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    1. Three Vs of Big Data: Volume, Velocity, Variety

      Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 8 2012) Data Center Outages , Cloud Computing

      Three Vs of Big Data: Volume, Velocity, Variety ...roduced each day. The trend shows no sign of stopping, or even slowing down. In 2009, research firm IDC noted a 62 percent increase in worldwide data over the previous year, and predicted that digital i......eland, a transistor failure caused a power outage at major cloud computing data hubs for Amazon and Microsoft – what followed was a series of failures that resulted in partial corruption of the data base ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Data Center Knowledge   Interactive Data Corporation

    2. Riverbed and Akamai Accelerate Hybrid Clouds

      Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 29 2012) Cloud Computing

      Riverbed and Akamai Accelerate Hybrid Clouds ...tual and cloud infrastructures, the companies said. Optimization for applications like Google Apps, Microsoft Office365 or Salesforce can be achieved through the jointly developed solution by deploying an inst......by using multiple, geographically dispersed cloud deployments,” said Melanie Posey, Research VP at IDC. “Bandwidth constraints and network latency impact IT infrastructure performance regardless of loca... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Forrester Research   Salesforce.com   Interactive Data Corporation

    3. Rackspace Adds Private Edition Cloud, Acquires SharePoint911

      Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 17 2012) Cloud Computing

      ...rvices to the enterprise market. Maineville Ohio based SharePoint911 is widely recognized in the Microsoft SharePoint community and its team includes six Microsoft MVPs (Most Valuable Professional), and the authors of over ten SharePoint books. “Rackspace’s acqu......plementations,” said Melanie Posey, research vice president, hosting & managed network services at IDC. “We believe that Rackspace has uniquely positioned itself above its competitors by adding the tho... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Europe   Data Center Knowledge   Interactive Data Corporation

    4. 'Big Data' Creates Big Opportunities

      Explore GreenBiz.com (Jan 30 2012) Construction , Solar , Wind

      'Big Data' Creates Big Opportunities ... zettabytes -- that'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 ev......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 subset of ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   IBM   Interactive Data Corporation   Microsoft Corp

    5. Power-efficient servers could get a shot in the ARM

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

      ...fferent technologies. They are trying to gain efficiency," said Jed Scaramella, research manager at IDC. Companies are measuring dollars-per-kilowatt and dollars-per-square-foot, and in servers measuring...... making an unsolicited $280 million offer ... By: John Ribeiro (12/20/2011 10:04:00 AM)BANGALORE -- Microsoft Corp. intends to ask the court to dismiss a Novell US$1.3 billion antitrust lawsuit, after a hung jury i... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Intel   Cisco

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

      Explore ITworld (Sep 26 2011) Cloud Computing

      Data center energy consumption will increase. Are you (not) surprised? ...YahEZHHDL commented on Unix tip: Inter-host trust on Unix, part 1 AdamsFrida_YahEZHHDL commented on Microsoft: Enterprises will self-host Windows Azure someday AdamsFrida_YahEZHHDL commented on Microsoft loses $106 million patent verdict to VirnetX AdamsFrida_YahEZHHDL commented on Web hosting outage a...... 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)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   Oracle

    7. Component-level rightsizing to reduce datacenter power, costs

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

      Component-level rightsizing to reduce datacenter power, costs ... 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......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... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Intel   Google   Oracle

    8. White House Names a New Chief of Information Technology

      Explore The New York Times (Aug 4 2011) Cloud Computing

      White House Names a New Chief of Information Technology Steven VanRoekel, who has been a leader at Microsoft and the F.C.C., will take over as chief information officer for the federal government. White House......s technology less costly and more nimble, the government has, said Shawn P. McCarthy, an analyst at IDC, “definitely made progress down that path, though probably not as much as Vivek Kundra had wanted.”... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Barack Obama   Harvard   Office of Management and Budget

    9. Report: Data Center Energy Use is Moderating

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

      Report: Data Center Energy Use is Moderating ...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......n the  Koomey tracks a time of dynamic growth for the data center industry, in which Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook and Apple all built enormous cloud data centers, while service providers filled space at ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   New York Times   The New York Times   Google

