Greenpeace questions the green in clouds

Explore ITworld (May 1 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell , Solar

...he Clean Energy Index was a paltry 15.3 percent (for the record, others had lower scores, including Amazon, IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, and Salesforce.com), but had the highest usage of coal at 55.1 percent. Ap......r 5 from a fuel cell operation – a fraction of the power consumption at the site. According to this Forbes article, Apple disagrees. Apple says 60 percent of the power will be eventually ... (Read Full Article)

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Keeping Out The Bad Guys

Explore Forbes.com (May 3 2010) Cloud Computing

...biggest threats, how do they get in the door and how do you stop them? To shed light on this world, Forbes tapped Tom Pyke, former CIO of the U.S. Department of Energy. Prior to that, he was CIO for the Com...... National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory there are pilots well underway using Amazon and Google, where both administrative and scientific computing are being done out in ... (Read Full Article)

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Not Everything Will Move To The Cloud

Explore Forbes.com (Jan 4 2010) Cloud Computing

...nd-boggling 1 petabyte a month. So what better place to look at how data management is changing? Forbes caught up with John Engates, Rackspace's chief technology officer, to talk about the evolution and ......ne, and ( MSFT - news - people ) has Azure. All of those pooled together are nowhere near as big as Amazon's infrastructure-as-a-service, but as we head into the next decade and we have people adopting clou... (Read Full Article)

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Security In A Cloud

Explore Forbes.com (Dec 21 2009) Cloud Computing

...ey attempt to clean up their data centers by outsourcing some applications and virtualizing others. Forbes caught up with Art Coviello, president of RSA, the security division of EMC ( EMC - news - people )...... that wags the dog. How secure are clouds? If you're a systems integrator or a telco or a Google or Amazon that is offering some element of cloud services, you can bet that security and risk of ... (Read Full Article)

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The IT Side Of Acquisitions

Explore Forbes.com (Dec 7 2009) Cloud Computing

...en corporate acquisitions are thrown into the mix, each with its own flavor of these same problems? Forbes caught up with Carol Fawcett, vice president of global information services at Quest Software ( QSF...... desk in the cloud. It's a mix these days. But I'd worry about security if I moved everything to an Amazon type of cloud. The data center is one of the most complicated places on ... (Read Full Article)

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Microsoft's New Cloud Computing

Explore Forbes.com (Oct 29 2009) Construction , Cloud Computing

... of one computer processor and 15 cents a month for a gigabyte of storage. That is cheap, half what Amazon charges for some of its cloud computing. Can Microsoft get the same kinds of margins it is built on......ast ten years Microsoft needs Azure to deliver faster than that. Special Offer: Free Trial Issue of Forbes (Read Full Article)

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Old Data Create New Problems

Explore Forbes.com (Jul 13 2009) Cloud Computing

... quite sure what needs to be kept and what can be discarded. So how do you deal with this stuff? Forbes caught up with Tony Young, CIO of Informatica ( INFA - news - people ), a 16-year-old company that ...... estate requirements have not been growing. See Also: IT's Real Value Open Source Meets Health Care Amazon's Golden Cloud (Read Full Article)

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Amazon's Golden Cloud

Explore Forbes.com (Jun 29 2009) Cloud Computing

...ind out how that venture has progressed, where the challenges are and how customers think about the Amazon cloud. Forbes: What's the goal of your cloud services? Andy Jassy: What we're really doing is allowing other comp... (Read Full Article)

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