Web Host Data City Exchange Sets Up Cloud Testbeds at UK Data Centers

Explore Web Host Industry Review (May 11 2012) Cloud Computing

...ders the ability to set up a testing environment, such as Green Hat, which was recently acquired by IBM. Cloud hosting provider and data center operator Data City Exchange announced on Thursday it will l......e cloud services demo suites and form an on-demand cloud environment across mainland UK regions and Europe to SMEs, corporate and public sector customers. The Cloudvault solution offers a high speed fiber c... (Read Full Article)

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Letter to Ballmer, Bezos, Cook: Go to Iceland

Explore SmartPlanet (Apr 20 2012)

... citing, energy efficiency and greenhouse gas mitigation and renewable advocacy. It actually grades IBM, Oracle and Salesforce as worse than the three of you on its list of 14 IT giants. But it singles o......rd of in a world of volatile fossil fuel energy prices. It has good high-speed fiber connections to Europe and North America, which are set to get even better when League City, Texas-based Emerald Atlantis ... (Read Full Article)

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IBM Data Centres Get Green Kudos From EU

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (Jan 10 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Servers

...tice guide to making data centres which use energy efficiently and have a reduced carbon footprint. IBM Greens Europe “The awarded 27 IBM Green Data Centres represent over 70 percent of IBM’s strategic outsourcing data centres in 15 European countries. The energy improvements implemented ... (Read Full Article)

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IBM Earns Kudos for 27 Green Data Centers in Europe

Explore GreenBiz.com (Jan 6 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers

.... News of the award from the EU's executive body came this week. The sites constitute 70 percent of IBM's portfolio of outsourced data centers in Europe. It was the first time that so many properties of a single company had been recognized for meeting ... (Read Full Article)

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27 of 35 IBM's European Data Centers receive Energy Efficiency European Commission Award

Explore greenm3.com (Jan 5 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing

...n 27 of its 35 European data centers receiving energy efficiency status. European Commission Awards IBM for Energy Efficient Data Centers 27 IBM Data Centers in Europe Receive Data Center Energy Efficiency Status Tab navigation * News release * Related XML feeds * Co... (Read Full Article)

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EC awards IBM for energy-efficient data centres

Explore siliconrepublic.com (Jan 5 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Servers

...e years without increasing the power consumption. "Data centres have always been a critical part of IBM's heritage and are a significant part of our energy use and costs," said Harry van Dorenmalen, IBM chairman, Europe. "The recognition of our commitment and leadership by the EU Code of Conduct is important to us sin... (Read Full Article)

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Thor Icelandic Data Centre Sold To Service Provider

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (Jan 5 2012)

...very cheap renewable energy from geothermal and hydroelectric sources, is only 30 milliseconds from Europe by fibre and has a climate where servers can be cooled using the outside air temperature, claims Be......rom the Icelandic government’s municipal data centre which was set up in 1952, and began with early IBM mainframes. Skyrr still has a lot of government work in Iceland, and subsidiaries in Scandinavian... (Read Full Article)

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Renewable Energy May be Edison's Revenge

Explore moneynews.com (Dec 20 2011) Emissions , Cloud Computing

...i cathedral. It uses Baltic Sea water to cool the plant and feeds surplus heat to the city's homes. IBM has designed a solar array to power its Bangalore data center. Microsoft has filed a patent applica......about 35 percent of demand for green data centers will come from the United States, 30 percent from Europe, and the rest spread globally. Every day, says ABB, we all send more ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Edison   Netherlands

Web Host Savvis Hires Away Microsoft Amazon Cloud Executives

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

..., Parker was most recently the general manager of the enterprise and partner group, Central Eastern Europe. In this position he was responsible for more than $1 billion in sales and software related to serv...... Texas for Dell and American Medical Management, and a senior programmer analyst and consultant for IBM in Italy. “As cloud services continue to assume their place at the very core of IT, Savvis has the ... (Read Full Article)

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Red Hat: The Integrated Stack Is Critical

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Nov 3 2011)

... to have a layer of software that sits below the operating system,” said Thadani, speaking to eWEEK Europe. “The way the industry has done virtualisation for decades now is the way IBM came up with it – it’s part of the operating system. If you have an operating system, you turn o... (Read Full Article)

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HP Data Center Project ‘to Reduce Energy up to 89%’

Explore environmentalleader.com (Nov 2 2011) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers

... of storage, networking, management, power and cooling across thousands of servers. Related Stories IBM Building $86 Million Green Data Center Facebook Data Center Slashes Energy Use Morgan Stanley Plans......e first lab is scheduled to open in Houston in January, with additional sites planned to open in Europe and Asia. Clients can access the sites physically or remotely. * The HP Pathfinder Program: Part of... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Facebook   IBM

What's behind Iceland's first major data center

Explore ITworld (Oct 14 2011)

...isa Rhodes, VP of marketing and sales for Verne Global, and Sean McAvan, Datapipe’s VP of Sales for Europe and the Middle East – and thought I’d share some excerpts of those interviews with you. Is it true ......How to manage a mess of cables Will Tomas has just joined ITworld Darius Damalakas commented on Has IBM kicked OpenOffice.org to the curb? kburns asks Should I opt my ... (Read Full Article)

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Iceland cometh

Explore SmartPlanet (Oct 5 2011)

