In praise (yes praise) of the data center big boys by Doug Mohney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (May 16 2012)

...n tarred and feathered on numerous occasions in Greenpeace drive-by PR papers, Facebook, Google and Microsoft are actually making forward progress in the battle to cut carbon emission.  But quiet progress does......decades before we understand all the consequences, but hardware manufacturers such as AMD, Dell and IBM are paying attention and building hardware to Facebook/Open Compute specs.  You may one day find th... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Greenpeace   Google   Facebook

Greenpeace questions the green in clouds

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

... 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 got a D for energy t... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

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 ...... 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)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

Cloud's dirty laundry to be aired by Greenpeace

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

... 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 Greenpeace’s overv... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

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

...es. “Three of the largest IT companies building their business around the cloud — Amazon, Apple and Microsoft — are all rapidly expanding without adequate regard to source of electricity, and rely heavily on d...... 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)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

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" regarding thei......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)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

Salesforce Worst of ‘Dirty’ Cloud Companies, Greenpeace says

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

...in 2011 to 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 Sale... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

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

...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. Growing cloud... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

Roundup: HP Converged Cloud Takes on Amazon

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 10 2012) Cloud Computing

...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...... promote MySQL databases as a service, essentially leveraging Oracle’s software to compete with the Microsoft SQL Azure cloud, among other public cloud database services. HP (NYSE: HPQ) and Oracle (NASDAQ: ORC... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Oracle   IBM

eBay Containers Push Frontiers of Efficiency

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 27 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers

...chieving maximum energy efficiency and low environmental impact in data centers,” said Brad Brech, IBM representative and Green Grid board member. “The Green Grid is at the heart of this mission and the......ves with The Green Grid’s DCMM from the beginning.” Large users such as Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Microsoft have reported industry-leading ratings in the 1.07 to 1.2 range. These numbers demonstrate the po... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   Yahoo   The Green Grid

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......gy savings in each. This 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 reducin... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   Facebook

A New Net

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

... 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 focus of innovation while hardware became a race-to-the-bottom commodity. Cisco and oth... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Forrester Research   Google

'Big Data' Creates Big Opportunities

Explore GreenBiz.com (Jan 30 2012) Construction , Solar , Wind

...t's 2 trillion gigabytes -- of data were created and stored in 2011, according to IDC. According to IBM, more than 2.5 quintillion bytes -- about 2.5 billion gigabytes -- are created every day. For compa......sampled only a subset of them every 15 minutes, collecting 2.15 million points of data per month. A Microsoft pilot at its Redmond, Wash., campus looked at public and private data for a ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   IBM   Interactive Data Corporation   Microsoft Corp

Growth In Private Cloud Adoption Continues To Rise

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

...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 clouds on in... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Gartner   Oracle   IBM

A CTO’s take on cloud

Explore GigaOM (Jan 24 2012) Cloud Computing

... that lets customers integrate in-house apps with SaaS applications running outside. He doesn’t see IBM cloud penetrating a ton of new smaller businesses, but for many existing IBM shops — and there are a ton of them — IBM cloud is a no brainer. 2: Microsoft Azure has a tough row to hoe Coyle is of two minds on Windows Azure, the platform-as-a-service (Paa... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Cisco   IBM

Renewable Energy May be Edison's Revenge

Explore moneynews.com (Dec 20 2011) Emissions , Cloud Computing

...i cathedral. It uses Baltic Sea water to cool the plant and feeds surplus heat to the city's homes. IBM has designed a solar array to power its Bangalore data center. Microsoft has filed a patent application for a wind-powered data center. Direct current may be one way to inc... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Edison   Netherlands

Do BYO data centers make sense anymore?

Explore GigaOM (Dec 16 2011) Cloud Computing

...f — 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)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   Oracle

Facebook and Greenpeace Make Peace on Renewable Energy

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Dec 15 2011) Fossil Fuel , Cloud Computing

...itment to renewable energy raises the bar for other IT and cloud computing companies such as Apple, IBM, Microsoft, and Twitter," Casey Harrell, senior IT analyst for Greenpeace International said in a statement. '... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Greenpeace International

Greenpeace, Facebook Announce Truce

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Dec 15 2011) Fossil Fuel , Cloud Computing

...nt to renewable energy raises the bar for other IT and cloud computing (8) companies such as Apple, IBM, Microsoft, and Twitter,” said Casey Harrell, Senior IT Analyst for Greenpeace International. ”The Faceboo... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Greenpeace International

Bits Blog: Consultants in the Cloud

Explore Technology (Nov 25 2011) Cloud Computing

Earlier this week we published an article about Google Apps, and Google’s struggle to displace Microsoft Office and Sharepoint inside large corporations. While Google has worked without a large consulting......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 ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   Facebook   IBM

Rackspace: Bull and Bear Cases

Explore Forbes.com (Nov 24 2011)

...nd 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)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   IBM   Rackspace

Data Center Efficiency A Chill Project

Explore EarthTechling (Nov 16 2011) Cloud Computing

...ng name) brings together some of the biggest companies affected by data centers, including: IBM, Facebook, Microsoft, Commscope, Bloomberg, General Electric, Corning Inc., Endicott Interconnect Technologies, Emerson... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   General Electric   Facebook   IBM

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......ced by multiple 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)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   Cisco

Web Host Savvis Hires Away Microsoft Amazon Cloud Executives

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

...and Daniel Patton as vice president and general manager of cloud services. Parker joins Savvis from Microsoft where he held a senior sales position, according to the press release. Patton previously ran the ...... 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