Calligo creates an offshore cloud (with a cameo from Nicira)

Explore GigaOM (May 16 2012) Cloud Computing

... while also ensuring that specific security and data routing protocols are kept in place. Much like Google’s use of software defined networks between its data centers, or NTT’s experiments in creating a seamless failover environment spread between multiple data centers in J... (Read Full Article)

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Al Gore accused of conflict of interest in Apple’s Bloom Energy deal

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Apr 16 2012)

...ode and announced a series of major deals it had already made with some big-name clients, including Google, Bank of America, Coca-Cola, FedEx, eBay and Walmart, among others. It announced its first sales fo......y and Walmart, among others. It announced its first sales for data enter applications in July 2011: NTT America bought Bloom Energy Servers for its San Jose, California, data center, and AT&T bought 7.5MW ... (Read Full Article)

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Will Apple Beat Google to Tap North Carolina's Pig Power?

Explore TPM Idea Lab (Apr 9 2012) Construction , Emissions , Fuel Cell

...e methane gas produced by North Carolina’s massive hog farms has already attracted the attention of Google, and it looks like Apple could become the next tech giant to join the state’s hog waste “black gold......om landfills or livestock operations. Last year the company announced that the global telecom giant NTT was running an installation of Bloom Box fuel cells at its San Jose data center using ... (Read Full Article)

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Was the Hype Around Bloom Energy Two Years Ago Justified?

Explore Triple Pundit (Mar 29 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Fuel Cell

...Bloom had a very impressive list of customers in 2010 including eBay, Wal-Mart, FedEx, Staples, and Google, which was one of the reasons the company was receiving so much attention in the first place. Bloom......of customers, the company, as GigaOm reports, has already sold fuel cells to power data centers for NTT America, the U.S. division of Japanese telecom giant NTT, as well as AT&T. It might ... (Read Full Article)

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Bloom Energy Sharpens Focus on Data Centers

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 19 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell , Cloud Computing

...tinue operating during grid outages. Early adopters of Bloom cells include blue-chip companies like Google, Bank of America, Coca-Cola, eBay, FedEx, Staples and Wal-Mart. Lightly Adopted in Data Centers – S...... option of leasing the equipment, reducing the up-front capital requirements. In 2011 both AT&T and NTT announced purchases of Bloom units to support their data centers in California. “By providing a rel... (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...... them large companies that offer services over the Internet. Several, such as Rackspace and Japan's NTT, the world's second-largest telecommunications provider, rent out clouds to other companies, a mode... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Forrester Research   Google

Top 5 Data Center Stories: Week of Jan. 28

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jan 28 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling

...infrastructure in the last quarter of 2011, recording capital expenditures (CapEx) of $951 million. Google’s CapEx spending was about $271 million more than in the third quarter of 2011, when it invested $6......provider is told it may face a large, unanticipated tax bill due to an interpretation of state law. NTT Communications Acquires India’s NetMagic – In a move to expand into the growing data center market ... (Read Full Article)

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Bloom Energy fuel cells use biogas to help power NTT data center

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Jul 28 2011) Carbon Footprint

...nications, deployed five Bloom Energy Servers with total generation capacity of 500kW. According to NTT, the capacity is enough to power 500 average homes or five 30,000-sq-ft office buildings. NTT America president and CEO Kazuhiro Gomi said the company recognized the importance of energy efficiency and......ldings and facilities housing network equipment. Other Bloom Energy customers in California include Google, eBay and Adobe, according to a GigaOm report. (Read Full Article)

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Tech Titans Back OpenFlow Networking Standard

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 22 2011) Networking

..., a move they say will accelerate innovation and make it easier to manage their far-flung networks. Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Yahoo have teamed with telecom giants Verizon and Deutsche Telekom to... T...... Broadcom, Ciena, Riverbed Technology, Force10, Citrix, Dell, Ericsson, IBM, Marvell, NEC, Netgear, NTT and VMware. “With broad industry support from technology leaders and networking experts, the ONF br... (Read Full Article)

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Data Centers: For When The Cloud is Not Enough

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jul 22 2010) Cloud Computing

...lf model, Facebook and Twitter are following the lead of other huge “Internet-scale” companies like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and eBay, who all build custom data centers to maximize gains in performance and ......l Cozzatti echoed that point in announcing the company’s data center plans. Twitter previously used NTT America and Amazon Web Services to its infrastructure. “Importantly, having our own data center will give u... (Read Full Article)

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Major Data Center Outages of 2009

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Dec 16 2009) Power and Cooling

...restoring service. The attacks continued for weeks as Twitter worked with its data center provider, NTT America, to strengthen its defenses. Amazon Cloud Glitches: One of the top technology trends on Twitter in ......own! Gmail is Down! Some of 2009’s most intense Tweetstorms were driven by brief outages for Gmail, Google’s enormously popular webmail program. A February outage was attributed to capacity problems in Google;s European data ... (Read Full Article)

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Twitter in ‘Combat Mode’ As Attacks Continue

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Sep 9 2009) Microblogging

...e attacks in the wake of a major outage on Aug. 6, but enhanced defenses implemented by Twitter and NTT America have reduced their impact. “We’ve been continually seeing attacks, but I think the public has no......These measures are not a customized solution for Twitter, but a broader hardening to protect all of NTT’s customers, the company said. “We have fortified our infrastructure so we can better ... (Read Full Article)

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Using Metrics to Vanquish the Fail Whale

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jun 23 2009)

...ludes data from Twitter’s in-house monitoring as well as data center and network services provider, NTT America, and Google analytics. Interestingly, one of the most useful data points from Google Analytics is the “Fail Whale” page, which includes analytics code to track error data. The appearan... (Read Full Article)

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