Google Tops Greenpeace's Cool IT Rankings

Explore EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet (Feb 8 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Fuel Cell , Wind

...December 2010's list and placed second this time around. Ericsson and Fujitsu tied for third place. IBM and HP round out the top 10 at ninth and tenth place, respectively. Key to Google's victory is transparency, at least when it comes to the environmental impact of its IT operations.... (Read Full Article)

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Greenpeace Puts Google, Cisco, Fujitsu at Top of Green IT Rankings

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

...r own operations as well as advocating for policies that promote clean energy use worldwide.

Google came out on top of the rankings this year, scoring 53 points out of a total 100. Cisco moved from f......rease in the quantity and strength of energy solutions offerings from many companies such as Cisco, IBM, Ericsson and Fujitsu," Greenpeace writes in the intro to the report, "we also see a significant ...

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A New Net

Explore Technology Review (Feb 6 2012) Cloud Computing , Networking

...ologies of all time needs to be rethought. Stanford researchers have reshaped computing before—both Google and early work on the Internet itself came out of their labs—but Casado and his PhD supervisor, Nic...... what happened to the price of computer hardware in the personal-computing boom of the early 1980s. IBM's PC standard separated hardware and software, making operating systems like Microsoft Windows the ... (Read Full Article)

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2011: The Year Data Centers Turned Green

Explore Wired News (Dec 30 2011)

...nergy efficiency — and no two data centers are alike. Out of necessity, the huge Internet players — Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Yahoo, and Apple — are finding ways to use greener energy and get more ......d from the servers. PUE: 1.15 Clear plastic walls help this HP data center keep its cool. Photo: HP IBM: Auckland, New Zealand IBM’s new down under data center uses environmental monitoring and a power ... (Read Full Article)

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Do BYO data centers make sense anymore?

Explore GigaOM (Dec 16 2011) Cloud Computing

...cal stuff — to the big cloud operators. That roster includes the aforementioned players as well as Google, Microsoft, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle and others that are building out more of their own data center capacity fo... (Read Full Article)

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Bits Blog: Consultants in the Cloud

Explore Technology (Nov 25 2011) Cloud Computing

...ike him used to charge hundreds of thousands of dollars for a job like installing Lotus Notes in an IBM mainframe for a company. Now he sells Google Apps for business for the standard $50 per person per year, and gives Google $40 of that. In exchange, Cloud Sherpas aids companies in things like the migration of data onto Google’s servers, training people on the systems, and offering tips ... (Read Full Article)

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The Green Grid: modularity is sign of maturity

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Nov 15 2011) Construction , Cloud Computing

...ed for on-site deployment.” Nearly all major IT vendors sell modular data centers. They include HP, IBM, Dell and Cisco, among others. So do major infrastructure vendors, such as Emerson and PDI. There a......iple major Internet companies and providers of Cloud-based services. This group includes Microsoft, Google and Amazon. Download The Green Grid’s whitepaper on modular data centers here. (Read Full Article)

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How solar can make data centers more efficient

Explore GigaOM (Nov 10 2011) Solar , Cloud Computing , Servers

...the cost of cooling data center equipment and guarantee a steady power supply? That’s the idea that IBM is exploring as it anticipates a greater use of servers that run on direct current (DC) and can res......at and requires the use of cooling equipment. Giant data farm operators such as Yahoo, Facebook and Google are always looking for lower-cost and efficient way to cool their data centers. Using ... (Read Full Article)

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Green Q&A: What impact does online time have on the environment?

Explore Home - San Jose Mercury News (Oct 29 2011) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers

...e gas emissions by an amount equivalent to taking some 2 million cars off the road. For its part, Google has been a real leader in the building of green data centers, even powering them with renewable ene......gy sources for the 10 largest IT companies involved in cloud computing, finding Apple, Facebook and IBM especially guilty of getting significant amounts of power from coal-fired power plants. (Facebook h... (Read Full Article)

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What's behind Iceland's first major data center

Explore ITworld (Oct 14 2011)

... giant data center outside the town center of Luleå,” in Sweden. It was around this time, too, that Google announced the opening of its data center in Hamina, Finland. And it was around this time, too, that......How to manage a mess of cables Will Tomas has just joined ITworld Darius Damalakas commented on Has IBM kicked OpenOffice.org to the curb? kburns asks Should I opt my brand and ... (Read Full Article)

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Juniper Touts New Kit To Meet Mobile Challenge

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Oct 3 2011) Networking

...thernet switches, a new wireless LAN controller and new mobile security software for Apple iOS- and Google Android-based devices – are being offered under the vendor’s “Simply Connected” networking umbrella......co and HP – including the common Junos operating system and partnerships with the likes of Dell and IBM. (Read Full Article)

