Oracle Adds Features To Zfs Nas Appliance

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (Apr 24 2012) Storage

...l 24, 2012 by Chris Preimesberger eWEEK USA 2012. Ziff Davis Enterprise Inc. All Rights Reserved. 0 Oracle on 23 April released several new products involving the data centre equipment and application sides......d. The company made the announcements at its Collaborate users conference in Las Vegas. Do you know Google’s secrets? To find out, take our quiz. (Read Full Article)

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Cloud's dirty laundry to be aired by Greenpeace

Explore crn.com.au (Apr 18 2012) Construction , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell

... report. How service providers fare The report looks at Amazon Web Services, Apple, Dell, Facebook, Google, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Rackspace, Salesforce, Akamai, Twitter and Yahoo. Google ranked high in Greenpeace’s overview, but more recent investments in Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kon... (Read Full Article)

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Amazon Receives Failing Grade in Greenpeace “How Green is Your Cloud” Report

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Apr 18 2012) Construction , Fossil Fuel , Cloud Computing

... their data center use into just a few data centers in the cloud. On the other end of the spectrum, Google received the most favorable rating and was the only company to be given an A grade in the category ......ge their communities. Other companies assessed in the report were Rackspace, Akamai, Dell, HP, IBM, Oracle, Salesforce, Twitter and Yahoo. Talk Back: Are you currently using a data center powered ... (Read Full Article)

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Greenpeace slams Amazon over green datacentre efforts

Explore ZDNet UK (Apr 18 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Fuel Cell , Solar , Cloud Computing

...heir "transparency" regarding their infrastructure. Amazon got the worst report card overall, while Google and Akamai were the only companies on the list to be awarded an A grade, for the use of renewable e......agement associated with data consumption." The other companies assessed were Akamai, Dell, HP, IBM, Oracle, Rackspace, Salesforce, Twitter and Yahoo. A thought. Many years ago, after decades of dedicated st... (Read Full Article)

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Salesforce Worst of ‘Dirty’ Cloud Companies, Greenpeace says

Explore environmentalleader.com (Apr 18 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Fossil Fuel , Cloud Computing

...w Clean is Your Cloud?, compares energy choices from global IT and internet giants including Apple, Google and this year’s top performer, Yahoo. Greenpeace estimates that just four percent of Salesforce’s u......nd expands coverage from 10 tech firms to 14. The four new additions, besides Salesforce, are Dell, Oracle and Rackspace Hosting. Stay Up-to-Date On Environmental Management, Energy & Sustainability News wi... (Read Full Article)

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Amazon, Microsoft low on Greenpeace clean-energy 'cloud' index

Explore The Seattle Times (Apr 17 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Wind , Cloud Computing

...wable energy sources: solar, wind, hydroelectric, geothermal. Based on those criteria, Yahoo, Dell, Google and Facebook rank highest in Greenpeace's "clean energy index." Companies ranking the lowest: Sales......ok rank highest in Greenpeace's "clean energy index." Companies ranking the lowest: Salesforce.com, Oracle and IBM. Amazon, Microsoft and Apple are in the next-lowest group, according to Greenpeace's clean-... (Read Full Article)

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Ebay Installs Solar Panels after Utah Lobbying Victory

Explore environmentalleader.com (Apr 11 2012) Construction , Solar

...an association of data center professionals representing 1,000 companies in 66 countries, including Google, Oracle, Twitter and Adobe. The Utah legislation is free-market based, giving choice to major energy users ... (Read Full Article)

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Low power is the new black for data centers

Explore GigaOM (Mar 6 2012) Construction , Servers

...d so the SeaMicro deal is one more step toward transferring the value, which an end customer like a Google or a Facebook needs, to a company like AMD and away from the OEMs. The OEMs know this. When I spoke......em level. But margins remain tight in the commodity server business, leading some companies like Oracle to abandon it altogether. Expensive acquisitions like the $334 million AMD paid for ... (Read Full Article)

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Smart lights, bright data center

Explore ITworld (Jan 25 2012) Construction

...floppy disks jimlynch answers Running Windows programmes on i mac USASunrise_tw126796899 shared How Google's privacy policy changes will affect Android on Twitter LuisGonzalez_LinkedjNAW3a has just joined I......s against VMware vSphere 4.1 update 11 on comparable Intel x86 platforms. In this webcast learn how Oracle's new SPARC T4 servers and SPARC Supercluster deliver the security, performance, and scalability re... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook Recruits Google Green Energy Czar for Sustainability Push

Explore CIO.com (Dec 21 2011) Construction , Wind , Cloud Computing

Facebook has hired Google's former "green energy czar" Bill Weihl, in a move designed to demonstrate the company's commitment......atabase services to be available 24/7, while lowering your data center costs. A challenge? Not with Oracle. Now, there's a simple, reliable, affordable way to take advantage of the world's #1 database and t... (Read Full Article)

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Bits Blog: The Coming War for the Social Workplace

Explore Technology (Dec 19 2011) Cloud Computing

...ecutive of Salesforce, figures that orientation also gives him an edge over larger competitors like Oracle and SAP of Germany. Most big enterprise software, he notes, is for back office functions like finan......uch communications have a distinctly “old company” feel. Among younger tech giants, both VMware and Google sell new kinds of software for collaboration on the fly. This month, SAP said it would pay $3.4 bil... (Read Full Article)

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Do BYO data centers make sense anymore?

