A New Net

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

...ologies of all time needs to be rethought. Stanford researchers have reshaped computing before—both Google and early work on the Internet itself came out of their labs—but Casado and his PhD supervisor, Nic......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 ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Forrester Research   Google

Will our plugged-in planet have a green or black future?

Explore MiamiHerald.com (Feb 1 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Wind , Cloud Computing

... also feel the tug of a powerful economic force. Whether it's "Combat Arms" or "World of Warcraft," Amazon or Google, the companies that operate data centers face strong incentives to save energy. Electricity ranks a... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   Carnegie Mellon University

Will our plugged-in planet have a green or black future?

Explore http://www.kansascity.com (Jan 24 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Wind , Cloud Computing

...also feel the tug of a powerful economic force. Whether it’s Combat Arms or World of Warcraft, Amazon or Google, the companies that operate data centers face strong incentives to save energy. Electricity ranks a... (Read Full Article)

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Cloud server shipments to skyrocket in 2012

Explore GigaOM (Jan 16 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers

...t, IHS analyst Peter Lin included servers used to run consumer-oriented clouds like Apple iCloud, Google services, and Amazon Web Services as well as more enterprise-oriented cloud platforms that target business applications.... (Read Full Article)

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NYSE Wants to Sell Colocation Space at New Jersey Data Center

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Jan 3 2012) Cloud Computing

...rganization with well-developed internal IT resources to offer up its extra capacity as a service – Amazon jumps to mind. In a recent move illustrating the value of data center capacity in the area, Google closed a deal in the last few weeks to acquire the 111 8th street carrier hotel in New York City. P... (Read Full Article)

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2011: The Year Data Centers Turned Green

Explore Wired News (Dec 30 2011)

...nergy efficiency — and no two data centers are alike. Out of necessity, the huge Internet players — Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Yahoo, and Apple — are finding ways to use greener energy and get more out of the energy ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Amazon.com   Iceland

6 Ways Cloud Computing Will Evolve In 2012

Explore techweb.com (Dec 27 2011) Construction , Cloud Computing

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2011 – the year Ireland became ‘home of the cloud’

Explore siliconrepublic.com (Dec 22 2011) Cloud Computing

...Data Electronics was bought by TeleCityEurope for €100m and earlier this year global internet giant Amazon bought a 22,539 sq-metre facility at Greenhills Industrial Estate in Dublin 24 to expand its cloud ......at Greenhills Industrial Estate in Dublin 24 to expand its cloud footprint in Europe. In September, Google revealed it will invest €75m in a new data centre that will generate 30 full-time and 200 construct... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Europe   Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Facebook Recruits Google Green Energy Czar for Sustainability Push

Explore CIO.com (Dec 21 2011) Construction , Wind , Cloud Computing

...ok's reliance on coal at 53.2 percent, second only to Apple's (at 54.5 percent) and far higher than Google's (34.7 percent) or Amazon's (28.5 percent). Greenpeace based its estimates on published figures for data centre power consump... (Read Full Article)

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Bouncing data would speed up data center

Explore Technology Review (Dec 20 2011)

Inside the huge data centers operated by Internet companies like Google, Amazon, and Facebook, information is processed at blistering speed, but it still has to be moved between d... (Read Full Article)

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Do BYO data centers make sense anymore?

Explore GigaOM (Dec 16 2011) Cloud Computing

...sts soar. At that point, there aren’t many companies on the planet that can achieve the scale of an Amazon, a Rackspace, a Google, or a Microsoft. So why not trust your loads to the experts? There will always be pushback on this ... (Read Full Article)

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Beijing hopes to dominate cloud computing with “Cloud Valley”

Explore SmartPlanet (Dec 16 2011) Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing

American firms like Amazon and Google may have pioneered cloud computing, but Beijing’s city government hopes the industry will head east... (Read Full Article)

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Phones and Tablets Getting Game Power In the Cloud

