Greenpeace questions the green in clouds

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

... 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. Apple g......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 delivered ... (Read Full Article)

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IBM targets China as biggest data center market

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...rvices. “This year China will probably be a bigger customer for (new data centers) than the U.S.” Forbes interviews IBM to discuss data centers in China. Dec. 6 2010 - 9:23 pm | 1,559 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comme... (Read Full Article)

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Next-Generation Data Centers

Explore Forbes.com (Mar 15 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

...economic reality inside most companies. It's simply too expensive. So what exactly is different? Forbes sat down with Steve Sams, vice president of site and facilities services at IBM ( IBM - news - people ), to find out. Cloud computing may be getting the headlines, but that hasn't dimin... (Read Full Article)

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Rethinking IT

Explore Forbes.com (Feb 22 2010) Cloud Computing

...ld the potential to completely reshape computing. What used to be a world dominated by Microsoft or IBM could well transform into one dominated by middleware that reaches well beyond a corporation's corp......e most fundamental shifts in the history of corporate computing. To help shed light on this change, Forbes caught up with Pat Gelsinger, president and COO for EMC's ( EMC - news - people ) information infra... (Read Full Article)

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VeriSign On Data Consolidation

Explore Forbes.com (Feb 4 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

... data center setups and combining them into a larger, more centralized operation. Silva talked with Forbes about winnowing its infrastructure and what that means for employees and customers. BURLINGAME, Cal...... thinks should be running through there. See Also: IT's Transformational Year Chevron's IT Strategy IBM's Advice To CIOs (Read Full Article)

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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 (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 ...... say no to custom hardware that people want to ship us. They may have 500 Linux servers and one old IBM AS/400 or a RISC system HP built in 1994. While that opportunity looks great ... (Read Full Article)

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Building Your IT From Scratch

Explore Forbes.com (Dec 14 2009) Construction

... know-how about how to run its business--but no IT infrastructure or business processes of its own. Forbes caught up with Senad Hadzic, CIO of KaMin LLC, to talk about the new company’s IT strategy. Arti......s. Contact him at esperlin@mac.com. See Also: The IT Side Of Acquisitions Mastering Data Management IBM: Back To The Future (Read Full Article)

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How Green Is Green?

Explore Forbes.com (Dec 11 2009) Monitoring , Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers

...all power consumption. These are all green initiatives, but what exactly makes a data center green? Forbes posed that question to ( IBM - news - people ) CIO Pat Toole. IBM claims to have two of the greenest data centers. So how do you prove it? You can't. "There are no i... (Read Full Article)

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The Death of the PC

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...ale, Fla. had its origins in the world of clerical computing. The company was founded in 1989 by an IBM software veteran and has revenues of $1.6 billion and a $7.2 billion market cap. The VMware-Citrix ...... that hasn't been met." Sidebar: Virtualization Versus the Cloud Special Offer: Free Trial Issue of Forbes (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......t's the same with creating the [Active Directory] accounts. Related Stories Intel's Cloud Chip IBM: Back To The Future The .Gov Waiting Game The Next War Over IT Beyond The Anti-Virus Arms Race ... (Read Full Article)

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Intel's Cloud Chip

Explore Forbes.com (Dec 7 2009) Cloud Computing , Servers

...of pushing decentralization in the data center, the pendulum is decidedly swinging the other way. ( IBM - news - people ) is making money with mainframes again, and ( INTC - news - people ) is preparing ......terally dozens of cores on the same machine. Justin Rattner, Intel's chief technology officer, told Forbes that the reason for the shift is that the real concern is no longer the price of a server. It's the... (Read Full Article)

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IBM: Back To The Future

Explore Forbes.com (Nov 23 2009) Cloud Computing

...about what's different and why--and how the CIO's job ultimately will be affected by these changes. Forbes: What's changed inside IBM's data center? Toole: We've consolidated from 150 data centers down to five. We've been able to do ... (Read Full Article)

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Aiming At Cisco, HP Grabs 3Com

Explore Forbes.com (Nov 11 2009) Networking

... venture with EMC and VMware it's calling Acadia. (See: "Cisco, EMC, VMware: A Deal That Matters.") IBM, for its part, has partnered with networking companies Juniper and Brocade to resell their hardware......mer 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 momentum to 3Com's Western push. And ... (Read Full Article)

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Cisco And EMC Cool Merger Rumors

Explore Forbes.com (Nov 3 2009) Cloud Computing

...1.2%. Tidbits quotes the best of the day's news in a byte-sized format. E-mail the writer at tbuley@forbes.com or follow him on Twitter. See Also: IBM's Uneven Recovery Cisco Preps For Recovery One-Upping Cisco (Read Full Article)

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Microsoft's New Cloud Computing

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

...ith 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 storage; it also s......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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Another Kind Of Data Mining

Explore Forbes.com (Oct 26 2009) Servers

...and for considering what needs to change in the overall data center world. So what have they found? Forbes caught up with Chuck Doughty, Iron Mountain's vice president of engineering to find out. There are ......the industry is seeing server failures. See Also: Smaller, Faster, Cheaper Changing Tech's ROI What IBM Knows About CIOs (Read Full Article)

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Supercomputing In The Enterprise

Explore Forbes.com (Sep 28 2009) Cloud Computing , Servers , Supercomputer

...orate data centers. In an ironic twist, that approach to computing is now being used to save money. Forbes caught up with Michael Jackson, president and COO of Adaptive Computing, to discuss what's changed ......makes a lot of sense. Right now it's more an awareness issue than anything else, and companies like IBM and HP are out in the market working on that. See Also: Supercomputing For Rent ... (Read Full Article)

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Questions That Need Asking

Explore Forbes.com (Sep 7 2009)

..."To get the right answer you've got to ask the right questions," he said in a recent interview with Forbes. "The big car companies aren't asking the right questions." This problem isn't unique to automotive......et in trouble for asking the right questions. The old adage that no one ever got fired for buying ( IBM - news - people ) can now safely be applied to HP, Oracle, ( CSCO - news ... (Read Full Article)

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Videos from Sigmetrics 2009 are now posted

Explore ACM SIGMETRICS (Jul 20 2009) Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing , Networking , Servers

...Carnegie Mellon University, US); Mor Harchol-Balter (Carnegie Mellon University, US); Rajarshi Das (IBM, US); Charles Lefurgy (IBM, US) Evaluating the Impact of Job Scheduling and Power Management on Processor Lifetime for Chip Mu......oiseau (Université de Lyon, FR); Paulo Gonçalves (INRIA, FR); Stéphane Girard (INRIA, FR); Florence Forbes (INRIA, FR); Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet (INRIA, FR) Modeling Channel Popularity Dynamics in a Large... (Read Full Article)

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Super Secret Encryption

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The computer science problems that earned Craig Gentry his job at IBM sound a bit like Zen koans. Could Google search the Web without knowing what it was looking for? Ca...... of computations. Read William Baldwin's Sidelines On This Story Special Offer: Free Trial Issue of Forbes (Read Full Article)

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Supercomputing For Rent

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...n six weeks to simulate a mere three seconds of a one-minute run. Instead, the team turned to an IBM supercomputer capable of crunching the same three-second simulation over the course of a single aft......ers streamlined its contours, thus minimizing those drag points. Special Offer: Free Trial Issue of Forbes (Read Full Article)

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