Are IT Data Centers Emerging as a 'Killer App' for Green Power? Part 1

Explore Renewable Energy World (May 18 2012) Construction , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Wind , Cloud Computing , Servers

...asily and inexpensively offsetting emissions from data center electricity use. Leading IT companies Intel, Microsoft, Cisco, and Dell are among the top purchasers of RECs. In fact, Intel is top green power purchaser in the U.S., purchasing more than 2.5 million MWh to meet 88 percent o... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

In Oregon, Mission West Looks to the East

Explore Data Center Knowledge (May 15 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing

...mpany has been a major player in the real estate scene in Silicon Valley, developing properties for Microsoft, Apple, Equinix and Nvidia, among others. While western Oregon has been a hotbed of data center act......ter boom have been the Portland area – especially Hillsboro, a tech hub that grew up around a major Intel campus – and the small town of Prinevlle, where Facebook and Apple are building major data centers.... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Intel   Facebook

Green Data Centers: Is It Worth Running a “Losing” Race?

Explore Triple Pundit (Apr 26 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...ely held up the world’s largest IT companies and data center operators, including Apple, Google and Microsoft, for public applause or chastisement based on their energy usage, energy policies and environmental......ave now firmly embarked on. Entire countries, such as Iceland, as well IT industry leaders, such as Intel, are cases in point. The green data center market It’s estimated that data centers consume around... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

Microsoft Debuts on EPA Green Power List, Ranking Third

Explore environmentalleader.com (Apr 24 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Emissions

Microsoft has ranked third in the EPA’s list of organizations using the most green power, and along with McDo......ions using the most green power, and along with McDonald’s, appears on the list for the first time. Intel and Kohl’s maintain their long-time first and second place positions on the Top 50 Green Power Part... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Cisco   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Web Host TurnKey Internet to Open Green Data Center in New York State

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Apr 18 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...ng and cloud hosting services, will features specialized low-voltage computer servers from Dell and Intel that require less energy to power their cloud-based computing services. To celebrate Earth Day and ......red Missouri-based Internet service provider KCNet. Then just last month, TurnKey added support for Microsoft’s WebMatrix website building software. Talk Back: Are you currently using a data center powered by ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Greenpeace   Amazon.com   Intel

Storage News: New SSD From Intel, Emc, Sgi

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 16 2012) Cloud Computing , Storage

...d virtualization, server, and network technology from EMC alliance partners Brocade, Cisco, Citrix, Intel, Microsoft, and VMware.  The initial fourteen VSPEX configurations focus on the ability to accelerate deployme... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Cisco   Brocade

Google, HP Raise Data-Center PUE Bar

Explore Network Computing (Apr 6 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing , Servers

...age , networking equipment, lights, cooling equipment, air circulation systems, Google, HP, Amazon, Microsoft, Intel, AMD Channel: Servers & Storage, Networking & Mgmt, Data Center, Green Computing Running rows and... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Intel   Google

Facebook Seeks Patent on Cooling Automation

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 5 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers

...nsumed energy that offset the gains from using less room-level cooling. Companies like Facebook and Microsoft have sought to address this by reducing or eliminating on-board server fans. Ths approach only work......just fan activity based on pressure within the cabinet. + In 2009, Lawrence Berkeley Labs and Intel developed a proof-of-concept that integrated a sensor network into building management systems, w... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Brocade   Facebook

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