Explore GigaOM (Dec 16 2011) Cloud Computing

...cal stuff — to the big cloud operators. That roster includes the aforementioned players as well as Google, Microsoft, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle and others that are building out more of their own data center capacity for use by customers. Do ... (Read Full Article)

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U.S. Tech Giants Become Alternative Energy's Fairy Godfathers

Explore news.thomasnet.com (Nov 8 2011) Fossil Fuel , Geothermal , Wind

... solar arrays to power the data center. So will Facebook and Apple, and others of their ilk (paging Oracle!) ever step up the alternative energy plate in quite the same way as Google, seeing a clean energy future for the U.S. part of their responsibilities? Maybe. Even without the ... (Read Full Article)

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Will Your Next Server Be Designed by Facebook?

Explore ReadWriteWeb (Oct 27 2011)

... value end users." End users here, of course, being Red Hat's customers. Consider it the inverse of Oracle's engineered systems, where Oracle claims to save customers money by building proprietary systems top to bottom. The question is wheth......o is that the OCP systems only catch on with the "create your own universe" builders like Facebook, Google and Amazon. He says that the truth is "probably in the ... (Read Full Article)

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Data center energy consumption will increase. Are you (not) surprised?

Explore ITworld (Sep 26 2011) Cloud Computing

...BO in deal with DreamWorks: $30 mil per movie alpha440 has just joined ITworld mzddlin commented on Oracle, Google will hold third settlement conference mzddlin has just joined ITworld Dipmvh has just joined ITworl... (Read Full Article)

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Component-level rightsizing to reduce datacenter power, costs

Explore zdnetasia.com (Sep 16 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

Web 2.0 companies such as Facebook and Google are leading the charge toward more innovative datacenter designs, with a focus on optimizing existi......igurations of datacenter hardware, the analyst said, adding that "preconfigured roll-on boxes" from Oracle and SAP, for instance, may take up less space but these devices consume "a lot more power". He adde... (Read Full Article)

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Ray Lane: Kleiner is not moving away from greentech

Explore GigaOM (Jul 26 2011)

...n worth more than car companies for a long time. GM was worth $50 billion, now it’s at $25 billion. Google at $200 billion, and Oracle $160 billion. So it’s not unusual. The reason is, the business model of the Internet and software i... (Read Full Article)

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Organizational Charts- Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Oracle, and Microsoft

Explore greenm3.com (Jul 5 2011)

...plete original post is here.  But, it was more fun to break up the sections. Organizational Charts- Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Oracle, and Microsoft Date Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at 1:48PM Here is a post a a friend shared on some tech c... (Read Full Article)

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NYSE Launches Cloud Service for Wall Street

Explore CIO.com (Jun 20 2011) Cloud Computing

...cloud" for capital markets and said it shouldn't be considered a public cloud like those offered by Google and Amazon.com. This version of this story was originally published in Computerworld's print editio......ing the experiences of three enterprises with virtualizing their tier 1 applications, which include Oracle and Microsoft SQL databases and a Microsoft Exchange email system. Cloud computing is here, and it'... (Read Full Article)

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Fusion-io’s IPO spurs huge flash investments

Explore GigaOM (Jun 7 2011) Cloud Computing , Storage

...cturer — a couple months ago, and it has only gotten stronger. Basile said the market validation of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison’s decision to power his high-powered transaction-processing appliance wi......ing flash performance as a service could revolutionize cloud computing and democratize access to Google- or Facebook-like infrastructure. We’ll discuss the future of next-generation distributed systems a... (Read Full Article)

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Google Bids $900 Million for Nortel Patent Assets

Explore The New York Times (Apr 4 2011)

...ted States. Nortel said it expected to hold the auction in June. The dozens of patent lawsuits that Google is fighting include one from Oracle, which has sued Google for patent infringement related to Java software used on the Android mobile device platform, and an... (Read Full Article)

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25 new IT companies to watch

Explore IDG News Service (Oct 25 2010) Cloud Computing

...nity will be short -- particularly in the hardware market -- because billion-dollar vendors such as Oracle, IBM, HP and Microsoft will jealously guard profit margins, and try to push out new competitors by ......he scale our data architecture behind 18 of the top 20 most heavily trafficked Web sites (including Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Wikipedia and Craigslist) and tens of thousands of other corporate and... (Read Full Article)

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Big Data Is Big Business

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Oct 19 2010) Cloud Computing

...Data Center Knowledge reported on IBM’s acquisition of Netezza for $1.7 billion in cash, just after Oracle announced a cloud-based Exadata Elastic Service at Oracle World this year. Also this past summer, EMC acquired data warehousing company Greenplum. This past ......yer of value to the data also, if processed properly. Look at the recent expansion of the duties of Google’s Marissa Mayer, who is the vice president ... (Read Full Article)

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Is Apple About to Unleash the iDataCenter?

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Sep 1 2010) Cloud Computing

...luding IBM’s HACMP and HAGEO solutions for high-availability clusters, Veritas Cluster Server, and Oracle’s DataGuard and Real Application Clusters. + Job candidates are also asked to be familiar with stor......ystems using chilled water (meaning Apple won’t be going “chiller-less” to save energy, as Google and Microsoft have done). Apple’s data center operations are overseen by Olivier Sanche, who previo... (Read Full Article)

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