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Articles mentioning both Microsoft Corp and Amazon.com

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1. Skip Tech Stocks, Go For This Datacenter REIT Instead
  
  Explore Forbes.com May 29 2012 Cloud Computing
  
  ...elp drive results going forward. Whether the company is Apple (AAPL), Amazon (AMZN), Cisco (CSCO), IBM (IBM), Microsoft (MSFT) or Salesforce.com (CRM), everyone has a cloud strategy. Ultimately, investors must find a pro...
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  Mentions: Apple Amazon.com Europe
2. Study: Server Failures Don’t Rise Along With the Heat
  
  Explore Data Center Knowledge May 29 2012 Construction , Power and Cooling , Servers
  
  ...ortant in keeping hardware failure rates low, than keeping temperatures low.” James Hamilton, a researcher at Amazon Web Services, says the new data is valuable in updating the industry’s understanding of the relationshi...
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3. Tech Giants, Facing Pressure for a Clean Cloud, Make it Rain with Green Data Centers
  
  Explore news.thomasnet.com May 29 2012 Construction , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell , Solar , Wind
  
  ...eattle — which conveniently stands right across from Microsoft’s headquarters — and hung a banner that read, “Amazon, Microsoft: how clean is your cloud?” (The stunt coincided with the release of Greenpeace’s clean cloud...
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4. EMC’s Great Balancing Act
  
  Explore TechWeekEurope UK May 29 2012
  
  ...xample of this fresh openness from EMC. The quick-fix private cloud product includes kit from Brocade, Cisco, Microsoft and others. EMC also told TechWeekEurpe in April it was planning to open up the project to more vend...
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  Mentions: Amazon.com Larry Ellison Google
5. Do You Want the Good News First?
  
  Explore The New York Times May 21 2012 Fuel Cell , Cloud Computing
  
  ...below, and then making sure people execute them. The leading companies driving this trend — Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Apple, LinkedIn, Zynga and Twitter — are all headquartered and listed in America. Facebook,...
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  Mentions: Apple The New York Times Amazon.com
6. Apple's iCloud Data Center to Use Only Green Power
  
  Explore eweek.com May 19 2012 Construction , Fuel Cell , Geothermal , Solar
  
  Apple, a recent target of Greenpeace for its reliance on coal energy to power its data centers, is making a push to bring renewable and environmentally friendly resources to its facilities. Apple officials said on the company’s Website that by the end of the year, its 500,000-square-foot data center in Maiden, N.C.—which powers the vendor’s iCloud service—will be powered entirely by renewable resources, including a combination of solar power and bio-gas-powered fuel cells.
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7. 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
  
  ...tal power requirements. Last month, Greenpeace launched a series of coordinated protests at Amazon, Apple and Microsoft locations to draw attention to the companies’ use of GHG intensive fuels in powering their data cent...
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8. Microsoft gets earth-friendly, goes carbon neutral
  
  Explore Technology News May 9 2012 Construction , Fossil Fuel , Cloud Computing
  
  ...hase renewable energy and carbon offsets," Turner said. Leading tech companies, like Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft, use massive amounts of energy, electricity and power. Greenpeace estimates that some ...
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9. Amazon Adds New Tools to Cloud for Windows Developers
  
  Explore Web Host Industry Review May 9 2012 Cloud Computing , Servers
  
  ...evelopers with Amazon RDS for SQL server and .NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Cloud computing provider Amazon Web Services announced on Tuesday that it has added more features for Windows developers with Amazon RD...
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  Mentions: Amazon.com Microsoft Corp
10. European Data Center Association to Launch at Data Centers Europe 2012
  
  Explore Web Host Industry Review May 8 2012 Construction , Cloud Computing
  
  ..., Interxion, Hitachi, Caterpillar, Joyent, Siemens and Scottish Development International and is supported by Microsoft, The Green Grid, eco, Data Center Pulse and the European Data Centre Association. The event includes...
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  Mentions: Amazon.com Fujitsu Europe
11. Greenpeace questions the green in clouds
  
  Explore ITworld May 1 2012 Construction , Fuel Cell , Solar
  
  ...ergy 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 for energy tr...
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12. Green Data Centers: Is It Worth Running a “Losing” Race?
  
