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Microsoft to Drive RDMA Into Datacenters and Clouds
Software giant Microsoft has been using InfiniBand networking technology in its Azure cloud for a few years now, and has also been working with Mellanox Technologies to tune up ...Full Article
VMware Defies Competitive Pressures in the Datacenter
The server virtualization gravy train just keeps rolling for VMware. Despite ongoing and large investments in research and development, the company has been able to grow its net income ...Full Article
Natural Gas Datacenter Makes Home on the Range
After three years of land acquisitions, zoning applications, and the attainment of a license to generate its own electricity from the local natural gas supply, the Niobrara Data Center ...Full Article
Windows Server Plus InfiniBand Speeds Storage, VM Migration
Microsoft will ship its R2 update to the Windows Server 2012 operating system at the end of this week, and one of the key improvements in the platform will ...Full Article
US Government Says Microsoft Cloud Passes Security Muster
Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud has just got the seal of approval from the CIOs of the major agencies of the US government. Under the Obama Administration, the US government ...Full Article
Datacenters Seek Geographical Advantage
<p>As datacenter operation and maintenance costs continue to rise, large-scale operations are looking to geographical cures: sites that offer low cost green energy, cold temperatures and a "business-friendly" tax ...Full Article
Computer Giants Top EPA Green Power List
The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Green Power Partnership released its quarterly Green Power list with the updated rankings of organizations choosing to go green. Full Article
The Carbon Footprint of Hyperscale
<p>Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer recently stated that the company operates over one million servers. What would it take to power an infrastructure of that magnitude? </p>Full Article
Study Paints Cloud with Green Brush
Researchers from Harvard and Reading University released a study on Thursday portraying cloud as 95 percent more energy-efficient than on-site computing.Full Article
Greenpeace Names Cisco, Google ‘Cool IT’ Leaders
<span>The sixth Cool IT Leaderboard ranked 21 technology leaders </span>based on their efforts to drive transformative change in the way that energy is produced and consumed. Full Article
