Nordic Countries Increasingly Attractive as Sites for Data Centers

Explore The New York Times (Apr 30 2012)

...d hardened snow, a future hub of Facebook’s global data traffic is taking shape. Add to Portfolio * Google Inc Go to your Portfolio » Scaffolding still clings to its exterior, but soon, the structure will b...... 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 get a ... (Read Full Article)

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How "Bring Your Own Device" Is Greening The Enterprise

Explore news.thomasnet.com (Jan 10 2012)

...he two devices share an operating system. (Computerworld points out that the same cannot be said of Google’s Android, since that operating system varies so wildly from device to device, making standardizati......s (so playing Angry Birds in the Pentagon isn’t an option). While a recent study from analyst group Gartner notes that 90 percent of organizations will support corporate applications on personal devices by 2... (Read Full Article)

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New Approaches to the Green Data Center

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

...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......hat the abundance of trees on the property will actually make it carbon negative. At the same time, Google is investing heavily in wind energy production, a move that it ... (Read Full Article)

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

Explore zdnetasia.com (Nov 3 2011) Cloud Computing

Google, for one, announced on Sep. 28 that it was putting together its blueprint for a data center in Sing......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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Facebook joins the Arctic crowd

Explore money.cnn.com (Oct 28 2011)

...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......d. Facebook's Swedish data center will have company from other tech giants in Scandinavia. In 2009, Google ( , Fortune 500) bought a defunct paper mill in Hamina, Finland, and converted it into a data cente... (Read Full Article)

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Microsoft Launches Cloud Suite, Office 365

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jun 28 2011)

...posium in October, so respondents are not representative of smaller organisations, where we believe Google Apps is more popular,” Gartner analyst Michael Silver told eWEEK 18 May. “Less than 1 percent are using Google Docs now and about 2 percent will be using it by . Moreover, most organisations are still using it ... (Read Full Article)

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Gartner: Modular Data Centers ‘Make Sense’

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Dec 14 2010) Construction , Container

... usually referred to as modular data centers. That shift was reflected in comments last week from a Gartner analyst at the company’s annual Data Center Conference. “You’ll be hearing a lot about modular d......porary capacity, or novel designs like the cloud  computing facilities being built by Microsoft and Google. But new designs from HP, Dell and new players like BladeRoom and NxGen have gone “beyond the box” ... (Read Full Article)

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Best Container/modular Data Center approach 2010? SGI's Ice Cube is one choice

Explore greenm3.com (Dec 13 2010) Construction , Container

... customers and sell. DataCenterKnowledge has a post on SGI's latest ICE Cube modular data center at Gartner DC LV 2010. Data Center Knowledge recently got a detailed video tour of the retooled SGI ICE Cube m......C LV. BTW, Patrick's boss was Daniel Costello, ex-Microsoft data center engineering manager, now at Google.  The data center engineering is a small community. If you want to know which container/modular ... (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......ps enterprises 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 ......oved to Mac based DTP.  But the number of IT organizations with this skill set are only a handful - Google, Microsoft, VMware, Yahoo, Facebook, Amazon, etc.  Maybe at the ... (Read Full Article)

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The Death of the PC

Explore Forbes.com (Dec 10 2009) Cloud Computing

...er interest right now than desktop virtualization," says Mark Margevicius, analyst at research firm Gartner. "Everyone, everywhere is asking about it." Desktop virtualization is Act II of a tech shift that b......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... (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

...erations (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 profitability. ......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 emerge. In ... (Read Full Article)

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Smart Meters Allow Companies To Monitor Home-Worker Carbon

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Dec 8 2009) Monitoring , Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Networking

...AlertMe device costs £69, and requires a £2.99 monthly subscription. The company is partnering with Google's PowerMeter tool in the UK. The Google service was made available to customers of first:utility – a small gas and electricity provider wit...... as residential Internet networks do not have the bandwidth to cope with a spike in demand, analyst Gartner warned in a report issued this in October. The UK's ... (Read Full Article)

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

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

... 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......e to be able to receive your search, process it and then send it back to you," Erik Teetzel, one of Google's "green" engineers, told CNN. "If people are counting things outside the activity that we do, then... (Read Full Article)

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