1. Articles mentioning both Gartner and Facebook

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    1. Nordic Countries Increasingly Attractive as Sites for Data Centers

      Explore The New York Times (Apr 30 2012)

      Nordic Countries Increasingly Attractive as Sites for Data Centers At the edge of this small northern city, in a thicket of trees and hardened snow, a future hub of Facebook’s global data traffic is taking shape.Scaffolding still clings to its exterior, but soon, the struc...... a lot of innovation once they’re built,” said David Cappuccio, chief of infrastructure research at Gartner. On the other hand, he said, “You get a million-square-foot data center built, so you ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   The New York Times   Iceland

    2. Large Data Center Coming to India, as Regional Demand Booms

      Explore pcworld.com (Feb 7 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

      Large Data Center Coming to India, as Regional Demand Booms ...ed to touch 6.6 million square feet by 2016, with service providers driving majority of the growth, Gartner said in November. The data center colocation and hosting market in India is estimated to reach US$6......on Twitter at @Johnribeiro. John's e-mail address is john_ribeiro@idg.com Prepare Your Business for Facebook Mobile Ads Facebook Mobile ads are rumored to arrive in March. Here are five things I ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Gartner   Hewlett Packard   Facebook

    3. Gartner: Build your own datacentre rather than hosting

      Explore ComputerWeekly.com (Nov 28 2011) Servers

      Comment "It’s startling that in today’s volatile environment Gartner is prescribing such a high risk strategy. Building your own datacentre means ..." - ControlCircle

      Gartner: Build your own datacentre rather than hosting ...n datacentre costs around £25m to construct. Hosted services are becoming very expensive, he said. Gartner estimates the cost of renting rackspace in a hosted datacentre is doubling every two years. “If y......ild your own datacentre rather than hosting Cliff Saran * A * AA * AAA * Print * Email * Reprints * Facebook * LinkedIn * Share This * Google +1 * Tweet Despite the hype around cloud and hosting, more organis... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Gartner   Facebook

    4. New Approaches to the Green Data Center

      Explore itbusinessedge.com (Nov 24 2011) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Wind

      New Approaches to the Green Data Center ...gatons of carbon emissions per year and is on pace to more than quadruple by 2020. In dollar terms, Gartner reports that the cost to cool a 25,000-square-foot data center now tops out at $4.1 million per yea......hy we're seeing such a wide range of ever-more exotic solutions to the data center's green problem. Facebook, for example, wanted to go big with its latest European ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Europe   Gartner   Google

    5. Gartner: Top Ten Trends for CIOs, Infrastructure, the Enterprise

      Explore cmswire.com (Nov 17 2011) Cloud Computing , Storage

      ...ncreasingly tight regulation from the EPA, companies are factoring that into the cost of computing. Gartner: Top Ten Trends for CIOs, Infrastructure, the Enterprise By David Roe (@druadh20) Nov 17, 2011 In......is research, points out that: * In the past month alone, 30 billion pieces of content were added to Facebook * IP traffic will quadruple by 2015 * 107 trillion emails were sent this year (89% of which was spa... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Gartner   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   Facebook

    6. Facebook joins the Arctic crowd

      Explore money.cnn.com (Oct 28 2011)

      Facebook joins the Arctic crowd ...abundant cold air to cool their servers, cutting expensive air-conditioning out of the equation. Facebook, the latest tech company to take the polar plunge, announced this week that it will build a data ce......ming financial advantages" to building in the far north, according to Rakesh Kumar, an analyst with Gartner. Utilizing free outside air can result in "tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions [of dollar... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   New York Times   Iceland   Europe

    7. How Cloud computing is changing data center design, cost

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

      How Cloud computing is changing data center design, cost ...long rectangles with a long side facing the prevailing wind side, thereby allowing natural cooling. Facebook, in its open compute design, places air intakes and outputs on the second floor so that cool air ca......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... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Gartner   Brocade

