Are IT Data Centers Emerging as a 'Killer App' for Green Power? Part 2

Explore Renewable Energy World (May 24 2012) Construction , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell , Solar , Wind , Cloud Computing

...(MWh) of power to the data center annually. Other companies deploying solar at data centers include eBay (665 kW), Facebook (100 kW), i/o Data Centers (4.5 MW), McGraw-Hill Companies (14.1 MW), and Qualit...... issue. Apple has plans to install 4.8 MW of fuel cells at its Maiden, North Carolina data center.  Microsoft recently launched a pilot project for a grid-independent data centers powered by fuel cells ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Facebook

What you need to know about data centers & biogas

Explore GigaOM (Apr 22 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell , Cloud Computing

... disclosed where it plans to get the biogas, and will use natural gas first, and eventually biogas. Microsoft is planning to develop a grid-independent fuel cell-powered data center, called the Data Plant, tha......a biogas project in North Carolina, but Google isn’t specifically connecting that to a data center. eBay has Bloom Energy fuel cells using biogas at its headquarters, but not to my knowledge for its data ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Google

Data Center Pulse IDs Top 10 Industry Challenges

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 13 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing

...vendors, who have traditionally been the intended audience for the Top 10. Large organizations like Microsoft, Yahoo, eBay, Google and Facebook have eliminated many of the bariers between facilities and IT, a trend that ne... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Google   Yahoo

eBay Containers Push Frontiers of Efficiency

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 27 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers

eBay’s new containerized data center in Phoenix is one of the most efficient data centers ever built, re......ves with The Green Grid’s DCMM from the beginning.” Large users such as Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Microsoft have reported industry-leading ratings in the 1.07 to 1.2 range. These numbers demonstrate the po... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   Yahoo   The Green Grid

Nicira Targets the Virtual Data Center Network

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 6 2012) Cloud Computing , Networking

...ware from any vendor and is hypervisor agnostic, working with VMware ESX, Linux/KVM, Xen Server and Microsoft’s HyperV. * Nicira Targets the Virtual Data Center Network * Nicira Targets the Virtual Data Center......s many cities or countries. That’s one reason that Nicira made its debut with users including AT&T, eBay, Fidelity Investments, NTT and Rackspace. “Nicira allows us to repurpose network infrastructure on-... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   eBay   NTT   At&T

A New Net

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

...f the early 1980s. IBM's PC standard separated hardware and software, making operating systems like Microsoft Windows the focus of innovation while hardware became a race-to-the-bottom commodity. Cisco and oth......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)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Forrester Research   Google

Jerry Yang, ‘Chief Yahoo,’ Steps Down From Board

Explore The New York Times (Jan 17 2012) Hydro

... Yahoo Japan. Mr. Yang’s departure comes less than two weeks after the board named Mr. Thompson, an eBay executive running its PayPal unit, as chief executive. Mr. Yang, who co-founded the company in 1995......s the face of the company’s rise and its decline. He stood in the way of a 2008 takeover attempt by Microsoft that valued the company at $47.5 billion. Shareholder dismay with that ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Yahoo   eBay   Microsoft Corp

One year later, words to remember our Dear Friend Olivier Sanche

Explore greenm3.com (Dec 21 2011)

...o Apple to plant a tree in memory of Olivier. Her request was not answered, so I offered to contact eBay's VP of Technical Operations, Mazen Rawashdeh. Mazen supported the request and made the executive d...... personal note I continue to miss and mourn a good friend taken far too early. Nic Bustamente (Microsoft). Christian [Belady] and I were just talking about him recently, it doesn't seem like ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   Skype   eBay

Whitman: Another Tragedy Or The Saviour Of HP?

