Joe Kava: Google Data Center Goals Include Cloud, Green Energy
Joe Kava, Google vice president of data centers, has said the search giant uses 10 governing rules when forming its data center strategies, GigaOM reports. Speaking at the Green Grid Forum in Santa Clara, Calif., Kava said that Google plans to build data centers worldwide to serve different regions. Ucilia Wang writes Google aims to [...]
Technicians from Microsoft and Symantec helped U.S. federal marshals raid data centers in New Jersey and Virginia Wednesday in order to stop a global cyber crime operation, Reuters reports. Jim Finkle writes the Bamital botnet could control infected computers, install viruses for identity theft and place computers into networks that attack websites and conduct other [...]
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Cisco Systems predicts nearly two-thirds of all data center traffic will be based in a cloud environment within four years, Forbes reports. Citing the company’s Global Cloud Index, Joe McKendrick reports the company estimates global data center traffic to reach 6.6 zettabytes annually by increasing fourfold between 2011 and 2016. Global cloud traffic is the [...]
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AT&T Receives GSA Approval to Provide Agencies Cloud Storage Services; Thomas Harvey Comments
October 25, 2012 No CommentAT&T‘s government solutions business has received authorization from the General Services Administration to offer cloud computing-based storage services to federal agencies, the company announced Thursday. The company will provide its Synaptic Storage-as-a-Service system through the agency’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service blanket purchase agreement. “With its ‘Cloud First’ policy, the Obama administration signaled its strong support for the cloud [...]
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Hewlett-Packard and Intel will build a new data center for the Energy Department‘s National Renewable Energy Laboratory, with a goal of building the world’s most energy efficient data center. Environmental Leader reports the $10 million data center, to be located at the lab’s Golden, Colo. campus, could have an annual average power usage effectiveness rating of [...]
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CenturyLink subsidiary Savvis will open five new data centers and expand two others by October, CenturyLink announced Tuesday. According to CenturyLink, the moves correlate with global demand for enterprise cloud, managed hosting, network and colocation services. Savvis currently operates more than 50 data centers in North America, Europe and Asia. The Santa Clara, Calif. center, [...]
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Terremark is expanding its cloud capacity across North America by deploying a node at its Denver data center, the Verizon subsidiary announced Tuesday. The subsidiary has 50 data centers around the world that have colocation and cloud technology. Agencies and other enterprises evaluate reliability of physical infrastructure, connectivity and data space when choosing a cloud [...]
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Earlier this year, the Army awarded a $250 million contract to assist with the elimination of 185 data centers by 2015. The move correlates with the Army’s goal of centralizing centers in fewer locations and maximizing potential of computing power and storage, Defense System reports. Lockheed Martin, HP Enterprise Services, General Dynamics and Northrop Grumman [...]
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The U.S. Army is prioritizing industry partnerships and maintaining progress in cloud computing, data centers and biometric processes, according to a top Army officer. Doug Wiltsie, the Army’s program executive officer for enterprise information systems, told Defense Systems his main priority is to build relationships with industry in order to improve the Army’s contracting strategy. Wiltsie [...]
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