...at the Strokkur Geyser. It’s been slow-going for Verne in Iceland. About a year ago, it looked like IBM was going to move into the Verne center and use it to transmit data via subsea fiber that connects ......to move into the Verne center and use it to transmit data via subsea fiber that connects Iceland to Europe and the U.S. But, apparently deterred by unfavorable valued-added tax ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Iceland   Europe

IT Services Firm CSC Expands UK Team with Multiple Appointments

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Sep 2 2011) Cloud Computing

...bal business services division in the UK, Nordics and the Netherlands Related Topics: appointments, europe, uk, csc (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- IT services provider CSC (www.csc.com) announced on Friday......ud Services. Prior to that, he was Fujitsu's UK sales and marketing director. He has also served as IBM's EMEA sales director for business process outsourcing, a division he was responsible for founding.... (Read Full Article)

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Cisco Opens Green Data Centre In Texas

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Apr 19 2011) Cloud Computing

...t of IT at Cisco, said in an interview with eWEEK before the opening. Top data centre players, like IBM and Hewlett-Packard, have been using their own facilities to not only drive down costs and consolid......data centre facilities,” Manville said. Cisco already is working on plans for another MVDC setup in Europe, and is considering a third somewhere in Asia, he said. The goal is to use the three ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Cisco   The Green Grid

IBM Offers ‘Five Golden’ Rules For Green IT

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Apr 4 2011) Carbon Footprint

...pany has even developed a blueprint on how organisations can change their energy consumption. eWEEK Europe talked to IBM to get their top five golden rules for businesses seeking to get a handle on their energy consum... (Read Full Article)

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Dublin Emerges as Cloud Computing Hub

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 17 2011) Cloud Computing

...Microsoft. Dublin also hosts major data centers operated by Digital Realty Trust and facilities for IBM and SunGard, among others. Dublin has become a key gateway to Europe and beyond for U.S. companies due to several factors, including the city’s location, connectivity, ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Europe   SunGard

Industry Trends: Part 3 - Business Efficiencies, Regulation, and Security Risk Management

Explore Data Center Post (Mar 11 2011)

...ctually is continues with no clear consensus coming forward at this point in time. On the one side, IBM’s CTO of Cloud Computing Strategy, Harold Moss, recently said the cloud could actually be more secu......y and security concerns were cited as two major reasons why cloud adoption has not taken off yet in Europe. For outsourced data center solutions, the security team will need a provider that has ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Verne Global   Vodafone

Iceland Has the World's Cleanest Electricity

Explore time.com (Jan 13 2011) Fossil Fuel , Geothermal , Solar

...en in a world where nations from Germany to China are jockeying for the clean-energy pole position. IBM seems to think so. It's rumored to be putting a data center in a former munitions storehouse on a w......ehouse on a windswept, disused NATO naval base 47 km southwest of Reykjavík, which would connect to Europe and North America via existing sub-Atlantic fiber-optic lines. Data centers could exceed airlines ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

GreenWise poll: will 2011 be significant for green business?

Explore Green Wise (Jan 12 2011) Construction , Cap and Trade , Carbon Tax , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Wind

...le energy sources become more commercially viable and attractive but a number of governments across Europe, notably Spain and Germany, are removing Feed-in Tariff provisions as they have become 'over-subscr...... no doubt rise considerably. Energy efficiency & smart technology Jon Bentley, Smarter Energy lead, IBM Global Business Services UK&I: I'm optimistic and believe this year will be significant for the fut... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Greenpeace   Forrester Research   Europe

Interxion Plans to Launch IPO on NYSE

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jan 12 2011)

...to begin trading. Interxion Holding N.V is a leading Carrier-Neutral Colocation Data Center in Europe, whose main competitors are Equinix, Telecity and Telehouse. Digital Realty Trust and Global Switch......Interxion customers mentioned in the SEC filing include Akamai, Canon, ABN Amro Bank N.V., Sungard, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Siemens, AT&T. At the end of this article you will find the most recent financial... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Hewlett Packard   SunGard

IBM Mainframe Foe TurboHercules Gets Microsoft Investment

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Dec 3 2010)

Microsoft has invested in TurboHercules, a company that has filed an antitrust complaint against IBM in Europe. Microsoft is investing in the French firm TurboHercules whose software, built on the open source H... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Intel   IBM

Racktivity Raises $8 Million for Data Center Efficiency

Explore The New York Times (Dec 1 2010) Cloud Computing

...he new round of funding to accelerate growth, and will also be working to expand its sales presence Europe and the U.S. Racktivity makes a power distribution unit called Rack Controller, as well as softwa......e News From VentureBeat * Verizon’s LTE 4G Network Lands Dec. 5, Serving 110M Users in 38 Markets * IBM Makes Breakthrough in Super-Fast Laser Chips * Virtual Goods and Prepaid Game Card Sales Show Steep... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   IBM

The scary side of virtualization

Explore Business Technology Leadership (Nov 8 2010) Cloud Computing

...d say, 'Gee, is that secure?' That's very common," says Kris Lovejoy, vice president of strategy at IBM Security Solutions, a security consultancy. "There are some huge, well-known corporate names around......infrastructure. Compliance is another concern. As director of systems engineering at the Council of Europe Development Bank, Jean-Louis Nguyen needs to monitor activity to ensure that the administrators of ... (Read Full Article)

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