Digital route forward

Explore siliconrepublic.com (Feb 9 2012)

...in Europe. In front of us, construction is advancing on Google's €75m data centre. Down the road is Microsoft's €1bn data centre that serves its cloud businesses across Europe and the Middle East, while US dat......In terms of power infrastructure to support major data centres and manufacturing operations such as Intel or EMC, Mortell says Ireland is just about competitive at the moment. "Paris is using nuclear ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Intel   Google

2011 – the year Ireland became ‘home of the cloud’

Explore siliconrepublic.com (Dec 22 2011) Cloud Computing

...st 22 legacy data centres, not to mention new ones, such as the $1bn data centre built last year by Microsoft in its third investment in Dublin in 18 months and European data centre giant Interxion, which is p...... and Ireland has been at the cusp of this revolution ever since Apple came to Cork in the 1980s and Intel began making chips to power the PC revolution in the ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Europe   Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Power-efficient servers could get a shot in the ARM

Explore ITWorld Canada (Dec 20 2011) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Intel   Cisco

Understanding Network Energy Use Is Key to Efficiency

Explore environmentalleader.com (Nov 28 2011) Emissions , Networking , Servers

..., as appropriate, the white paper says. Developed by CSCI members from Broadcom Corporation, Cisco, Intel, Juniper Networks, Natural Resources Defense Council, Microsoft and PowerOne, the white paper is the second in a series of three papers that CSCI is releasing this... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Natural Resources Defense Council   Intel   Cisco

Can Open Hardware Transform the Data Center?

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Oct 28 2011) Cloud Computing

...te Summit in New York featured appearances from executives for some of the sector’s leading names – Intel, Dell, Amazon, Facebook, Red Hat and Goldman Sachs. The audience was filled with data center though......k, Red Hat and Goldman Sachs. The audience was filled with data center thought leaders from Google, Microsoft, Rackspace and many other companies with large data center operations. That turnout is not an isola... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Intel   Google

Will Your Next Server Be Designed by Facebook?

Explore ReadWriteWeb (Oct 27 2011)

...ent. If you're still doubting how real this is, consider the list of companies that have signed on: Intel, ASUS, Dell, Huawei, Rackspace, Netflix, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs and a little software vendor by the name of Red Hat. I spoke with Red Hat's VP of co... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Intel   Google

Intel’s Third-Quarter Sales Are Up

Explore The New York Times (Oct 18 2011) Cloud Computing

... remains strong, and consumer demand in emerging markets continues to be strong,” Paul S. Otellini, Intel’s chief executive, said in a conference call with analysts. “The global PC landscape is changing.” ...... Ivy Bridge processor to power a new crop of ultrabooks next year, at just about the same time that Microsoft delivers its Windows 8 operating system. (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Gartner   Microsoft Corp

How long until clouds adopt extreme computing chips?

Explore GigaOM (Oct 4 2011) Servers

...s of performance per watt. If you don’t speak gigaflops, that’s okay: It basically has done what Intel and certain countries have deemed impossible with the current generation of silicon. The government......er 2 hours, vendors using ARM’s power efficient architecture have dominated the mobile sector. when Microsoft, adapted Windows to run on ARM, it spoke volumes about the need for power efficiency. Windows, is o... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Intel   Facebook

Whitman: Another Tragedy Or The Saviour Of HP?

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Sep 23 2011)

...the deal which made integration virtually impossible.The company gradually let go of Skype and then Microsoft snapped it up in May, 2010, making sure it had the source code tied into the deal. It seems ironic ......ctured right), is a well-respected Silicon Valley veteran who spent 29 years at HP; also worked for Intel, Veritas, and Informix; and, in 2009, published a book with Raymond Price entitled The HP ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   New York Times   Intel   Skype

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......ss as a Competitive Advantage. I so agree with this article. In fact, in January 2011 at our annual Intel IT Leadership Summit... Definitely mobile social networking is a buzz word in Asia at the moment ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Google   Oracle

Koomey's Law: Computing efficiency keeps pace with Moore's Law

Explore infoworld.com (Sep 13 2011) Emissions

...'s previous study about data center power consumption [PDF]. The co-authors for this study included Microsoft senior program manager ... Since 1965, Moore's Law has served as a benchmark for the computer hardw......or program manager Stephen Berard, Carnegie Mellon University doctoral candidate Marla Sanchez, and Intel senior staff platform technologist Henry Wong. The team examined the energy efficiency of computing... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Carnegie Mellon University   Microsoft Corp

Data Center Energy Efficiency Needs To Include Software And Networking, Expert Says

Explore Network Computing (Aug 22 2011) Cloud Computing , Networking , Servers

...ficiency and cloud computing held last week near San Francisco. The initiative was co-founded by Intel and Google, and includes tech industry giants such as Microsoft, VMware and Cisco Systems, as well as Dell and Samsung, which were co-sponsors of the conference. T... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Google   Cisco