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Sep 23 2011)

...ng to her inexperience of business IT as a warning against this permanent post. In her ten years as eBay CEO, which ended in 2008, she was immersed in the consumer market – but did oversee the purchase of......the deal which made integration virtually impossible.The company gradually let go of Skype and then Microsoft snapped it up in May, 2010, making sure it had the source code tied into ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   New York Times   Intel   Skype

14 Cloud Services Players Scrutinized For Green Credentials

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

Only four companies, Akamai, Apple, eBay and Google, disclose global emissions information for the data centers driving their SaaS applicati......s for its carbon reporting standards. With carbon-conscious customers such as Apple, HP, IBM, Puma, Microsoft, SAP, and Siemens, Akamai appreciates the need to be on top of its own footprint.” Another positive... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Amazon.com   Google

For Microsoft, Skype Opens Vast New Market in Telecom

Explore The New York Times (May 10 2011)

Microsoft has peered into the future, and placed a bet that people the world over want to stay in touch with ......er than dedicated phone landlines or cell tower networks. Skype has had a bumpy ride as a business. EBay bought it for $2.6 billion in 2005, and then sold most of it to a private investors’ group in 2009,... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   The New York Times   Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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 ... (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......ng solutions and geo-independent approaches to efficiency Joe Kava, Google; Dileep Bhandarkar, Microsoft; Jochen Berger, PlusServer; Chris Malone, Google 15:50 Panel discussion Mark Monroe, ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   Verne Global

Energy Efficiency Guide: Data Center Temperature

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 10 2011) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers

...companies to operate servers in warmer environments. Even a data center user in the Middle East and eBay in Phoenix go without chillers. Both Google and Microsoft operate facilities without chillers, using fresh air cooling. Guest columnists at Data Center Knowl... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Google   ASHRAE

25 new IT companies to watch

Explore IDG News Service (Oct 25 2010) Cloud Computing

...anies is hitting the market. One startup you've never heard of might end up being the next Intel or Microsoft. Others may force changes upon established vendors that have gone stale, which will have to innovat......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 ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Amazon.com   Larry Ellison

Cisco Executive Joins Skype As CEO

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Oct 5 2010)

...nced a host of partnerships based around UC and video collaboration with such vendors as HP, Avaya, Microsoft, BT, Juniper Networks and Siemens Enterprise Communications Group. For its part, Logitech jumped in......e paying customers. In the first six months of the year, the company made $13m on $406m in revenue. eBay bought Skype for $2.6bn in 2005, and in November 2009 private equity firm Silver Lake Partners boug... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   The New York Times   Cisco   Hewlett Packard

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

... 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 require companies instal......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)

Comment Mentions:   Greenpeace   Amazon.com   Google

Is Apple About to Unleash the iDataCenter?

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Sep 1 2010) Cloud Computing

...ing chilled water (meaning Apple won’t be going “chiller-less” to save energy, as Google and Microsoft have done). Apple’s data center operations are overseen by Olivier Sanche, who previously directed......ns are overseen by Olivier Sanche, who previously directed data center construction projects for eBay, TelecityGroup and AT&T. (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Google   Oracle

eBay Pursues Modular Data Centers

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 9 2010) Container , Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing

eBay plans to use data center containers at a new facility, and has issued a public request for proposal......wing number of companies using containers as the basis for a modular data center design. Google and Microsoft have both built container-based facilities, while i/o Data Centers just announced plans to install ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   eBay   Global Data Center Strategy   Microsoft Corp

Data Centers: For When The Cloud is Not Enough

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jul 22 2010) Cloud Computing

..., Facebook and Twitter 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... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   Yahoo

The Technology Inside Apple’s New iDataCenter

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jul 21 2010) Cloud Computing

...ing chilled water (meaning Apple won’t be going “chiller-less” to save energy, as Google and Microsoft have done). Apple’s data center operations are overseen by Olivier Sanche, who previously directed......ns are overseen by Olivier Sanche, who previously directed data center construction projects for eBay, TelecityGroup and AT&T. (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Google   Oracle

Stop Buying Hardware! - by Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jun 21 2010)

...et that allowance fairly so it doesn’t encourage excess buying sprees). Stand up to companies like Microsoft, who attempt to drive upgrades by phasing out support (for instance  for Windows XP on older system......orld, or to local kids or charities. And my tech bits and pieces are easily disposed of, either on eBay or through local sharing resource, Freecycle. So read my lips: No New Hardware. (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   Peter Judge   eBay

Green IT policies are increasing datacentre power ...

Explore Business Technology Leadership (May 25 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

...k. And when the hardware is upgraded, the CPU utilisation rate goes down even further. Bernard said Microsoft, like many large organisations, has "hundreds and hundreds of small applications that aren't missio...... drawing a lot of power [only] when you are doing more work," Stanley said. This idea was echoed by eBay's data center chief, Dean Nelson, during his talk. "What I believe will be coming is applications ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Uptime Institute   eBay