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Fountainhead: Predictions: What You WON'T See in IT For 2012

Fountainhead

Predictions: What You WONT See in IT For 2012. While everyone is jumping in with 2012 predictions (Tis the season) I want to impress on everyone that a dose of sobriety is in order. At any rate, I wanted to highlight things I believe we wont see happen in 2012. Fountainhead. Thursday, December 15, 2011.

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A VMworld 2012 Wrap-Up

Scott Lowe

Now that a week or so has passed, I thought I’d post a quick “link review” of VMworld 2012. Here are some links: Rick Scherer: VMworld 2012 San Francisco – Live Blogging. Here are some links: Rick Scherer: VMworld 2012 San Francisco – Live Blogging. Scott Lowe: VMworld 2012 Keynote, Day 1.

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Enterprise spending on cloud services keeps accelerating

Network World

In 2012 enterprises spent twelve times as much on their data center hardware and software as they did on cloud infrastructure services, while today they spend three times more on cloud services then they do on their own data center infrastructure,” Dinsdale wrote.

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Facebook's Power Footprint Growing, Moving East

Data Center Knowledge

A breakdown of power usage at Facebook’s data centers during 2012, from the company’s annual sustainability report. Facebook’s data center energy use grew 33 percent in 2012, as the company installed tens of thousands of servers in its new company-built data centers. Facebook’s Power Footprint Growing, Moving East.

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Ballmer: Microsoft has 1 Million Servers » Data Center Knowledge

Data Center Knowledge

Even Facebook, which has open sourced much of its designs for its data center hardware but remains vague about its server count, saying only that it operates “hundreds of thousands” of machines. December 2012 (151). November 2012 (152). October 2012 (182). September 2012 (134). August 2012 (166).

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IDF 2012 Keynote, Day 1

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog of the day 1 keynote at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2012 at Moscone West in San Francisco, CA. ” He shows off two hardware samples: the ultra-small Medfield system-on-a-chip (SoC) and the much larger Xeon Phi high-performance computing (HPC) platform. IDF 2012 Keynote, Day 1.

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Google Spends $1.6 Billion in 3 Months on its Data Centers

Data Center Knowledge

billion from the fourth quarter of 2012. 1Q 2012: $607 million. 2Q 2012: $774 million. 3Q 2012: $872 million. 4Q 2012: $1.02 Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. December 2012 (151).