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Ireland/Iceland Atlantic cable aims for data jobs
Explore 1450 WHTC Holland's Hometown Station (Dec 1 2011)
... will help it to benefit from its renewable hydro and geothermal energy resources for data centers. Google Inc is building a data center in Dublin and Microsoft Corp already has one in the city. The centers......erald lies in linking new locations, like Iceland, with a fast connection. Sembler said a few dozen Forbes 500 companies have already studied setting up a data center in Iceland. One of the first ...
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Ireland/Iceland to lay Atlantic cable
Explore businessworld.ie (Dec 1 2011) Geothermal , Cloud Computing , Networking
... will help it to benefit from its renewable hydro and geothermal energy resources for data centres. Google is building a data centre in Dublin and Microsoft already has one in the city. The centres would br......erald lies in linking new locations, like Iceland, with a fast connection. Sembler said a few dozen Forbes 500 companies have already studied setting up a data centre in Iceland. One of the first ...
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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...... same time the Department of Energy is piloting the use of an external cloud. Headquarters is using Google Apps. And at Argonne National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley ...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Google Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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Running Clouds, Chasing Cisco
Explore Forbes.com (Apr 19 2010) Cloud Computing
... as demands grow. To read more of Quentin Hardy's stories, click here. Contact the writer at qhardy@forbes.com. See Also: Google's Horseless Carriage Kickfire's Cheap Data Mining Google Remakes Apps
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Comment Mentions: Google Cisco Juniper Networks
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IT's Transformational Year
Explore Forbes.com (Jan 26 2010) Cloud Computing
... be a transformational year for IT, with new computing models taking hold and new leaders emerging. Forbes Associate Editor Victoria Barret caught up with Gens recently to discuss the changing IT landscape.......y of doing IT. To read more of Victoria Barret's stories, click here. Contact the writer at vbarret@forbes.com. See Also: Chevron's IT Strategy IBM's Advice To CIOs Symantec's Storage Solution
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Warming Up To Iceland
Explore Forbes.com (Jan 11 2010) Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Geothermal
... power and cooling is cheaper has been under way for the better part of a decade.
Companies like Google ( GOOG - news - people ) and Microsoft ( MSFT - news - people ) are locating data centers in the co......ays cool.
Data centers are expected to move to even more extreme locations over the next decade. Forbes caught up with Tate Cantrell, chief technology officer at Verne Global--a data center developer bas...
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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 )......e the tail 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 ...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Google Forbes
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The Death of the PC
Explore Forbes.com (Dec 10 2009) Cloud Computing
...Palo Alto, Calif. grew out of the Stanford University engineering environs that also gave the world Google, Sun and Silicon Graphics. Its market capitalization of $17 billion alongside revenues of only $1.9...... that hasn't been met." Sidebar: Virtualization Versus the Cloud Special Offer: Free Trial Issue of Forbes
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Microsoft's New Cloud Computing
Explore Forbes.com (Oct 29 2009) Construction , Cloud Computing
...in, of course, with e-mail and word processing and with ways that companies can develop software on Google's cloud. IBM aims to fly big corporations into the cloud. It just announced online e-mail and stora......ast ten years Microsoft needs Azure to deliver faster than that. Special Offer: Free Trial Issue of Forbes
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Fujitsu Google
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Data Centers In The Desert
Explore Forbes.com (Jun 15 2009) Fossil Fuel , Cloud Computing
... are no cool winds blowing through as there are in the Columbia River Gorge in the Northwest, where Google is building a state-of-the-art facility.
But that hasn't stopped most of the major banks and som......nd some of the other large corporations in America from situating data centers in the Phoenix area. Forbes caught up with Anthony Wanger, president of i/o Data Centers, to discuss the reasons. Forbes ...
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