Digital route forward

Explore siliconrepublic.com (Feb 9 2012)

...e having our conversation looks out on what is probably one of the most vibrant digital clusters in Europe. In front of us, construction is advancing on Google's €75m data centre. Down the road is Microsoft......In terms of power infrastructure to support major data centres and manufacturing operations such as Intel or EMC, Mortell says Ireland is just about competitive at the moment. "Paris is using nuclear energ... (Read Full Article)

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

Explore siliconrepublic.com (Dec 22 2011) Cloud Computing

...n meetings, and a crazy thought struck me. Nevermind Ireland’s pitch to be the ‘internet capital of Europe’, it is already the home of cloud computing in many ways. You see, most of the moving parts that...... and Ireland has been at the cusp of this revolution ever since Apple came to Cork in the 1980s and Intel began making chips to power the PC revolution in the 1990s ... (Read Full Article)

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Notes From Intel's Earnings Call (Live)

Explore Forbes.com Blogs (Jul 20 2011)

Everyone’s down on the PC business right now. Intel, however, seems to be doing fine. The processor giant reported Wednesday that it grew sales for th......estion about geographic trends. The consumer in the United States was stronger than the consumer in Europe, and consumer sales in emerging markets were stronger than either. 2:53 — Now for questions. In res... (Read Full Article)

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Today’s Fusion-io IPO Leads Wave of Fundings

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jun 9 2011)

...orld record. “Our new capital will allow us to speed up product development and global expansion in Europe and Asia to surpass $100 million in revenue this year, the first step in building a billion dollar ......ram to increase university research and accelerate innovation. “The co-principal investigators from Intel and UC Berkeley will lead a talented team of researchers from across the country to address today’s... (Read Full Article)

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Interxion Partners Launch Cloud Hosting Test Environment

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Jun 2 2011) Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing

...sting test environment for European service providers. The move comes nearly three years after HP, Intel and Yahoo launched "The HP, Intel, and Yahoo Cloud Computing Test Bed", another alliance established to test new types of cloud softw......June 02, 2011 * + Tweet + + A screenshot of Cloud Testlab website Related Topics: new products europe cloud computing interxion hp kpn international nl-ix (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Interxion (www... (Read Full Article)

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The market says Microsoft is no longer a monopoly, how long before DOJ changes Microsoft monopoly status

Explore greenm3.com (Jan 6 2011)

...ges Microsoft monopoly status The buzz of CES has been said by some to be the end of Microsoft and Intel monopoly. Many of Microsoft’s customers chose to use an OS product from Microsoft’s arch enemy. Som...... look at the graph below from StatCounter, showing the market share of leading Internet browsers in Europe last December. Graphic from Statcounter You’ll probably notice two things: 1) Internet Explorer ... (Read Full Article)

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GreenBiz's 20 Most Popular Stories of 2010

Explore GreenBiz.com (Dec 31 2010)

... 10. Netbook Processors Create Huge Efficiency Boost In Supercomputers Academic researchers coupled Intel's Atom chips with solid state disks to increase the amount of data processed per kilowatt hour of e...... the move will save 30 percent on printer ink. 8. Water-Saving 'No-Mix Toilets' Get Rave Reviews in Europe An innovative new toilet system that helps to reduce pollution and save water has gotten widespread... (Read Full Article)

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IBM Mainframe Foe TurboHercules Gets Microsoft Investment

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

...osoft 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......everal companies in a legal dispute with IBM over System z licensing issues. Mainframe Emulation On Intel Platforms TurboHercules makes emulation software that enables businesses to run their mainframe app... (Read Full Article)

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The scary side of virtualization

Explore Business Technology Leadership (Nov 8 2010) Cloud Computing

...dustry has moved forward with hardware technologies to ensure the integrity of hypervisors, such as Intel's Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (known as VT-d). "Today, most of [Intel's] Core i5 and i7 processors have those technologies," and virtualization software providers have m......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 ... (Read Full Article)

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Joyent Lands Another $15M for Cloud Computing Services

Explore The New York Times (Sep 14 2010) Cloud Computing

...ng company Joyent announced today that it has landed $15 million in a third round of funding led by Intel Capital. Joyent provides cloud computing services to companies – allowing them to take advantage ......ire data center work like a single computer.” The company has recently expanded its operations in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, and now has data centers in  China; Andover, Mass.; Emeryville and Sa... (Read Full Article)

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A Chip Start-Up Aims to Slay Intel

Explore dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com (Aug 16 2010)

A group of investors, including companies from the United States, Europe and the United Arab Emirates, has formed in a bid to disrupt one of Intel’s most lucrative franchises, The New York Times’s Ashlee Vance reported Monday. The companies ha... (Read Full Article)

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Why Intel is a Likely Winner of Tech Recovery

Explore GigaOM (Jul 21 2010)

...ound 9.9 percent to $753 billion, thanks in part to a big upsurge in demand for computer equipment. Europe will grow by about two percent, down from previous forecast of five percent. Why Intel is a Likely Winner of Tech Recovery By Om Malik Jul. 21, 2010, 12:58pm PDT No Comments intelchips.j... (Read Full Article)

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Eddie Gets Power Boost, Goes Green

