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Articles mentioning both At&T and Microsoft Corp
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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
...dependent data centers powered by fuel cells directly supplied with biogas. To provide the 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
...mpany has been a major player in the real estate scene in Silicon Valley, developing properties for Microsoft, Apple, Equinix and Nvidia, among others. While western Oregon has been a hotbed of data center act......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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iDataCenter Will Use Landfill-Powered Bloom Boxes
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 30 2012) Construction , Emissions , Fuel Cell
...o the natural gas pipeline. Apple isn’t the only large data center operator pursuing this strategy. Microsoft is planning to build data plants where modular data centers will be powered by renewable energy, in......in California, stemming partly from concerns about future energy pricing in the state. In 2011 both AT&T and NTT announced purchases of Bloom units to support their data centers in California. Last month ...
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Comment Mentions: Apple Federal Energy Regulatory Commission NTT
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Apple is (finally) confirmed as Bloom Energy's customer
Explore GigaOM (Apr 30 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Emissions , Fuel Cell , Solar
...d by decomposing organic waste). An increasing number of Internet companies, like Apple, Google and Microsoft, are experimenting with turning to biogas as an emerging source to power part of their data centers......pecifically focused on providing reliable power for data centers. Image courtesy of Bloom Energy at AT&T campus. Related research and analysis from GigaOM Pro: Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial...
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Comment Mentions: Apple Greenpeace Google
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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
...s, surpassing a 14 megawatt array being built to support the McGraw-Hill data center in New Jersey. Microsoft Expands Dublin Cloud Computing Hub – Microsoft will add 13.2 megawatts of capacity to its data center in Dublin, Ireland, which powers its online ......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 ...
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Nicira Targets the Virtual Data Center Network
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 6 2012) Cloud Computing , Networking
...ware from any vendor and is hypervisor agnostic, working with VMware ESX, Linux/KVM, Xen Server and Microsoft’s HyperV. * Nicira Targets the Virtual Data Center Network * Nicira Targets the Virtual Data Center...... across many cities or countries. That’s one reason that Nicira made its debut with users including AT&T, eBay, Fidelity Investments, NTT and Rackspace. “Nicira allows us to repurpose network infrastructu...
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A New Net
Explore Technology Review (Feb 6 2012) Cloud Computing , Networking
...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......ng itself more quickly than other startups. In addition to NTT and Rackspace, its customers include AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, Fidelity Investments, and eBay. And in Casado, Nicira has a figure widely recogn...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Forrester Research Google
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Software in Data Centers is Eating the World
Explore greenm3.com (Aug 20 2011)
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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......from these legacy services declined by more than 11%. Meanwhile, the two biggest telecom companies, AT&T and Verizon, have survived by transforming themselves into software companies, partnering with Appl...
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Comment Mentions: Apple Google Hewlett Packard
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Report: Level 3, Limelight May Combine CDNs
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 16 2011)
... which could include an acquisition. Dan provides an update today.
“While I’ve heard that both AT&T and Microsoft have passed at acquiring Limelight, the bigger news I have confirmed is that Level 3 and Limelight ...
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Comment Mentions: At&T Microsoft Corp
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i/o’s Modular Data Centers Roll into New Jersey
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 2 2011) Construction , Cloud Computing
...rn reduces the up-front capital investment to bring a facility online. An early example of this was Microsoft’s lightweight “tractor shed” design for its modular data center in Quincy, Washington, which featur......roviding fiber access to providers including AboveNet, Level 3, Verizon and Optimum Lightpath, with AT&T being added shortly. The fiber and power cabling is distributed via an overhead “superhighway” of l...
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Comment Mentions: The New York Times Data Center Knowledge Edison
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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......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 more ...
