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Data Center Design:
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Application: Cloud Computing, Grid Computing
Technology: Microblogging, Networking, Servers, Storage, Supercomputer
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About Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. is an American based multinational electronic commerce company. Headquartered inSeattle, Washington, it is America's largest online retailer, with nearly three times the internet sales revenue of runner up Staples, Inc.
Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com, Inc. in 1994 and launched it online in 1995. It started as an on-line bookstore but soon diversified to product lines of VHS, DVD,music CDs and MP3s, computer software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture,food, toys, etc. Amazon has established separate websites in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, China, and Japan. It also provides international shipping to certain countries for some of its products.
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A more sustainable cloud through transparency & change
Explore GigaOM (16 hours, 15 min ago) Construction , Power and Cooling , Fuel Cell , Solar
...device on site in Maiden, NC. The industry is starting to sit up and listen. A company like Google, Amazon, Facebook or Apple has enormous clout in the areas they operate. These tech giants are big fish to ...
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Comment Mentions: Apple Greenpeace Amazon.com
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Hackers Target European Web Host 123-reg in DDoS Attack
Explore Web Host Industry Review (May 24 2012)
...Fill out our WHIR reader survey to let us know what works and what doesn’t. And enter to win a $100 Amazon gift card. Nicole Henderson writes full-time for the Web Host Industry Review where she covers dail...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Europe Facebook
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Web Hosts, Internet Industry Prepare for World IPv6 Launch
Explore Web Host Industry Review (May 23 2012)
...Fill out our WHIR reader survey to let us know what works and what doesn’t. And enter to win a $100 Amazon gift card. Justin Lee has been a staff analyst with theWHIR since 2004. He writes about a range of ...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Google Facebook
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AIS Provides Disaster Recovery at Digital Realty Trust Data Center in Phoenix
Explore Web Host Industry Review (May 23 2012) Cloud Computing
...Fill out our WHIR reader survey to let us know what works and what doesn’t. And enter to win a $100 Amazon gift card. Justin Lee has been a staff analyst with theWHIR since 2004. He writes about a range of ...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Digital Realty
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Web Host ViaWest Announces Plans for New Las Vegas Data Center
Explore Web Host Industry Review (May 23 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing
...Fill out our WHIR reader survey to let us know what works and what doesn’t. And enter to win a $100 Amazon gift card. Nicole Henderson writes full-time for the Web Host Industry Review where she covers dail...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Web Host Industry Review
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Former CoreSite Executives Launch IaaS Provider Ajubeo, Denver Cloud Now Live
Explore Web Host Industry Review (May 23 2012)
...Fill out our WHIR reader survey to let us know what works and what doesn’t. And enter to win a $100 Amazon gift card. Nicole Henderson writes full-time for the Web Host Industry Review where she covers dail...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Brocade Web Host Industry Review
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Do You Want the Good News First?
Explore The New York Times (May 21 2012) Fuel Cell , Cloud Computing
...innovation emerging from the ground up, but from seeing the new tools coming on stream that are, as Amazon.com’s founder, Jeff Bezos, put it to me, “eliminating all the gatekeepers” — making it easier and cheap......e anywhere can for a tiny hourly fee now rent the most powerful computing and storage facilities on Amazon’s “cloud” to test any algorithm or start any company or publish any book ...
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Comment Mentions: Apple The New York Times Amazon.com
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Was greenpeace's apple protest timed too well? by Peter Judge
Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (May 20 2012)
...igures. Greenpeace estimated that Maiden needed 100MW, and (maybe a slightly more reliable witness) Amazon reckoned 78MW. Apple says the center has a full-capacity load of only 20MW. That makes fully-renewa...
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Apple's iCloud Data Center to Use Only Green Power
Explore eweek.com (May 19 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell , Geothermal , Solar
...ly compute-dense facilities. More recently has been the rise of companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon—as well as the expanding businesses of established vendors like Apple and Microsoft—which are build...
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Comment Mentions: Apple Greenpeace Amazon.com
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Equinix Expands European Data Center Network with ancotel Acquisition
Explore Web Host Industry Review (May 18 2012) Networking
...Fill out our WHIR reader survey to let us know what works and what doesn’t. And enter to win a $100 Amazon gift card. Justin Lee has been a staff analyst with theWHIR since 2004. He writes about a range of ...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Europe
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Are IT Data Centers Emerging as a 'Killer App' for Green Power? Part 1
Explore Renewable Energy World (May 18 2012) Construction , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Wind , Cloud Computing , Servers
Last month, Greenpeace launched a series of coordinated protests at Amazon, Apple and Microsoft locations to draw attention to the companies’ use of GHG intensive fuels in po...
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Web Host QTS to Bring Solar Power to Data Centers in $10M Green Investment
Explore Web Host Industry Review (May 17 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Solar , Cloud Computing
...Fill out our WHIR reader survey to let us know what works and what doesn’t. And enter to win a $100 Amazon gift card. Justin Lee has been a staff analyst with theWHIR since 2004. He writes about a range of ...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Yahoo Cisco
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Will Facebook’s IPO Have a Web Hosting Impact?
Explore Web Host Industry Review (May 17 2012)
...same treatment to its APIs. “Facebook has kept a tight lid on its APIs and for good reason. But ask Amazon, eBay, and other Internet giants where their business models are heading and it’s about opening up ...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Europe Yahoo
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RightScale Conference to Focus on Multi-Cloud Strategies
Explore Web Host Industry Review (May 16 2012) Cloud Computing
...est practices for achieving success in the cloud. In another vendor-led cloud computing conference, Amazon Web Services recently announced it will host its first customer and partner conference, AWS re: Inv...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Citrix Systems Michael Crandell
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Calligo creates an offshore cloud (with a cameo from Nicira)
Explore GigaOM (May 16 2012) Cloud Computing
Can a niche player build a business offering an offshore cloud to rival Amazon's infrastructure as a service? Calligo wants to try. The startup has formed on the Channel Islands ...
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