Nordic Presence at Datacentres 2012 Reflects Increased Regional Opportunity

Explore sunherald.com (May 3 2012) Power and Cooling

...ative and will be exhibiting at the DataCentres 2012 conference in Nice under the name ”Destination Norway”. The seven initiatives represent diversity, but with common underlying themes of cost-efficient su......n, Hitachi, Caterpillar, Joyent, Siemens and Scottish Development International and is supported by Microsoft and the European Data Centre Association. The event includes an industry exhibition with more than ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Fujitsu   Europe   Norway

Nordic Countries Increasingly Attractive as Sites for Data Centers

Explore The New York Times (Apr 30 2012)

...top European locations for data centers, they were closely followed by Iceland, Sweden, Finland and Norway, based on an evaluation of risk factors including energy costs, connectivity and political and envi......he Nordic countries are relative newcomers. But they have joined the contest at a time when Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Google, among other companies, are competing with one another to create more energy e... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   The New York Times   Iceland

Iceland’s Thor Data Centre: In Pictures

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (Feb 17 2012) Geothermal

... earlier this year. Skyrr itself has pulled off about eight mergers, including service providers in Norway, Sweden and Latvia (only 40 percent of its turnover is in Iceland), and the whole group has now eme...... turnover of 150 million euros, and experience working with most of the major IT players, including Microsoft, Oracle, Dell, HP, Verisign and Cisco. Skyrr itself dates back more than 50 years to the first go... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Oracle

Emerald plans new cloud cable to the US

Explore businessworld.ie (Dec 5 2011) Geothermal , Cloud Computing , Networking

...ro 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 for gradu......studied setting up a data centre in Iceland. One of the first global players to move there has been Norway's Opera Software, maker of world's most-used mobile browser, which opened its Iceland data ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Norway

Ireland/Iceland Atlantic cable aims for data jobs

Explore 1450 WHTC Holland's Hometown Station (Dec 1 2011)

...nd 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......studied setting up a data center in Iceland. One of the first global players to move there has been Norway's Opera Software, maker of world's most-used mobile browser, which opened its ... (Read Full Article)

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Ireland/Iceland to lay Atlantic cable

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

...ro 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......studied setting up a data centre in Iceland. One of the first global players to move there has been Norway's Opera Software, maker of world's most-used mobile browser, which opened its Iceland ... (Read Full Article)

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A Roadmap to Green IT

Explore Greentech Media (Apr 13 2011) Servers

...re are the main subsegments: Architecture and Design. Take advantage of the elements. Local Host in Norway hopes to build data centers in abandoned mine shafts, while test and measurement expert BaseN built......n. It claims it can save large businesses $30 to $60 a year per PC. We’ve been waiting for Cisco or Microsoft to buy them. Servers and processors. SeaMicro has created a server composed of 512 ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   Norway   General Electric

Leading EU Broadband Providers Commit to Energy Saving

Explore The New York Times (Sep 28 2010) Emissions , Networking

...d Turk Telekom among others, have joined heavyweights such as Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Vodafone and Cisco in the voluntary plan to help cut carbon emissions. The new signees bring the n......new signees bring the code's coverage up to 65 million E.U. broadband lines with 10 million more in Norway, Switzerland and Turkey. Data centers, meanwhile, account roughly for 18 percent of the ICT sector'... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Fujitsu   Intel   Norway

Fjords, Caves and Mines: The New Tools for Building Data Centers

Explore Greentech Media (Apr 28 2010) Geothermal , Servers

...created a cooling system for data-centers that siphons icy water from 984 feet below the surface of Norway's Nordfjord. Now the startup wants to build the world's largest green data center in an abandone......ompany already attracted the attention of IBM and Tandberg. Now it plans to reach out to Google and Microsoft for the $100 million it needs to complete the project. Local Host has created a ... (Read Full Article)

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