Open Compute builds a business model for the next era of the web

Explore GigaOM (May 4 2012) Servers

...e server business last year netted vendors $34.4 billion on sales of 8 billion servers according to IDC, but those numbers don’t show how that business is changing. For that compare the growth in the tra......Cutting costs in IT has huge effects on the bottom line. For example, Facebook spent 16 percent and Google both spent about 9 percent of its revenue on infrastructure and capital expenditures ... (Read Full Article)

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2011: The Year Data Centers Turned Green

Explore Wired News (Dec 30 2011)

The amount of data the world stores is on an explosive growth curve. According to research outfit IDC, the digital universe will grow 44 times larger over the course of the decade, thanks to the rise o......nergy efficiency — and no two data centers are alike. Out of necessity, the huge Internet players — Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Yahoo, and Apple — are finding ways to use greener energy and get more ... (Read Full Article)

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Beijing hopes to dominate cloud computing with “Cloud Valley”

Explore SmartPlanet (Dec 16 2011) Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing

American firms like Amazon and Google may have pioneered cloud computing, but Beijing’s city government hopes the industry will head east......e country’s cloud computing market is expected to grow by 30% this year, according to research firm IDC. Beijing hopes to dominate cloud computing with “Cloud Valley” By Tom Hancock | December 16, 2011, ... (Read Full Article)

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Web Host Datapipe Partners with Data Center Firm Shanghai Data Solution

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Oct 20 2011) Cloud Computing

...been targeted for expansion by web hosting providers and data center operators alike. In September, Google announced that it would invest more than $200 million to build data centers in Asia. "Our team at S...... to fully satisfy our customers with mission critical applications through the reliable and secure IDC and network platforms that SDS has built over the past 12 years," Dr. Zhang Jianfeng, CEO of SDS sa... (Read Full Article)

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Data center energy consumption will increase. Are you (not) surprised?

Explore ITworld (Sep 26 2011) Cloud Computing

...YahEZHHDL commented on Apple Mac Thunderbolt ports will support optical cables mzddlin commented on Google's greatest hits and most spectacular misses AdamsFrida_YahEZHHDL commented on 7 free network apps f...... decade: virtualization and cloud computing. This whitepaper is a rich media document, and includes IDC Analyst research, multimedia content, risk assessment tool, solutions brief, valuable reference art... (Read Full Article)

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Buildings house secret servers that keep net humming

Explore usatoday.com (Sep 22 2011)

... management company in Byers, Pa. The facility is 200 feet deep in a former limestone mine. Ads by Google Data Center Cooling Save Up To 50% In Cooling Costs Using SynapSense Active Control www.SynapSe...... data centers around the world, 7,000 of them in the USA, says Michelle Bailey, a vice president at IDC, a market research company that monitors the industry. Growth stalled during the recession, but her... (Read Full Article)

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Green Photonics for Energy Efficient Data Centers

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Sep 20 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...ntainers on the ground floor plus room for thousands more in racks in the upstairs area. Worldwide, IDC estimates that over 7 million server blades are sold each year so it is not unusual for a large dat......4 exabytes. Overall, global IP traffic will increase four times in the next five years. Sites like Google, YouTube, Facebook and Netflix are driving the growth. In any case, data centers of ... (Read Full Article)

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Component-level rightsizing to reduce datacenter power, costs

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

Web 2.0 companies such as Facebook and Google are leading the charge toward more innovative datacenter designs, with a focus on optimizing existi...... something other enterprises would do well to look into. Avneesh Saxena, group vice president of IDC Asia-Pacific, said the top three objectives for managers of datacenter facilities today are "loweri... (Read Full Article)

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What does Economic Uncertainty Mean for Hosting?

Explore thehostingnews.com (Aug 5 2011) Cloud Computing

...n EPA prediction from 2005, Koomey estimated the power usage using reports from information company IDC. The study revealed an estimated 56% worldwide power increase, not quite the doubling the EPA had i......me, it’ll be interesting to watch new ways data centers seek to become more efficient, whether it’s Google’s use of cooling from the Baltic Sea or a facility using natural cooling methods by relying ... (Read Full Article)

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Data Center Power Use Drops as Green IT, Recession Take Effect

Explore GreenBiz.com (Aug 2 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...ore efficient technology cut overall costs, as well as providing green benefits. For the first time Google provided an estimate of its data center power consumption for the report, putting it at less than o......data center use and 0.01 percent of global electricity consumption. Looking ahead, the study quotes IDC figures showing slow server growth rates to predict limited growth in consumption until 2013, but t... (Read Full Article)

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A sneak peek into Google’s servers and energy efficiency

Explore GigaOM (Aug 1 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...for the total amount of electricity consumption for data centers in 2010 and was using figures from IDC. However, because Google creates its own servers, its server numbers aren’t included in the IDC figures. So Koomey wanted to see how big of an omission it was to use the IDC figure and exclude Google. He based the estimates for Google on known electricity use he got from Google and ... (Read Full Article)

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Report: Data Center Energy Use is Moderating

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 1 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...acilities. In compiling the data, Koomey used estimates of installed servers from the research firm IDC. He assumed a data center Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) rating of between 1.83 and 1.92, based on......rk Times has been investigating data center energy use since early 2010, with a particular focus on Google’s data centers. “Data centers’ unquenchable thirst for electricity has been slaked by the global re... (Read Full Article)

