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)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Cisco   IBM

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)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Amazon.com   Iceland

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)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Europe   Bill Fathers

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

...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......s ever designed and constructed -- from a utility that derives most of its power from coal.) Yahoo, Amazon and Microsoft scored best in use of renewable alternative energy sources for cloud services. In the... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

Extending the life of your data center

Explore The Voice of IT Management (Oct 11 2011) Cloud Computing

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Gartner   Oracle

Let's get the cloud into perspective - By Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Oct 10 2011)

...nteresting scepticism at the IT channel event run by analyst firm Canalys last week in Barcelona. IBM’s WebSphere vice president Craig Hayman sashayed on stage to the sound of Lady Gaga, before likenin......ed distance between the application and your business). If the application faces the customer (an Amazon-style sales site, for instance), then the cloud could be useful. And if it is a “new” app - like th... (Read Full Article)

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Iceland cometh

Explore SmartPlanet (Oct 5 2011)

...at the Strokkur Geyser. It’s been slow-going for Verne in Iceland. About a year ago, it looked like IBM was going to move into the Verne center and use it to transmit data via subsea fiber that connects ...... media and communications, social networking, technology and software.” Datapipe also has ties to Amazon – the two companies work together to provide cloud computing services (exactly what they do togethe... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Iceland   Europe

14 Cloud Services Players Scrutinized For Green Credentials

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

...ayers in cloud services including three Chinese companies (Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent) plus Akamai, Amazon, Apple, eBay, Expedia, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Priceline, Salesforce and Yahoo! The Verdantix re......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)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Amazon.com   Google

Google keeps its Googlers going via green buildings

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

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

Nebula Aims to Enable Every Company to Implement Cloud Computing

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

...Kemp (pictured), the former chief technology officer at NASA, and its team comes from NASA, Google, Amazon and Microsoft. It has backing from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Highland Capital Partners,......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 cloud is like MMA; VMware, Citrix in main event

Explore GigaOM (Jul 16 2011) Cloud Computing

...erprise when considering the choice of commodity clouds (Internet-facing web-scaling clouds such as Amazon Web Services), public clouds (multi-tenant clouds that can either be Internet- or private-access-b......of dedicated hosting and managed services clients to direct to the virtues of OpenStack. Microsoft, IBM and others have well-known component solutions but have demonstrated a lack of agility, among oth... (Read Full Article)

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The Building Blocks of Data Center Transformation

Explore Bank Systems & Technology (Jul 1 2011) Cloud Computing

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   IBM

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)

...udies Joe Kava, Google; Dean Nelson, eBay 11:20 Panel discussion James Hamilton, Amazon; Robert Coupland, Telecity Group; Brian Waddell, Norman Disney and Young; Mark Eichenberger, UBS ......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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greenpeace shifts its sights to apple - by Peter Judge

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

...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 the report. Firstly, in standing ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

Greenpeace Study Targets "Dirty Power" in Cloud Computing

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

...transparency, infrastructure siting decisions, and mitigation strategies. Facebook, Apple, Twitter, Amazon, and others receive failing marks in one or more categories. Despite the fact that data centers cur......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 t... (Read Full Article)

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Corporate America Embraces The Green Data Server

Explore cnbc.com (Apr 21 2011)

...ir own data center innovations,” says Woods, referring to information-technology sector titans like IBM But other links in the data management supply chain — data center builders, hosting companies and c......and longevity." Since data centers form their biggest piece of infrastructure, internet giants like Amazon.com “It’s now becoming more of an issue in large-scale enterprise IT, with banks and retailers now star... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Intel   Gartner

Facebook Open Compute and the PUE Trifecta

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

.... 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 game o...... OPEX), as well as for the public relations benefits of green and sustainability claims. Of course, Amazon deserves an honorable mention in this trifecta, even though it has not laid ... (Read Full Article)

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