Nordic Countries Increasingly Attractive as Sites for Data Centers

Explore The New York Times (Apr 30 2012)

... 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 lot of ......he Nordic countries are relative newcomers. But they have joined the contest at a time when Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Google, among other companies, are competing with one another to create more energy e... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   The New York Times   Iceland

Growth In Private Cloud Adoption Continues To Rise

Explore da.feedsportal.com (Jan 24 2012) Cloud Computing

...ments that the supply of private cloud hosting services will soon exceed the demand. Analyst firm Gartner predicts worldwide revenues for cloud services are expected to reach $148.8 billion (£95.3bn) by 20......sted private clouds will run into the first speed bumps, thanks to the efforts of companies such as Microsoft, HP, IBM and Oracle. All of which are offering and developing the tools needed to build private ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Gartner   Oracle   IBM

Intel’s Third-Quarter Sales Are Up

Explore The New York Times (Oct 18 2011) Cloud Computing

...ncome of 61 cents a share on sales of $13.9 billion. Intel’s report comes just as market researcher Gartner lowered its forecast for semiconductor revenue for the year, blaming the weak economy for a slowdow...... Ivy Bridge processor to power a new crop of ultrabooks next year, at just about the same time that Microsoft delivers its Windows 8 operating system. (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Gartner   Microsoft Corp

Europe Turns to the Cloud

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

... America, where remote computing was developed and its biggest sellers — Amazon, Salesforce.com and Microsoft — are leading an industry that Gartner says will generate $60 billion in sales this year. But in Europe, the willingness of smaller compan... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Europe   Gartner

Microsoft Launches Cloud Suite, Office 365

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

...with Windows 7, a lot is riding on Office 365’s ability to appeal to both consumers and businesses. Microsoft is very publicly “all in” with the cloud, a strategy that a high-profile misfire would call into d......ound Office dominates the majority of business IT environments. Near the end of 2010, research firm Gartner asked some 204 IT pros about their businesses’ productivity software, then used that data in ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Gartner   Google   Microsoft Corp

Corporate America Embraces The Green Data Server

Explore cnbc.com (Apr 21 2011)

...erage CIO. But a recent Stanford University/Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory report commissioned by HP, Microsoft and Intel predicts operating costs matching, and surpassing, capital costs for data centers by 2016......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... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Intel   Gartner

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......uirements, temporary 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 “beyon... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   Gartner   Google

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

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

...s toured the Ice Cube in LV.  I was able to look at the same unit at SGI in Fremont the week before Gartner DC 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. ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   Gartner   Google

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 ......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 most 6 ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Gartner   Google

Gartner predicts 2011 IT spending rebound in Europe

Explore IDG News Service (Nov 8 2010)

Gartner has predicted that enterprise IT spending in Europe, the Middle East and Africa will recover in 201... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Gartner   Cisco

Who's the leader of the pack? The power of green awards. By Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Nov 1 2010)

...rt - that’s World Wide Fund for Nature, not the other WWF - has been put together with analyst firm Gartner, to gauge the performance of business IT providers.   So at least the two organisations aren’t......d how well they are doing on recycling and reducing waste. The leaders are Nokia and Sony Ericsson, Microsoft and Nintendo come bottom, and Apple is, well, just very average.   While other makers increase... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Nokia

Limitations of Saas highlighted at Gartner Itxpo

Explore ITWorld Canada (Oct 20 2010) Cloud Computing

... Examples of SaaS vendors include Salesforce, Taleo, Workday, NetSuite, Oracle, SuccessFactors, and Microsoft Dynamics. DeSisto points out that the irony, though, is that enterprise customers can end up with "......make sure that's addressed, and customers are in the situation of asking questions about all of it. Gartner has seen circumstances where for large enterprises there is actually a higher total cost of ownersh... (Read Full Article)

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

Explore The New York Times (Oct 11 2010) 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...... connections. “What will drive adoption is broadband penetration,” said Emilio Umeoka, president of Microsoft’s Asian operations in Singapore. “If you don’t have the pipe, you can’t get onto the cloud.” For ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Gartner   Oracle   Hewlett Packard

Managing a Sustainable Online Community

Explore greenm3.com (Aug 1 2010)

... Image Rob Howard is the CTO/founder of enterprise collaboration software company Telligent. A 2008 Gartner study on social software noted that “about 70 percent of the community typically fails to coalesce.......company's technology roadmap. A true pioneer, Howard contributed to the development and adoption of Microsoft's Web platform technologies, where he helped create and grow the innovative ASP.NET community. In 2... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Gartner   Microsoft Corp

Earth Day warning for green IT

Explore UK technology news, reviews and analysis (Apr 22 2010) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Cloud Computing

... uses just 3.8 per cent of renewable energy compared with 50.75 per cent coal and 38.7 nuclear, and Microsoft's Texas datacentre which uses just 11 per cent renewable energy. It also cited a 2008 study by Smar...... many argue that a lot has been done to make IT greener. Simon Mingay, a research vice president at Gartner, said that things have improved a lot since 2005 ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Gartner

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......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... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Gartner   Google

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

...w): Part 1 of 2 By Christian Belady, Principal Infrastructure Architect Global Foundation Services, Microsoft Corporation I read a lot about what others are doing in the industry, and a recent post by Rich Miller of Data ...... costs are driven by their 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 ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Gartner   Google

Smart Meters Allow Companies To Monitor Home-Worker Carbon

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

... 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 CRC is a mandatory cap on carbon emissions, due......ssions by 1.2 million tonnes per year by 2020, according to government figures. Three years on from Microsoft's deal with Novell, the real importance is coming through, says Novell's ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Gartner   Google   Carbon Reduction Commitment

Data center design 101

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

...ata center 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)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Gartner   Oracle

Supercomputing In The Enterprise

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

...ge the location of resources and also do some of the adaptation of that environment. If you look at Gartner's research, the No. 1 IT spend trend for 2009 is IT consolidation and virtualization. What are the ......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)

Comment Mentions:   Gartner   IBM   Forbes

Akamai Expands Into Virtual Desktop Delivery

Explore GigaOM (Sep 21 2009) Cloud Computing , Networking

...P Application Accelerator, works with virtual desktop products by market leaders Citrix, VMware and Microsoft. Fifteen percent of all enterprise desktops will be VDI clients by 2015, Gartner predicts, despite [...] Network specialist Akamai has developed a managed service for optimizing th... (Read Full Article)

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