Schedule of 2012 trade shows and conferences

Explore TechRepublic (Jan 17 2012)

Comment Mentions:   Google   Cisco   Microsoft Corp

Bits Blog: The Coming War for the Social Workplace

Explore Technology (Dec 19 2011) Cloud Computing

...globally make up a $3.5 trillion annual business, are also jumping on the trend to social business. Cisco Systems, usually a maker of networking hardware and software, is investing heavily in collaborative tools, ......uch communications have a distinctly “old company” feel. Among younger tech giants, both VMware and Google sell new kinds of software for collaboration on the fly. This month, SAP said it would pay $3.4 bil... (Read Full Article)

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The cloud shouldn’t be an over the top service

Explore GigaOM (Dec 6 2011) Cloud Computing , Networking

...public Internet and the cloud shouldn’t mix, according to a paper out today from Joe Weinman of HP. Cisco seems to agree, if Tuesday’s announcement of its CloudVerse suite of products is any indication. A ......ore protocols to deliver a variety of services over the web. Take, for example, an application like Google +. There are real-time streaming elements, a video conferencing set up and document sharing. Each d... (Read Full Article)

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The Green Grid: modularity is sign of maturity

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Nov 15 2011) Construction , Cloud Computing

... deployment.” Nearly all major IT vendors sell modular data centers. They include HP, IBM, Dell and Cisco, among others. So do major infrastructure vendors, such as Emerson and PDI. There are also large co......iple major Internet companies and providers of Cloud-based services. This group includes Microsoft, Google and Amazon. Download The Green Grid’s whitepaper on modular data centers here. (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   Cisco

For science, big data is the microscope of the 21st century

Explore GigaOM (Nov 8 2011) Networking

...twork to shuttle data from the campus to other large computing centers at national labs and even at Google. The network will be capable of transferring an amount of data equivalent to 80 million file cabine......d of the project, Dr. Alex Szalay, detailed the plans, which include gear from networking gear from Cisco, Arista and Solarflare, Nvidia GPUs; and 66,000 x86 cores. That’s on top of the ... (Read Full Article)

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Juniper Touts New Kit To Meet Mobile Challenge

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Oct 3 2011) Networking

...thernet switches, a new wireless LAN controller and new mobile security software for Apple iOS- and Google Android-based devices – are being offered under the vendor’s “Simply Connected” networking umbrella......tives also want to use their iPads and smartphones, Dasgupta said. Other network vendors, including Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard, also are working to provide enterprises with the tools needed to address the B... (Read Full Article)

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Green Photonics for Energy Efficient Data Centers

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Sep 20 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...eanwhile, the demand on data centers continues to grow at an amazing pace. In June of this year, Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) forecasted the annual IP traffic to reach the zettabyte threshold by ......4 exabytes. Overall, global IP traffic will increase four times in the next five years. Sites like Google, YouTube, Facebook and Netflix are driving the growth. In any case, data centers of the future wil... (Read Full Article)

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Hacking in Netherlands Points to Weak Spot in Web Security

Explore The New York Times (Sep 12 2011)

...alum MacLeod, the director in Europe for Venafi, a U.S. company whose software helps companies like Cisco manage the class of digital files called security certificates targeted by the hacker in the Nether......r of a range of Web addresses, not just of Dutch government sites but also of global companies like Google and Yahoo. Remotely, apparently from a computer address in Russia, he compelled DigiNotar to ge... (Read Full Article)

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Data Center Energy Efficiency Needs To Include Software And Networking, Expert Says

Explore Network Computing (Aug 22 2011) Cloud Computing , Networking , Servers

...nd cloud computing held last week near San Francisco. The initiative was co-founded by Intel and Google, and includes tech industry giants such as Microsoft, VMware and Cisco Systems, as well as Dell and Samsung, which were co-sponsors of the conference. The group's goal is to redu......n’t had as much focus historically," she says, adding that a group within the initiative, including Cisco and Juniper Networks, is ... (Read Full Article)

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OpenFlow in the Real World: Carriers, Clouds and More

Explore The New York Times (Aug 15 2011) Networking

... energy consumed. I’d love to see companies build out models and methods for helping companies like Google or Facebook send low-priority compute jobs to places where they could be completed using renewable ......dd functionality to their networks that today they get from several independent gear providers from Cisco and Juniper to Sandvine and Acme Packet, for example. “On the service provider side, we’ve seen a l... (Read Full Article)

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Cisco: We’re All You Need for Cloud Gear

Explore The New York Times (Jul 13 2011) Cloud Computing

... Spotify US Will Launch Thursday * UltraViolet Is Ready. Now Hollywood Needs to Make It Work. * Hey Google — Being Social Is Not an Engineering Problem But is Cisco really cut out to contend from the data center up through cloud services? In the data center, at le... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   Cisco   Fibre Channel

Intel Beware: Tilera Unveils Processors to Power Cloud Data Centers

Explore The New York Times (Jun 21 2011) Cloud Computing

...servers. That market is growing 20 percent a year. The customers for these kinds of servers include Google, Facebook, Zynga and Groupon. The Tile-Gx 3000 chips, which aren’t arriving in the market until the......fourth-generation processor family. Investors in the new round included Artis Capital, West Summit, Cisco, and Samsung. Existing investors Walden International, Bessemer Venture Partners and Columbia C... (Read Full Article)

