Cloud server shipments to skyrocket in 2012

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

...r this report, 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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2011: The Year Data Centers Turned Green

Explore Wired News (Dec 30 2011)

... 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 they use. Google has contin... (Read Full Article)

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Grading my cloud predictions for 2011: How’d I do?

Explore GigaOM (Dec 29 2011) Cloud Computing

...pressive, however, if analyst predictions of a mere 4 percent net profit margin are accurate. Maybe Amazon should let us know what’s really going on. Apple will tell us anything about its data center operations: Oh, it showed some pictures that got the bl... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook Recruits Google Green Energy Czar for Sustainability Push

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

...omputing services, Greenpeace estimated Facebook'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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Phones and Tablets Getting Game Power In the Cloud

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

... plans to release software that will let 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... (Read Full Article)

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why Moonshot matters - by peter judge

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

...rvices, 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)

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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

...npeace examined energy sources for the 10 largest IT companies involved in cloud computing, finding Apple, Facebook and IBM especially guilty of getting significant amounts of power from coal-fired power p......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. In the... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook to build server farm: Q&A

Explore Telegraph.co.uk (Oct 26 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...ted rooms at individual companies. But with the growth of the web, companies like Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon have started building giant centralised server farms, each containing hundreds of thousands of comp... (Read Full Article)

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Buildings house secret servers that keep net humming

Explore usatoday.com (Sep 22 2011)

...economy rising up in the footprints of the old," he says. Giant companies such as Google, Facebook, Apple, Yahoo and Amazon often build their data centers in rural areas. "They're looking for cheap power and cheap real esta... (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"?

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Akamai, eBay, Google Set Bar for CO2 Reporting by Internet Giants

Explore GreenBiz.com (Sep 13 2011) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Cloud Computing

Akamai, Apple, eBay and now Google have become industry standouts for disclosing their energy consumption and car......y and carbon reporting practices of 14 of the largest firms in the industry. Verdantix put Alibaba, Amazon, Baidu, Expedia, Facebook, Netflix, Priceline, Salesforce, Tencent and Yahoo! under the microscope ... (Read Full Article)

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Study: Internet Firms Lagging On Green Strategy

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Sep 13 2011) Carbon Footprint , Emissions

... social networking firms, including Chinese companies Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent along with Akamai, Amazon, Apple, eBay, Expedia, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Priceline, Salesforce and Yahoo. Study: Internet Firms L... (Read Full Article)

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14 Cloud Services Players Scrutinized For Green Credentials

Explore zdnet.com (Sep 13 2011) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Cloud Computing

...ayers in cloud services including three Chinese companies (Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent) plus Akamai, Amazon, Apple, eBay, Expedia, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Priceline, Salesforce and Yahoo! The Verdantix report is... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook, Amazon Panned on Energy Management and Transparency

Explore environmentalleader.com (Sep 13 2011) Monitoring , Carbon Footprint , Emissions

...and social networking firms, including Chinese players Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent alongside Akamai, Amazon, Apple, eBay, Expedia, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Priceline, Salesforce and Yahoo!. Most of these need to ... (Read Full Article)

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Google keeps its Googlers going via green buildings

Explore siliconrepublic.com (Aug 19 2011) Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Solar

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As Networks Speed Up, Data Hits a Wall

Explore The New York Times (Aug 14 2011) Networking

...ffet are disappearing, just as a new crop of data-gobbling Internet services from Netflix, Spotify, Amazon, Apple and the like are hitting the market or catching on with wide audiences. These services use far m... (Read Full Article)

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In Deal With NBC, Amazon Seeks to Widen Its Video Streaming Service

Explore The New York Times (Jul 28 2011)

...stocking up on films and TV shows for the tablet computer that the company is developing. Much like Apple, Amazon wants to have an assortment of content available for owners of the forthcoming device. The NBC d... (Read Full Article)

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Zynga investing own money to build data centers

Explore VentureBeat (Jul 5 2011)

...ive users. For much of its four-year history, Zynga has relied on a third-party hosting company, Amazon Web Services, for the hardware infrastructure for its server-based games such as FarmVille on Faceb......wn data centers puts it into rare company. Only the biggest companies such as Facebook, Google, and Apple have invested in owning their own data center operations, when their user counts run into the hundr... (Read Full Article)

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Organizational Charts- Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Oracle, and Microsoft

Explore greenm3.com (Jul 5 2011)

...iginal post is here.  But, it was more fun to break up the sections. Organizational Charts- Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Oracle, and Microsoft Date Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at 1:48PM Here is a post a a friend sha... (Read Full Article)

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

Explore Forbes.com Blogs (Jun 24 2011) Cloud Computing

The storm continues around Apple’s new media service iCloud. Like many of you, I’ve been waiting for this service for a while. ...... the critical issue of interruptions and back-up recovery, as we recently saw with the high-profile Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage. Finally, enterprise users want visibility. Many customers I’ve spoken wi... (Read Full Article)

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Does it require a real crisis to produce real change? by peter judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jun 13 2011)

...is on coal-fired electricity, which won’t satisfy environmentalists such as Greenpeace.  Whatever Apple and Amazon do, power costs are increasing, and the energy mix is shifting, so there will be a move to generati... (Read Full Article)

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Is Apple tapping Amazon and Microsoft to boost iCloud?

Explore GigaOM (Jun 10 2011)

...the log could simply show that the image sent over iMessage was itself initially hosted on Azure or Amazon. A third source said Apple may be using Azure and AWS for content delivery network (CDN) purposes. That would mean that the... (Read Full Article)

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How Green Is Apple’s iCloud?

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jun 8 2011) Cloud Computing

Apple’s iCloud will boost adoption of cloud computing – but questions remain about the energy efficiency ......nt for a long while – now it is selling access to content which it stores in a massive data centre. Amazon and Google have similar offerings and argue that cloud offerings just give users a new place to sto... (Read Full Article)

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Apple Unveils ‘Cloud’ Music and Storage Service

Explore The New York Times (Jun 6 2011) Cloud Computing

... millions of iTunes users, virtually guaranteeing that its service will leapfrog the offerings from Amazon and Google. But music is only one part of Apple’s iCloud service. At the presentation at the Moscone Center West, Mr. Jobs laid out a vision in whi... (Read Full Article)

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