Explore HPCwire (Jul 6 2010) Power and Cooling , Grid Computing

...easons for the reduction in heat emissions. Firstly, there are efficiency improvements contained in Intel's Westmere platform. Second, heat emissions are reduced by the HPC system's use of IBM System x iDa......ore... Green500 sees increased energy efficiency from accelerator-based supercomputers; EGEE passes Europe's grid torch to the new European Grid Infrastructure, EGI, before saying so long. We recap those st... (Read Full Article)

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EuroCloud: A Green Data Center Effort

Explore Relocate (Jul 1 2010) Servers

...f IT equipment in the data center. To this end, the processor-design company has begun an effort in Europe to establish a “green” data center that provides drastic efficiency improvements over existing data......mobile platforms for 20 years.” Although ARM’s devices are not as powerful as, for example, many of Intel’s x86-based processors, they offer superior power characteristics, which has been a tremendous fact... (Read Full Article)

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The Top 250 Players in the Cloud Computing Ecosystem

Explore .NET DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL (Jun 18 2010) Power and Cooling , Geothermal , Cloud Computing , Grid Computing

...elieves there is a strong correlation between how fast cloud computing can proliferate and how well Intel plays its role to lead the open cloud solutions at IaaS and PaaS layers. Interoute - Europe’s largest and most advanced fibre optic network, the Interoute platform operates as effectively Europe’s largest privately owned cloud. Intuit - In April 2008 Intuit launched Intuit Cloud, a cloud compu... (Read Full Article)

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The Top 250 Players in Cloud Computing

Explore AJAX & RIA Journal (May 23 2010) Power and Cooling , Geothermal , Cloud Computing , Grid Computing

...elieves there is a strong correlation between how fast cloud computing can proliferate and how well Intel plays its role to lead the open cloud solutions at IaaS and PaaS layers. Interoute - Europe’s largest and most advanced fibre optic network, the Interoute platform operates as effectively Europe’s largest privately owned cloud. iTricity Joyent - The Joyent platform, which "enables teams to eff... (Read Full Article)

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HP And Dell Add Citrix Desktop Virtualisation Support

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (May 12 2010)

... acquisition of Perot Systems. Dell also is expanding the reach of the service to more countries in Europe. In addition, Dell’s services capabilities now include support for virtualised or streamed app...... StrikeZone shock absorber to protect data when the devices are dropped, new Core i processors from Intel, and Windows 7 and WiMax support. The E4310 also offers the capability for instant access to email,... (Read Full Article)

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Cisco innovations target the datacentre

Explore UK technology news, reviews and analysis (Apr 6 2010)

...o's Unified Computing System (UCS) range. Wendy Mars, director for datacentre and virtualisation in Europe at Cisco, explained that the new features had been driven by demands from customers and partners. "......blade chassis and 8Gbit/s on channel uplinks. "As workloads become more memory hungry we have added Intel's 5600 and 7500 Xeon processors to the new blades and rack mounts to offer four times the bandwidth... (Read Full Article)

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Carnegie Mellon University data center to host Open Cirrus HPC cluster

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Feb 23 2010) Cloud Computing

... around the world that comprise Open Cirrus, a test bed for cloud computing research created by HP, Intel and Yahoo! This is the second Open Cirrus cluster the university’s scientists will have had access ......frastructure is now deployed at 10 sites, including government and academic institutions in the US, Europe and Asia. This and other Open Cirrus sites will become available to researchers later this year. ... (Read Full Article)

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How Intel Manages 100,000 Servers

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 17 2010) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers

Chipmaker Intel has one of the largest data center management challenges on earth, with more than 100,000 servers h......0,000 square feet of new space in those eight sites, which will be strategically located in the US, Europe and Asia. The data center expansions will be built out using a modular structure, with each module ... (Read Full Article)

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New Data Centre To Help With Future Ecosystem

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jan 25 2010) Power and Cooling

...t plants and fauna are best suited for the region's climate in fifty years time. Speaking to eWEEK Europe, Stéphane Duproz – the country manager (France) for TelecityGroup – explained that the new data cen......in this capacity.” Only ten percent of computers have their power managed. It's time we did better, Intel's eco-tech manager told us,… (Read Full Article)

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IBM Says Green Spending Lets Companies Save Long Term

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jan 14 2010) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Fossil Fuel

... use less electric power -- thanks largely to new, cooler-running processors from companies such as Intel, AMD and QLogic. IBM's Global Services division also has been doing increasing business helping com......g whenever possible, and we're starting to look at smaller engines for our company vehicle fleet in Europe." Khattar of Oracle said his company has reduced its own considerable carbon footprint by 17 to 18 ... (Read Full Article)

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Intel to unveil energy-efficient, many-core research chip

Explore Computerworld (Nov 16 2009) Servers

early two years after unveiling its experimental 80-core chip, Intel Corp. is getting ready to show off its next incarnation of a high-powered, energy-efficient many-co......stry trends. This IDC White Paper presents the results of an IDC survey of 330 companies in Western Europe, Asia/Pacific and the Americas that measures the receptiveness to Linux and takes into consideratio... (Read Full Article)

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Green Experts Pour Cold Water On Sweating IT Assets

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Nov 12 2009) Carbon Footprint , Emissions

...s longer doesn't fit well with the "new shiny thing" fundamentals of the technology industry. eWeek Europe UK recently caught up with two experts in IT energy efficiency to discuss the issue. John Tuccillo ......uter Society data centre specialist group. The Green Grid is a consortium of IT vendors - including Intel, Microsoft and AMD - and end-users of IT, which aims to develop tools and approaches to help its me... (Read Full Article)

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