Iceland hopes to export energy via datacentres

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... I think WinRT is fantastic. I just wish it was an option for people that didn't want to go through Microsoft's App Store with its attendant... Nine people? £30m? Who's back pocket is that lot going in? And IF......inting out your flaws, that would surely... I think he's referring specifically to Android apps, as Apple do regulate their App Store, but Google seem to let ... (Read Full Article)

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Nebraska Woos Huge ‘Project Edge’ Data Center

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 6 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...nd the the fact that three of the huge companies best known for secretive site selections – Google, Microsoft and Yahoo – already operate major data centers in the region. Google and Microsoft each have facilities in Iowa, while Yahoo has its data center in La Vista. These companies have fou...... sense. What companies are on the cusp of this type of network growth? One possible candidate is Apple, especially given its ... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook and Greenpeace Make Peace on Renewable Energy

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Dec 15 2011) Fossil Fuel , Cloud Computing

...'s commitment to renewable energy raises the bar for other IT and cloud computing companies such as Apple, IBM, Microsoft, and Twitter," Casey Harrell, senior IT analyst for Greenpeace International said in a statement. '... (Read Full Article)

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Greenpeace, Facebook Announce Truce

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Dec 15 2011) Fossil Fuel , Cloud Computing

...ommitment to renewable energy raises the bar for other IT and cloud computing (8) companies such as Apple, IBM, Microsoft, and Twitter,” said Casey Harrell, Senior IT Analyst for Greenpeace International. ”The Faceboo... (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 s......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 the ... (Read Full Article)

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Apple’s iCloud Will Attract A Host Of New Developers

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Nov 9 2011) Cloud Computing

...d-party mobile services. J. Gerry Purdy explores whether the iCloud will have the same effect When Apple launched its iPhone 4S and the new iOS 5 on 4 October, the company also detailed its effort to brin...... There will be a lot of activity in this area during the next year. You can be sure that Google and Microsoft are going down the same path and will provide developers with ... (Read Full Article)

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Global server farms around the world

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

...f-price power offered by the local power utilities from the five dams on the nearby Columbia River, Microsoft’s two centres alone hold hundreds of thousands of servers. Maiden, North Carolina (Apple) Apple is reportedly spending upwards of $1bn on Project Dolphin, which at 500,000 square feet will be one... (Read Full Article)

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Apple Hires Away Yahoo Data Center Chief

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Oct 23 2011) Cloud Computing

...would seem to validate the impression that there is a growing appetite for data center expertise at Apple, a company better known for its consumer electronics activity. The company reportedly hired away Microsoft data center head Kevin Timmons in April of this year, though last week, Data Center Knowledge repor... (Read Full Article)

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Apple hires Yahoo’s data center chief

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...arolina data center, it has been hiring executives from many big name data center operators such as Microsoft’s Kevin Timmons. This latest hire just reaffirms Apple’s commitment to the cloud and getting to webscale. (Read Full Article)

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Kevin Timmons Joins CyrusOne as CTO

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Oct 17 2011) Hydro

...new chief technology officer (CTO), the company said today. Timmons has led data center teams at Microsoft and Yahoo, focusing on building efficient Internet-scale data centers on a budget. He left Microsoft earlier this year, reportedly to take a position at Apple. Today’s announcement made no mention of Timmons and Apple, which rarely discusses its data center operations. CyrusOne in Expansion Mode But there’s ... (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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14 Cloud Services Players Scrutinized For Green Credentials

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

...ulders above its rivals for its carbon reporting standards. With carbon-conscious customers such as Apple, HP, IBM, Puma, Microsoft, SAP, and Siemens, Akamai appreciates the need to be on top of its own footprint.” Another positive... (Read Full Article)

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Six ways to cool your data centre efficiently and cheaply

Explore features.techworld.com (Sep 5 2011) Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Servers

...orative cooling," says Rich Fichera, VP and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research. Companies like Apple, Google and Microsoft, along with hosting companies, have been sussing out sites that meet affordable power and cooling c... (Read Full Article)

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As HP Retreats, What Next for the Mobile Market?

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 23 2011)

...ess model for its webOS platform needs to be seen, although currently it seems unlikely. Apart from Apple and Google, it seems that Microsoft has a good position for becoming the third large player in the ecosystem, especially after its deal... (Read Full Article)

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Six energy-efficient data center practices How vendors and industry groups are confronting the challenge of data center power and cooling in new and unusual ways.

Explore ITworld (Aug 23 2011)

...ons Group, Forrester Research. [ See also: Facebook shares its data-center secrets ] Companies like Apple, Google and Microsoft, along with data center hosting companies, have been sussing out sites that meet affordable power a... (Read Full Article)

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Software in Data Centers is Eating the World

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...s. Today's fastest growing telecom company is Skype, a software company that was just bought by Microsoft for $8.5 billion. CenturyLink, the third largest telecom company in the U.S., with a $20 billion ma......AT&T and Verizon, have survived by transforming themselves into software companies, partnering with Apple and other smartphone makers. All of this software goes into data centers, and to grow faster t... (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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Google buys Motorola Mobility, can you imagine the future integration of Sw, Hw, and data centers?

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...patent portfolio, which will enable us to better protect Android from anti-competitive threats from Microsoft, Apple and other companies. I knew I would see Google people when I went to GigaOm Mobilize.  Glad I a... (Read Full Article)

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

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...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. T......tal said that he believed CBS was in talks with other online distributors for similar deals, citing Microsoft, Facebook and Google, which owns YouTube, as potential partners. Given that multiple online distrib... (Read Full Article)

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Stream Data Centers Sells San Antonio Project

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jul 26 2011) Cloud Computing

...d on 33 acres in Westover Hills, a suburb of San Antonio that is also home to major data center for Microsoft and several other enterprise companies. The buyer conducted a national search and considered multip...... space for large, enterprise data center users for more than 12 years, with a client list including Apple, AT&T, The Home Depot, Nokia and others. During that time Stream has acquired or developed ... (Read Full Article)

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Who will be the new Carbon Data Center target for Greenpeace?

Explore greenm3.com (Jul 8 2011) Emissions , Cloud Computing

...ho the next Greenpeace data center target is. I wrote two years ago, thinking the targets where Apple, Google, or Microsoft, but Facebook surprised us all as the data center target for Greenpeace. My guess is it is going... (Read Full Article)

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

Explore greenm3.com (Jul 5 2011)

...ost 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 shared on some tech companies organi... (Read Full Article)

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Is Apple tapping Amazon and Microsoft to boost iCloud?

Explore GigaOM (Jun 10 2011)

... placed CDN servers run by Azure and Amazon’s CloudFront to help speed up delivery. In other words, Apple could be leveraging cloud services from Amazon and Microsoft for short-term iCloud caching to boost speed and reliability — not because its own servers are inca... (Read Full Article)

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Data Grows, and So Do Storage Sites

Explore The New York Times (Jun 5 2011) Storage

...loud with its Google Docs feature in 2005. And online backup or storage services like MobileMe from Apple, Windows Live SkyDrive from Microsoft, Mozy from EMC and SugarSync are now familiar. What’s changed is that more people have discovered a... (Read Full Article)

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