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Cisco: We’re All You Need for Cloud Gear

Explore The New York Times (Jul 13 2011) Cloud Computing

... Spotify US Will Launch Thursday * UltraViolet Is Ready. Now Hollywood Needs to Make It Work. * Hey Google — Being Social Is Not an Engineering Problem But is Cisco really cut out to contend from the data c......s statement, adding about 1,000 per quarter, and presently No. 3 in blade market share according to IDC at nearly 10 percent. In the United States, IDC says Cisco is the No. 2 ... (Read Full Article)

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NYSE Launches Cloud Service for Wall Street

Explore CIO.com (Jun 20 2011) Cloud Computing

...cloud" for capital markets and said it shouldn't be considered a public cloud like those offered by Google and Amazon.com. This version of this story was originally published in Computerworld's print editio...... tier 1 applications, the most complex and often business critical in nature to an enterprise. This IDC white paper includes two case studies and a sidebar highlighting the experiences of three enterpris... (Read Full Article)

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Data Centers: The Next Wave of IT Innovation

Explore SOA World Magazine (Jun 14 2011) Power and Cooling , Emissions , Cloud Computing

...and the impact on electrical and mechanical innovation.  Well-capitalized tech companies (including Google and Facebook) have invested billions in data center innovation, from sophisticated water-cooling to...... better decisions about whether or not their existing data center(s) can or should be upgraded. Per IDC (2010) the average data center in the U.S. is 12 years old, meaning it cannot be upgraded economica... (Read Full Article)

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Lady Gaga Sale Stalls Amazon Servers

Explore The New York Times (May 23 2011) Cloud Computing

... became an unwitting symbol for something else: the pitfalls of cloud computing. Add to Portfolio * Google Inc * Apple Incorporated * Amazon.com Inc Go to your Portfolio » “Born This Way” (Interscope), he......this happened, but it certainly creates a challenge for them,” said Matthew Eastwood, an analyst at IDC, a firm that researches technology. “There is not a lot of forgiveness for things like this in the ... (Read Full Article)

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Adopt 'right balance' for green clouds

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

...int, an analyst urged. Philip Carter, associate vice president of green IT and sustainability at IDC Asia-Pacific's practice group, said that there are several aspects toward moving a green cloud comp......onsumption involved 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" ... (Read Full Article)

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Google to open $1billion data center in India?

Explore India news, World news (Nov 1 2010)

Google Incis considering setting up a massive data centre in India, two sources familiar with the developm......The data centre demand is at an all time high, especially in India which according to research firm IDC data is growing at over 35%. Data centre providers such as Netmagic are seeing even 50% revenue gro... (Read Full Article)

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Big Data Is Big Business

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Oct 19 2010) Cloud Computing

...ransforming massive amounts of data into business-relevant competitive advantage. They reference an IDC prediction that by 2020 the amount of data generated each year will reach 35 zettabytes. I (persona......yer of value to the data also, if processed properly. Look at the recent expansion of the duties of Google’s Marissa Mayer, who is the vice president of search product and user experience. In addition to he... (Read Full Article)

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Will Cloud Computing lead to Global Smog?

Explore Virtualization Journal (Mar 31 2010) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Cloud Computing

...it concluded The report highlights the data center expansion plans of several global giants such as Google, Facebook and Apple and appears somewhat critical that few of these highlighted companies appear to......cloud operator’s infrastructure would lead to an overall reduction in carbon emissions. Analysts at IDC estimate that for every $1.00 spent on new hardware, an additional $0.50 is spent on power and cool... (Read Full Article)

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IT's Transformational Year

Explore Forbes.com (Jan 26 2010) Cloud Computing

IDC Senior Vice President Frank Gens says 2010 will be a transformational year for IT, with new computi......cle, we expect to announce cloud platforms, major initiatives in 2010. You've got the upstarts like Google, certainly. So coming in, the Google App Engine. It's hard to think of them as an upstart. But I know what you mean--in the enterprise s... (Read Full Article)

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When Copenhagen Ends lets get back to the basics - by Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Dec 13 2009) Carbon Footprint , Emissions

...s, it looks like the skeptics have hit the bottom of the barrel. The IT world is excited about IDC's calculation that there is plenty that information technology can do to reduce the world's depende......ng the type of cooling (we talked about liquid cooling recently) and alternative sources of energy (Google is big on this) and also recovering the heat from their cooling systems to use in ... (Read Full Article)

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Microsoft's New Cloud Computing

Explore Forbes.com (Oct 29 2009) Construction , Cloud Computing

...in, of course, with e-mail and word processing and with ways that companies can develop software on Google's cloud. IBM aims to fly big corporations into the cloud. It just announced online e-mail and stora......re technicians to migrate their software over [to the cloud]," says Michelle Bailey of analyst firm IDC. "Anything with real business value won't be on the cloud for years." She figures this business ... (Read Full Article)

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Recession Hasn't Killed Data Centre Demand

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Oct 14 2009) Emissions , Cloud Computing

...ays an industry watcher, is driving them to outsource their data centres to specialised providers. IDC has been warning of pressures on data centre capacity for a while now, and has also previously said......ly-developed site,” concluded Mayes. He also pointed that technology vendors, such as Microsoft and Google, are rolling out new sites to support the delivery of new software-as-a-service and cloud computing... (Read Full Article)

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