Greenpeace questions the green in clouds

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

... 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 got a D for energy t......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 ... (Read Full Article)

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Top 5 places to build a new data center

Explore GigaOM (Dec 10 2011) Cloud Computing

...xcellent access to various metropolitan areas, including New York City and Toronto. Ontario, Canada Forbes recently named Canada the best place in the world to do business. The Province of Ontario (in parti......nology workers, and a tech-friendly environment that has been encouraged by technology vendors like Microsoft (headquartered east of Seattle in Redmond). Colorado Although data centers are still found in major... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Facebook   Netherlands

Emerald plans new cloud cable to the US

Explore businessworld.ie (Dec 5 2011) Geothermal , Cloud Computing , Networking

...ro 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 bring much-needed investments and new jobs for gradu......erald lies in linking new locations, like Ireland, 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 global ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Norway

Ireland/Iceland Atlantic cable aims for data jobs

Explore 1450 WHTC Holland's Hometown Station (Dec 1 2011)

...nd 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 would bring much-needed investments and new jobs to the co......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 ... (Read Full Article)

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Ireland/Iceland to lay Atlantic cable

Explore businessworld.ie (Dec 1 2011) Geothermal , Cloud Computing , Networking

...ro 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 bring much-needed investments and new jobs to the co......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 ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Google

Rethinking IT

Explore Forbes.com (Feb 22 2010) Cloud Computing

...uture they hold 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......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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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.......nd you're going to make a decision as a buyer, well, who am I going to go with? I'm a going to be a Microsoft shop, an IBM shop, a ( GOOG - news - people ) shop or a ... (Read Full Article)

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How Green Is Green?

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

... power consumption. These are all green initiatives, but what exactly makes a data center green? Forbes posed that question to IBM ( IBM - news - people ) CIO Pat Toole. IBM claims to have two of the gre......an on the perceived return on investment. See Also: IBM: Back To The Future Cisco Software Takes On Microsoft, IBM IBM Bets On Beijing (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Cisco   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   IBM

The Death of the PC

Explore Forbes.com (Dec 10 2009) Cloud Computing

Throughout the computer industry companies of all sizes, from garage startups to Microsoft, are bracing for the possibility that their future will be in the hands of people like Sean Whetsto...... 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......e. For a small company with less than 30 people, that's easy to do. Most of these shops are already Microsoft ( MSFT - news - people ) shops running Exchange, so it's easy to add them into our ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Oracle   IBM

Microsoft's New Cloud Computing

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

... maybe less in developing nations with looser laws. With its stock down 50% over the past ten years Microsoft needs Azure to deliver faster than that. Special Offer: Free Trial Issue of Forbes (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 ......ns relevant to the high-performance computing environment. The other thing supporting this trend is Microsoft coming to the plate in high-performance computing. They're going to try to build into their develop... (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

... Storage, etc. Updated June 15, 2009 Program Overview [pdf] Video recordings are best viewed using Microsoft Internet Explorer Tuesday, June 16, 10:00 - 11:30am Session Chair: Jia Wang, AT&T Research Efficien......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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VMware Arms for Microsoft Battle

Explore Forbes.com (Jun 24 2009) Cloud Computing

Former Microsoft executives Paul Maritz and Tod Nielsen know a thing or two about how the software giant snuffs out ......uld run Mac programs. Users could easily toggle between the two. Special Offer: Free Trial Issue of Forbes (Read Full Article)

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