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Are IT Data Centers Emerging as a 'Killer App' for Green Power? Part 2
Explore Renewable Energy World (May 24 2012) Construction , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell , Solar , Wind , Cloud Computing
...to the data center annually. Other companies deploying solar at data centers include eBay (665 kW), Facebook (100 kW), i/o Data Centers (4.5 MW), McGraw-Hill Companies (14.1 MW), and Quality Technology Servic......e biogas, Microsoft is exploring siting data centers at landfills and wastewater treatment plants. AT&T and NTT America have also installed fuel cells at their data center facilities. Onsite Wind – Wind ...
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Comment Mentions: Apple Greenpeace Facebook
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In Oregon, Mission West Looks to the East
Explore Data Center Knowledge (May 15 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing
...sboro, a tech hub that grew up around a major Intel campus – and the small town of Prinevlle, where Facebook and Apple are building major data centers. Can that success extend to Ontario? Hardin, an industry ......site also provides carrier neutral connectivity from Qwest, Level 3, Verizon, Integra, Time Warner, AT&T and 360 Networks. The developers say the state of Oregon can offer 20 consecutive years of real est...
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Data Centers Scale Up Their Solar Power
Explore Data Center Knowledge (May 14 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell , Solar , Cloud Computing
...re foot solar array, which has been online since 2006 and currently powers office buildings housing AT&T and Comcast. + eBay – E-commerce giant eBay recently unveiled its largest solar installation to dat...... This solar installation will produce 924,013 kilowatt hours (kWh) of clean electricity annually. + Facebook – Facebook has installed a large array of solar panels at its new data center in Prineville, Oregon, which wil...
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Comment Mentions: Apple Cisco DuPont Fabros
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Bits Blog: Why Mobile Data Is Such a Cash Cow for Carriers
Explore Technology (Apr 26 2012) Construction
Verizon and AT&T reported their quarterly earnings in the last week, and they told nearly identical stories: Both ar...
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How Go Daddy Keeps 52 Million Domains Humming
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 17 2012) Construction
...mpt social media sites encourage users to encrypt their visits, a step already taken by Twitter and Facebook. “There’s a movement out there to require SSL,” said Thayer. “I think over time we’re likely to see......ates several of its own data centers, it also teams with data center partners. It started out in an AT&T data center, and has also worked with IO and Equinix to ...
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Comment Mentions: Data Center Knowledge Facebook Netherlands
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Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of Feb. 24th
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 25 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell , Solar , Cloud Computing
..., Oregon, and plans to build a major data center in the rural town, which is already home to a huge Facebook data center campus. A deed filed last week shows that Apple has purchased the land from Crook Count......ich was one of the first major data centers to rely almost entirely on outside air to cool servers. AT&T Picks North Carolina for $200 Million Data Center - North Carolina ...
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AT&T Picks North Carolina for $200 Million Data Center
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 22 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing
North Carolina continues to attract major data center projects to the state. Today AT&T announced that it will invest $200 million to build a major data center in Kings Mountain, N.C. in ......past four years, the area west of Charlotte has been chosen for new server farms for Google, Apple, Facebook, Walt Disney and Wipro/Infocrossing. The region has benefitted from aggressve tax incentives passed...
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Apple Plans 20MW of Solar Power for iDataCenter
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 20 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Fuel Cell , Solar
...ersions to step the power down within the data center. Similar designs have been used by Google and Facebook in their data centers. + Apple is using containment “pods” in which airflow is regulated using vari......nnually. The facility will be among the largest data center initiatives using fuel cells, Last year AT&T said it would install Bloom Energy fuel cells at 11 sites in California to generate 7.5 ...
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Large Data Center Coming to India, as Regional Demand Booms
Explore pcworld.com (Feb 7 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing
...on Twitter at @Johnribeiro. John's e-mail address is john_ribeiro@idg.com Prepare Your Business for Facebook Mobile Ads Facebook Mobile ads are rumored to arrive in March. Here are five things I expect Facebook do with them, and how you can optimize your site in advance. How Social Is Your Culture? Building a......e-style feature, websites will be able to alert users when new content arrives. Why I Switched ...
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Comment Mentions: Gartner Hewlett Packard Facebook
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The cloud shouldn’t be an over the top service
Explore GigaOM (Dec 6 2011) Cloud Computing , Networking
... for applications that will require low latency, argues Weinman. Weinman, who moved over to HP from AT&T last year, is a deep thinker on the economics of cloud computing. He also argues that bandwidth wil...... the intelligent network? Yes, but it takes skill and dedication that places such as Google, Yahoo, Facebook and other webscale operators have, and other companies just don’t seem to want to bother with ...
