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

...nd inexpensively 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 U.S., purc... (Read Full Article)

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In praise (yes praise) of the data center big boys by Doug Mohney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (May 16 2012)

...n tarred and feathered on numerous occasions in Greenpeace drive-by PR papers, Facebook, Google and Microsoft are actually making forward progress in the battle to cut carbon emission.  But quiet progress does......ears and decades before we understand all the consequences, but hardware manufacturers such as AMD, Dell and IBM are paying attention and building hardware to Facebook/Open Compute specs.  You may one day... (Read Full Article)

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Board: No Health Threat From Quincy Generators

Explore Data Center Knowledge (May 11 2012) Data Center Outages , Emissions , Hydro

...e. Quincy, a town of 6,000 residents in central Washington state, is home to major data centers for Microsoft, Yahoo, Dell, Intuit and Sabey. Each of the data centers in Quincy uses banks of generators to provide backup po... (Read Full Article)

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Cloud's dirty laundry to be aired by Greenpeace

Explore crn.com.au (Apr 18 2012) Construction , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell

...mentioned in the report. How service providers fare The report looks at Amazon Web Services, Apple, Dell, Facebook, Google, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Rackspace, Salesforce, Akamai, Twitter and Yahoo. Google ranked high in Greenpeace’s overv... (Read Full Article)

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Apple Defends Its Data Centers Against Greenpeace Report

Explore redorbit.com (Apr 18 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing

...eace’s scorecard. There are some familiar faces to Apple who scored higher, however: Companies like Dell, Google, and Microsoft. (Read Full Article)

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Web Host TurnKey Internet to Open Green Data Center in New York State

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Apr 18 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...web hosting and cloud hosting services, will features specialized low-voltage computer servers from Dell and Intel that require less energy to power their cloud-based computing services. To celebrate Eart......red Missouri-based Internet service provider KCNet. Then just last month, TurnKey added support for Microsoft’s WebMatrix website building software. Talk Back: Are you currently using a data center powered by ... (Read Full Article)

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Amazon Receives Failing Grade in Greenpeace “How Green is Your Cloud” Report

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Apr 18 2012) Construction , Fossil Fuel , Cloud Computing

...es. “Three of the largest IT companies building their business around the cloud — Amazon, Apple and Microsoft — are all rapidly expanding without adequate regard to source of electricity, and rely heavily on d......energy and engage their communities. Other companies assessed in the report were Rackspace, Akamai, Dell, HP, IBM, Oracle, Salesforce, Twitter and Yahoo. Talk Back: Are you currently using a data center p... (Read Full Article)

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Greenpeace slams Amazon over green datacentre efforts

Explore ZDNet UK (Apr 18 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Fuel Cell , Solar , Cloud Computing

In the How green is your cloud report, published on Tuesday, Greenpeace slammed Apple, Amazon and Microsoft for the meagre amount of clean energy their datacentres use and their "transparency" regarding thei...... and carbon management associated with data consumption." The other companies assessed were Akamai, Dell, HP, IBM, Oracle, Rackspace, Salesforce, Twitter and Yahoo. A thought. Many years ago, after decade... (Read Full Article)

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Salesforce Worst of ‘Dirty’ Cloud Companies, Greenpeace says

Explore environmentalleader.com (Apr 18 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Fossil Fuel , Cloud Computing

...in 2011 to 15.3 percent in 2012. Apple now has the fifth-lowest score in the report. It leapfrogged Microsoft, IBM and Amazon. Home » Salesforce Worst of ‘Dirty’ Cloud Companies, Greenpeace says April 18, 2012......6.4 percent of its electricity from renewable sources, up from 55.9 in the 2011 report. New entrant Dell draws 56.3 percent of its energy from renewables, the report says. This year’s ... (Read Full Article)

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Amazon, Microsoft low on Greenpeace clean-energy 'cloud' index

Explore The Seattle Times (Apr 17 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Wind , Cloud Computing

... or dirty tech companies' clouds are, and among those it dings are two local giants: Amazon.com and Microsoft. "Cloud" refers to storing data and applications on remote servers and data centers, which users ca......n/renewable energy sources: solar, wind, hydroelectric, geothermal. Based on those criteria, Yahoo, Dell, Google and Facebook rank highest in Greenpeace's "clean energy index." Companies ranking the lowes... (Read Full Article)

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Greenpeace: Time for cloud companies to come clean

Explore Technology News (Apr 17 2012) Construction , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell , Solar , Cloud Computing

...f its efficient data center designs and the hydropower available for its upstate New York location. Dell, Facebook, and Google also get high marks for their efficiency and energy mix. Related stories * Go......or work on energy * Greenpeace dings cloud providers on dirty energy Big-name brands Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Twitter meanwhile, score poorly for lack of information or choosing sites dominated by coal-po... (Read Full Article)

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Pollution Campaigns Pushes Data Center math outside the building by Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Apr 16 2012)