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Component-level rightsizing to reduce datacenter power, costs

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

Web 2.0 companies such as Facebook and Google are leading the charge toward more innovative datacenter designs, with a focus on optimizing existi...... is forcing CIOs toward "micro-focusing on component savings". Citing a survey jointly conducted by IBM, Samsung and Dell, the Samsung executive then pointed out that one of the datacenter management "pi... (Read Full Article)

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14 Cloud Services Players Scrutinized For Green Credentials

Explore zdnet.com (Sep 13 2011) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Cloud Computing

Only four companies, Akamai, Apple, eBay and Google, disclose global emissions information for the data centers driving their SaaS applications, cloud ......e its rivals for its carbon reporting standards. With carbon-conscious customers such as Apple, HP, IBM, Puma, Microsoft, SAP, and Siemens, Akamai appreciates the need to be on top of its own footprint.”... (Read Full Article)

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Google keeps its Googlers going via green buildings

Explore siliconrepublic.com (Aug 19 2011) Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Solar

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Nebula Aims to Enable Every Company to Implement Cloud Computing

Explore The New York Times (Jul 27 2011) Cloud Computing

...anies to deploy data centers much like those run by the likes of huge companies such as Facebook or Google. Nebula Aims to Enable Every Company to Implement Cloud Computing By DEAN TAKAHASHI of VentureBeat ......like a utility where you can dial up or dial down your electrical usage. Big server vendors such as IBM, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and others are selling lots of servers as they seek to provide manageme... (Read Full Article)

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The Building Blocks of Data Center Transformation

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Adopt 'right balance' for green clouds

Explore zdnetasia.com (May 23 2011) Carbon Footprint , Fossil Fuel , Solar , Wind , Cloud Computing

...onsumption involved in the storing and transmitting of data among 10 global IT companies, including Google, Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo. However, it did concede that its findings were gleaned from "limited" ......t's developers? http://t.co/qtCBEzd Sony subsidiary So-net reports data breach http://bit.ly/lfhKmd IBM launches Hadoop-based analytics software - ZDNet Asia http://bit.ly/lt5wFN Thai Blytes blog by Jon ... (Read Full Article)

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European Data Center Efficiency Summit

Explore Perspectives (Apr 29 2011) Power and Cooling

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Hot Ticket where EU gets priority, Google’s Data Center Summit 2011 in Zurich May 24

Explore greenm3.com (Apr 29 2011)

...ustry leaders are coming together to discuss energy efficiency best practices for data centres. For Google's part, we will share the total cost of ownership analysis of a computing and network room (CRN) re......50 Panel discussion Mark Monroe, The Green Grid; Andre Oppermann, DeepGreen; Bruno Michel, IBM Research Lab; Jeff Monroe, Verne Global 17:00 Reception I’ll be at the event and most ... (Read Full Article)

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Facts and Figures Behind Greenpeace’s Green Data Center Report

Explore GigaOM (Apr 26 2011) Monitoring

...eek? While much of the coverage of the report focused on the A-to-F grades ranking Apple, Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, IBM and others, the report also laid out some broad categories where IT giants can be lauded for doing ... (Read Full Article)

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greenpeace shifts its sights to apple - by Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Apr 25 2011)

... The Greenpeace study looked into the data centers of ten companies altogether - the full roster is Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter, IBM, Microsoft, HP, Akamai and Amazon. I think there are three interesting side issues thrown up by t... (Read Full Article)

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Greenpeace Study Targets "Dirty Power" in Cloud Computing

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Apr 21 2011) Fossil Fuel , Cloud Computing

...class recognition for transparency, Yahoo! had the strongest infrastructure siting policy, and IBM and Google demonstrated the best overall approach to reduce their current footprints. Cook argues that "green ... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook Open Compute and the PUE Trifecta

Explore | CTO Edge (Apr 18 2011) Power and Cooling , Servers

... all to see, review and possibly emulate. Unlike other high-profile PUE claims from giants such as Google and Yahoo, which provided some generalized information about what they did to improve efficiency in....... However, if this proves successful for HP, how long will it be before other major vendors such as IBM and Dell offer a 277V power supply as an option to their server line? The Bottom Line Like a ... (Read Full Article)

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A Roadmap to Green IT

Explore Greentech Media (Apr 13 2011) Servers

...ource license. Many companies have also opted for slower fans with big blades to cut cooling costs. IBM has continued to pursue liquid cooling of chips and servers. An experimental datacenter in Syracuse......herent technological issues with flash. (PS: that picture, which I took while at CNET, is the first Google storage device ever.) The picture, though, is changing. Sandforce has come up with a controller tha... (Read Full Article)

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