Bloom Energy Brings on Big Customers

Explore energyandcapital.com (May 2 2012) Construction , Emissions , Fuel Cell , Servers

...erican fuel cell companies, supplying alternative energy system units to major corporations such as Google, Apple, eBay, Walmart, Caltech, AT&T, and its newest customers: The Coca-Cola Company and NASA. The......m consisting of five natural gas hydrogen fuel cells at its production facility in American Canyon, CA. Bloom Energy will be supplying the facility's solid oxide fuel cells. These units use natural gas-... (Read Full Article)

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10 questions to ask your next data center

Explore edgeblog (Jan 23 2012) Cloud Computing

...cture represents a critical asset for your company, and unless you are an uber-dot com company like Google or Facebook (which spread their gear around the country in tens of locations), you probably only ha...... Dougherty is currently the VP of Information Technology for RagingWire Data Centers in Sacramento, CA. In his spare time, he trains sharks for a variety of IT jobs, including data center security. The ... (Read Full Article)

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How To Build A Modern Data Center

Explore InformationWeek (Apr 27 2011) Solar , Cloud Computing

Borrowing ideas from Google, Facebook, and Microsoft, Vantage is building three wholesale data centers in Santa Clara that focu......erheating. At Cloud Connect 2011 in Silicon Valley, TechWeb's David Berlind gets a demonstration of CA's recently acquired 3Tera AppLogic graphical private cloud deployment tool. Facebook built its most... (Read Full Article)

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Sensing the Future of Greener Data Centers

Explore Scientific Computing (Jan 10 2011) Monitoring , Carbon Footprint , Servers

...erkeley Lab. NERSC is piloting a system of wireless sensors and software from SynapSense of Folsom, CA. The center is using this system to help staff make efficiency improvements and alert operators to ......nitoring system a good investment. Googling efficiency Of course, NERSC is not alone. For instance, Google also looks for ways to cut the costs of running its data centers. “Reducing the environmental footp... (Read Full Article)

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Google adds 20 year 114 MW Renewable Energy Purchase to its Green Data Center strategy, is electricity hedging a future for data centers?

Explore greenm3.com (Jul 20 2010) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Wind

...nters. Second, we seek to power our facilities with renewable energy, like we did in Mountain View, CA with one of the largest corporate solar installations. Finally, we purchase carbon offsets for the ......ad more about how the deal is structured), but this power is enough to supply several data centers. Google's Urs Hoelzle posts on Google's Official Blog their Google Energy LLC renewable energy purchase. 7/20 ... (Read Full Article)

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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

...clustered applications in minutes from anywhere in the world." The company was recently acquired by CA. 10Gen - Co-founded by Dwight Merriman, who also co-founded DoubleClick and served as its CTO for t......tana Cloud, which it says "is architected to complement Cloud infrastructure providers like Amazon, Google, Joyent and others." Targeted at rapid development, in particular web applications that need to sca... (Read Full Article)

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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

...clustered applications in minutes from anywhere in the world." The company was recently acquired by CA. 10Gen - Co-founded by Dwight Merriman, who also co-founded DoubleClick and served as its CTO for t......tana Cloud, which it says "is architected to complement Cloud infrastructure providers like Amazon, Google, Joyent and others." Targeted at rapid development, in particular web applications that need to sca... (Read Full Article)

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5 Questions Facing Carbon Software Players

Explore Earth2Tech (Apr 28 2010) Monitoring , Carbon Footprint , Emissions

...ompete with — or integrate with — established corporate enterprise software platforms? SAP, SAS and CA are among the big enterprise software companies that have rolled out carbon management offerings ......r target is to have all the application vendors use AMEE.” AMEE’s customers include Morgan Stanley, Google, Sun Microsystems and the UK Government’s Department of Energy and Climate Change. Another customer... (Read Full Article)

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The Ash Economy How the volcano eruption exposed the vulnerability of the global supply chain.

Explore The Big Money (Apr 26 2010)

...De Beer, Cisco's (CSCO) senior vice president of emerging technologies, whose flight from San Jose, Ca., to Oslo had been canceled, and Tandberg CEO Frederik Halvorsen held a virtual press conference us......ir Manhattan headquarters, workers can show up, flip a few switches, and start trading derivatives. Google (GOOG) says that "every action you take in Gmail [and other programs] is simultaneously replicated ... (Read Full Article)

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Equinix CTO 10 year perspective, data center changes in highly connected Internet services

Explore greenm3.com (Apr 15 2010) Cloud Computing

...ompany Service Global Demand From Financial Services Firms and Cloud Service Providers FOSTER CITY, CA and LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – March 30, 2010 – Equinix, Inc. (NASDAQ: EQIX), a provider of global da......Equinix is on the right path to Green (low carbon) Data Centers. The mass media industry will cover Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple data centers.  But, here is a simple way to understand the future o... (Read Full Article)

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First Look At Amazon's Oregon Data Center

Explore InformationWeek (Sep 14 2009) Construction

... construction is a capital-intensive undertaking, and Amazon is not alone in reassessing its plans. Google, Microsoft, and Terremark have all delayed or postponed data center projects in the past 12 months,......nd money by leaving social media marketing to the pros. Stay connected and informed by visiting the CA Solutions Center Community! Become a member today for instant access to free InformationWeek resear... (Read Full Article)

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