Debunking the Carbon Reduction Myth

Explore kernelmag.com (Apr 16 2012) Carbon Footprint , Carbon Reduction Commitment

... utility provider. This need to measure power consumption is most acute in the data centre. Indeed, IDC reports that approximately 40 per cent of today’s data centre costs are power-related, and predicts......facilities close to clean power supplies (and therefore away from the metropolitan areas of Western Europe), network improvements have rendered these concerns obsolete; now all but the very latency-sensitiv... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Greenpeace   Iceland   Europe

Rackspace Adds Private Edition Cloud, Acquires SharePoint911

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 17 2012) Cloud Computing

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Data Center Knowledge   Interactive Data Corporation

Executive Hirings: Dca, Id Group, CoreLink, 8 Solutions

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jan 24 2012)

...r to Chair Data Center Alliance: Guy Willner, Founder & CEO of the International Data Centre Group (IDC-G), has been appointed as the new chairman of the board of governors of the Data Centre Alliance (D......the operations of over 20 data centres across 15 countries including the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe. The diversity of insight gained will be invaluable in our overall objectives in contributing to s... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Interactive Data Corporation   LEED

CentriLogic Opens New Data Center in Toronto

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Dec 16 2011) Cloud Computing

... Ontario and Western New York, with expansion programs in place at facilities in Western Canada and Europe. Growth Seen for Ontario Market “It is expected that the Canadian hosting market will grow 11% in ......arket will grow 11% in 2012,” said Mark Schrutt, Director, Services & Enterprise Applications, for IDC Canada. “Ontario is the largest segment and Toronto is particularly strong due to heavy demand, ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Interactive Data Corporation

Beijing hopes to dominate cloud computing with “Cloud Valley”

Explore SmartPlanet (Dec 16 2011) Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing

...e country’s cloud computing market is expected to grow by 30% this year, according to research firm IDC. Beijing hopes to dominate cloud computing with “Cloud Valley” By Tom Hancock | December 16, 2011, ......Valley’s engineers have returned to China after working for IT firms and universities in the US and Europe, and Supercloud’s CEO studied computing in California. The Valley has managed to attract foreign fi... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Europe   Google

HP Sees Enterprise Momentum for POD Modules

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Dec 15 2011) Construction , Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing

...investing to expand its production capacity for its modular units, including PODWorks facilities in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. To illustrate the growth of its POD business, HP today identified c......ar in power costs. How big is the market? HP isn’t disclosing its sales, but noted a projection by IDC analyst Michelle Bailey that modular deployments will rise from 144 units this year to about 220 un... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Sun Microsystems   Interactive Data Corporation

Colt and Verne Global Introduce World’s First Dual Sourced 100% Renewably Powered Data Centre in Iceland inShare

Explore Telecom Review (Dec 10 2011)

... and environmental impact," said Katie Broderick, Senior Research Analyst, Servers and Datacenters, IDC. "Renewable power will continue to play an important role and, as the market evolves, Verne Global'...... for up to 20 years – a significant consideration in light of rising long-term electricity costs in Europe, the UK and US. All of the electricity comes from two sources of 100% renewable energy, geothermal ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

SoftLayer Will Invest $75 Million in Europe

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Oct 25 2011) Cloud Computing , Networking

...hailing from coming from more than 140 countries. “This launch strengthens our foothold across Europe by bringing our services closer to our existing and expanding customer base,” said Lance Crosby, Ch......unity for providing hosting and cloud solutions is still in its infancy,” said Melanie A. Posey, IDC Research Vice President, Hosting & Managed Network Services. “Companies like SoftLayer are taking t... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Netherlands   Interactive Data Corporation

Colt manufactures and ships data centre to Iceland

Explore telecomkh (Oct 14 2011)

Verne Global opens for business enabled by Colt´s Modular Data Centre Colt, Europe’s leading information delivery platform, announced that Verne Global, a data centre developer and o......oject and shows how the industry is transforming,” commented Chris Ingle, Associate Vice President, IDC. “Verne Global's Iceland location and dual source renewable energy provides a combination of sustai... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

RIM Struggles to Overcome BlackBerry Outages

Explore The New York Times (Oct 13 2011)

...hone but also operates the worldwide BlackBerry network, said on its Web site that services across Europe, the Middle East and Africa had improved significantly, and that services in the United States, C......ommanded 46 percent of the market share for mobile devices around the world, according to data from IDC, a research firm. But by the first half of 2011, that hold had weakened under the surging popularit... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Europe   Gartner

Colt manufactures and ships 500m(2) data centre to Iceland

Explore MarketWatch.com (Sep 27 2011) Construction , Carbon Footprint

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

Buildings house secret servers that keep net humming

Explore usatoday.com (Sep 22 2011)