Interxion Partners Launch Cloud Hosting Test Environment

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Jun 2 2011) Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing

June 2, 2011 -- Interxion, together with Microsoft, KPN International, NL-ix and HP, announced on Wednesday they have launched the Cloud Testla, a ......sting test environment for European service providers. The move comes nearly three years after HP, Intel and Yahoo launched "The HP, Intel, and Yahoo Cloud Computing Test Bed", another alliance established to test new types of cloud softw... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Intel   Yahoo

Corporate America Embraces The Green Data Server

Explore cnbc.com (Apr 21 2011)

...erage CIO. But a recent Stanford University/Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory report commissioned by HP, Microsoft and Intel predicts operating costs matching, and surpassing, capital costs for data centers by 2016. In addit... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Intel   Gartner

Data Center shortage is not Power, Cooling, or Network, but executives - Apple hires Microsoft's Data Center GM

Explore greenm3.com (Apr 13 2011)

...tly hired a senior mechanical engineer from Equinix and Google's Daniel Costello who also came from Microsoft. Mike Manos is proud of his renegade action to recruit Daniel from Intel to Microsoft while he had the job that Kevin Timmons had filled and now departed. I called him and told him I n... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Intel   Google

Enterprise demand for green data centers will drive supply

Explore zdnetasia.com (Mar 31 2011)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Microsoft Corp

Energy Efficiency Guide: Data Center Temperature

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 10 2011) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers

...praises of savings through higher baseline temperature settings in the data center includes Google, Intel, Sun and HP. But nudging the thermostat higher may also allow less time to recover from a cooling f......Even a data center user in the Middle East and eBay in Phoenix go without chillers. Both Google and Microsoft operate facilities without chillers, using fresh air cooling. Guest columnists at Data Center Knowl... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Google   ASHRAE

What's Hot (and What's Not) for Servers

Explore ServerWatch (Mar 2 2011)

...ace may well be an indicator of the commoditization of the sector. All vendors use the same AMD and Intel chips, the same RAM and the same disks. Their efforts to simplify management, and otherwise entice ...... votes as being the vendor best suited for a Windows solution. A certain history between Oracle and Microsoft shows up in the user responses. "Not one of our survey respondents felt that Oracle was ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   Intel   Oracle

Data Centers Can be Even Warmer

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 22 2011) Servers

...praises of savings through higher baseline temperature settings in the data center includes Google, Intel, Microsoft and HP. The leading industry group for heating and cooling professionals, ASHRAE (American Societ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Intel   Google

Intel Sees Challenges in Tablets And Smartphones

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jan 14 2011)

...red devices to hit the market this year. Wider Choice Of Operating Systems A key differentiator for Intel over rivals who use ARM or MIPS designs is that Intel’s Atom platform can run Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system, Google’s Android and MeeGo, jointly developed by Intel and Nokia. “By designing Atom-based tablets, have the opportunity to run multiple operating syst... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Nokia   Intel

Intel, Other Top Companies Unveil NewCloud Mission: Open Data Centers

Explore PC World Philippines (Jan 9 2011) Cloud Computing

...cloud, including Canonical, Cisco, Citrix, Dell, EMC, Enomaly, Eucalyptus Systems, Gproxy, HP, IBM, Intel, Joyent, Microsoft, NetApp, NetSuite, Novell, Parallels, Red Hat, Univa and VMware. (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Cisco   IBM

The market says Microsoft is no longer a monopoly, how long before DOJ changes Microsoft monopoly status

Explore greenm3.com (Jan 6 2011)

...how profits were captured. That era was marked by the condensation of profits around two companies, Intel and Microsoft, with the simultaneous evaporation of profits from all other participants in the value chain. From ......m all other participants in the value chain. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia United States v. Microsoft was a set of consolidated civil actions filed against Microsoft Corporation pursuant to the Sherman Antitrust Act on May ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Intel   Microsoft Corp

Nvidia Graphics On ARM Chips For PCs And Servers

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jan 6 2011) Cloud Computing

...g a version of its upcoming Windows 8 to run on ARM-based systems. Migration Could Prove Expensive Microsoft software currently runs on x86-based systems powered by processors from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. However, expanding the reach of Microsoft applications to ARM-based devices would add fuel to the push to extend such ARM-designed processors... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Dell   Microsoft Corp

IBM Mainframe Foe TurboHercules Gets Microsoft Investment

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Dec 3 2010)

Microsoft has invested in TurboHercules, a company that has filed an antitrust complaint against IBM in Europ......everal companies in a legal dispute with IBM over System z licensing issues. Mainframe Emulation On Intel Platforms TurboHercules makes emulation software that enables businesses to run their mainframe app... (Read Full Article)

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