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10 Things To Be Thankful For In Greentech This Year
Explore GigaOM (Nov 21 2011) Solar
...er. While last year Google was the main proponent of next-gen energy tech and data centers, in 2011 Facebook and Apple also joined the fray in paying attention to clean power and energy efficiency. Facebook’s open compute project pays mind to energy efficiency for data center cooling and low power servers......uple days. The company is led by iPod and iPhone designer Tony Fadell. At the same both Verizon ...
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Bits Blog: A Telecom Pushes Its Cloud Strategy
Explore Technology (Nov 15 2011) Cloud Computing
...d they are — Microsoft, I.B.M., EMC’s VMware and Oracle. But the telecommunications companies? Yes, AT&T and Verizon are big buyers and users of data center technology, with deep skills. Well, so are bank...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Facebook Rackspace
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So Many Servers, So Little Time! Fusion-Io Packs Virtualization in With Latest Product
Explore The New York Times (Aug 30 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers
...lution that ties into the company’s focus on data center efficiency.
More News From VentureBeat
AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon to Spend $100M on Isis Mobile Payment Network
Pirate Bay Founders Launch BayFil......s iPad Competitor Could Sell Up to 5M Units in 2011
Missouri Teachers Win Injuction, Allowed to Be Facebook Friends With Students
ioCache integrates flash memory and caching, or saving data in the backgroun...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Facebook At&T
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don't assume the cloud is green - read the fine print, by Peter Judge
Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Aug 8 2011)
Reports on cloud computing are pretty common these days, but one sponsored by AT&T got a fair amount of interest. It was also sponsored by the Carbon Disclosure Project, and produced......cused on doing things cheaply, so it’s is very likely that you will find your cloud provider - like Facebook - is using fossil power.
Reports like this can make it sound too easy. If you don’t ask ...
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Comment Mentions: Greenpeace Facebook Peter Judge
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Meet the Cloud Innovators at Structure 2011
Explore GigaOM (May 24 2011) Cloud Computing
...n 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 NetApp * Teresa Lunt of PARC * Jason Hoffman of Joyent * Marten Mickos of Eucalyptus...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Cisco Facebook
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For Microsoft, Skype Opens Vast New Market in Telecom
Explore The New York Times (May 10 2011)
...s and technology companies — a focus of energy, investment and anxiety for corporations including AT&T;, Verizon, Apple, Google and Facebook. Microsoft is betting that Skype can help change its fortunes. Skype is a leader in Internet voice ...
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Comment Mentions: Apple The New York Times Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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GE Completes Lineage Power Deal
Explore peHUB (Mar 2 2011) Cloud Computing
...uced total cost of ownership. Our customers include leading U.S. telecom service providers, such as AT&T, Verizon Wireless and Verizon, and leading global OEMs, such as Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Ericsson, He......inv... I’ve been thinking for a while now that there will not be one social graph to rule them all (Facebook) but that we will eventually have a multitude of web/mobile services in our lives, each ...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Google Cisco
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The Top 250 Players in the Cloud Computing Ecosystem
Explore .NET DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL (Jun 18 2010) Power and Cooling , Geothermal , Cloud Computing , Grid Computing
...s." Targeted at rapid development, in particular web applications that need to scale rapidly (think Facebook applications etc.), Aptana cloud plugs into the Aptana IDE. Arjuna - Describing its Agility offerin......aS companies, cloud storage providers, internal enterprise cloud users and key government entities. AT&T - AT&T broke into the cloud business in August 2008 with the global launch of what it calls AT&T Synaptic Hosting - described as "a ...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Iceland Europe
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U.S. Falls From Internet Elite, Aims to Catch Iceland, Hungary
Explore BusinessWeek (Jun 2 2010) Networking
...ly” require line- sharing, according to a report Benkler compiled for the FCC. ‘Resounding Success’ AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. and Qwest Communications International Inc., the three lar......xpanded globally using the U.S. Internet as a base, Powell said. “Luxembourg doesn’t have Google or Facebook or Microsoft,” he said. --Editors: Steve Geimann, Joe Winski To contact the reporters on this stor...
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The Top 250 Players in Cloud Computing
Explore AJAX & RIA Journal (May 23 2010) Power and Cooling , Geothermal , Cloud Computing , Grid Computing
...s." Targeted at rapid development, in particular web applications that need to scale rapidly (think Facebook applications etc.), Aptana cloud plugs into the Aptana IDE. Arjuna - Describing its Agility offerin......aS companies, cloud storage providers, internal enterprise cloud users and key government entities. AT&T - AT&T broke into the cloud business in August 2008 with the global launch of what it calls AT&T Synaptic Hosting - described as "a ...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Iceland Europe
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