Greenpeace questions the green in clouds

Explore ITworld (May 1 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell , Solar

...gy Index was a paltry 15.3 percent (for the record, others had lower scores, including Amazon, IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, and Salesforce.com), but had the highest usage of coal at 55.1 percent. Apple got a D for energy t... (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

...ice 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... (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

...es. “Three of the largest IT companies building their business around the cloud — Amazon, Apple and Microsoft — are all rapidly expanding without adequate regard to source of electricity, and rely heavily on d......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 by renewab... (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

In the How green is your cloud report, published on Tuesday, Greenpeace slammed Apple, Amazon and Microsoft for the meagre amount of clean energy their datacentres use and their "transparency" regarding thei......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

...in 2011 to 15.3 percent in 2012. Apple now has the fifth-lowest score in the report. It leapfrogged Microsoft, IBM and Amazon. Home » Salesforce Worst of ‘Dirty’ Cloud Companies, Greenpeace says April 18, 2012......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

...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-energy index. Growing cloud... (Read Full Article)

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Roundup: HP Converged Cloud Takes on Amazon

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 10 2012) Cloud Computing

...r ironic: The new HP Public Cloud will promote MySQL databases as a service, essentially leveraging Oracle’s software to compete with the Microsoft SQL Azure cloud, among other public cloud database services. HP (NYSE: HPQ) and Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) have been locked in a nasty feud ever since Oracle hired former HP CEO Mark Hurd as president.” (Read Full Article)

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Iceland’s Thor Data Centre: In Pictures

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (Feb 17 2012) Geothermal

... 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 government... (Read Full Article)

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Growth In Private Cloud Adoption Continues To Rise

Explore da.feedsportal.com (Jan 24 2012) Cloud Computing

...sted private clouds will run into the first speed bumps, thanks to the efforts of companies such as Microsoft, HP, IBM and Oracle. All of which are offering and developing the tools needed to build private clouds on internally su... (Read Full Article)

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Do BYO data centers make sense anymore?

Explore GigaOM (Dec 16 2011) Cloud Computing

...f — 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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Salesforce, a Leader in Cloud Computing, Draws Big Rivals

Explore The New York Times (Dec 12 2011) Cloud Computing

...nues of $3 billion in 2012. That is $5 billion, and that is what has them worried. Where are SAP, Microsoft, Oracle? Why haven’t they taken our customers?” Much of the enterprise software industry, it’s true, has ha... (Read Full Article)

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Will Your Next Server Be Designed by Facebook?

Explore ReadWriteWeb (Oct 27 2011)

... consider the list of companies that have signed on: Intel, ASUS, Dell, Huawei, Rackspace, Netflix, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs and a little software vendor by the name of Red Hat. I spoke with Red Hat's VP of co...... 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 ... (Read Full Article)

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

Explore ITworld (Sep 26 2011) Cloud Computing

...YahEZHHDL commented on Unix tip: Inter-host trust on Unix, part 1 AdamsFrida_YahEZHHDL commented on Microsoft: Enterprises will self-host Windows Azure someday AdamsFrida_YahEZHHDL commented on Microsoft loses $106 million patent verdict to VirnetX AdamsFrida_YahEZHHDL commented on Web hosting outage a......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 ... (Read Full Article)

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Component-level rightsizing to reduce datacenter power, costs

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

...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......by virtual machines. As such, David Fosberg, vice president of Samsung Asia, said companies such as Microsoft, Google and Facebook are leading the way in terms of how they are relooking their datacenter archit... (Read Full Article)

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

Explore greenm3.com (Jul 5 2011)

..., 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 companies organi... (Read Full Article)

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Amazon Slashes Cloud Data Transfer Fees

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jul 1 2011) Cloud Computing

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Amazon Cloud Now Stores 339 Billion Objects

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jun 22 2011) Cloud Computing

...s building advanced applications, some using cloud-certified versions of applications from SAP and Oracle, two software companies that are huge players in the enterprise market. An example: The U.S. gover......market. An example: The U.S. government’s Recovery.gov web site, which is powered by software from Microsoft, SAP and ESRI and runs completely in the Amazon cloud. Spot Pricing Drives Enterprise Usage Vogel s... (Read Full Article)

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NYSE Launches Cloud Service for Wall Street

Explore CIO.com (Jun 20 2011) Cloud Computing

...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's real. It is, as we hear more often these d... (Read Full Article)

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Google Bids $900 Million for Nortel Patent Assets

Explore The New York Times (Apr 4 2011)

...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 ...... patents, according to the United States Patent and Trademark Office, while Apple has around 3,830. Microsoft said it has about 18,000. Google could also use the Nortel patents to protect its partners, like ... (Read Full Article)

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What's Hot (and What's Not) for Servers

Explore ServerWatch (Mar 2 2011)

...ed the most votes as being the vendor best suited for a Windows solution. A certain history between Oracle and Microsoft shows up in the user responses. "Not one of our survey respondents felt that Oracle was tops in Windows server capability," said Olds. "It's the first time we've ever seen a complete ... (Read Full Article)

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IBM Joins Crowded Market With Virtual Desktop Platform

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

... ahead of IBM in this sector, including such longtime competitors as Hewlett-Packard, VMware, Wyse, Oracle, and Cisco Systems. Oh, and don’t forget all those brazen newcomers that include Kaviza, nComputing......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... (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 swallowing them up or r... (Read Full Article)

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Limitations of Saas highlighted at Gartner Itxpo

Explore ITWorld Canada (Oct 20 2010) Cloud Computing

...ments are often constructed. Examples of SaaS vendors include Salesforce, Taleo, Workday, NetSuite, Oracle, SuccessFactors, and Microsoft Dynamics. DeSisto points out that the irony, though, is that enterprise customers can end up with "......ound IT entirely," DeSisto said, and that has been known to happen. By: Rafael Ruffolo (12 Oct 2010)Microsoft Corp. is expected to wait until next year before directing any significant attention to enterprise IT sh... (Read Full Article)

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Regulations and Security Concerns Hinder Asia’s Move to Cloud Computing

Explore The New York Times (Oct 11 2010) Cloud Computing

... connections. “What will drive adoption is broadband penetration,” said Emilio Umeoka, president of Microsoft’s Asian operations in Singapore. “If you don’t have the pipe, you can’t get onto the cloud.” For po......fida so far have dominated the market, crowding out international firms like NEC, SAP of Germany or Oracle of the United States. Poor bandwidth access, however, is keeping China from becoming a cloud hub. T... (Read Full Article)

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