1. Articles mentioning both Amazon.com and Cisco

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    1. A more sustainable cloud through transparency & change

      Explore GigaOM (12 hours, 10 min ago) Construction , Power and Cooling , Fuel Cell , Solar

      A more sustainable cloud through transparency & change ...device on site in Maiden, NC. The industry is starting to sit up and listen. A company like Google, Amazon, Facebook or Apple has enormous clout in the areas they operate. These tech giants are big fish to ......son, a seasoned technology Executive with over 15 years international sales experience, worked with Cisco Systems, Business Objects (a SAP company) and NetSuite, in charge of both EMEA and NA territories. Prior ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

    2. Are IT Data Centers Emerging as a 'Killer App' for Green Power? Part 1

      Explore Renewable Energy World (May 18 2012) Construction , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Wind , Cloud Computing , Servers

      Are IT Data Centers Emerging as a 'Killer App' for Green Power? Part 1 Last month, Greenpeace launched a series of coordinated protests at Amazon, Apple and Microsoft locations to draw attention to the companies’ use of GHG intensive fuels in po......ively offsetting emissions from data center electricity use. Leading IT companies Intel, Microsoft, Cisco, and Dell are among the top purchasers of RECs. In fact, Intel is top green power purchaser in the ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

    3. Web Host QTS to Bring Solar Power to Data Centers in $10M Green Investment

      Explore Web Host Industry Review (May 17 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Solar , Cloud Computing

      Web Host QTS to Bring Solar Power to Data Centers in $10M Green Investment ..., California in an Environmental Defense Fund panel discussion alongside executives from Yahoo! and Cisco Systems. Data center operator and hosting firm Quality Technology Services announced on Thursday it has con......Fill out our WHIR reader survey to let us know what works and what doesn’t. And enter to win a $100 Amazon gift card. Justin Lee has been a staff analyst with theWHIR since 2004. He writes about a ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Yahoo   Cisco

    4. Web Host FortaTrust Expands Network with Florida Data Center

      Explore Web Host Industry Review (May 8 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

      Web Host FortaTrust Expands Network with Florida Data Center ...an diesel generators, transport and IP transit ports from 100Mbps to 10Gbps provided exclusively by Cisco, direct access to the FortaTrust cloud infrastructure, including the FortaTrust Panama data center,......Fill out our WHIR reader survey to let us know what works and what doesn’t. And enter to win a $100 Amazon gift card. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Cisco   At&T

    5. Open Compute builds a business model for the next era of the web

      Explore GigaOM (May 4 2012) Servers

      Open Compute builds a business model for the next era of the web ...to the companies that build servers for those giants. For companies such as Facebook, Baidu, Zynga, Amazon and Facebook are building at such scale, the idea of wasting a single cent or milliwatt on an unnec...... obvious question is how fast this transition will happen. If this is a rapid shift, companies like Cisco, HP or IBM risk having significant portions of their businesses erode seemingly overnight. If the t... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Intel   Google

    6. Shell Oil Explores Hybrid Cloud IT Infrastructure to Lower Power Costs for Big Data

      Explore environmentalleader.com (Apr 6 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

      Shell Oil Explores Hybrid Cloud IT Infrastructure to Lower Power Costs for Big Data ... Big Data Share Email This Post Add your comments Shell-apr6 click to enlarge Related Stories AT&T, Cisco Appointed to Green Shell’s IT The Cloud Computing Advantage: Achieving Peak Performance in Environm......ore than a year to get internal approval to move corporate data to the public cloud. Shell is using Amazon VPC and within that has created a private section of the Amazon Web Services cloud. It is ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Cisco   Hewlett Packard

    7. Top secret Visa data center banks on security, even has moat

      Explore usatoday.com (Mar 26 2012)

      Top secret Visa data center banks on security, even has moat ... for corporate clients, says Philip Russom, a research director for The Data Warehousing Institute. Amazon.com says it offers cloud-based "data centers for rent." "The growth in data center construction is very......rains of the network, a blur of hard drives spinning and fans whirring amid rows of IBM mainframes, Cisco Systems switches and EMC and Hitachi storage arrays. They're all connected by 3,000 miles of cable â ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Amazon.com   Cisco

    8. Is Solar Power for Data Centers a Bad Idea?

      Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 19 2012) Construction , Solar