    8. How Cloud Computing Is Changing Data Center Designs and Costs

      Explore CIO.com (Sep 16 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

      How Cloud Computing Is Changing Data Center Designs and Costs ...long rectangles with a long side facing the prevailing wind side, thereby allowing natural cooling. Facebook, in its open compute design, places air intakes and outputs on the second floor so that cool air ca......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... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Gartner   Oracle   Brocade

    9. Cloud changing face of data centers

      Explore zdnetasia.com (Apr 18 2011) Cloud Computing

      Cloud changing face of data centers ...who also share their vision of next-generation data centers. In a statement released last month, Gartner highlighted cloud computing as one of the four factors that will change datacenter space requiremen....../bit.ly/fQ8iXu RT @KevinDMcNabb: Twitter: Too many cooks could spoil this bird http://bit.ly/g7Qrpf Facebook targets businesses to turn popularity into profit in SE Asia http://bit.ly/fW0b96 Twitter: Too many... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Gartner   Hewlett Packard   Facebook

    10. Twitter makes major investment in IT infrastructure, hires eBay VP of Technical Ops Mazen Rawashdeh

      Explore greenm3.com (Mar 23 2011) Cloud Computing

      Twitter makes major investment in IT infrastructure, hires eBay VP of Technical Ops Mazen Rawashdeh ...had let go of its previous Manager of Operations, Nick Heyman, in December. Heyman was a veteran of Facebook, Playdom and Zazzle. For those of you who don’t know Mazen here is information you can read to ...... can read to find out what he has done at eBay. Mazen gave a keynote presentation in Dec 2010 at Gartner’s Data Center Conference where he discussed eBay’s accomplishments. Mazen ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Gartner   Facebook   eBay

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

      Explore greenm3.com (Dec 7 2010) Cloud Computing

      What the Private Cloud will bring? Really Bad $h*! ...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 ......mber of IT 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 ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Gartner   Google

    12. Data Growth Most Pressing Enterprise Concern, Gartner Warns

      Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Nov 1 2010) Cloud Computing , Storage

      Data Growth Most Pressing Enterprise Concern, Gartner Warns ...ned about data growth * By: Chris Preimesberger * November 1, 2010 Tags: data centre, data storage, gartner, unstructurered data Add to digg Add to Facebook Add to LinkedIn Add to reddit Add to Slashdot Add to Stumble Upon Add to Technorati Add to Twitter ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Gartner Research   Gartner   Facebook

    13. Gartner drops Green Data Center as top 10 strategy for 2011

      Explore greenm3.com (Oct 19 2010)

      Gartner drops Green Data Center as top 10 strategy for 2011 ... Greenpeace?  Now that would be a funny meeting to sit in. Maybe Greenpeace should start protesting Gartner for not making 100% renewable energy a a corporate IT requirement in addition to going after Facebook.  Let's see when Gartner changes its tune when government regulations mandate carbon reduction in IT. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Greenpeace   Gartner   Facebook

    14. Federal Data Center Consolidation Just Became More Difficult

      Explore Relocate (Oct 14 2010) Cloud Computing

      Federal Data Center Consolidation Just Became More Difficult ... Down from the Clouds » In a report that may distress stakeholders in the cloud computing industry, Gartner predicts in its Hype Cycle report fo... Buying Carbon? » Looking at the labels on the products we ...... the products we buy is a conscious action for most of us. Whether we are looking for cosmetics ... Facebook and Privacy: Get Over It » Perhaps the best thing that can be said with regard to privacy ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Gartner   Facebook

    15. IDC: Cloud To Create ‘Radical’ Shift For Outsourcers

      Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Oct 11 2010) Cloud Computing

      IDC: Cloud To Create ‘Radical’ Shift For Outsourcers ...* By: Matthew Broersma * October 11, 2010 Tags: Cloud, HP, IBM, idc, outsourcing Add to digg Add to Facebook Add to LinkedIn Add to reddit Add to Slashdot Add to Stumble Upon Add to Technorati Add to Twitter ......ending in 2010 set to have been spent on external cloud services, according to a report released by Gartner last month. The survey found that 39 percent of respondents worldwide indicated they allocated ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Fujitsu   Gartner   Accenture

