Nebraska Woos Huge ‘Project Edge’ Data Center

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

...nd 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 found that as their Internet infrastructure r... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Google   Yahoo

Jerry Yang, ‘Chief Yahoo,’ Steps Down From Board

Explore The New York Times (Jan 17 2012) Hydro

...s the face of the company’s rise and its decline. He stood in the way of a 2008 takeover attempt by Microsoft that valued the company at $47.5 billion. Shareholder dismay with that decision — and Yahoo’s subsequent inability to find its way — has left the company with a market value of less than half... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Yahoo   eBay   Microsoft Corp

Google to Expand Oregon Data Center Campus

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Nov 23 2011) Cloud Computing

...e 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 be using imagery of The Dalles from ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   The New York Times   Google   Yahoo

Global server farms around the world

Explore Telegraph.co.uk (Oct 26 2011) Solar , Servers

...for hte UK’s Colt Telecoms, but they decided to open it out to other customers. Quincy, Washington (Microsoft, Yahoo!, Dell) The cluster of server farms in this formerly sleepy farming community, probably ranks as th... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Iceland

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

Explore IDG News Service (Oct 24 2011) Solar

...ijacked 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)

Comment Mentions:   Google   Yahoo   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Apple Hires Away Yahoo Data Center Chief

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Oct 23 2011) Cloud Computing

...aturday that Scott Noteboom, previously vice president of data center engineering and operations at Yahoo, is now a “distinguished gentleman” at Apple, according to his LinkedIn bio. The move comes during......le, a company better known for its consumer electronics activity. The company reportedly hired away Microsoft data center head Kevin Timmons in April of this year, though last week, Data Center Knowledge repor... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Yahoo   Kevin Timmons

Apple hires Yahoo’s data center chief

Explore GigaOM (Oct 22 2011) Cloud Computing

...le as the iconic consumer electronics maker expands into the cloud. This follows Apple's hiring of Microsoft data center guru Kevin Timmons a few months back. Apple hires Yahoo’s data center chief By Stacey Higginbotham Oct. 22, 2011, 7:40pm PT No Comments * Tweet * * * Scott... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Yahoo   Kevin Timmons

If Silver Lake brokers Yahoo deal, don't you think there will be a data center deal for Silver Lake?

Explore greenm3.com (Oct 20 2011) Hydro

...r Lake Partners is working with one of its investors, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, and Microsoft Corp. to put together a proposal to buy Yahoo Inc., people familiar with the matter said.Under the proposal being discussed, Microsoft would put up several billion dollars of funding, with additional financing being arranged by banks,... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Yahoo   Microsoft Corp   Silver Lake Partners

Google Wants to Show Why the Cloud Means Bigger is Greener

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

...f 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)

Comment Mentions:   New York Times   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

Data Center Operator CyrusOne Names Industry Veteran CTO

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Oct 17 2011) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing

.... Wojtaszek as president, and Doug Jones as director of channel sales in Austin. Before working for Microsoft as its general manager of data center services, Timmons was the VP of operations at Yahoo! and the director of operations at GeoCities. At Microsoft, Timmons was primarily responsible for defining, communicating and executing the company's data cen... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Yahoo   Kevin Timmons   Microsoft Corp

Kevin Timmons Joins CyrusOne as CTO

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Oct 17 2011) Hydro

...latest data center design technologies in the next phase of our development plans.” Timmons joined Microsoft in June, 2009. Prior to that he was vice president of operations at Yahoo, where he oversaw the build-out of their data centers and infrastructure. Before that he was a dire... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Yahoo   Kevin Timmons

Vantage Data Centers to build in Quincy

Explore Columbia Basin Herald (Sep 30 2011) Hydro , Cloud Computing

... companies have seen the advantages of Quincy's affordable land and power, including Intuit, Sabey, Microsoft, Yahoo! and Dell. Vantage's property is next to the Port of Quincy's Industrial Park 4, Pat Boss, of the P... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Yahoo   Dell   Microsoft Corp