  Explore Triple Pundit Apr 26 2012 Construction , Cloud Computing
  
  ...ort include: * Three of the largest IT companies building their business around the cloud – Amazon, Apple and Microsoft – are all rapidly expanding without adequate regard to source of electricity, and rely heavily on di...
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13. Greenpeace Pranks Apple at Flagship Stores, Calls for an End to the Coal-Powered Cloud
  
  Explore TreeHugger Apr 24 2012 Power and Cooling , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell
  
  ...Our Cloud' banner at Amazon's headquarters in Seattle. The action is backed by a recent report that chastised Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon for using dirty energy sources to power their data centers, while praising the li...
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14. Apple Responds To Greenpeace Criticism
  
  Explore TechWeekEurope UK Apr 24 2012 Construction , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell
  
  ...ights Reserved 0 Apple has decided not to remain silent after Greenpeace criticised it, along with Amazon and Microsoft, in a mid-April “How Clean Is Your Cloud?” report, which claimed all three heavily relied on “dirty ...
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15. Apple and Greenpeace in War of Words over Dirty Clouds
  
  Explore Datamation Apr 20 2012 Construction , Power and Cooling , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell , Cloud Computing
  
  ...ter build in Prineville, Ore., Greenpeace has zeroed in on clean energy's boogeyman, coal. "Apple, Amazon and Microsoft are powering their growing 21st-century clouds with dirty, 19th-century coal energy," writes Greenpe...
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16. Letter to Ballmer, Bezos, Cook: Go to Iceland
  
  Explore SmartPlanet Apr 20 2012
  
  ... in its report - How Clean is Your Cloud?. Dear Steve Ballmer, Jeff Bezos and Tim Cook, As CEOs of Microsoft, Amazon and Apple, you’re probably aware that the environmental group Greenpeace this week branded each of your...
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17. Greenpeace's clean cloud push: Hey, they've got a point
  
  Explore Technology News Apr 20 2012 Construction , Carbon Footprint , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell , Wind , Cloud Computing
  
  ...sterday rappelled off a building near Amazon and Microsoft offices and attached a banner which reads "Amazon, Microsoft: How Clean is Your Cloud?" Earlier, it released three videos that poke fun at Amazon, Apple, and Mic...
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18. Greenpeace Gives Apple a Valuable Lesson in Stakeholder Engagement
  
  Explore Triple Pundit Apr 20 2012 Construction , Fuel Cell
  
  ...eenpeace’s report How Clean is Your Cloud, which was released earlier this week, focused on Apple, Amazon and Microsoft, which all scored badly for relying on coal and nuclear power for their data centers. For Apple, thi...
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19. Cloud's dirty laundry to be aired by Greenpeace
  
  Explore crn.com.au Apr 18 2012 Construction , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell
  
  .... How 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 overvi...
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20. Apple Defends Its Data Centers Against Greenpeace Report
  
  Explore redorbit.com Apr 18 2012 Construction , Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing
  
  ...g for the data center. As far as the other companies listed in the report, Microsoft refused to comment while Amazon has said the information in the report is inaccurate. “Amazon web services (AWS) believes that cloud co...
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21. Web Host TurnKey Internet to Open Green Data Center in New York State
  
  Explore Web Host Industry Review Apr 18 2012 Construction , Cloud Computing
  
  ...rnet acquired 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 r...
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  Mentions: Greenpeace Amazon.com Intel
22. Apple contests Greenpeace's coal-fired data center claims
  
  Explore macworld.com Apr 18 2012 Construction , Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell
  
  ...high marks for being more transparent about its energy use and committing to use renewable energy. Amazon and Microsoft however received low marks from Greenpeace, which said both “rely heavily on dirty energy to power t...
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23. Greenpeace protesters target Apple's Ireland HQ
  
  Explore Macworld UK Apr 18 2012 Power and Cooling , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell
  
  ... Clean is your Cloud report. Greenpeace launched the report earlier this week, singling out Apple, Amazon and Microsoft for criticism over electricity consumption by the data centres used by the tech giants. Apple has al...
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24. 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
  
  ...technologies. “Three of the largest IT companies building their business around the cloud — Amazon, Apple and Microsoft — are all rapidly expanding without adequate regard to source of electricity, and rely heavily on di...
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