    16. Regulations and Security Concerns Hinder Asia’s Move to Cloud Computing

      Explore The New York Times (Oct 11 2010) Cloud Computing

      Regulations and Security Concerns Hinder Asia’s Move to Cloud Computing ...d $68.3 billion that cloud computing will bring in globally in 2010, according to the research firm Gartner. And for every case of avid adoption, as in Singapore, there are other countries where acceptance i......” Adoption of cloud computing in China is also held back by regulation. Beijing, which also blocks Facebook, prohibits companies from storing their data offshore, meaning they can use data centers only insid... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Gartner   Oracle   Hewlett Packard

    17. Data Centre Launches ‘Eco-friendly’ Facility

      Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jul 1 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

      Data Centre Launches ‘Eco-friendly’ Facility ... By: Miya Knights * July 1, 2010 Tags:Blue Chip, Carbon Trust, green data centre Add to digg Add to Facebook Add to LinkedIn Add to reddit Add to Slashdot Add to Stumble Upon Add to Technorati Add to Twitter ......quipment – providing savings of over £20m a year, as well as 140,000 tonnes of CO2.” Simon Mingay, Gartner research vice president told eWEEK Europe that, like “free” air-cooling systems, evaporative ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Europe   Gartner   Facebook

    18. Rackspace Plans UK Cloud Services

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

      Rackspace Plans UK Cloud Services ... centre in Slough * By: admin * May 19, 2010 Tags:Cloud, hosting, PUE, Rackspace Add to digg Add to Facebook Add to LinkedIn Add to reddit Add to Slashdot Add to Stumble Upon Add to Technorati Add to Twitter ...... 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 ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Europe   Gartner

    19. Gartner: Data Centres Set For Fresh Headaches

      Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (May 13 2010) Servers

      Comment "Red Vista have found that companies are now keen to look at outsourcing and hosting where they can secure a ..." - 1173carld

      Gartner: Data Centres Set For Fresh Headaches ...quipment * By: Tom Jowitt * May 13, 2010 Tags:data centre, data centre cooling, data centre space, gartner, power Add to digg Add to Facebook Add to LinkedIn Add to reddit Add to Slashdot Add to Stumble Upon Add to Technorati Add to Twitter ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Gartner   Facebook

    20. HP Launches New Servers And Finance Advice

      Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (May 11 2010) Cloud Computing

      HP Launches New Servers And Finance Advice ...ement is all about finding ways to pay for them * By: Peter Judge * May 11, 2010 Add to digg Add to Facebook Add to LinkedIn Add to reddit Add to Slashdot Add to Stumble Upon Add to Technorati Add to Twitter ...... models, and increasing performance-per-Watt by 27 times. But all vendors have fast servers, and Gartner has predicted that users will buy fewer of them. HP also launched a new ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Gartner   Hewlett Packard   Facebook

    21. Report Points To Growing Importance Of Virtual Desktops

      Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Apr 20 2010) Cloud Computing

      Report Points To Growing Importance Of Virtual Desktops ...st in virtualising corporate desktops * By: Chris Preimesberger * April 20, 2010 Add to digg Add to Facebook Add to LinkedIn Add to reddit Add to Slashdot Add to Stumble Upon Add to Technorati Add to Twitter ...... been Nos. 1 and 2 in the VDI market for the past several years, according to IT research companies Gartner, IDC, The 451 Group and Forrester. Client/Server A Thing Of The Past The ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Forrester Research   Gartner   Hewlett Packard

    22. Greening the Internet: How much CO2 does this article produce?

      Explore news.myjoyonline.com (Jul 12 2009) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Cloud Computing

      Greening the Internet: How much CO2 does this article produce? ... studies have highlighted the growing energy demands of computers. A 2007 report from research firm Gartner, for example, estimates the manufacturing, use and disposal of information and communications techn......ssive buildings housing hundreds, if not thousands, of power hungry servers storing everything from Facebook photos and YouTube videos to company web sites and personal emails -- are often labeled as the wors... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Gartner   Google   Yahoo

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