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IBM, Red Hat adopt “VMware Pattern” for Cloud. Disruption Strategy Emerges

IBM, Red Hat adopt “VMware Pattern” for Cloud. Disruption Strategy Emerges

By James Governor on March 17, 2010

IBM this week clarified its plans to handhold enterprises into the cloud, working with Red Hat to bypass VMware with the announcement of Smart Business Development & Test on the IBM Cloud. I have been talking for a while about what I call The VMware Pattern, in posts such as Amazon Web Services: an instance […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon Web Services, Cloud, Cloud Computing, ibm, mercury, PayPal, Red Hat, RightScale, VMware

Should FaceBook’s investors be worried that the site is sourcing energy for its new data center from coal?

Should FaceBook’s investors be worried that the site is sourcing energy for its new data center from coal?

By Tom Raftery on February 23, 2010

Should FaceBook’s investors be worried that the site is sourcing energy for its new data center from primarily coal-fired power? FaceBook is fourth largest web property (by unique visitor count) and well on its way to becoming third. It is valued in excess of $10 billion and its investors include Russian investment company DST, Accel […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Accel Partners, arsenic, bp, climate change, co2, coal, data center, Electricity generation, Facebook, Fossil fuel power plant, Greenhouse gas, Greylock Partners, investor, investor revolt, mercury, PacifiCorp, pollution, radiation, Risk, selenium, shell

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