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Compellent: Dell’s $960M green storage acquisition

December 13, 2010 by Pedro Hernandez 1 Comment

About month and a half ago, buzz began to surround Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based Compellent Technologies based on reports that Dell was interested in acquiring the storage startup. Rumor became reality today when it was revealed that Dell is acquiring Compellent for $960 million.  The firm specializes in storage technologies that improve energy efficiency in data […]

Filed Under: Cloud Computing, Green IT, Storage Tagged With: acquisition, cloud storage, Compellent, Data Center, Dell, green storage, M&A, Storage, storage virtualization

Cloud to slash data center energy costs by 38 percent in 2010

December 6, 2010 by Pedro Hernandez 3 Comments

A new forecast from Pike Research points not only to the accelerated growth of cloud services, but also huge energy savings in the coming decade. According to the research firm’s “Cloud Computing Energy Efficiency” report, cloud computing is projected to cut worldwide data center energy costs by 38 percent, from $23.3 billion in 2010 to […]

Filed Under: Cloud Computing, Data Center, Green IT, Stats & Figures Tagged With: carbon emissions, cloud, Cloud Computing, Data Center, emissions, forecast, green data center, greenhouse gas, Pike Research

Cloud-ify apps for 91% energy savings

December 1, 2010 by Pedro Hernandez 3 Comments

Cloud-based apps can save businesses a bundle on energy costs versus on-site hosting according to new data from Nucleus Research. After comparing the energy consumption of Salesforce.com apps to their in-house equivalents, the research firm found that Salesforce.com beat out non-cloud app infrastructures with up to 91 percent in energy savings. And it saves money […]

Filed Under: Cloud Computing Tagged With: cloud, Cloud Computing, Nucleus Research, Salesforce.com

3PAR bidding war update: HP offers $2.1 billion

September 2, 2010 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

How high will they go? HP one-upped Dell with a roughly $2.1 billion bid to snag storage virtualization and thin provisioning firm 3PAR. At stake is nothing less than cloud domination! Actually, no, but close. IT vendors are scrambling to build their cloud portfolios, which rests on offering technologies and platforms that can scale to […]

Filed Under: Cloud Computing, Storage Tagged With: 3PAR, acquisition, cloud storage, Data Center, Dell, HP, M&A, Storage, storage virtualization, thin provisioning

Intel buys McAfee: New era of secure (green) clouds?

August 19, 2010 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

In a whopper of deal, Intel today announced that it is acquiring McAfee for $7.68 billion. On the surface it looks like Intel is elbowing into the software space, but snagging one of the premier IT security firms is also indicative of a three-pronged plan of attack for cloud computing and data centers. Intel’s CEO, […]

Filed Under: Cloud Computing, Data Center, Green IT Tagged With: acquisition, Cloud Computing, Data Center, data security, Intel, M&A, McAfee, mobile, security, Smart Grid

Cloudy, with a chance of big server sales

August 4, 2010 by Pedro Hernandez 1 Comment

Uh-oh, so much for the cloud’s server-killing ways. A new forecast from IDC illustrates the double-edged sword that is cloud computing, and it’s certain to cheer up HP, Dell and other big server vendors. While the cloud has the potential to vastly reduce the number of physical — and often underutilized — computer servers and […]

Filed Under: Cloud Computing Tagged With: Cloud Computing, forecast, IDC, server

Silver Linings eyes data center container biz

August 4, 2010 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Companies like IBM, HP and Sun (now Oracle) have been promoting data center containers — modular and quickly-deployable server, storage and networking infrastructure in shipping containers — as companies rush to build up their IT arsenals to conquer the cloud. Now, it looks like some startups are getting into the game. A company called Silver […]

Filed Under: Cloud Computing, Featured, Green IT

1984 Indeed – Strike One Against Amazon's Kindle

July 17, 2009 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Amazon today exposed the downside of an always-on, cloud-connected e-book platform. Ironically enough, the e-tailing giant yanked George Orwell’s “1984” and “Animal Farm” published by MobileReference from customers’ Kindles. That’s right, someone flipped the kill-switch from Amazon HQ and every…

Filed Under: Cloud Computing Tagged With: amazon, Kindle

Can Cloud Computing Trigger Broader Open Source Adoption?

July 1, 2009 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Cloud computing services may just be providing the nudge SMBs need to migrate to open source platforms and trim costs. At least that’s the thinking of Alex Vuchnich at AccountingWEB.com. He makes a good case. After all, web services hide…

Filed Under: Cloud Computing Tagged With: Cloud Computing, open source, software

Cloud Computing – Look Beyond the Tech

June 18, 2009 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

This interesting post on Games for Learning – Sun Blogs came across my Twitter client (Seesmic – nice but needs some work). Brandon Carso suggests that we don’t get too hung up on the technological aspects of cloud computing and…

Filed Under: Cloud Computing Tagged With: business, Cloud Computing

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