Iceland hopes to export energy via datacentres

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... I think WinRT is fantastic. I just wish it was an option for people that didn't want to go through Microsoft's App Store with its attendant... Nine people? £30m? Who's back pocket is that lot going in? And IF......y... I think he's referring specifically to Android apps, as Apple do regulate their App Store, but Google seem to let any old crap onto the Android ... (Read Full Article)

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Digital route forward

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...ly one of the most vibrant digital clusters 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... (Read Full Article)

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DRT to build in Irish data center park

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DRT to build in Irish data center park Purchases 10 acres of land near data center sites of Google and Microsoft 8 February 2012 by Penny Jones - DatacenterDynamics Print DRT to build in Irish data center park An... (Read Full Article)

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Nebraska Woos Huge ‘Project Edge’ Data Center

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 6 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...roject and the the fact that three of the huge companies best known for secretive site selections – Google, Microsoft and Yahoo – already operate major data centers in the region. Google and Microsoft each have facilities in Iowa, while Yahoo has its data center in La Vista. These companies have fou... (Read Full Article)

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A New Net

Explore Technology Review (Feb 6 2012) Cloud Computing , Networking

...ologies of all time needs to be rethought. Stanford researchers have reshaped computing before—both Google and early work on the Internet itself came out of their labs—but Casado and his PhD supervisor, Nic......f the early 1980s. IBM's PC standard separated hardware and software, making operating systems like Microsoft Windows the focus of innovation while hardware became a race-to-the-bottom commodity. Cisco and oth... (Read Full Article)

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Schedule of 2012 trade shows and conferences

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6 Ways Cloud Computing Will Evolve In 2012

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

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...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......at Greenhills Industrial Estate in Dublin 24 to expand its cloud footprint in Europe. In September, Google revealed it will invest €75m in a new data centre that will generate 30 ... (Read Full Article)

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One year later, words to remember our Dear Friend Olivier Sanche

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... personal note I continue to miss and mourn a good friend taken far too early. Nic Bustamente (Microsoft). Christian [Belady] and I were just talking about him recently, it doesn't seem like a year's......ne by. We sat in stunned silence thinking about Olivier . . . . it's still shocking. Joe Kava (Google) it's hard to believe that more than a year has gone by since Olivier's passing ... (Read Full Article)

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Do BYO data centers make sense anymore?

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...cal stuff — to the big cloud operators. That roster includes the aforementioned players as well as Google, Microsoft, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle and others that are building out more of their own data center capaci... (Read Full Article)

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Phones and Tablets Getting Game Power In the Cloud

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...nse games on Apple’s iPhone and iPad, as well as on Amazon’s Kindle Fire and other devices based on Google’s Android software. In the past, these games have been far beyond the relatively anemic computing p......g implications for the incumbent powers in the video game business, mainly the console makers Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo. That is because running games in data centers means that consoles in ... (Read Full Article)

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Ireland/Iceland Atlantic cable aims for data jobs

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... will help it to benefit from its renewable hydro and geothermal energy resources for data centers. Google Inc is building a data center in Dublin and Microsoft Corp already has one in the city. The centers would bring much-needed investments and new jobs to the co... (Read Full Article)

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Ireland/Iceland to lay Atlantic cable

Explore businessworld.ie (Dec 1 2011) Geothermal , Cloud Computing , Networking

... will help it to benefit from its renewable hydro and geothermal energy resources for data centres. Google is building a data centre in Dublin and Microsoft already has one in the city. The centres would bring much-needed investments and new jobs to the co... (Read Full Article)

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A Proposal for E.U.-Wide Data Protection Regulation

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... is that they need to be the same across the E.U.,” said Peter Fleischer, global privacy counsel at Google. While praising this aspect of Ms. Reding’s approach, U.S. Internet companies are worried about som......guards are put in place,” Ms. Reding said. Ronald Zink, chief operating officer for E.U. affairs at Microsoft, said that harmonizing policies internationally might be just as important as doing it within ... (Read Full Article)

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Bits Blog: Consultants in the Cloud

Explore Technology (Nov 25 2011) Cloud Computing

...stems, Appirio and Cloud Sherpas. Each offers a somewhat different approach. SADA is reselling both Microsoft and Google products. Appirio offers Google along with a broad range of other cloud services for business, like Salesforce.com. Dito is making ... (Read Full Article)

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Google to Expand Oregon Data Center Campus

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Nov 23 2011) Cloud Computing

...d on the front page of The New York Times, Information Week and in many photos on Flickr. A copy of Google’s site plan was published by Harpers. But don’t expect to see similar images on Google Maps. Although the Google buildings in The Dalles are clearly visible on rival mapping sites from Microsoft and Yahoo, they are nowhere to be found on Google Maps, which appears to ... (Read Full Article)

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The Green Grid: modularity is sign of maturity

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...ced by multiple major Internet companies and providers of Cloud-based services. This group includes Microsoft, Google and Amazon. Download The Green Grid’s whitepaper on modular data centers here. (Read Full Article)

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Apple’s iCloud Will Attract A Host Of New Developers

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Nov 9 2011) Cloud Computing

...ore useful. There will be a lot of activity in this area during the next year. You can be sure that Google and Microsoft are going down the same path and will provide developers with similar cloud-based service APIs. Bef... (Read Full Article)

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How Green Is The Cloud?

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...ve to own. When all of this work moves into the cloud, it gets consolidated by companies like Google and Microsoft that have spent many years optimizing their data centers to be energy efficient. (Read Full Article)

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Can Open Hardware Transform the Data Center?

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... Facebook, 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)

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Will Your Next Server Be Designed by Facebook?

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... 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......o is that the OCP systems only catch on with the "create your own universe" builders like Facebook, Google and Amazon. He says that the truth is "probably in the middle," depending ... (Read Full Article)

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Prudential Financial: 1,000 servers moved into a virtual environment

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...uTube channel gets hijacked and wiped clean Steve Jobs bio debuts at No. 1 spot on bestseller lists Google: Bidding for Yahoo or driving up cost for Microsoft? Jaguar recalls 18,000 cars over cruise control software fault BSA upsets company named for alleged... (Read Full Article)

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Google Wants to Show Why the Cloud Means Bigger is Greener

Explore GreenBiz.com (Oct 20 2011) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers

...d for the rest of us -- and, importantly, for the planet. Indeed, cloud-based computing -- the way Google, Amazon, Yahoo!, Microsoft and Facebook and others provide you with data storage and software from their servers -- turns out ... (Read Full Article)

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The cloud and your firm's carbon footprint

Explore siliconrepublic.com (Oct 15 2011) Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Wind , Cloud Computing , Servers

...ed with running those same applications in their own infrastructures. The study was commissioned by Microsoft and conducted by Accenture and WSP Environment & Energy, an environmental consulting group. The sch......duce inefficiency and minimise energy use - and therefore carbon emissions - all at the same time." Google recently published its energy usage figures, revealing that its CO2 footprint - at almost 1.5m tonn... (Read Full Article)

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