Will Facebook’s IPO Have a Web Hosting Impact?

Explore Web Host Industry Review (May 17 2012)

...same treatment to its APIs. “Facebook has kept a tight lid on its APIs and for good reason. But ask Amazon, eBay, and other Internet giants where their business models are heading and it’s about opening up as muc... (Read Full Article)

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Uptime Institute Symposium to Feature Modular Data Center Tour

Explore Web Host Industry Review (May 2 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...po passes also provide access to Symposium content on May 14th including keynote presentations from eBay, as well as presentations from companies such as Greenpeace and HP, an evening networking reception......Fill out our WHIR reader survey to let us know what works and what doesn’t. And enter to win a $100 Amazon gift card. Related posts: (Read Full Article)

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eBay covers Utah data center roof with solar panels

Explore GigaOM (Apr 11 2012) Construction , Solar , Cloud Computing

...nd over 6 times the size of its solar panel project at its small data center in Denver. But yes, as Amazon’s web infrastructure guru James Hamilton pointed out recently, these types of solar panel installat......r about 2 percent of a 30 MW data center, before you even factor in the variable nature of the sun. eBay covers Utah data center roof with solar panels By Katie Fehrenbacher ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Data Center Knowledge   James Hamilton

A New Net

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

...isticated. Yet today, even with seemingly cost-effective cloud services available from the likes of Amazon, most companies still choose to operate their own computing resources—whether for corporate e-mail ......ition to NTT and Rackspace, its customers include AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, Fidelity Investments, and eBay. And in Casado, Nicira has a figure widely recognized by competitors and colleagues alike as a fier... (Read Full Article)

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Bits Blog: EBay's Plans for Hunch: Recommendations Galore

Explore Technology (Nov 21 2011)

EBay has been adding new technologies to its arsenal lately in an effort to overhaul its retail identity......its arsenal lately in an effort to overhaul its retail identity and better compete with rivals like Amazon. Included in the company’s recent acquisitions are RedLaser, a bar-code scanning application; Milo,... (Read Full Article)

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Big Data Knows You, Even If You Don't Know Big Data

Explore Forbes.com (Nov 15 2011)

...ined with transaction and customer data sourced from the traditional EDW .” Online services such as eBay, Yahoo, Amazon and Facebook, have transformed, or perhaps created, big data — building out their own systems to me... (Read Full Article)

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Inside the SuperNAP and its high-tech clouds

Explore GigaOM (Sep 29 2011)

...business strategy, which is to compete in a crowded IaaS market not through scale (it can’t touch Amazon Web Services or Rackspace in that regard), but through high utilization, specialization and clever ......rehouse and Hadoop cluster, as well as a 432-blade Cisco UCS deployment for a large banking entity. eBay has hundreds of racks running big data workloads there, and EMC Greenplum’s new 1,000-node Hado... (Read Full Article)

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Akamai, eBay, Google Set Bar for CO2 Reporting by Internet Giants

Explore GreenBiz.com (Sep 13 2011) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Cloud Computing

Akamai, Apple, eBay and now Google have become industry standouts for disclosing their energy consumption and carbon fo......y and carbon reporting practices of 14 of the largest firms in the industry. Verdantix put Alibaba, Amazon, Baidu, Expedia, Facebook, Netflix, Priceline, Salesforce, Tencent and Yahoo! under the microscope ... (Read Full Article)

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Study: Internet Firms Lagging On Green Strategy

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Sep 13 2011) Carbon Footprint , Emissions

inShare 1 Companies such as Amazon, eBay and Google must do better on energy management and emissions disclosure The world’s leading Intern... (Read Full Article)

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14 Cloud Services Players Scrutinized For Green Credentials

Explore zdnet.com (Sep 13 2011) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Cloud Computing

...ayers in cloud services including three Chinese companies (Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent) plus Akamai, Amazon, Apple, eBay, Expedia, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Priceline, Salesforce and Yahoo! The Verdantix report is simil... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook, Amazon Panned on Energy Management and Transparency

Explore environmentalleader.com (Sep 13 2011) Monitoring , Carbon Footprint , Emissions

...and social networking firms, including Chinese players Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent alongside Akamai, Amazon, Apple, eBay, Expedia, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Priceline, Salesforce and Yahoo!. Most of these need to adopt ... (Read Full Article)

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Data Centers & IPv6: Why It Matters to You

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jun 28 2011) Networking

...ry has further benefited from more transparency provided by data center experts like Google, Yahoo, eBay, Amazon and now Facebook. These forward thinking companies have opened their “kimonos” so to speak, sheddin... (Read Full Article)

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Morning Tech Wrap: Microsoft, Skype, Google

Explore Forbes.com Blogs (May 10 2011)

