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    1. Notes From Intel's Earnings Call (Live)

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      Notes From Intel's Earnings Call (Live)
      Everyone’s down on the PC business right now. Intel, however, seems to be doing fine. The processor giant reported Wednesday that it grew sales for the quarter ending in June by 22% over the year-ago period -- with its PC business growing 11% over the year ago-period. So where did all this new business come from? I’ll post live notes from Intel’s quarterly earnings call below as Intel Chief Paul Otellini and Chief Financial Officer Stacy Smith explain.
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      Mentions: Europe Intel

    2. Where the World's Data Is Stored [Infographic]

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      Where the World's Data Is Stored [Infographic]
      The folks at backup service Mozy have created a nifty infographic that illustrates the staggering scale of modern data usage (we’re storing 600 billion gigabytes of data! That’s 13 layers of books covering the entire United States!). Three things stand out to me: the recency of all this data (94% of digital storage is data that’s two years old or less), the fact that digital tapes hold 11% of all data (your dad is still backing up his Compaq 386 onto tapes every weekend, apparently), and Chicago‘s place as a data center center (the city has three of the world’s 10 largest data centers, including the largest, Digital Realty Trust’s 350 East Cermak Road).
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    3. The Cloud May be More Secure than Your Data Center

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      The Cloud May be More Secure than Your Data Center
      There are two things you can count on when you implement the level of security that’s required for data centers these days. You can count on it being a very complex process, and you can count on it being expensive. Unfortunately, you don’t have a choice. Security in your data center is not an option.
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      Mentions: Cloud Security Alliance Julius Neudorfer Microsoft Corp

    4. There Could Be Fire Behind Dell Buys Brocade Smoke

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      There Could Be Fire Behind Dell Buys Brocade Smoke
      There are rumors that Dell could look to acquire Brocade Communications Systems, one of the leading suppliers of data center networking products, in an attempt to expand presence in servers, storage and networking space and better compete with other industry giants like EMC, Hewlett-Packard and IBM. This move would be in line with Dell's strategy of diversifying its product and services portfolio and moving further from its core PC business where the firm has been bleeding market share for the past couple of years.
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      Mentions: Hewlett Packard Brocade Communications Systems IBM

    5. GSA to Issue GovCloud ATOs July

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      GSA to Issue GovCloud ATOs July
      July will be a big month for GovCloud! After an almost two year procurement process and months of infrastructure assessments and security validations, Authority to Operate (ATO) certifications will be granted next month. According to GSA Portfolio Management Division Director Bill Lewis this lengthier than expected process will finally let  infrastructure-as-a-service blanket purchase agreement awardees start selling their cloud services from the Apps.gov cloud computing website.
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      Mentions: Amazon.com XO Communications Dell

    6. Your Music is Moving to the Cloud. What About the Rest of Your Business?

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      Your Music is Moving to the Cloud. What About the Rest of Your Business?
      The storm continues around Apple’s new media service iCloud. Like many of you, I’ve been waiting for this service for a while. I’m a big iTunes user, for both audio and HD video. I’ve saved tons of space because I don’t have to store CDs, and in what seems like no time at all I’ve amassed half a terabyte of media. Currently, this stuff sits on my external hard drive, and it would be a very bad day if that hard drive were to fail. Yes, I can back it up, and sometimes I do. But what if my backup gets crushed in some type of disaster? (There’ve been more than enough of those this year.)
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    7. For Microsoft, Is The Cloud A Threat - Or Their Secret Weapon?