... data centers around the world, 7,000 of them in the USA, says Michelle Bailey, a vice president at IDC, a market research company that monitors the industry. Growth stalled during the recession, but her......rust, which bought the building in 2005, owns 96 properties, most of them data centers, in the USA, Europe and Asia, Caron says. There is, he says, "a lot of demand" and the company expects ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Amazon.com   Europe

Fujitsu Offers Free Three-Month Ride on its Cloud

Explore Home | SYS-CON MEDIA (May 24 2011) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing

...rkloads such as data analytics. The trial offers five VMs and 1TB of storage. The company points to IDC’s prediction that 80% of new enterprise applications will be developed for the cloud this year an......the turnkey Microsoft Azure platform appliance and services that go around it for sale in Japan and Europe. See http://solutions.us.fujitsu.com/cloud-beta-trial. Unlike Amazon, registrants can expect a back... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Fujitsu   Europe

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......by as much as 70 percent. IBM’s efforts are working. According to market research firms Gartner and IDC, in the third quarter IBM saw revenue growth in its System z business. IDC gave much of the ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Intel   IBM

Google to open $1billion data center in India?

Explore India news, World news (Nov 1 2010)

...to reports, Google has more than 19 locations in the US where it operates data centres, about 12 in Europe, one in Russia, one in South America, and three in Asia. Not all locations are dedicated Google dat......The data centre demand is at an all time high, especially in India which according to research firm IDC data is growing at over 35%. Data centre providers such as Netmagic are ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Google   Cisco

AT&T Opens New London Data Center

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Oct 7 2010) Cloud Computing , Networking

AT&T is opening of a second London IDC (Internet data center) to meet growing demand in the region for its hosting services. The data cent......and in hosting services for our European customers,” said Andrew Edison, head of AT&T’s business in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). “It forms part of our plan to invest $1 billion this year to meet t... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Netherlands   Interactive Data Corporation

Digital Realty Trust Guarantees Data Center Construction Pricing and Delivery

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Sep 7 2010) Construction , Cloud Computing

...s projects involving a wholesale data center provider. Michelle Bailey, research vice president for IDC's enterprise platforms and data center trends, explained that designing and constructing data cente...... move-in-ready dedicated data center. It is available in increments ranging from 720kW to 2160kW in Europe and 1125kW to 8100kW in the US, and features a dedicated power and mechanical backplane. Each T... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Data Center Knowledge   Interactive Data Corporation

RackForce Completes Upgrade of GigaCenter Data Center

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Jul 6 2010) Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing

...IS San Diego Data Center News: Public IT Cloud Services Expected to Grow to More Than $55B by 2014: IDC Report (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Data center Operator and Infrastructure-as-a-S......r coverage of the web hosting industry. From a purely news standpoint, it is very possible to treat Europe in more or less the same way that we treat North America - that is, report the facts, ask the right... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   RackForce   Interactive Data Corporation

Study of U.S. Data Center Industry Indicates Widespread Expansion of ...

Explore news.moneycentral.msn.com (Mar 3 2010) Construction , Emissions

...etailed presentation of the survey results will take place in a webinar on March 15, 2010 featuring IDC Vice President Michelle Bailey and Digital Realty Trust senior executive Chris Crosby. To register ......development, Digital Realty Trust's portfolio is located in 27 markets throughout North America and Europe. For additional information, please visit Digital Realty Trust's website at http://www.digitalrealt... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Interactive Data Corporation

Iceland: New Hot Spot for Data Centers?

Explore CIO.com (Nov 17 2009) Construction , Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Geothermal , Hydro

...y not always be enough, the analyst says. While the latest project, DANICE, will connect Iceland to Europe via a 5.1 terabit-per-second cable, only having a few choices reduces competition and can raise cos......enter requires a forward-thinking strategy that encompasses a broad range of new technologies. This IDC white paper discusses the growing complexity of datacenter management, which is causing escalating ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Iceland   Europe

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

Explore Computerworld (Nov 16 2009) Servers

... punish solutions that are not cost competitive or that are out of synch with industry 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)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Intel   Gartner

Aiming At Cisco, HP Grabs 3Com

Explore Forbes.com (Nov 11 2009) Networking

...so-called "China Out" strategy, marketing its H3C products directly against Cisco's in the U.S. and Europe. (See: "Cisco's Threat From China.") Until now, analysts have argued that 3Com's biggest barrier to......fondly of the company. "Some former customers I talk to still scream when they even hear the name," IDC analyst Abner Germanow told Forbes in July. But HP's brand and marketing muscle could give ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Cisco   Hewlett Packard

CitiGroup Leeds by example

Explore Computerworld (Oct 19 2009) Carbon Footprint , Emissions

... punish solutions that are not cost competitive or that are out of synch with industry 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)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Network World   IBM

Emerson examines everything

Explore Computerworld (Oct 19 2009) Construction

... punish solutions that are not cost competitive or that are out of synch with industry 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)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Intel   Cisco