      Is Solar Power for Data Centers a Bad Idea? ...ars, arrays of photovoltaic solar panels have been announced for data centers from Apple, Facebook, Cisco and Emerson Network Power. But do these solar arrays make sense, given the current economics of sol......of solar energy and the volume of power required to support a modern data center? James Hamilton of Amazon Web Services, who often presents on data center economics at industry conferences, challenges the w... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

    9. A New Net

      Explore Technology Review (Feb 6 2012) Cloud Computing , Networking

      A New Net ...isticated. Yet today, even with seemingly cost-effective cloud services available from the likes of Amazon, most companies still choose to operate their own computing resources—whether for corporate e-mail ......itting in Nicira's boardroom, exchange quick glances and are careful not to name any companies—even Cisco Systems, the world's leading maker of routers and switches. They're being diplomatic; Nicira has already re... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Forrester Research   Google

    10. A CTO’s take on cloud

      Explore GigaOM (Jan 24 2012) Cloud Computing

      A CTO’s take on cloud ...and redundancy, although users will have to pay for it, he said. The bottom line? Glitches and all, Amazon is the incumbent public cloud power and will stay that way, he said. 4: OpenStack as big-time cloud......pace and NASA, it’s achieved critical mass with nearly every IT provider — from Dell, to HP, to Cisco, to Citrix — aboard and Rackspace offloading management to a more neutral OpenStack Foundation. “Op... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Cisco   IBM

    11. Power-efficient servers could get a shot in the ARM

      Explore ITWorld Canada (Dec 20 2011) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers

      ...t lawsuit, after a hung jury in Utah could ... By: JD Speedy (09 Dec 2011)When Seattle, Wash.-based Amazon.com announced the Kindle Fire, it’s first e-reader to toe the water as a tablet, there was a lot of spe......anization still include the people you know best: Your staff. That’s one of the main conclusions of Cisco Sy ... By: Howard Solomon (06 Dec 2011)Shaw Communications ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Intel   Cisco

    12. What cloud boils down to for the enterprise

      Explore GigaOM (Nov 20 2011) Cloud Computing

      What cloud boils down to for the enterprise ... Wisdom of Clouds for the last three years. I’ve also spent the last three years helping develop Cisco’s cloud strategy, and am just about to begin an adventure as vice president of product strategy for...... the server. You may own the operating system if you are using an infrastructure service, such as Amazon’s EC2, but for most cloud services, you won’t even have that luxury. What ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Cisco

    13. The Green Grid: modularity is sign of maturity

      Explore DatacenterDynamics (Nov 15 2011) Construction , Cloud Computing

      The Green Grid: modularity is sign of maturity ... deployment.” Nearly all major IT vendors sell modular data centers. They include HP, IBM, Dell and Cisco, among others. So do major infrastructure vendors, such as Emerson and PDI. There are also large co......Internet companies and providers of Cloud-based services. This group includes Microsoft, Google and Amazon. Download The Green Grid’s whitepaper on modular data centers here. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   Cisco

    14. Amazon Web Services Promises Lower Costs from New Oregon Region

      Explore Web Host Industry Review (Nov 9 2011) Cloud Computing

      Amazon Web Services Promises Lower Costs from New Oregon Region ...) and the Northern California region. Oregon region will provide a suite of AWS services, including Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon EBS and more. PREVIOUS: Cisco Resellers to Offer New Neutral Tandem Collaboration Service | NEXT: Web Host SunGard Launches Mana... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Cisco   SunGard

    15. Will OpenFlow lower your phone bill?

      Explore GigaOM (Oct 20 2011) Networking

      Will OpenFlow lower your phone bill? ... boxes at the core of its network and keeping the big, expensive gear from the likes of Juniper and Cisco at the edge of the network. Elby was cagey abut how his preference for lower-cost bit delivery migh......nt connection. In this way, Verizon begins to delivers capacity as a service in a manner similar to Amazon delivers compute as a service. Elby described more options, but the message underlying ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Cisco   Deutsche Telecom

    16. Extending the life of your data center

      Explore The Voice of IT Management (Oct 11 2011) Cloud Computing

      ... more years from your current data center. Here are some options: Head to the cloud. Companies like Amazon, HP, IBM and Oracle all offer cloud-based services that enable bursts in computing capacity when ne......ting your data center is out of the question for your organization, a pod just might be the answer. Cisco, HP and Silicon Graphics International are among vendors offering portable data centers. These self... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Gartner   Oracle

