Will Facebook’s IPO Have a Web Hosting Impact?

Explore Web Host Industry Review (May 17 2012)

...atment 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......ve implications on Facebook’s products. According to Rich Miller at Data Center Knowledge, in April Yahoo claimed that Facebook’s data center and server technology may infringe upon patents owned ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Europe   Yahoo

Data Center Pulse IDs Top 10 Industry Challenges

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

...o 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...... and aligning ourselves 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 nu... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   Yahoo   The Green Grid

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

Explore The New York Times (Jan 17 2012) Hydro

...Thompson, on whether the company should sell off its Asian interests and focus on its media assets. Yahoo owns a 40 percent stake in Alibaba and a 35 percent stake in 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... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Yahoo   eBay   Microsoft Corp

Yahoo Seeks to Rebrand Itself at Sundance

Explore The New York Times (Jan 5 2012) Hydro

...e is a reversal for the flagging company, which on Wednesday named Scott Thompson, the president of eBay’s PayPal, its new chief executive. Yahoo has had almost no festival presence in recent years, leaving rivals like Bing and YouTube to pitch ... (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 syste... (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

... couple of buts. Apple does not have carbon reduction targets that are public, Verdantix noted, and Yahoo! limits its disclosure. Akamai and eBay received high praise. Verdantix singled out Akamai for its work in striving to become an environmen... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Amazon.com   Google

14 Cloud Services Players Scrutinized For Green Credentials

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

...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 similar to one that it published earlier this year looking at the internal... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Amazon.com   Google

Data Centers & IPv6: Why It Matters to You

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jun 28 2011) Networking

... industry 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,... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook Turns to A Little Solar For Its Data Center

Explore GigaOM (Apr 17 2011) Solar

Facebook Turns to A Little Solar For Its Data CenterGigaOmAt Green:Net Google and Yahoo will discuss their green data center plans. Register for our awesome event here. The solar panels f......to apples, but just to give you an indicator) according to a 2009 MIT study, 16,000 servers used by eBay are thought to use 60,000 MWh per year. Forty thousand servers used by Akamai are thought ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Greenpeace   Google   Yahoo

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

Explore greenm3.com (Oct 27 2010)

...y 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 proud of being the largest Hadoop user.  Here is their 2009 #'s 25,000 nodes. And, 2010 38,000 ... (Read Full Article)

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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

Yahoo unveiled a new data center in Lockport, New York today, boasting one of the most energy-efficient d......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

Data Centers: For When The Cloud is Not Enough

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jul 22 2010) Cloud Computing

...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)

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Facebook to Build Its Own Data Centers

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

...uge Internet 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... (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

...driven 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... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Gartner   Google

Data Centers as Information Factories

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

...per watt 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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Can you Green the Data Center? Maybe if you think in terms of an Information Factory

Explore greenm3.com (Nov 4 2009) Cloud Computing , Servers

...per watt 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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A look at the nonstop acceleration of Internet technology

Explore Nieman Watchdog (Sep 20 2009) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing

...e way we interact with numerous dot-com enterprises: from Web mail services like Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo!, to data storage services like Box.net, IDrive, iDisk and Mozy. We upload pictures to Flickr, Smug......Cut Pro and JayCut, upload our creations to YouTube and Vimeo, buy and sell items on Craigslist and eBay, exchange multimedia messages through MySpace and Facebook, talk to each other on Twitter, comp... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   The New York Times   Amazon.com   Intel

Apple Hires eBay Data Center Executive

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 12 2009) Construction , Cloud Computing

...el Manos moved from Microsoft to Digital Realty Trust, Kevin Timmons and Dayne Sampson shifted from Yahoo to Microsoft, and now Canche has jumped from eBay to Apple. (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Yahoo   Kevin Timmons

Grading Google's carbon neutral claims

Explore Technology News (May 7 2009) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Cloud Computing

...egories. IBM, Canon, Toshiba, Sony, HP, Motorola, Hitachi, Samsung, Siemens, Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo were put in the green category signaling companies with a good environmental record. Microsoft, Yahoo, Dell, and Nokia were put in the yellow category signaling that they had made a start, but still ha......aling that they had made a start, but still had work to do in certain areas. Amazon.com, Apple, and eBay were ... (Read Full Article)

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