    10. U.S. to Close 800 Computer Data Centers

      Explore The New York Times (Jul 20 2011) Cloud Computing

      U.S. to Close 800 Computer Data Centers ...vidual government agencies to buy their own software and hardware. Shawn McCarthy, an analyst at IDC, a research firm, said, “The data consolidation is really part of a much larger reworking of inform......a said, saving about $42 million a year. Google provides the cloud e-mail for the G.S.A, while a Microsoft cloud service is used by the Agriculture Department. Mr. Kundra declined to estimate the job impa... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Brookings Institution   Department of Homeland Security   Vivek Kundra

    11. NYSE Launches Cloud Service for Wall Street

      Explore CIO.com (Jun 20 2011) Cloud Computing

      NYSE Launches Cloud Service for Wall Street ... 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......- to not just reduce costs...but to drive innovation, differentiation and top-line growth. Azure is Microsoft's cloud-based PaaS (Platform as a Service) for developing, hosting and managing applications. Throu... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   Oracle

    12. Fujitsu Offers Free Three-Month Ride on its Cloud

      Explore Home | SYS-CON MEDIA (May 24 2011) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing

      Fujitsu Offers Free Three-Month Ride on its Cloud ...rkloads such as data analytics. The trial offers five VMs and 1TB of storage. The company points to IDC’s prediction that 80% of new enterprise applications will be developed for the cloud this year an...... via the cloud model by 2014. The Global Cloud Platform supports open source Xen virtualization and Microsoft, Linux and CentOS applications. It’s supposed to have multi- tier security and Fujitsu claims its... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Fujitsu   Europe

    13. Adopt 'right balance' for green clouds

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

      Adopt 'right balance' for green clouds ...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......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... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Google

    14. IBM Mainframe Foe TurboHercules Gets Microsoft Investment

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

      IBM Mainframe Foe TurboHercules Gets Microsoft Investment Microsoft has invested in TurboHercules, a company that has filed an antitrust complaint against IBM in Europ......by as much as 70 percent. IBM’s efforts are working. According to market research firms Gartner and IDC, in the third quarter IBM saw revenue growth in its System z business. IDC gave much of the credit to the zEnterprise launch and noted that third-quarter revenue for IBM’s z... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Europe   Intel   IBM

    15. Regulations and Security Concerns Hinder Asia’s Move to Cloud Computing

      Explore The New York Times (Oct 11 2010) Cloud Computing

      Regulations and Security Concerns Hinder Asia’s Move to Cloud Computing ...save 60 percent to 80 percent of the cost of purchasing the equipment themselves. The research firm IDC estimates that the market for cloud computing in Asia outside Japan will grow to about $1.3 billion...... connections. “What will drive adoption is broadband penetration,” said Emilio Umeoka, president of Microsoft’s Asian operations in Singapore. “If you don’t have the pipe, you can’t get onto the cloud.” For ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Gartner   Oracle   Hewlett Packard

    16. RackForce Completes Upgrade of GigaCenter Data Center

      Explore Web Host Industry Review (Jul 6 2010) Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing

      RackForce Completes Upgrade of GigaCenter Data Center ... Denver - Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix - Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC - Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: Microsoft Launches Free Website Tool, WebMatrix Beta News: HP to Help Consolidate Ferrovial's 18 Data Centers......IS San Diego Data Center News: Public IT Cloud Services Expected to Grow to More Than $55B by 2014: IDC Report (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Data center Operator and Infrastructure-as-a-S... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Europe   RackForce   Interactive Data Corporation

    17. Desktop Virtualization Tips For CIOs

      Explore Forbes.com (May 25 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

      Desktop Virtualization Tips For CIOs ...irtualization, but also because they are coming up on desktop hardware refreshes and the upgrade to Microsoft's Windows 7. This has prompted CIOs to look for new ways to save money and improve operational effi......adily going down and represent less than 20% desktop total cost of ownership, according to Gartner, IDC and others; meanwhile, OpEx costs have been steadily going up and represent more than 80% of total ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Interactive Data Corporation   Microsoft Corp