Vantage Expands With Project in Quincy

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Sep 27 2011) Construction , Hydro

... Quincy, a major data center hub in central Washington state that is already home to facilities for Microsoft, Yahoo and Intuit, with Sabey and Dell also building new data centers. * Vantage Expands With Project in... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Yahoo   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   LEED

14 Cloud Services Players Scrutinized For Green Credentials

Explore zdnet.com (Sep 13 2011) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Cloud Computing

...nt) plus Akamai, Amazon, Apple, eBay, Expedia, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Priceline, Salesforce and Yahoo! The Verdantix report is similar to one that it published earlier this year looking at the internal......s for its carbon reporting standards. With carbon-conscious customers such as Apple, HP, IBM, Puma, Microsoft, SAP, and Siemens, Akamai appreciates the need to be on top of its own footprint.” Another positive... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Amazon.com   Google

Quincy Data Center Diesel Generator Count is up to 132 with Dell and Sabey most recent addition

Explore greenm3.com (Aug 31 2011) Data Center Outages , Hydro

... On Aug. 5, Ecology approved 28 backup generators for the Dell Data Center in Quincy. Last year, Microsoft won approval to expand its diesel generators to 37, and early this year, Yahoo! was granted permission to increase its generators to 23. This brings the total diesel gen... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Yahoo   Sabey Corp.   Dell

Sabey, Dell Earn Approvals for Generators in Quincy

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 30 2011) Hydro , Cloud Computing

...the last year, the Department of Ecology has issued permits for an additional 95 generators at the Microsoft, Yahoo, Dell and Sabey projects. “We all generate so much data in this day and age that protecting that da... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Yahoo   Sabey Corp.   Dell

Google keeps its Googlers going via green buildings

Explore siliconrepublic.com (Aug 19 2011) Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Solar

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

Data centers drawn to Washington State by cheap clean power and connectivity

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Aug 18 2011) Power and Cooling , Emissions , Hydro , Cloud Computing

...stalling extensive ... Data centers drawn to Washington State by cheap clean power and connectivity Microsoft, Yahoo! among large end users drawn to state Published 18th August, 2011 by Washington State Department of... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Yahoo   Microsoft Corp

Microsoft Renews Big Lease, Yahoo Doesn’t

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 10 2011) Cloud Computing

...duled to expire in increments between 2012 and 2017. The lease will be renewed for eight years. * Microsoft Renews Big Lease, Yahoo Doesn’t * Microsoft Renews Big Lease, Yahoo Doesn’t August 10th, 2011 : Rich Miller Analysts who track the wholesale data center industry ha... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Yahoo   DuPont Fabros   DuPont Fabros Technology

Report: Data Center Energy Use is Moderating

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

...iewed in 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)

Comment Mentions:   New York Times   The New York Times   Google

Dell Builds Efficient ‘Microsite’ Data Centre For Microsoft

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jul 30 2011)

Dell’s ‘microsite’ housing Microsoft’s Bing Maps uses evaporative cooling and fresh-air for greater efficiency Dell officials are touti......ensive to buy and expensive to run. Recent data centre deployments by such companies as Google and Yahoo are driving the shift away from chillers and toward a greater reliance on fresh air for cooling Del... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Google   Yahoo

Dell, Microsoft Tout Data Center 'Microsite' for Bing Maps

Explore eweek.com (Jul 29 2011)

Dell built a high-performance data center "microsite" for Microsoft’s Bing Maps business that uses fresh-air and evaporative-cooling technology to drive up the facilit......pensive to buy and expensive to run. Recent data center deployments by such companies as Google and Yahoo are driving the shift away from chillers and toward a greater reliance on fresh air for cooling Del... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Google   Yahoo

The ‘Facebook Effect’ and the Data Center Market

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jul 12 2011)

...leasing space when large tenants move into their own data centers. In its early years, leases with Microsoft and Yahoo provided more than two-thirds of revenue for DuPont Fabros. + CoreSite Realty: Facebook is the lar... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   Yahoo   Digital Realty

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 ...... 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 software and rel... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Intel   Yahoo