    17. Inside the SuperNAP and its high-tech clouds

      Explore GigaOM (Sep 29 2011)

      Inside the SuperNAP and its high-tech clouds ...ries, including banking. Among the dozens of other names populating the Cloud Exchange list are Cisco, EMC, Dell and Nirvanix. During a recent tour of the facility, Switch VP of Cloud Jason Mendenhall ......business strategy, which is to compete in a crowded IaaS market not through scale (it can’t touch Amazon Web Services or Rackspace in that regard), but through high utilization, specialization and clever ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Cisco   Enron

    18. OpenFlow in the Real World: Carriers, Clouds and More

      Explore The New York Times (Aug 15 2011) Networking

      OpenFlow in the Real World: Carriers, Clouds and More ...rgreen Solar Files for Bankruptcy * Foursquare Guns for Yelp, One Feature at a Time * Hands on With Amazon Student for iPhone Yes, it's a switch. But this one has OpenFlow inside! The shift in networking an......dd functionality to their networks that today they get from several independent gear providers from Cisco and Juniper to Sandvine and Acme Packet, for example. “On the service provider side, we’ve seen ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   Cisco

    19. Zynga to Boost Investment in Data Centers

      Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jul 8 2011) Cloud Computing

      ...olume of data center leasing, or perhaps an initial move towards building its own facilities. Using Amazon EC2 and Leased Data Centers Zynga has a strong cloud-based infrastructure that balances Amazon cloud instances with its own internal cloud infrastructure.  With the ability to add as many as 1,0......he massive scaling projects at Microsoft Global Foundation Services. In 2009 she left Microsoft for Cisco. With nearly $1 billion cash ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Cisco   DuPont Fabros Technology

    20. Intel Beware: Tilera Unveils Processors to Power Cloud Data Centers

      Explore The New York Times (Jun 21 2011) Cloud Computing

      Intel Beware: Tilera Unveils Processors to Power Cloud Data Centers ...a, director of cloud computing at Tilera. Tilera began talking to cloud computing companies such as Amazon a couple of years ago and it decided to address their worst pain points. They confirmed that power ......fourth-generation processor family. Investors in the new round included Artis Capital, West Summit, Cisco, and Samsung. Existing investors Walden International, Bessemer Venture Partners and Columbia C... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Intel   Google

    21. Meet the Cloud Innovators at Structure 2011

      Explore GigaOM (May 24 2011) Cloud Computing

      Meet the Cloud Innovators at Structure 2011 ...verything from application development to data center design. Featured speakers: * Werner Vogels of Amazon * John Stankey of AT&T * Paul Maritz of VMware * Jonathan Heiliger of Facebook * Dave Hitz of NetAp......ista Networks * Simon Crosby of Citrix Systems * Pradeep Sindhu of Juniper Networks * Lew Tucker of Cisco * Lew Moorman of Rackspace Hosting See the full list schedule here. Register today and get a free “... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Cisco   Facebook

    22. Cisco CEO Warns of Changes And Job Cuts

      Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (May 12 2011) Cloud Computing

      Cisco CEO Warns of Changes And Job Cuts ...y will bounce back, the next few months will continue to be rough ones. You are here: Home » News » Cisco CEO Warns of Changes And Job Cuts * Poll As a result of Amazon's EC2 outage, I willMarket Research Cisco CEO Warns of Changes And Job Cuts May 12, 2011 by Jeffrey Burt logo_cisco Tweet Cisco’s missed targets will bring more changes and layoffs as it tries to get ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Cisco

    23. Tech Titans Back OpenFlow Networking Standard

      Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 22 2011) Networking

      Tech Titans Back OpenFlow Networking Standard ...t. Look beyond the six founders, and the membership reads like a Who’s Who of the networking world: Cisco, Brocade, Juniper Networks, HP, Broadcom, Ciena, Riverbed Technology, Force10, Citrix, Dell, Ericss......lar lines. The biggest thing about the data center is the scale and the detailed need for control.” Amazon Web Services is not among the ONF members. But Amazon researcher James Hamilton has been a prominent voices in ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   Yahoo

    24. Report: Savvis Hires Investment Banker

      Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 7 2011) Cloud Computing

      Report: Savvis Hires Investment Banker ...one, a high-profile banker who helped take more than 100 technology companies public, including Amazon.com and Cisco Systems. Savvis declined comment on the report by PE Hub, which cited three sources that said Savvis had hi... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Cisco   Savvis Inc.

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