A more sustainable cloud through transparency & change

Explore GigaOM (12 hours, 49 min ago) Construction , Power and Cooling , Fuel Cell , Solar

...el cell device on site in Maiden, NC. The industry is starting to sit up and listen. A company like Google, Amazon, Facebook or Apple has enormous clout in the areas they operate. These tech giants are big ......son, a seasoned technology Executive with over 15 years international sales experience, worked with Cisco Systems, Business Objects (a SAP company) and NetSuite, in charge of both EMEA and NA territories. Prior ... (Read Full Article)

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Are IT Data Centers Emerging as a 'Killer App' for Green Power? Part 1

Explore Renewable Energy World (May 18 2012) Construction , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Wind , Cloud Computing , Servers

...gy from the wind farms are provided to the local electric grid and sold to the local utility, while Google retains the renewable energy certificates (RECs) and applies them to energy used at their data cent......ively offsetting emissions from data center electricity use. Leading IT companies Intel, Microsoft, Cisco, and Dell are among the top purchasers of RECs. In fact, Intel is top green power purchaser in the ... (Read Full Article)

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Open Compute builds a business model for the next era of the web

Explore GigaOM (May 4 2012) Servers

...Cutting costs in IT has huge effects on the bottom line. For example, Facebook spent 16 percent and Google both spent about 9 percent of its revenue on infrastructure and capital expenditures in 2011.For de...... obvious question is how fast this transition will happen. If this is a rapid shift, companies like Cisco, HP or IBM risk having significant portions of their businesses erode seemingly overnight. If the t... (Read Full Article)

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Google Tops Greenpeace's Cool IT Rankings

Explore EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet (Feb 8 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Fuel Cell , Wind

...he greenest tech company by Greenpeace in its latest edition of its Cool IT Leaderboard. This time, Google "wrested control" of the top spot from Cisco, which last took the lead in December 2010's list and placed second this time around. Ericsson and ... (Read Full Article)

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Greenpeace Puts Google, Cisco, Fujitsu at Top of Green IT Rankings

Explore GreenBiz.com (Feb 7 2012) Construction , Solar , Cloud Computing

... the fourth round of scores, which werepublished in December 2010, during the Cancun climate talks. Cisco led the prior round's pack with a score of 70, while Google held down fourth place with a score of 47. Greenpeace today released the latest version of its Cool... (Read Full Article)

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A New Net

Explore Technology Review (Feb 6 2012) Cloud Computing , Networking

...ologies of all time needs to be rethought. Stanford researchers have reshaped computing before—both Google and early work on the Internet itself came out of their labs—but Casado and his PhD supervisor, Nic......itting in Nicira's boardroom, exchange quick glances and are careful not to name any companies—even Cisco Systems, the world's leading maker of routers and switches. They're being diplomatic; Nicira has already ... (Read Full Article)

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Schedule of 2012 trade shows and conferences

Explore TechRepublic (Jan 17 2012)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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