Data Center Operator CoreSite Names Chief Operating Officer

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Apr 10 2012) Cloud Computing

...ing officer Jarrett Appleby the company’s new chief operating officer, effective May 7. In a recent Gartner report, the North American market saw the highest cloud adoption rate with 60 percent of public clo...... cloud computing platform developer Eucalyptus Systems at its San Francisco data center, along with Amazon Web Services at its Los Angeles data center. Data Center Operator CoreSite Names Chief Operating Of... (Read Full Article)

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Pro-biz, green incentives give S'pore datacenter edge

Explore zdnetasia.com (Nov 3 2011) Cloud Computing

...naged hosting offerings closer to its customers and their end-users. Another public cloud provider, Amazon Web Services (AWS), which set up its data center here in April last year, cited similar reasons. Co......n the increased activity of cloud and managed hosting service providers moving into the city-state, Gartner's principal analyst Errol Rasit explained that there were two reasons for this trend. First, Singap... (Read Full Article)

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Extending the life of your data center

Explore The Voice of IT Management (Oct 11 2011) Cloud Computing

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How Cloud computing is changing data center design, cost

Explore Welcome to Techworld (Sep 20 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...applies pressure on vendors to accept less profit in return for volume. Astonishingly, according to Gartner analyst Jeffrey Hewitt, quoted in the article, this type of server accounts for 20 percent of the s......r capacity as needed. This is a really big deal. If you've seen people from AWS like Werner Vogels (Amazon CTO) or James Hamilton (AWS data center guru), they note that network equipment is one ... (Read Full Article)

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Europe Turns to the Cloud

Explore The New York Times (Jul 24 2011) Cloud Computing

...chnology. The company carries out more than 1,000 deliveries a day over a cloud network operated by Amazon, the U.S. Web retailer. Amazon.com, one of the world’s largest sellers of cloud services, helped clinch deals with Shutl and other Eur......e level of revenue in North America, where remote computing was developed and its biggest sellers — Amazon, Salesforce.com and Microsoft — are leading an industry that ... (Read Full Article)

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Corporate America Embraces The Green Data Server

Explore cnbc.com (Apr 21 2011)

...ing, capital costs for data centers by 2016. In addition, a March 2011 report from IT research firm Gartner points out that the growing lifespan of these data centers means operating costs are becoming cruci......and longevity." Since data centers form their biggest piece of infrastructure, internet giants like Amazon.com “It’s now becoming more of an issue in large-scale enterprise IT, with banks and retailers now star... (Read Full Article)

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Is Savvis positioning to be bought?

Explore greenm3.com (Feb 10 2011)

...is Savvis selling their capabilities. Is Savvis positioning to be bought? * February 9 - Dave Ohara Amazon buys Dublin building as future data center * February 9 - Dave Ohara How I use Twitter, RSS, and a ......tranet Web content and applications, continues to grow.” Please fill out the form below to read the Gartner report compliments of Savvis. A lot of this being driven by Verizon's acquisition of Terremark a Sa... (Read Full Article)

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Cloud Careers: New Titles and Tasks Emerge

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Dec 13 2010) Cloud Computing

...er Architect. Cloud Service Brokers BusinessWeek reports on cloud service brokers, referencing the Gartner report saying that through 2014 cloud service brokerage will generate more than $5 billion in sales......ses impelement, build and manage mission critical cloud solutions using salesforce.com, Google and Amazon. (Read Full Article)

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What the Private Cloud will bring? Really Bad $h*!

Explore greenm3.com (Dec 7 2010) Cloud Computing

...s customers to make good cloudsourcing decisions and transitions in the future. I had a full day at Gartner DC LV conference.  At the end of the day I got a good question on what I saw in the future.  Cloud ...... organizations with this skill set are only a handful - Google, Microsoft, VMware, Yahoo, Facebook, Amazon, etc.  Maybe at the most 6% of the installed base has these skills and ... (Read Full Article)

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Beyond the data centre

Explore Business Technology Leadership (Nov 11 2010)

Gartner analysts estimate the global information and communications technology (ICT) industry accounts for ...... the move to “bits instead of atoms” is unstoppable and, if you think about Apple’s iBooks store or Amazon’s Kindle platform, the meaning of Ogilvie’s claim becomes clear. “A lot of things can be replaced w... (Read Full Article)

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Rackspace Plans UK Cloud Services

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (May 19 2010) Cloud Computing

...ers want to combine dedicated servers with cloud” Rackspace’s cloud offering competes strongly with Amazon’s EC2 offering, because it allows users to combine dedicated hosted servers with a virtualised ...... ten percent in the cloud, but the cloud business more than doubled during 2009, and analyst group Gartner has predicted that as much as 20 percent of organisations will no longer own their IT assets by 201... (Read Full Article)

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The Polarization of the Data Center Industry (at least for now): Part 1 of 2

Explore TechNet Blogs (Dec 9 2009) Monitoring , Power and Cooling

...ir IT operations (which by the way are likely to be huge operations such as Microsoft, Yahoo, Ebay, Amazon, Google, etc.) – are further to the left on the graph because it has such a large impact on profita......ations. So in the short term, there appears to be this polarization that has occurred. However, to Gartner’s point, this could all change if energy costs increase substantially or carbon taxes ... (Read Full Article)

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Data center design 101

Explore ZDNet Technology News (Oct 23 2009) Construction , Cloud Computing

...visions dancing around. The field: Cisco, Oracle, HP, IBM and VMware. You can toss Dell, Microsoft, Amazon and Google into the mix too. The big takeaways from Gartner’s talk on the vendor data center vision are: * Don’t get locked into anything proprietary; * The te... (Read Full Article)

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Bt moves infrastructure into the cloud

Explore Top stories (Jun 19 2009) Cloud Computing

...erprise-class services" in its cloud-computing package, the company said. Whereas companies such as Amazon base their cloud strategy on the web, VDC is more about setting up private clouds within the enterp......en. Pricing depends on specific customer requirements. Scott Morrison, a research vice president in Gartner's enterprise network services division, described VDC as a "hybrid" that allows BT to take advantag... (Read Full Article)

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