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A Roadmap to Green IT

Explore Greentech Media (Apr 13 2011) Servers

...l location. It claims it can save large businesses $30 to $60 a year per PC. We’ve been waiting for Cisco or Microsoft to buy them. Servers and processors. SeaMicro has created a server composed of 512 or ......herent technological issues with flash. (PS: that picture, which I took while at CNET, is the first Google storage device ever.) The picture, though, is changing. Sandforce has come up with ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   Norway   General Electric

More Green than you can shake a stick at by Doug Moheny

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Apr 11 2011)

...re are a few interesting  sound bites being posted on "What green thinkers think about green," with Google's Green Energy Czar Bill Weihl bragging that his company has cut data center energy use by 50 perce......Day celebrations.  Bill Weihl will once again be appearing, along with representatives from Yahoo!, Cisco, Microsoft, and a bunch of VC and energy firms.  Om Malik will be moderating a discussion of greene... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Greenpeace   Google   Yahoo

Tech Titans Back OpenFlow Networking Standard

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 22 2011) Networking

..., a move they say will accelerate innovation and make it easier to manage their far-flung networks. Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Yahoo have teamed with telecom giants Verizon and Deutsche Telekom to... T......t. Look beyond the six founders, and the membership reads like a Who’s Who of the networking world: Cisco, Brocade, Juniper Networks, HP, Broadcom, Ciena, Riverbed Technology, Force10, Citrix, Dell, Ericss... (Read Full Article)

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GE Completes Lineage Power Deal

Explore peHUB (Mar 2 2011) Cloud Computing

...and 4G/LTE wireless networks that enable the Amazon(R) Kindle(TM), Apple(R) iPhone(R) and iPad(TM), Google(R) Android(TM) smart phones and other mobile devices. We also are bringing to GE exciting new solut......iders, such as AT&T, Verizon Wireless and Verizon, and leading global OEMs, such as Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Ericsson, Hewlett Packard, Huawei, Juniper Networks and Oracle. More information about Lineage har... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   Cisco

IBM's Social Software: Unfriending Cisco, Google...

Explore Forbes.com Blogs (Jan 30 2011)

...lude collaboration software for smartphones and tablets, including iPads and iPhones, devices using Google’s Android, RIM’s Blackberry, and several Nokia devices. IBM’s Social Software: Unfriending Cisco, Google… Jan. 30 2011 - 11:59 pm | 0 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments By QUENTIN HARDY Image represen... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Nokia   Google   Cisco

Apache Unveils New Open Source Database Cassandra v07

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Jan 11 2011) Cloud Computing

...loyed at organizations with active data sets and large server clusters, Apache Cassandra is used by Cisco, Cloudkick, Digg, Facebook, Rackspace, and Twitter. According to the press release, the largest Cas......ebook, bringing together the distributed systems technologies from Dynamo and the data model from Google's BigTable. Recently Google launched a new module for the Apache Web server desighed to instantly deploy multiple optimizations... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   Cisco   Facebook

JouleX Updates Software For Emerging ECEM Market

Explore Network Computing (Jan 11 2011) Monitoring , Servers

...of day and other factors. JEM 2.5 also integrates with leading data center management tools such as Cisco Systems' EnergyWise, Intel's Data Center Manager and VMWare's vCenter. Energy management software maker Jou......er-based version that would deliver the application to a smart phone powered by RIM's BlackBerry or Google's Android mobile operating systems (as long as the browsers support the HTML 5 standard for Web ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Forrester Research   Intel   Google

Cloud Careers: New Titles and Tasks Emerge

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Dec 13 2010) Cloud Computing

... a c-level position for cloud computing, or CTO of the cloud. Lew Tucker, CTO of Cloud Computing at Cisco says his job is to make sure that the disruption of clouds happens in a very positive way and that ......ps enterprises impelement, build and manage mission critical cloud solutions using salesforce.com, Google and Amazon. (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Gartner   Google

Google to open $1billion data center in India?

Explore India news, World news (Nov 1 2010)

Google Incis considering setting up a massive data centre in India, two sources familiar with the developm......ndia, two sources familiar with the development said. The internet search major is in talks with Cisco Systems, the US-based network equipment giant, for connectivity technologies for the data centre, one perso... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Google   Cisco

The green imperative

Explore Computerworld (Sep 27 2010) Servers

...imate Savers Computing Initiative (CSCI), a collaborative effort launched in mid-2007 and backed by Cisco, CSC, Dell, Emerson Network Power, Google, HP, Intel, Juniper, Microsoft and others. CSCI set out the ambitious goal of reducing CO2 emission... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Google   Cisco

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

...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......ter-company collaboration services, and that is why we got WebEx and now PostPath,” Charles Carmel, Cisco's vice president of corporate development, told Red Herring in August 2008. Citrix - Citrix Cloud C... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Iceland   Europe

How Much Integration Is Too Much in the Cloud?

Explore GigaOM (May 30 2010)

...future of IT. After all, Oracle’s purchase of Sun Microsystems was all about integration and HP and Cisco appear locked in a death match over which one of them is best equipped to handle your server, stora...... Pending Obsolesence of Handset Penetration Rates + Lessons in Smart Grid Privacy from Facebook and Google + Google TV: Overview and Strategic Analysis See All Articles » * Events + + + + + om: the whole digg vs re... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   Google   Oracle