Microsoft is in talks to buy Skype from eBay and the internet telephone services's founders for between $7 billion and $8 billion, according to ......ly relying on the partnerships that have proven difficult.” There are similarities between this and Amazon’s own cloud-based music service launched in March, according to All Things Digital. While Google ha... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   New York Times   Apple   The New York Times

European Data Center Efficiency Summit

Explore Perspectives (Apr 29 2011) Power and Cooling

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   The Green Grid

Hot Ticket where EU gets priority, Google’s Data Center Summit 2011 in Zurich May 24

Explore greenm3.com (Apr 29 2011)

...n Grid 10:00 Best practice implementation case studies Joe Kava, Google; Dean Nelson, eBay 11:20 Panel discussion James Hamilton, Amazon; Robert Coupland, Telecity Group; Brian Waddell, Norman Disney and Young; Mark Eichenberger, UBS ... (Read Full Article)

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The Year in Downtime

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Dec 22 2010) Data Center Outages , Cloud Computing

...nocked out the facility’s utility power from PG&E, causing a lengthy outage for merchants using the eBay ProStores service to operate e-commerce web sites. NaviSite later took steps to overhaul the surge ......, most of whom were unable to access their web sites or process transactions. June 29: Downtime for Amazon.com: The main Amazon retail store is rarely offline, which is a good thing, since it drives revenue ... (Read Full Article)

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Do you have an Elephant and Pig in your data center? Hadoop momentum continues

Explore greenm3.com (Oct 27 2010)

...d Google File System (GFS) papers. Why should you care about Hadoop? Look at who the users are - Amazon Web Services, Adobe, AOL, Baidu, eBay, Facebook, Google, Hulu, IBM, LinkedIn, Quantcast, Rackspace, Twitter, and Yahoo. Yahoo! is prou... (Read Full Article)

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25 new IT companies to watch

Explore IDG News Service (Oct 25 2010) Cloud Computing

...work traffic, relieve the data access logjams that mar virtualization and other IT projects, create Amazon-like private clouds behind the firewall, and provide disaster recovery optimized for virtualized da......ore the trust consumers once had in them. We'll still be suspicious of poorly written e-mails from "eBay" and our bank, however. One big area of concern regarding cloud security is storage, of course. For... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Amazon.com   Larry Ellison

Yahoo’s New Facility Shows Trend, Growing Importance of Green Data Centers

Explore The New York Times (Sep 20 2010) Wind , Cloud Computing , Servers , Storage

...(and in turn, high electricity bills). In one noteworthy departure from the norm, though, Google, Amazon, Nokia and Microsoft teamed up earlier this year to fight a new data center standard that would req......Crazy on Halo: Reach Multiplayer Matches * HP Sticks an Android Tablet Into a Printer * Alibaba and eBay: More Competition Than Cooperation, Despite a Show of Friendship * HP Launches Fancy Touch-Based De... (Read Full Article)

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Data Centers: For When The Cloud is Not Enough

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jul 22 2010) Cloud Computing

...r are following the lead of other huge “Internet-scale” companies like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and eBay, who all build custom data centers to maximize gains in performance and cost. Scaling to Millions o......d that point in announcing the company’s data center plans. Twitter previously used NTT America and Amazon Web Services to its infrastructure. “Importantly, having our own data center will give us the flexi... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook to Build Its Own Data Centers

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jan 20 2010) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers

...ernet companies that build their own data centers, a group which includes Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, eBay and Oracle. This typically requires a larger up-front investment in construction and equipment, but......e site is several hours from an existing Google data center in The Dalles and a Boardman site where Amazon is said to be resuming construction on a major data center project. The Prineville site is located ... (Read Full Article)

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Major Data Center Outages of 2009

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Dec 16 2009) Power and Cooling

...for weeks as Twitter worked with its data center provider, NTT America, to strengthen its defenses. Amazon Cloud Glitches: One of the top technology trends on Twitter in 2009 was the #amazonfail hashtag.  W......ems on August 3 left Paypal unable to process transactions, a scenario that some estimated cost the eBay business unit as much as $7 million an hour in missed transaction fees. Air New Zealand Travel ‘Cha... (Read Full Article)

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The Polarization of the Data Center Industry (at least for now): Part 1 of 2

Explore TechNet Blogs (Dec 9 2009) Monitoring , Power and Cooling

...by their IT operations (which by the way are likely to be huge operations such as Microsoft, Yahoo, Ebay, Amazon, Google, etc.) – are further to the left on the graph because it has such a large impact on profita... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Gartner   Google

Data Centers as Information Factories

Explore Triple Pundit (Nov 9 2009) Cloud Computing , Servers

...t in the whole system and prioritize the areas to address. Companies like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Amazon, and eBay have addressed this problem by creating groups who have responsibilities to engineer their informat... (Read Full Article)

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