...eems they spill out into the outside world. Quincy has several data centers, run by firms including Microsoft, Yahoo, Dell, Sabey and Vantage Data Centers all lured there by the availability of cheap power at a couple of c... (Read Full Article)

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Hi-tech firms make savings out of thin (cool) air

Explore Irish Examiner (Mar 2 2012) Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing , Servers

Everyone knows firms like Google, Microsoft and Dell locate to Ireland for our low corporate tax rate and skilled workforce, but our gloomy Irish weathe... (Read Full Article)

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Iceland’s Thor Data Centre: In Pictures

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (Feb 17 2012) Geothermal

... turnover of 150 million euros, and experience working with most of the major IT players, including Microsoft, Oracle, Dell, HP, Verisign and Cisco. Skyrr itself dates back more than 50 years to the first government data ... (Read Full Article)

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Beyond Servers: Is Your Data Center Truly Virtualized?

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 1 2012) Cloud Computing , Servers , Storage

...rspectives February 1st, 2012 + + Tweet + + + Nashua, NH-based Travis Vigil is executive director, Dell Storage. Travis Vigil-DELL TRAVIS VIGIL Dell The concept of introducing virtualization into corporate data centers has moved well past the trial......ly and closely for years with server virtualization software providers – such as VMware, Citrix and Microsoft — to seamlessly link storage systems with highly virtualized server environments. Through these eff... (Read Full Article)

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A CTO’s take on cloud

Explore GigaOM (Jan 24 2012) Cloud Computing

...sses, but for many existing IBM shops — and there are a ton of them — IBM cloud is a no brainer. 2: Microsoft Azure has a tough row to hoe Coyle is of two minds on Windows Azure, the platform-as-a-service (Paa....... Initiated by Rackspace and NASA, it’s achieved critical mass with nearly every IT provider — from Dell, to HP, to Cisco, to Citrix — aboard and Rackspace offloading management to a ... (Read Full Article)

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Web Host Enteracloud Houses SEO Firm at San Diego Data Center

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Dec 29 2011) Cloud Computing

...gram. Entercloud's infrastructure comprises of best of breed technologies including VMware, Cisco, Microsoft, Veeam, EMC and Dell, providing Market Target with the reliability and horsepower to continue delivering SEO solutions t... (Read Full Article)

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2011 – the year Ireland became ‘home of the cloud’

Explore siliconrepublic.com (Dec 22 2011) Cloud Computing

...st 22 legacy data centres, not to mention new ones, such as the $1bn data centre built last year by Microsoft in its third investment in Dublin in 18 months and European data centre giant Interxion, which is p......systec, Marketo, Commence, Pivot, Engine Yard, Pinger, Datapac, Fort and Citrix, to name but a few. Dell expects to recruit 150 people in the next two years with the creation of ... (Read Full Article)

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The Green Grid: modularity is sign of maturity

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Nov 15 2011) Construction , Cloud Computing

...r on-site 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 als......ced by multiple 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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Web Host Savvis Hires Away Microsoft Amazon Cloud Executives

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Nov 15 2011) Cloud Computing

...e related to services across 32 countries in support of more than 1,600 corporate clients. Prior to Microsoft in 1998, Parker was a consultant in Texas for Dell and American Medical Management, and a senior programmer analyst and consultant for IBM in Italy. “... (Read Full Article)

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Can Open Hardware Transform the Data Center?

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Oct 28 2011) Cloud Computing

...it in New York featured appearances from executives for some of the sector’s leading names – Intel, Dell, Amazon, Facebook, Red Hat and Goldman Sachs. The audience was filled with data center thought lead......k, Red Hat and Goldman Sachs. The audience was filled with data center thought leaders from Google, Microsoft, Rackspace and many other companies with large data center operations. That turnout is not an isola... (Read Full Article)

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Will Your Next Server Be Designed by Facebook?

Explore ReadWriteWeb (Oct 27 2011)

...e still doubting how real this is, consider the list of companies that have signed on: Intel, ASUS, Dell, Huawei, Rackspace, Netflix, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs and a little software vendor by the name of Red Hat. I spoke with Red Hat's VP of co... (Read Full Article)

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Global server farms around the world

Explore Telegraph.co.uk (Oct 26 2011) Solar , Servers

...for hte UK’s Colt Telecoms, but they decided to open it out to other customers. Quincy, Washington (Microsoft, Yahoo!, Dell) The cluster of server farms in this formerly sleepy farming community, probably ranks as the world... (Read Full Article)

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Prudential Financial: 1,000 servers moved into a virtual environment

Explore IDG News Service (Oct 24 2011) Solar

...lead projects that yield green benefits. MacBook Pro range quietly upgraded (24.10.2011 kl 18:58) Dell XPS 14z Bests MacBook Pro in Thinness and Price (24.10.2011 kl 18:56) 10 questions for CDW CFO Ann ......s and Price 10 questions for CDW CFO Ann E. Ziegler TapSense Touchscreens Know How You Touched Them Microsoft's YouTube channel gets hijacked and wiped clean Steve Jobs bio debuts ... (Read Full Article)

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