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Cloud computing could lead to billions in energy savings
Explore Reuters.com (Jul 22 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers
Cloud computing could lead to billions in energy savingsReutersThere's a reason AT&T and Microsoft are looking into the energy efficiency of cloud computing: they sell cloud computing services. Othe... (Read Full Article)
Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Pike Research At&T
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Cloud computing could lead to billions in energy savings
Explore GigaOM (Jul 21 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers
... resources. However, it’s always good to take these studies with a grain of salt. There’s a reason AT&T and Microsoft are looking into the energy efficiency of cloud computing: they sell cloud computing services. Othe...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Pike Research At&T
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Sabey Plans Huge Data Center Campus in Ashburn
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jun 22 2011) Cloud Computing
...r data center hub for Digital Realty Trust, Equinix, DuPont Fabros Technology, Verizon Business and AT&T. The activity in Ashburn is driven by strong demand, which continues to outpace the supply of new s......mplex in Quincy, Wash. that will be called Intergate.Quincy. Sabey’s current tenants include Microsoft Corporation, JP Morgan Chase, Savvis, Internap, VMware and T-Mobile.
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Comment Mentions: Verizon Business Digital Realty DuPont Fabros Technology
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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 and video c...
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Comment Mentions: Apple The New York Times Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Are Telcos ready for Cloud computing?
Explore greenm3.com (Jan 6 2011) Cloud Computing
CNET news has a post on on Cloud Computing listing who the players will be Google, Microsoft, Salesforce.com, VMware, Amazon Web Services, IBM, HP, Hosting companies and Telcos.
Telecommuni......try segment that may surprise us with respect to one-stop cloud services would be companies such as AT&T, Verizon Communications, Comcast, and BT--the major telecommunications providers. They own the conn...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Google IBM
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The Cloud's Green Advantage
Explore Forbes.com (Nov 15 2010) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Cloud Computing , Servers
...iling the study and its results can be found here. Rob Bernard is chief environmental strategist at Microsoft. See Also: Inside AT&T's Windows Phone 7 Launch Connecting With Microsoft's Kinect In Pictures: 12 Cool Things About Microsoft's Kinect
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Comment Mentions: Europe At&T Microsoft Corp
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Apps.gov to Begin Offering IaaS Cloud Services
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Oct 22 2010) Cloud Computing
...rded contracts by the GSA to provide IaaS services: + Apptis, partnering with Amazon Web Services + AT&T + Insight Public Sector partnered with Microsoft + Savvis Federal Systems + Verizon Federal Inc. + Autonomic Resources partnered with Carpathia Host...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Vivek Kundra General Services Administration
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Is Apple About to Unleash the iDataCenter?
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Sep 1 2010) Cloud Computing
...ing chilled water (meaning Apple won’t be going “chiller-less” to save energy, as Google and Microsoft have done). Apple’s data center operations are overseen by Olivier Sanche, who previously directed......er Sanche, who previously directed data center construction projects for eBay, TelecityGroup and AT&T.
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The Technology Inside Apple’s New iDataCenter
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jul 21 2010) Cloud Computing
...ing chilled water (meaning Apple won’t be going “chiller-less” to save energy, as Google and Microsoft have done). Apple’s data center operations are overseen by Olivier Sanche, who previously directed......er Sanche, who previously directed data center construction projects for eBay, TelecityGroup and AT&T.
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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
...r technology to any other supported hypervisor." One example: Abiquo 1.5 can convert from VMware to Microsoft Hyper-V, through a single drag-and-drop operation. Adaptive Computing - Manager of some of the worl......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 ...
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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......ally 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 story: Todd Shiel...
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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
...r technology to any other supported hypervisor." One example: Abiquo 1.5 can convert from VMware to Microsoft Hyper-V, through a single drag-and-drop operation. Adaptivity - Adaptivity "provides integrated sol......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 next-generation ...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Iceland Europe
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company's slowing join cloud computing
Explore The New York Times (Apr 19 2010)
...sed in ways larded with jargon, is actually rather simple. Cloud providers, large ones like Amazon, Microsoft, Google and AT&T;, and smaller ones like Rackspace and Terremark, aim to convince other companies to give up buildin...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Google Rackspace
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Why Antivirus Vendors Could Become Kings of Green Computing
Explore Greentech Media (Jan 27 2010) Cloud Computing
...nd generally it's a positive association. They don't engender the sort of conflicting emotions that Microsoft or Google can. During a virus outbreak, consumers are glad they own the software.
More important......ng. Not many people think of them in this light yet. Then again, two years ago few people looked at AT&T, Verizon and Comcast as smart grid providers. Now all of the broadband players are ...
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Comment Mentions: Cisco At&T Microsoft Corp
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