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Moving Forward: Data Center Modernization

Explore Data Center Knowledge (May 8 2012) Cloud Computing

...cent of an organization’s IT budget goes to managing ongoing operations, according to research firm IDC. On a practical level, this means that for most IT professionals, 70 percent of activity and budget... (Read Full Article)

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Open Compute builds a business model for the next era of the web

Explore GigaOM (May 4 2012) Servers

...e server business last year netted vendors $34.4 billion on sales of 8 billion servers according to IDC, but those numbers don’t show how that business is changing. For that compare the growth in the tra... (Read Full Article)

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AdVoice: Turn Big Data into Little Data With De-Duplication

Explore Forbes.com (Apr 18 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...now that 75 percent of all that data is most likely a copy of something else? That finding (from an IDC study) suggests that if you could find a way to eliminate the multiple copies of files and document... (Read Full Article)

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Debunking the Carbon Reduction Myth

Explore kernelmag.com (Apr 16 2012) Carbon Footprint , Carbon Reduction Commitment

... utility provider. This need to measure power consumption is most acute in the data centre. Indeed, IDC reports that approximately 40 per cent of today’s data centre costs are power-related, and predicts... (Read Full Article)

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What Is Behind Dell’s Acquisition Spree?

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (Mar 14 2012)

...k, data leak prevention, gateway antivirus, email security, Web security and application control. IDC estimated the UTM market to be worth about $2.4 billion (£1.53 billion) in 2011 and expects it to g... (Read Full Article)

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‘Energy Park’ Proposed at Nexus of Fiber, Power

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 9 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Solar , Wind , Cloud Computing

.... envisions a project that brings together the ingredients to support either scenario. Working with IDC Architects/CH2M Hill, Harrison has proposed an “energy park” on 644 acres of land near the Colorado... (Read Full Article)

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Three Vs of Big Data: Volume, Velocity, Variety

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 8 2012) Data Center Outages , Cloud Computing

...roduced each day. The trend shows no sign of stopping, or even slowing down. In 2009, research firm IDC noted a 62 percent increase in worldwide data over the previous year, and predicted that digital i... (Read Full Article)

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Riverbed and Akamai Accelerate Hybrid Clouds

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 29 2012) Cloud Computing

...by using multiple, geographically dispersed cloud deployments,” said Melanie Posey, Research VP at IDC. “Bandwidth constraints and network latency impact IT infrastructure performance regardless of loca... (Read Full Article)

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Rackspace Adds Private Edition Cloud, Acquires SharePoint911

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 17 2012) Cloud Computing

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Large Data Center Coming to India, as Regional Demand Booms

Explore pcworld.com (Feb 7 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...ell the data center services to businesses and other customers, said Ravikant Sharma, an analyst at IDC in India. Tulip will benefit from economies of scale, as other third-party data centers in India ar... (Read Full Article)

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'Big Data' Creates Big Opportunities

Explore GreenBiz.com (Jan 30 2012) Construction , Solar , Wind

... zettabytes -- that's 2 trillion gigabytes -- of data were created and stored in 2011, according to IDC. According to IBM, more than 2.5 quintillion bytes -- about 2.5 billion gigabytes -- are created ev... (Read Full Article)

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IBM Sees Green in Going Green in Data Centers

Explore Welcome to IT Jungle (Jan 25 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers

...g abstract to us in the IT industry. This is real, and it is happening now." She cited figures from IDC that claim for every $1 that companies pay for computer hardware, they pay roughly 50 cents for the... (Read Full Article)

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Executive Hirings: Dca, Id Group, CoreLink, 8 Solutions

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jan 24 2012)

...r to Chair Data Center Alliance: Guy Willner, Founder & CEO of the International Data Centre Group (IDC-G), has been appointed as the new chairman of the board of governors of the Data Centre Alliance (D... (Read Full Article)

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AdVoice: Unlocking Data Center Innovation in the Virtual Era

Explore Forbes.com (Jan 19 2012) Cloud Computing

...ttention to innovation that would enable the bank to remain #1. Michelle Bailey, VP of Research for IDC’s Enterprise Platform and Data Center Practice, offered that the challenge for the CIO is how to ma... (Read Full Article)

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Cisco Reaches 10,000 UCS Customers

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jan 18 2012) Cloud Computing , Servers

...ense of IBM, whose market share has slipped as Cisco’s has gained, according to quarterly data from IDC (see chart below). Major Progress vs. Big Expectations When it was introduced in 2009 by Cisco CEO... (Read Full Article)

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