    18. Group seeks advances in data center design

      Explore Computerworld (Mar 22 2010) Cloud Computing

      Group seeks advances in data center design ...e University of Missouri. A key player in the alliance is adviser Michael Manos, who previously ran Microsoft Corp.'s data center operations and is now building Nokia Corp.'s cloud infrastructure. His support stems...... a solution due to high cost estimations. This HP white... Low Administration ROI Tool Download Now IDC Research Report: The Business Value of Consolidating on Energy-Efficient Servers Download this Reso... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Oracle   The Green Grid   Uptime Institute

    19. OnStar Cio's Career Success Is No Accident

      Explore Computerworld (Feb 16 2010)

      OnStar Cio's Career Success Is No Accident ...ned protection and simplified IT work using business-ready security solutions. In this white paper, IDC analyzes the role of next-generation mobile enterprise platforms as organizations seek a more strat......ifying Risk Management: Is Your Company Measuring Up? Register Now Comparing Research In Motion and Microsoft Mobile Solutions This paper compares the Research In Motion BlackBerry solution with the Microsoft® mobile solution by analyzing features of the user experience and the ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Forrester Research   Interactive Data Corporation   Microsoft Corp

    20. SGI Cyclone Offers HPC in the Cloud

      Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 15 2010) Cloud Computing

      SGI Cyclone Offers HPC in the Cloud ...rse. Last August, Linux cluster provider Penguin Computing announced Penguin On Demand. This month, Microsoft boosted its HPC cloud profile by giving away Azure compute time for free to engineers and scientist......duce or eliminate the need to make additional long-term investments in hardware,” said Earl Joseph, IDC program vice president for high performance computing. SGI says Cyclone is backed by the industry’s... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Interactive Data Corporation   SGI

    21. APC plans new push into containerized data centers

      Explore IDG News Service (Feb 12 2010) Cloud Computing

      APC plans new push into containerized data centers ...r recovery, particularly for companies that operate where natural disasters like earthquakes occur. Microsoft has even floated the idea of putting a containerized data center in every town to deliver its onlin...... -- 60 containerized data centers were sold worldwide last year, Carlini said, citing a figure from IDC. The volumes are small partly because not many companies buy that much equipment in one go. "How ma... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   Oracle   Hewlett Packard

    22. IT's Transformational Year

      Explore Forbes.com (Jan 26 2010) Cloud Computing

      IT's Transformational Year IDC Senior Vice President Frank Gens says 2010 will be a transformational year for IT, with new computi......nd you're going to make a decision as a buyer, well, who am I going to go with? I'm a going to be a Microsoft shop, an IBM shop, a ( GOOG - news - people ) shop or a Salesforce shop? This year and the next sev... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Google   Oracle   IBM

    23. Tata Reveals Largest Data Center in India

      Explore Web Host Industry Review (Jan 20 2010)

      Tata Reveals Largest Data Center in India ... on the market demand in three years. "We are very pleased to announce the availability of the Pune IDC for our domestic and global customers," says Sunil Joshi, president of India and APAC & MENA at ......d applications are readily available while optimising energy efficiency." * (0) Comments PREVIOUS: Microsoft Announces May Launch Date for SQL Server 2008 R2 | NEXT: Network Solutions Responds to Site Deface... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Interactive Data Corporation   Microsoft Corp

    24. Forecast 2010: Servers get a makeover in 2010

      Explore PC World (Dec 29 2009) Cloud Computing , Servers

      ...irm predicts that by the end of this year, 24% of all workloads will be running virtually. Overall, IDC projects server shipments to hit 6.9 million this year, about 6% higher than in 2009 but 16% lower ......torage and network I/O bottlenecks, have largely been addressed, so he's moving his Citrix servers, Microsoft Exchange mail servers and SQL Server applications into virtual machines. "There's nothing that ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   Intel   Qualcomm

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