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Jordan Novet Jan 24, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Think your IT consolidation efforts are slow? Check out the feds.

Congress may gear up to do something about IT waste and data center consolidation as called for by a 2010 report, based on a hearing held this week.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Derrick Harris Jan 22, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Google spent a billion on infrastructure last quarter

Google spent more than a billion dollars on infrastructure in the fourth quarter, representing the company's second-biggest quarterly expenditure ever. As it competes against Facebook, Apple, Yelp and Amazon, the company can't afford to stop building data centers now.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Data Infrastructure, AI & Analytics
Derrick Harris Jan 9, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

A peek inside China’s internet giants and their massive scale

China's big four internet companies are big -- huge, in fact -- but they're not yet technological innovators like their American counterparts. However, scalability is an an issue that knows no borders, which has spurred some cross-continental cooperation. Will it also inspire a Chinese tech awakening?…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Barb Darrow Oct 29, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Data centers batten down as Hurricane Sandy blows in

Data centers up and down the eastern seaboard went into emergency mode to keep up and running as Hurricane Sandy churned northwards. But the key to survivabilty is not last-minute prep but long-running practices.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Joe Weinman, Telx Oct 27, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Why data centers have a big impact on the economy

Data Centers have come under attack as terminally wasteful and "dirty" enterprises that offer little in the way of jobs. Joe Weinman, senior VP at Telx, disputes that, and says in fact they indirectly employee countless thousands across many industries.…

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Data Infrastructure, AI & Analytics, Technology
Derrick Harris Oct 26, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Hacking hardware isn’t just cool — it’s also good business

When companies such as Google and Facebook design their own servers, switches and data centers, it's more a business decision than it is a test of their hardware-hacking skills. Custom gear means lower power bills, better performance and the flexibility to adapt to unforeseen situations.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Adam Lesser Oct 18, 2012 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog

Google’s data center PR campaign

Silicon Valley IT giants are typically mum about saying much about their massive data centers, but Google is on a media campaign…

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Cleantech
Mathew Ingram Oct 16, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

A truly open cloud has to be open source, says OpenNebula

Many cloud providers say they are open, or based on open-source technology, but in order to be truly open a service has to be backed by a community of users who contribute to making the technology better, says the founder of OpenNebula…

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Cloud & Infrastructure
Derrick Harris Oct 10, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

IO raises $90M to rethink the corporate data center

IO Data Centers has raised $90 million for its suite of offerings that rethink the way data centers are built and managed. Its IO.Anywhere units are fully contained data centers in a small package, and its OS software can manage a data center from a smartphone.…

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Cleantech, Cloud & Infrastructure, Science & Energy, Technology
Derrick Harris Oct 5, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

7 reasons why Europe really matters to cloud computing

It's not home to Google, Amazon or Facebook, but from plucky entrepreneurs to the world's most-advanced computing systems, Europe has a lot more to offer the world of cloud computing and web infrastructure than might meet the eye. Here are seven reasons why it matters.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Data Infrastructure, AI & Analytics, Technology
Derrick Harris Sep 27, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

For the future of big data startups, look to Facebook

Facebook knows something about big data -- it collects more data and has built more tools than almost anybody else. Here, Facebook's Jay Parikh and Accel Partners' Ping Li talk about what lessons big data startups can take from Facebook to build businesses that can succeed.…

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Cleantech, Cloud & Infrastructure, Data Infrastructure, AI & Analytics, Science & Energy, Technology
Adam Lesser Sep 24, 2012 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog

Today in Cleantech

Sunday’s New York Times featured a lengthy article detailing the somewhat bumpy relationship Microsoft has had with the people and the utility…

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Cleantech
Derrick Harris Aug 31, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Intel immerses its servers in oil — and they like it!

A handful of Intel servers just emerged from a yearlong bath in an oil-based coolant, and the results were remarkable. The servers ran at a PUE just above 1.0, and showed no ill effects from the oil. Is oil immersion coming to a rack near you?…

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Cleantech, Cloud & Infrastructure, Science & Energy, Technology
Derrick Harris Jul 27, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Chart: Apple, Facebook spending a lot on infrastructure

Companies doing business on the web and in the cloud must spend a lot on infrastructure to stay running and to support new services. Here's what Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Zynga spent in the recent quarter, and what it might mean.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Derrick Harris Jul 26, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Why Twitter should open up about its infrastructure

If Twitter wants to remain opaque about its practices, that's fine -- but it shouldn't expect any slack from upset users or investors. Blaming a two-hour outage on an "infrastructural double-whammy" after remaining mum on even where its data centers are located doesn't exactly inspire confidence.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Adam Lesser Jul 19, 2012 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog

Today in Cleantech

A new IDC survey says that in Asia just 10 percent of data centers are running at peak efficiency. More interestingly, it…

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Cleantech
Adam Lesser Jul 17, 2012 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Weekly Update

Sustainability through the eyes of Apple

It seems that the last six months has brought an increasing focus on Apple’s conscience as everything from its labor practices in…

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Cleantech
Derrick Harris Jul 12, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Meet the company building AOL’s micro data centers

Elliptical Mobile Solutions is hardly a household name in the data center world, but don't bet against it. While bigger data centers seem to be better for webscale companies such as Google and Facebook, many are happy to grow about 105 cubic feet at a time.…

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Cleantech, Cloud & Infrastructure, Science & Energy, Technology
Barb Darrow Jul 11, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

5 fun data center facts from the Uptime Institute

It's a tough economy out there. That's why some figures from the new Uptime Institute's 2012 Data Center Industry Survey might surprise those who would expect spending on data center infrastructure to be cut to the bone. Also, cloud is big, duh.…

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Cleantech, Cloud & Infrastructure, Science & Energy, Technology
Derrick Harris Jul 5, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

AOL building refrigerator-sized data centers

AOL is taking its flexible infrastructure strategy to a whole new level of flexibility by building data centers that are about the size of French door refrigerators. Now, AOL will be able to deploy infrastructure where needed with little more than an electrical outlet required.…

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Cleantech, Cloud & Infrastructure, Science & Energy, Technology
Adam Lesser Jul 5, 2012 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog

Today in Cleantech

There’s a report out this week from the British government about how much money has been saved by greening its IT practices.…

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Cleantech
Adam Lesser Jul 3, 2012 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Weekly Update

Locating your data center off the beaten path

The question of where to build your data center has become increasingly complex as the power demands of data centers themselves have…

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Cleantech, Cloud & Infrastructure
Adam Lesser Jun 12, 2012 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Weekly Update

Data center, meet the smart grid

If one looked back at the last sixty years and told a story about the electrical grid, it would be a tale…

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Cleantech, Cloud & Infrastructure
Derrick Harris May 22, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

VMware CEO: We want to make you technologically hip

The "Facebook generation," as VMware CEO Paul Martiz called it in a presentation Tuesday morning, is post-PC and post-paper, and they want to experience information within the context in which they're consuming it. And like it or not, they're the future. Plan your IT accordingly.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology

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