Web Host Data City Exchange Sets Up Cloud Testbeds at UK Data Centers

Explore Web Host Industry Review (May 11 2012) Cloud Computing

...ders the ability to set up a testing environment, such as Green Hat, which was recently acquired by IBM. Cloud hosting provider and data center operator Data City Exchange announced on Thursday it will l......Fill out our WHIR reader survey to let us know what works and what doesn’t. And enter to win a $100 Amazon gift card. (Read Full Article)

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Web Host Connectria Expands to Dallas through CyrusOne Data Center

Explore Web Host Industry Review (May 8 2012) Cloud Computing

...utions while providing additional disaster recovery options to its clients. Connectria launched its IBM AIX cloud hosting last week, its most recent cloud solution. This expansion news follows Cincinnati......Fill out our WHIR reader survey to let us know what works and what doesn’t. And enter to win a $100 Amazon gift card. (Read Full Article)

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Open Compute builds a business model for the next era of the web

Explore GigaOM (May 4 2012) Servers

...nue and 6.1 percent of all server shipments. While plenty of companies spend money buying gear from IBM, HP and Dell, others are going direct to the companies that build servers for those giants. For com......to the companies that build servers for those giants. For companies such as Facebook, Baidu, Zynga, Amazon and Facebook are building at such scale, the idea of wasting a single cent or milliwatt ... (Read Full Article)

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Open Compute one year later. Bigger, badder and less disruptive than we thought.

Explore GigaOM (May 2 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...n power is what led me to wonder if Open Compute might mean the end of decent margins for HP, Dell, IBM and other vendors when Facebook launched the project. But it looks like the ecosystem is adapting. ...... OCP gear direct to customers. Quanta’s business is aimed at selling gear to the likes of Facebook, Amazon(a amzn) and other IT buyers who know exactly what they want and ... (Read Full Article)

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Greenpeace questions the green in clouds

Explore ITworld (May 1 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell , Solar

...he Clean Energy Index was a paltry 15.3 percent (for the record, others had lower scores, including Amazon, IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, and Salesforce.com), but had the highest usage of coal at 55.1 percent. Apple g... (Read Full Article)

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Letter to Ballmer, Bezos, Cook: Go to Iceland

Explore SmartPlanet (Apr 20 2012)

Dear Steve Ballmer, Jeff Bezos and Tim Cook - As CEOs of Microsoft, Amazon and Apple, you’re probably aware that the environmental group Greenpeace this week branded each of ...... citing, energy efficiency and greenhouse gas mitigation and renewable advocacy. It actually grades IBM, Oracle and Salesforce as worse than the three of you on its list of 14 IT giants. But it singles o... (Read Full Article)

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Cloud's dirty laundry to be aired by Greenpeace

Explore crn.com.au (Apr 18 2012) Construction , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell

...e powered. Australia is not mentioned in the report. How service providers fare The report looks at Amazon Web Services, Apple, Dell, Facebook, Google, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Rackspace, Salesforce, Akamai, Twitter and Yahoo. Google ranked high in Greenpe... (Read Full Article)

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Amazon Receives Failing Grade in Greenpeace “How Green is Your Cloud” Report

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Apr 18 2012) Construction , Fossil Fuel , Cloud Computing

...n Greenpeace announced on Tuesday it has published its “How green is your cloud” report, which gave Amazon a failing grade for its lack of clean energy and not being transparent enough about the details of ...... engage their communities. Other companies assessed in the report were Rackspace, Akamai, Dell, HP, IBM, Oracle, Salesforce, Twitter and Yahoo. Talk Back: Are you currently using a data center powered by... (Read Full Article)

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Greenpeace slams Amazon over green datacentre efforts

Explore ZDNet UK (Apr 18 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Fuel Cell , Solar , Cloud Computing

In the How green is your cloud report, published on Tuesday, Greenpeace slammed Apple, Amazon and Microsoft for the meagre amount of clean energy their datacentres use and their "transparency" ......n management associated with data consumption." The other companies assessed were Akamai, Dell, HP, IBM, Oracle, Rackspace, Salesforce, Twitter and Yahoo. A thought. Many years ago, after decades of dedi... (Read Full Article)

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Salesforce Worst of ‘Dirty’ Cloud Companies, Greenpeace says

Explore environmentalleader.com (Apr 18 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Fossil Fuel , Cloud Computing

...15.3 percent in 2012. Apple now has the fifth-lowest score in the report. It leapfrogged Microsoft, IBM and Amazon. Home » Salesforce Worst of ‘Dirty’ Cloud Companies, Greenpeace says April 18, 2012 Salesforce Wors... (Read Full Article)

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Amazon, Microsoft low on Greenpeace clean-energy 'cloud' index

Explore The Seattle Times (Apr 17 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Wind , Cloud Computing

