Daniel Beazer/Carl Brooks | 451 Research We’ve been writing about the lessons the recent run of outages have for the cloud industry. Outages at the likes of salesforce.com, Amazon and Level 3 Communications are always going to attract attention, but the main focus of discussion has been around cloud-based disaster recovery and its evolution. The [...]
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Cloud fuels Data Center Expansions
10/10/2011
Thu Pham | OnlineTech Who’s planning to build or expand data centers in the next few years? Major growth in Internet service demands and cloud computing is pushing major companies to expand or build new data centers around the world. Follow the breakdown of investments, land size and reasons for data center expansion: Google Dublin, [...]
Jobs: PC & MAC demoted
06/07/2011
At Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference 2011 in San Francisco yesterday Steve Jobs declared “We’re going to demote the PC and the Mac to just be a device — just like an iPad, an iPhone or an iPod Touch,.. We’re going to move the hub of your digital life to the cloud.” Apple’s free iCloud service [...]
Greenpeace Blasts Cloud Services
05/01/2011
A Greenpeace report titled “How dirty is your data”, asks as cloud technology influences our lives in positive ways, “are the companies that are changing everything failing to address their own growing environmental footprint?” In most cases no, though the sector seeks to define ‘green’ as being ‘more efficient’, a fundamental “failure to commit” to [...]
US Government CIO Is Closing 137 Data Centers
04/28/2011
Via Bloomberg “The Obama administration plans to consolidate 137 facilities in all, or 325,000 square feet (30,193 square meters) of space that is filled with servers, networks, routers and switches, U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra said at a White House event. The meeting was held to promote administration efforts to better manage the government’s [...]
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