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)

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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)

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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)

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Academia, industry team up for better green data centers - By Doug Mohney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Nov 9 2011)

...mpanies "representing the entire supply chain for data centers" have signed up as members including Microsoft, IBM, Facebook, Commscope, Bloomberg, General Electric, Corning Inc., Endicott Interconnect Technologies... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Greenpeace   National Science Foundation   General Electric

Red Hat: The Integrated Stack Is Critical

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Nov 3 2011)

...he small and medium business market. However, there are plenty of reasons not to choose VMware. As Microsoft points out, the recent changes made by VMware to its licensing model with the release of vSphere 5 ...... speaking to eWEEK Europe. “The way the industry has done virtualisation for decades now is the way IBM came up with it – it’s part of the operating system. If you have an operating ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   IBM   Emea

Component-level rightsizing to reduce datacenter power, costs

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

...by virtual machines. As such, David Fosberg, vice president of Samsung Asia, said companies such as Microsoft, Google and Facebook are leading the way in terms of how they are relooking their datacenter archit...... 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)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Google   Oracle

14 Cloud Services Players Scrutinized For Green Credentials

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

...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.” Another positive... (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

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

The cloud is like MMA; VMware, Citrix in main event

Explore GigaOM (Jul 16 2011) Cloud Computing

...$1 billion 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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Buyer's guide: The case for modular data centres (Part 2)

Explore The Voice of IT Management (Jul 13 2011) Power and Cooling , Carbon Tax , Emissions

...s, Zoran Sugarevski, says along with the usual cost considerations the decision to go modular —with IBM’s scalable modular data centre — was heavily informed by the organisation’s sustainable environment......training worries to compatibility woes, fears of business disruption can spread when IT announces a Microsoft Office 2010 upgrade. Here's how IT can steer clear of four big upgrade mistakes. Read on. Before Wi... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   IBM   Microsoft Corp

The Building Blocks of Data Center Transformation

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

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   IBM

Adopt 'right balance' for green clouds

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

...lved 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" information availa......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)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Google

European Data Center Efficiency Summit

Explore Perspectives (Apr 29 2011) Power and Cooling

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   The Green Grid

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

Explore greenm3.com (Apr 29 2011)

...ng solutions and geo-independent approaches to efficiency Joe Kava, Google; Dileep Bhandarkar, Microsoft; Jochen Berger, PlusServer; Chris Malone, Google 15:50 Panel discussion Mark Monroe, ......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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