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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......structure stack and the VMware View platform, and is expected to feature enterprise solutions from Oracle and SAP. Both Belfast and Birmingham demo suites will be interlinked to create a collaborative test...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Europe Oracle
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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 f...
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Comment Mentions: Apple Greenpeace Amazon.com
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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
... 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 overview, but...
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Comment Mentions: Apple Greenpeace Amazon.com
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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
... 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 renewab...
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Comment Mentions: Apple Greenpeace Amazon.com
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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
...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 dedicated st...
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Comment Mentions: Apple Greenpeace Amazon.com
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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 Sale......nd expands coverage from 10 tech firms to 14. The four new additions, besides Salesforce, are Dell, Oracle and Rackspace Hosting. Stay Up-to-Date On Environmental Management, Energy & Sustainability News wi...
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Comment Mentions: Apple Greenpeace Amazon.com
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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
...ok rank highest 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 i...
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Comment Mentions: Apple Greenpeace Amazon.com
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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......r ironic: The new HP Public Cloud will promote MySQL databases as a service, essentially leveraging Oracle’s software to compete with the Microsoft SQL Azure cloud, among other public cloud database service...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Oracle IBM
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What Is Behind Dell’s Acquisition Spree?
Explore TechWeekEurope UK (Mar 14 2012)
... course, Dell’s competitors in the IT products and services business are doing the same thing. EMC, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard and IBM (well, not so much lately) have all gone through similar asset-collecting binges. In fact, EMC may ...
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Comment Mentions: Forrester Research Oracle Cisco
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Low power is the new black for data centers
Explore GigaOM (Mar 6 2012) Construction , Servers
...te with our customers,” meaning AMD won’t use SeaMicro servers to go up against the likes of HP and IBM. In reality, however, it’s not that simple. What AMD gets from buying SeaMicro is the technology to......em level. But margins remain tight in the commodity server business, leading some companies like Oracle to abandon it altogether. Expensive acquisitions like the $334 million AMD paid for SeaMicro remai...
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Growth In Private Cloud Adoption Continues To Rise
Explore da.feedsportal.com (Jan 24 2012) Cloud Computing
...ouds 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 internally su...
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Intel Buys InfiniBand Franchise
Explore TechWeekEurope UK (Jan 24 2012)
...to one supercomputer. InfiniBand is available in several enterprise products from companies such as Oracle (for its high-speed Exadata and Exalogic servers), IBM (in its System p servers), EMC Isilon (high-end storage), and others. “Consistent with what we’ve s...
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Comment Mentions: Intel Oracle Department of Energy
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Cisco touts 10,000 UCS customers
Explore GigaOM (Jan 18 2012) Servers
... melded compute and networking in a single box, tightly integrated with storage. Since then HP and Oracle entered the fray. These converged infrastructure servers are pricier than the commodity boxes that ......d (despite a 3.1 percent decline for the quarter.) Dell was number two with 21.8 percent share with IBM, Fujitsu, and Lenovo rounding out the top five. Cisco remains in the “other” category. It seems cle...
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Oracle learns the dark side of hardware
...ut that was clearly not enough to offset the decline in sales of bread-and-butter servers. Oracle’s not alone in this data center appliance race where it competes with IBM’s Netezza, EMC Greenplum and other offerings. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said he is pleased with those big-box sales. “The thing that really moves the nee...
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Comment Mentions: Larry Ellison Sun Microsystems Oracle
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Do BYO data centers make sense anymore?
Explore GigaOM (Dec 16 2011) Cloud Computing
...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 for use by customers.
Do ...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Google Oracle
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Extending the life of your data center
Explore The Voice of IT Management (Oct 11 2011) Cloud Computing
...from your current data center. Here are some options: Head to the cloud. Companies like Amazon, HP, IBM and Oracle all offer cloud-based services that enable bursts in computing capacity when needed. For instance, ... (Read Full Article)
Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Gartner Oracle
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Watch out tech world. This CEO knows consumers
Explore GigaOM (Sep 23 2011) Cloud Computing
...rvalued brands in the data center. It does so much, yet seems to lack the awareness of players like IBM, Cisco, Oracle, VMware, and EMC in their efforts to capture the minds of corporate buyers. It will be interest...
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Component-level rightsizing to reduce datacenter power, costs
Explore zdnetasia.com (Sep 16 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers
...igurations of datacenter hardware, the analyst said, adding that "preconfigured roll-on boxes" from Oracle and SAP, for instance, may take up less space but these devices consume "a lot more power". He adde...... 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...
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The Battle for the Converged Data Center Network
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 18 2011) Cloud Computing , Networking , Storage
...ustry experts thought it was a bold move fraught with risk because it could alienate companies like IBM and HP that had been partners of Cisco’s for years. Now, Cisco seems to be making headway with its ......cquisition of 3Com. Whether it can leverage this to compete on par with Cisco remains to be seen. o Oracle: Well known for software that powers the Internet, Oracle combined this with ...
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Comment Mentions: Sun Microsystems Oracle Cisco
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Unix Servers Growing As Mainstay Of Data Centres
Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jun 24 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers
...11 quarters that revenues grew year over year. The top three Unix server vendors – Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Oracle – all saw revenue increases during the quarter, and Unix server revenue accounted for 21.8 percent...
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Comment Mentions: Sun Microsystems Intel Oracle
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11 Ways Your Peers Are Saving Power In The Data Center
Explore zdnet.com (Jun 1 2011)
...ans and see where you come up lacking — or ahead of the curve. Transparent Application Scaling With IBM DB2 PureScaleTransparent application scaling with IBM DB2 pureScale. With ... (IBM)Download Now Leverage your Oracle 11g skills to learn DB2 9.7 for Linux, UNIX and WindowsLeverage your Oracle 11g skills to learn DB2 9.7 for Linux, UNIX and ... (IBM)Download Now Future Proofing Mobile ComputersRugged mobile computers deployed to warehouses ...
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Why IBM's Hardware Business Is Flying High
Explore eweek.com (Apr 25 2011) Cloud Computing
...nsolidated over 30 points of share in the mid-range server market since 2000 at the expense of both Oracle/Sun (minus 5 pts) and HP (minus 19 points)," and "IBM’s Power architecture arguably has a 1 to 2 generation lead over UltraSPARC, suggesting it is ...
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Comment Mentions: Sun Microsystems Gartner Oracle
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What's Hot (and What's Not) for Servers
Explore ServerWatch (Mar 2 2011)
...le, if any, difference in either the energy efficiency or density offered by systems from Dell, HP, IBM or Oracle. "Every vendor is telling a story that emphasizes how many of their systems you can cram into a sma...
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Comment Mentions: Sun Microsystems Intel Oracle
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Ibm, Hp & Dell Steal Ahead In Server Revenues: IDC
Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Mar 2 2011) Servers
IBM, based on the strength of its mainframe business and the overall health of its x86-based systems, r...... and the fourth consecutive quarter with increased year-over-year revenue growth, according to IDC. Oracle And Fujitsu Shrink In Growing Market Worldwide server shipments jumped 6.1 percent, to 2.1 million ...
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Comment Mentions: Fujitsu Sun Microsystems Gartner
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