator to help organizations understand their opportunity to reduce electricity consumption and energy costs by utilizing Active Power's high efficiency, flywheel based UPS (uninterruptible power supply) system to protect their data center operations.
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    10. 2010 Power IT Down Day Challenges Government to Save More Kilowatt Hours ...

      2010 Power IT Down Day Challenges Government to Save More Kilowatt Hours ...
      2010 Power IT Down Day Challenges Government to Save More Kilowatt Hours ...MarketWatch (press release)Individuals can sign up for the event at the new Power IT Down website, poweritdown.org, which also provides green IT resources and information. ...and more »
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    11. Hitachi Data Systems Says Data Center Transformation Is Key to Solving It ...

      "Data as a raw resource is of limited use. Organizations need an IT infrastructure that can transform data into usable information. Technologies rooted in virtualization and cloud computing are a strategic and cost-effective way to consolidate resources and build simple, flexible and sustainable infrastructures. The result is a transformed, virtual data center that offers tangible benefits including efficiency, ease of management and cost savings," said Claus Mikkelsen, chief scientist, Hitachi Data Systems.
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    12. Cisco and Teliti Collaborate on Green Data Center Model in Malaysia

      Cisco and Teliti Collaborate on Green Data Center Model in Malaysia
      Cisco today announced its collaboration toward a green data center with Teliti Datacenters (Teliti), a locally owned systems integrator, at the inaugural Cisco Summit Malaysia 2010. Under this collaboration, Cisco will share data center best practices and work with Teliti as it develops a business model for data center management and a governance structure that enables Teliti to achieve world-class standards for data centre infrastructure technology in Malaysia. The state-of-the-art data center facility that Teliti intends to build with the help of Cisco will enable Teliti to host and provide a comprehensive portfolio of information technology (IT) solutions and services with lower energy consumption and less impact on the environment. The collaboration demonstrates a commitment by both companies to drive the adoption of green technology in line with Malaysia's ambition to reduce the country's carbon emissions by 40 percent by 2012. The 120,000-square-foot facility will be located ...
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    13. Cisco Powers Up Energy Management Tools for Utilities, Consumers, Businesses

      Cisco Powers Up Energy Management Tools for Utilities, Consumers, Businesses
      Cisco today unveiled new technologies that build on its recently announced Connected Grid portfolio and help consumers and businesses better monitor and manage their energy consumption for cost and carbon savings, including an easy-to-use interface for the home environment. The Cisco(R) Home Energy Management Solution features a Home Energy Controller along with Cisco Energy Management Services that, when provided by utilities to their customers, are designed to help consumers securely and reliably gain insight into, and easier control over, their energy use. Additionally, Cisco announced key updates to its Smart Connected Buildings portfolio, including the new Cisco Network Building Mediator Manager 6300, which enables centralized management of Smart Connected Buildings across global enterprise operations, and the new Cisco Network Building Mediator 3.1, which provides the platform for linking multiple disparate building automation systems and protocols over Internet Protocol and for allowing greater integration and visibility of energy flows ...
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    14. Cisco, Ingram Micro Launch Asia's First Unified Computing Center

      Cisco, Ingram Micro Launch Asia's First Unified Computing Center
      Cisco (CSCO 22.44, -0.14, -0.60%) and Ingram Micro today announced the launch of Asia's first Cisco Center for Unified Computing in Singapore. The center will provide Ingram Micro's customers and channel partners with a next-generation data center platform that will accelerate the delivery of new services simply, reliably and with a high degree of security through end-to-end provisioning and migration support. It will also feature technology from APC, CA, Hitachi Data Systems, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, Symantec, VMware and other partners. As the pioneering solution center in the region, the Cisco Center for Unified Computing will be a test bed for Cisco partners to simulate real-life scenarios in a heterogeneous hardware and software application environment. The center provides a risk-free environment for partners to share and address their customers' data center requirements and challenges. Cisco's investment with Ingram Micro includes training and additional staff to ...
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