Explore The New York Times (Dec 7 2011) Cloud Computing

...t people play the richest, most graphically intense games on Apple’s iPhone and iPad, as well as on Amazon’s Kindle Fire and other devices based on Google’s Android software. In the past, these games have been far beyond the relatively anemic computing p... (Read Full Article)

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Transatlantic fibre optic cable to come ashore in Mayo

Explore The Mayo News (Dec 6 2011) Networking

...nty. “It is so important to have this network to attract investment,” he explained. “If you look at Google, Amazon, Facebook and the big companies who have come to Ireland. They have all set up in Dublin around the... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook Expands Green Open Hardware Push

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Nov 23 2011) Servers

...pecifications in April was a significant change for an industry where other businesses, such as Google and Amazon, have closely guarded their data centre specs, using them instead as a competitive advantage. Howev... (Read Full Article)

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The Green Grid: modularity is sign of maturity

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Nov 15 2011) Construction , Cloud Computing

...iple major 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)

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Are You Operating A Legal Cloud?

Explore da.feedsportal.com (Nov 14 2011) Cloud Computing

...ct to this priority, affecting some of the world’s largest CSPs – from Microsoft and Salesforce, to Google and Amazon. The EU, UK and other nations are debating the issue. The EU has negotiated a safe harbour agreemen... (Read Full Article)

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Mobile Network Operators and the Cloud (Part 2)

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Nov 7 2011) Cloud Computing , Networking

...lans to start offering a cloud service directly – and compete with other large cloud providers like Google and Facebook – I cannot see that they have need of a large-scale third party hosting/colocation pro......tee service levels and avoid Internet congestion. I can think of data centers run by providers like Amazon or Rackspace. I am not aware of MNOs that have direct connections to a particular social media prov... (Read Full Article)

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why Moonshot matters - by peter judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Nov 6 2011)

... delivering web services, social media and simple content delivery applications”. In other words, Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, all the big players where the data center action is. If Moonshot hits its target, it could take ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Amazon.com   Intel

Pro-biz, green incentives give S'pore datacenter edge

Explore zdnetasia.com (Nov 3 2011) Cloud Computing

Google, for one, announced on Sep. 28 that it was putting together its blueprint for a data center in Sing......naged hosting offerings closer to its customers and their end-users. Another public cloud provider, Amazon Web Services (AWS), which set up its data center here in April last year, cited similar reasons. Co... (Read Full Article)

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Mobile Network Operators and the Cloud

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Oct 31 2011) Cloud Computing , Networking

...t of services into the cloud, including CRM (Salesforce), email and office applications (Office365, Google Apps, etc). I believe this trend will continue. These services and some others that do not entail s......icular, I believe these will gradually be replaced with “remote private cloud” services, like those Amazon and Rackspace are already offering. Companies can obtain a reserved infrastructure and extend thei... (Read Full Article)

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Green Q&A: What impact does online time have on the environment?

Explore Home - San Jose Mercury News (Oct 29 2011) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers

...e gas emissions by an amount equivalent to taking some 2 million cars off the road. For its part, Google has been a real leader in the building of green data centers, even powering them with renewable ene......s ever designed and constructed -- from a utility that derives most of its power from coal.) Yahoo, Amazon and Microsoft scored best in use of renewable alternative energy sources for cloud services ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

Can Open Hardware Transform the Data Center?

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Oct 28 2011) Cloud Computing

...New York featured appearances from executives for some of the sector’s leading names – Intel, Dell, Amazon, Facebook, Red Hat and Goldman Sachs. The audience was filled with data center thought leaders from...... Facebook, Red Hat and Goldman Sachs. The audience was filled with data center thought leaders from Google, Microsoft, Rackspace and many other companies with large data center operations. That turnout is n... (Read Full Article)

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Will Your Next Server Be Designed by Facebook?

Explore ReadWriteWeb (Oct 27 2011)

...o is that the OCP systems only catch on with the "create your own universe" builders like Facebook, Google and Amazon. He says that the truth is "probably in the middle," depending on whether enough vendors get behind... (Read Full Article)

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