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      For Microsoft, Is The Cloud A Threat - Or Their Secret Weapon?
      What does the cloud mean for Microsoft? That’s a question of particular importance to Satya Nadella, who earlier this year was named president of the company’s $16 billion server and tools business. I sat down with Nadella this week to talk about that question – and he makes the case that the cloud, contrary to widespread suspicion on the Street, should be an overall boost to the software giant’s business.
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      Mentions: Amazon.com Google Microsoft Corp

    8. Managing your Data when it's in the Cloud

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      Managing your Data when it's in the Cloud
      Getting your Data into the Cloud is the Easy Part. Deciding what to do with it takes planning. The cloud isn’t a magical place, despite what you might think from all the hype. In fact, the cloud is really a lot like the old time share solutions of the mainframe days, except that it exists in a highly virtualized world where your data, and perhaps your applications, may be physically located in a variety of places. But the most important thing about having your data in the cloud is that it’s not in your data center, and that can mean that it’s likely safer and cheaper to store.
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    9. Is 64 GB Big Enough -- Why Tablet Computers May Need More Storage?

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      Is 64 GB Big Enough -- Why Tablet Computers May Need More Storage?
      Tablet computers, especially the iPad, are the hottest consumer electronics product and according to many analysts are impacting the sale to consumers of traditional laptop computers.  These devices use flash memory to create a rugged and low power internal storage.  However flash memory is relatively expensive, generally selling for over $1 per GB   As a consequence, mobile consumer devices such as smart phones and tablet computers have relatively low amounts of digital storage (compared to traditional computers).  In particular the current generation of iPad tablet computers support 64 GB or less of storage capacity.  This has led to a number of products as well as services to provide additional storage for tablet computers.
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    10. The Good News About Cloud Architecture: Everything Fails

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      The Good News About Cloud Architecture: Everything Fails
      Two recent events reminded us this spring that cloud computing infrastructures are vulnerable to the same genetic IT flaw that plagues traditional data center operations: everything fails, sooner or later. The failure modes of cloud vs. traditional data center architectures may differ in nature and frequency, but the threat is the same – outages, downtime, lost revenues and damaged customer trust. Ironically, these same recent events also highlight how cloud infrastructures, when managed correctly, actually provide unprecedented capabilities to deliver high availability, resiliency, and business continuity in IT operations.
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    11. Data Centers: The Energy Problem

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      Data Centers: The Energy Problem
      In fact, data center energy use is rising at such a high rate that the trend could spur consumer surcharges for data use. Imagine getting hit with a fee for posting on Twitter or Facebook, buying gifts online, or paying bills on the Web. Think about it: We pay package delivery companies a surcharge for the fuel used to transport our packages. Might we one day pay an online retailer a “data center energy surcharge” for the electricity used to power the data center that processes our purchase?
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    12. What Netflix Gets Out Of Amazon's Cloud

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      What Netflix Gets Out Of Amazon's Cloud
      As Internet-based companies outgrow their data centers, they’re looking at larger cloud-based infrastructures such as those offered by Microsoft, Google, and Amazon. Last year, Netflix made such a transition when it moved some of its services into Amazon’s cloud. In a recent interview, Adrian Cockcroft, (@adrianco) cloud architect at Netflix and a speaker at Velocity 2011, talked about what it took to move Netflix to the cloud, why they chose Amazon’s platform, and how the company is accommodating the increasing demands of streaming.
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    13. Morning Tech Wrap: Microsoft, Skype, Google

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      Morning Tech Wrap: Microsoft, Skype, Google
      Microsoft is in talks to buy Skype from eBay and the internet telephone services's founders for between $7 billion and $8 billion, according to several reports. The deal, which the Wall Street Journal describes as “the most aggressive move yet by Microsoft to play in in the increasingly-converged worlds of communication, information and entertainment”, could be announced as early as Tuesday. The news was first reported by Gigaom. Taking in Skype’s long-term debt, the total value of the deal would be around $8.5 billion. A Skype purchase would be the biggest acquisition in the history of Microsoft. In 2007, the company paid around $6 billion for online advertising firm aQuantive, though many investors reportedly felt the company had overpaid for the deal.
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    14. Monday's Musings: Lessons Learned From Amazon's Cloud Outage

