A New Net

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

...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 ......f the early 1980s. IBM's PC standard separated hardware and software, making operating systems like Microsoft Windows the focus of innovation while hardware became a race-to-the-bottom commodity. Cisco and oth... (Read Full Article)

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A CTO’s take on cloud

Explore GigaOM (Jan 24 2012) Cloud Computing

...sses, but for many existing IBM shops — and there are a ton of them — IBM cloud is a no brainer. 2: Microsoft Azure has a tough row to hoe Coyle is of two minds on Windows Azure, the platform-as-a-service (Paa......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 ... (Read Full Article)

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Europe Weighs a Tough Law on Online Privacy and User Data

Explore The New York Times (Jan 23 2012)

SAN FRANCISCO — Europe is considering a sweeping new law that would force Internet companies like Amazon.com and Facebook to obtain explicit consent from consumers about the use of their personal data, delete......ulations as a hindrance to innovation. Ronald Zink, chief operating officer for European affairs at Microsoft, pointed to the potential difficulty of obtaining explicit consent. He gave the example of Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect system, which stores ... (Read Full Article)

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Feds rip a page out of Amazon’s playbook in data center move

Explore GigaOM (Jan 4 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...ta centers are now leasing out excess capacity to other government agencies. Feds rip a page out of Amazon’s playbook in data center move By Barb Darrow Jan. 4, 2012, 12:48pm PT No Comments * Tweet * * * Mu......ds, the Census Bureau will save $1.7 million in operating costs this year, said VanRoekel, a former Microsoft executive. In his blog, VanRoekel wrote: While we continue to rack up closures ... (Read Full Article)

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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

...st 22 legacy data centres, not to mention new ones, such as the $1bn data centre built last year by Microsoft in its third investment in Dublin in 18 months and European data centre giant Interxion, which is p......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 ... (Read Full Article)

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Power-efficient servers could get a shot in the ARM

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

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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 point but it’s s... (Read Full Article)

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Salesforce, a Leader in Cloud Computing, Draws Big Rivals

Explore The New York Times (Dec 12 2011) Cloud Computing

...r. Benioff, who co-founded Salesforce in 1999, the acquisitions are a vindication of his strategy. “Amazon Web Services is making over $1 billion in revenues with cloud software,” he said. “Google Apps is c......nues of $3 billion in 2012. That is $5 billion, and that is what has them worried. Where are SAP, Microsoft, Oracle? Why haven’t they taken our customers?” Much of the enterprise software industry, it ... (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 b......g implications for the incumbent powers in the video game business, mainly the console makers Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo. That is because running games in data centers means that consoles in ... (Read Full Article)

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Amazon Web Services Executive Killed in Plane Crash Reports

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Dec 5 2011)

...about two years, between 2001 and 2003. A Seattle Times report says Phillips, an 18-year veteran of Microsoft, left the company a year before joining Amazon to found a start-up, iTegris, focused on managing intellectual property assets. The Times report qu... (Read Full Article)

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Rackspace: Bull and Bear Cases

Explore Forbes.com (Nov 24 2011)

...rvices and hosting is filled with companies that have deeper pockets than does Rackspace, including Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM, and the service integrators, respectively. These companies have greater ability to inves... (Read Full Article)

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The Green Grid: modularity is sign of maturity

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Nov 15 2011) Construction , Cloud Computing

...ced by multiple 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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Web Host Savvis Hires Away Microsoft Amazon Cloud Executives

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Nov 15 2011) Cloud Computing

...sales position, according to the press release. Patton previously ran the Americas sales team for Amazon Web Services. Web Host Savvis Hires Away Microsoft, Amazon Cloud Executives * By Nicole Henderson, November 15, 2011 * + Tweet + + + Patton drove cloud adopti... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook: 'Open hardware' integral to green IT infrastructure

Explore zdnet.com (Oct 30 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

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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......k, 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 not an isola... (Read Full Article)

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Will Your Next Server Be Designed by Facebook?

Explore ReadWriteWeb (Oct 27 2011)

... consider the list of companies that have signed on: Intel, ASUS, Dell, Huawei, Rackspace, Netflix, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs and a little software vendor by the name of Red Hat. I spoke with Red Hat's VP of co......he 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 ... (Read Full Article)

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Google Wants to Show Why the Cloud Means Bigger is Greener

Explore GreenBiz.com (Oct 20 2011) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers

...e rest of us -- and, importantly, for the planet. Indeed, cloud-based computing -- the way Google, Amazon, Yahoo!, Microsoft and Facebook and others provide you with data storage and software from their servers -- turns out ... (Read Full Article)

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Outages Altering Cloud Perception, Practice

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Oct 7 2011) Cloud Computing

High-profile service outages at Amazon and Microsoft have made some prospects wary of placing business applications on cloud computing services, and hav... (Read Full Article)

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Bits Blog: A Data Center Power Solution

Explore Technology (Oct 4 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

... to be a big expense. Not to mention an environmental problem. “Cloud companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook or the big telecommunications companies will do their own server designs for these envir......ta, where you require extra security or privacy,” says Robert Muglia, a former senior executive at Microsoft who recently joined the networking company Juniper Networks as head of software. “The Department of... (Read Full Article)

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How long until clouds adopt extreme computing chips?

Explore GigaOM (Oct 4 2011) Servers

...x86 silicon until it can perform more calculations using less power, or perhaps it will be time for Amazon or Microsoft Azure to go with ARM, Tilera — or even Adapteva. Related research and analysis from GigaOM Pro: Sub... (Read Full Article)

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Google to Build Green Data Center in Dublin Opens Facility in Oklahoma

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Sep 30 2011) Cloud Computing

...a center at the site. With Google's new data center project, along with major data center builds by Microsoft and Amazon have solidified Dublin as one of the leading hubs for cloud computing infrastructure. The city's mo... (Read Full Article)

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Data center energy consumption will increase. Are you (not) surprised?

Explore ITworld (Sep 26 2011) Cloud Computing

...YahEZHHDL commented on Unix tip: Inter-host trust on Unix, part 1 AdamsFrida_YahEZHHDL commented on Microsoft: Enterprises will self-host Windows Azure someday AdamsFrida_YahEZHHDL commented on Microsoft loses $106 million patent verdict to VirnetX AdamsFrida_YahEZHHDL commented on Web hosting outage a...... departure clears way for format stand-off Sherin Blad has just joined ITworld mzddlin commented on Amazon tablet to challenge Apple iPad for holiday sales mzddlin commented on Groupon COO quits after ... (Read Full Article)

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How much do you want to follow Netflix’s data center strategy given CEO says "I messed up"?

Explore greenm3.com (Sep 19 2011)

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