...gs on how clean or dirty tech companies' clouds are, and among those it dings are two local giants: Amazon.com and Microsoft. "Cloud" refers to storing data and applications on remote servers and data centers, ......hest in Greenpeace's "clean energy index." Companies ranking the lowest: Salesforce.com, Oracle and IBM. Amazon, Microsoft and Apple are in the next-lowest group, according to Greenpeace's clean-energy index. Gr... (Read Full Article)

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Roundup: HP Converged Cloud Takes on Amazon

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 10 2012) Cloud Computing

...iders. However, hardware vendors are also going to be service providers. HP’s public cloud comes as Amazon Web Services has been in the market for years. IBM has also leveraged its hosting business into the cloud. Ditto for Rackspace and a bevy of others. H... (Read Full Article)

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Shell Oil Explores Hybrid Cloud IT Infrastructure to Lower Power Costs for Big Data

Explore environmentalleader.com (Apr 6 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

... to Green Shell’s IT The Cloud Computing Advantage: Achieving Peak Performance in Environmental ERP IBM ‘Cloud Computing’ Data Center Saves 15% in Energy Costs Constellation Energy - Click Here! Related ......ore than a year to get internal approval to move corporate data to the public cloud. Shell is using Amazon VPC and within that has created a private section of the Amazon Web Services cloud. It is testing out Hadoop ... (Read Full Article)

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Top secret Visa data center banks on security, even has moat

Explore usatoday.com (Mar 26 2012)

...n afford it, build a data center. The big guys build their own." At the same time, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and others have plunged into the business of managing data centers for corporate clients, says Phil...... for corporate clients, says Philip Russom, a research director for The Data Warehousing Institute. Amazon.com says it offers cloud-based "data centers for rent." "The growth in data center construction is very... (Read Full Article)

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Putting power-hungry data centers on a diet

Explore Seattle DJC Newspaper (Feb 23 2012) Construction , Servers

...ams. These vital spaces are also energy hogs that can significantly affect a company’s bottom line. IBM recently discovered that the energy consumed by its data centers companywide accounted for 45 perce......his system-level reevaluation is being led by global technology titans such as Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon and Google. On the server power side, “virtualization” is a technique for reducing energy consumpti... (Read Full Article)

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A New Net

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

...isticated. Yet today, even with seemingly cost-effective cloud services available from the likes of Amazon, most companies still choose to operate their own computing resources—whether for corporate e-mail ...... 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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A CTO’s take on cloud

Explore GigaOM (Jan 24 2012) Cloud Computing

...the current state of the market. Here are my main takeaways from a recent conversation with him. 1: IBM is cloudier than you think. Big Blue has a pretty potent set of cloud options but it’s going about ......and redundancy, although users will have to pay for it, he said. The bottom line? Glitches and all, Amazon is the incumbent public cloud power and will stay that way, he ... (Read Full Article)

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Intel’s next big wireless play: It’s not smartphones

Explore GigaOM (Jan 23 2012) Networking

...d antennas at the cell site. The Cloud-Radio Access Network (Cloud-RAN) isn’t the public cloud of Amazon Web Services. Rather it’s a private cloud run by each operator in local data centers, but the prin...... also tapped into computing architectures for their next generation of chip designs. Freescale uses IBM’s PowerPC, while TI has begun integrating ARM cores into its latest basebands. But TI hasn’t done ... (Read Full Article)

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2011: The Year Data Centers Turned Green

Explore Wired News (Dec 30 2011)

... 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 out of the energy ......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 ... (Read Full Article)

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Do BYO data centers make sense anymore?

Explore GigaOM (Dec 16 2011) Cloud Computing

...-a-data centers, does it make sense for a company to build a new data center on its own anymore? Amazon’s data center guru James Hamilton is pretty clear that he sees no reason for most companies to keep......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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Cloud security: Better than you think

Explore GigaOM (Dec 2 2011) Cloud Computing

...t harder to protect privacy and 50 percent worry about a data breach or loss, according to the 2011 IBM Global Business Resilience and Risk Study. Well, those IT pros need to get over it, said Joe Coy...... and networking gear from multiple vendors. A big caveat here: Large public cloud providers like Amazon, do not negotiate SLAs, so this discussion revolves around enterprise, private or co-located clouds... (Read Full Article)

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Rackspace: Bull and Bear Cases

Explore Forbes.com (Nov 24 2011)

...rvices and hosting is filled with companies that have deeper pockets than does Rackspace, including Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM, and the service integrators, respectively. These companies have greater ability to invest in infr... (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......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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Web Host Savvis Hires Away Microsoft Amazon Cloud Executives

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Nov 15 2011) Cloud Computing

... sales position, according to the press release. Patton previously ran the Americas sales team for Amazon Web Services. This kind of hiring is prevalent in the industry as cloud providers look for the best...... Texas for Dell and American Medical Management, and a senior programmer analyst and consultant for IBM in Italy. “As cloud services continue to assume their place at the very core of IT, Savvis has the ... (Read Full Article)

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