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      Monday's Musings: Lessons Learned From Amazon's Cloud Outage
      The recent Amazon cloud outage at its Northern Virgina data center from 5 am Thursday, April 21, 2011 to roughly 5 am Friday, April 22 has shaken the confidence of some executives on public cloud computing. Most notably, FourSquare, HootSuite, Reddit, and Quora publicly suffered visible performance issues. The industry’s reassurances in the past on up time performance and massive redundancy capabilities combined with the massive corporate adoption had everyone believing that public clouds were bullet proof. As calmer heads prevail, most CIOs, business leaders, and analysts realize that:
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    15. Aquarium-Cooled Data Servers

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      Aquarium-Cooled Data Servers
      Green Revolution Cooling, a cleantech start-up company based in Austin, Texas, has pioneered an end-to-end fluid cooling system for data servers. Unlike other cooling systems using Jetson-esque widgets like rear-door heat exchangers or hot-cold aisle isolators, Green Revolution embraces a solution as simple as cracking open a fire hydrant on a hot summer afternoon – full-submersion liquid cooling.
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    16. Is Cloud Computing Green?

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      Is Cloud Computing Green?
      Today I was honored to be the guest speaker for the kick off event for Records and Information Management Month (RIMM) at the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). In conjunction with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), these agencies are using the month of April to focus on how Green Initiatives can be implemented in the workplace. An additional unexpected pleasure was to be introduced by Ms ...
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    18. Is Your Data Safe In The Cloud?

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      Is Your Data Safe In The Cloud?
      Not many technology concepts have made their way into the popular lexicon as quickly as the “cloud.” Before mid-2007, references to clouds were pretty much confined to discussions about meteorology, and only tech geeks drew pictures of clouds on white boards to symbolize the Internet. Today, the cloud is the focus of national TV advertising campaigns. You might even catch your mom dropping references to it as she pokes and swipes the screen of her iPad.
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    19. ROI of the Cloud, Part 2: IaaS

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      ROI of the Cloud, Part 2: IaaS
      Continuing my discussion of ROI in the cloud, let’s move from PaaS (Platform as a Service) to IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service). IaaS covers most things that exist in a data center these days, but are delivered as a service from a cloud computing provider. This includes mostly storage and compute services, but IaaS providers are expanding into other areas such as databases services. Microsoft Azure, Amazon’s AWS (Amazon Web Services), Rackspace, and GoGrid are the major IaaS players out there, but there are many upstarts as well.
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    21. ROI of the Cloud, Part 1: PaaS

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      ROI of the Cloud, Part 1: PaaS
      Platform-as-a-Service, or PaaS, provides enterprises with the ability to build, test, and deploy applications out of the cloud without having to invest in a hardware and software infrastructure. One of the latest arrivals in the world of cloud computing, PaaS is way behind IaaS and SaaS in terms of adoption, but has the largest potential to change the way we build and deploy applications going forward. Indeed, my colleague Eric Knorr recently wrote that “PaaS may hold the greatest promise of any aspect of the cloud.” This In-Stat report indicates that PaaS spending will increase 113 percent to about $460 million between 2010 and 2014.
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      Mentions: Amazon.com Microsoft Corp

    22. India's Solar Power Market Is El Fuego

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      India's Solar Power Market Is El Fuego
      While Europe and the United States have attracted major investments in solar energy in recent years, a growing number of solar outfits – big and small – are placing their biggest bets on significant and sustained growth in India’s solar energy market. The prodigious amounts of electricity needed to power India’s emerging economy – which is grappling with supply shortfalls in electricity – combined with concerns about curbing carbon emissions has resulted in a patchwork of government policies and programs across India promoting investment in solar energy. These include a national REC market, feed-in-tariffs, tax incentives and so on and so forth.
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    23. 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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    24. Power Management Questions for Every CIO

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      Power Management Questions for Every CIO
      Actively managing a data center’s use of electric power is quickly becoming a major concern for CIOs, one that will challenge every IT organization to raise their game. This week we will review 11 power management questions that every CIO should be able to answer. If answering these questions is impossible or difficult given current information, you are not ready to play the new game of power management. Multiple forces are making power management an urgent problem. Right now, the cost of buying servers is the largest data center expense, and power comes second, accounting for around 40 percent of operational costs. Research suggests that as soon as 2014, power could be first.
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