Renewable Energy May be Edison's Revenge

Explore moneynews.com (Dec 20 2011) Emissions , Cloud Computing

...urplus heat to the city's homes. IBM has designed a solar array to power its Bangalore data center. Microsoft has filed a patent application for a wind-powered data center. Direct current may be one way to inc...... 2013. But Europe is also important. HVDC is now used in a power connection between Britain and the Netherlands. The island of Majorca, whose tourists push up power demand every summer, was ... (Read Full Article)

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Top 5 places to build a new data center

Explore GigaOM (Dec 10 2011) Cloud Computing

...nology workers, and a tech-friendly environment that has been encouraged by technology vendors like Microsoft (headquartered east of Seattle in Redmond). Colorado Although data centers are still found in major...... center world because of its ease of access to the rest of Europe and its friendly environment. The Netherlands provides a strong, clean power infrastructure. For North Americans, it’s also the only mainland Eur... (Read Full Article)

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Lightning Takes Down Amazon And Microsoft Clouds

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Aug 8 2011) Data Center Outages

...hensive system of secondary electricity sources” and the whole operation could switch seamlessly to Amsterdam in the event of a “major catastrophe”. Microsoft would not say whether this system had come into play during yesterday’s power outage when asked by ... (Read Full Article)

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IBM Joins Crowded Market With Virtual Desktop Platform

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jan 26 2011)

...s on the new product. Nor did we cite Virtual Bridges, which is supplying the management interface. Microsoft is providing the Windows interconnect. “Yes, we’re always pretty deliberate with the partners we ch......r Smart Business is available now in North America, the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg and Poland, IBM said. The company plans to make the offering available in China, India,... (Read Full Article)

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Dutch Web Host LeaseWeb Expands into US with New Data Center

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Nov 22 2010) Cloud Computing

Netherlands-based Web hosting provider LeaseWeb (www.leaseweb.com) announced it will expand into the United Sta......ers. LeaseWeb currently has 30,000 customer servers spread throughout five data center locations in Amsterdam and Brussels and peers with more than 20 internet exchanges in Europe. The company has a bandwidth ... (Read Full Article)

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Microsoft Signs Cloud Deals With California, New York City

Explore The New York Times (Oct 20 2010) Cloud Computing

Continuing the progress that Microsoft is making in the state and local government sector, the company has signed cloud computing deals wi......hat top private sector businesses provide to their employees," he said. (Andreas Udo de Haes of IDG Netherlands contributed to this report.) Joab Jackson covers enterprise software and general technology breakin... (Read Full Article)

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Capgemini pushes efficiency limits in Swindon data center

Explore The Register (Oct 12 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

...crazy by using 20-foot or 40-foot metal shipping containers as the data center's basic module, like Microsoft and NASA Ames (among others) have done. But the Merlin data center does make use of modular units t......data centers in France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, China, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland. At this time, the GIO operation has 26,000 servers, of which 8,000 ... (Read Full Article)

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Ten Unique Data Center Designs

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jul 29 2010) Power and Cooling , Solar , Cloud Computing , Servers

... water than typically consumed in other data centers of this scale. The facility will power much of Microsoft’s global cloud computing operation. The Dublin center operates at a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE)...... dampers to control the airflow.” Free to Be: Carbon Free! EvoSwitch Climate Neutral Data Center in Amsterdam Being both carrier neutral and carbon neutral is the strategy behind EvoSwitch, located in the Netherlands. EvoSwitch is doubling the ... (Read Full Article)

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Wikipedia To Add A U.s. Data Center

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jul 2 2010) Cloud Computing

...ia Wikipedia, which is among the busiest sites in the world, along with web properties from Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Yahoo. Wikimedia has a primary data center in Tampa, as well as a facility in Amsterdam that supports European traffic. The group is reported to have about 300 servers in Tampa and about ... (Read Full Article)

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Greenpeace Scales Dell Headquarters, Releases Greener Electronics Guide

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...el, What the Dell? Design Out Toxics.” Greenpeace also demonstrated at Dell’s offices in Bangalore, Amsterdam and Copenhagen. Greenpeace is demanding that Dell provide a phase-out plan for the end of its use o......Ericsson, Philips, Motorola and Apple, while the bottom five ranked companies are Toshiba, Fujitsu, Microsoft, Lenovo, and Nintendo. Reader Comments There are no comments for this story. ______________________... (Read Full Article)

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