How Clean is your Cloud - Apple responds

Explore Greenpeace (Apr 17 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell , Solar , Cloud Computing

...- to show that the massive increase in Internet use is mainly being powered by dirty energy. Apple, Amazon and Microsoft all score badly in the report for relying on dirty coal and dangerous nuclear power f......ount and type of power behind the Internet services we use everyday. Today Apple responded (via the New York Times): In a statement issued in response to the report, Apple disclosed for the first ... (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

...e 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 se......ctricity used by Google during a year is enough to power 200,000 homes, according to this report in New York Times.. Breaking its energy usage down further, the company also said: To provide you with Google product... (Read Full Article)

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Google Data Centers Use More Power than Salt Lake City

Explore environmentalleader.com (Sep 9 2011) Carbon Footprint , Solar , Cloud Computing

...landfill near our data center,” Google said. Google’s data centers draw almost 260 MW of power, the New York Times reported. This is more power than Salt Lake City uses, Gizmodo said. Scope 1 emissions, including G......le said, according to the Times. The company received an F for transparency, along with Twitter and Amazon, in Greenpeace rankings on cloud computing companies. “Google only publicly acknowledges the exist... (Read Full Article)

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Web Hosts Report Data Centers Operational After East Coast Earthquake

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

...Boston, New York City and other cities were evacuated after the quake, according to a report by the New York Times, and a Virginia nuclear power plant lost power but is on reserves. Web Hosts Report Data Centers Op......ain data center shutdowns," though it didn't specify which data centers in particular were offline. Amazon Virginia, Contact Solutions, Razor Servers and PAETEC also appear to be fine after the ... (Read Full Article)

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Morning Tech Wrap: Microsoft, Skype, Google

Explore Forbes.com Blogs (May 10 2011)

... to unveil a new music storage and streaming service at its annual developers conference today. The New York Times reports the new cloud-based music player service, called Music Beta by Google, doesn’t have the sup......ly relying on the partnerships that have proven difficult.” There are similarities between this and Amazon’s own cloud-based music service launched in March, according to All Things Digital. While Google ha... (Read Full Article)

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The Aftermath of Amazon’s Cloud Outage

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 25 2011) Cloud Computing

... to Availability Zones within a single Region), the SLA has not been breached, legally speaking.” + Amazon’s Trouble Raises Cloud Computing Doubts: The New York Times examines the potential impact on cloud adoption. “Industry analysts said the troubles would pro... (Read Full Article)

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A Chip Start-Up Aims to Slay Intel

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... United Arab Emirates, has formed in a bid to disrupt one of Intel’s most lucrative franchises, The New York Times’s Ashlee Vance reported Monday. The companies have put $48 million into Smooth-Stone, a start-up......el’s server-chip business and offer companies, especially those with vast data centers like Google, Amazon.com, Facebook and Microsoft, enormous energy cost savings. Acknowledging the David vs. Goliath strug... (Read Full Article)

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Gov 2.0 Week in Review - Closing the IT gap, looking back at PDF, considering cloud computing and looking ahead to DC ...

Explore O'Reilly Radar (Jun 14 2010) Cloud Computing

...llions that Los Angeles saved in IT costs or estimated $750,000 saved though moving Recovery.gov to Amazon's cloud, though serious questions will persist about what government sites or services can be moved......ov. Mike Bloomberg has earned some plaudit as an "iPad Mayor." As Javier Hernandez reported for the New York Times, while Bloomberg is still mastering the device, his deputy mayor for operations, Stephen Goldsmith,... (Read Full Article)

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