Hot fact: Global data center power use has been increasing at an alarming rate.
For Google, software defined networking represented a better way of moving traffic between its global data centers.
Nissan intends to use telemetry to send information to a global data centre from every LEAF sold.
British Telecom uses software to send data to whichever of its 23 global data centers has the best electricity prices.
The Cisco Global Cloud Index was developed to estimate global data center and cloud-based Internet Protocol (IP) traffic growth and trends.
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They sell passage to any company that operates its own global data network: from Qatar Telecom to Swisscom, Facebook to Goldman Sachs.
All Argo data are freely and publically available in near real-time via the Global Data Assembly Centres (GDACs) in Brest, France and Monterey, California.
McKinsey projects 40 percent annual growth in global data beginning this year, compared to a mere five percent annual growth in global information technology spending.
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Using global data, Harvard researchers have estimated how many people in each of 187 countries likely died from causes linked to over-consumption of sugary drinks.
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As a novel, global data source Argo has also become a central element in operational oceanography and in basic research and has great value in education.
So far this month, weaker global data has led to a sea of equity red, with global safe haven bonds in demand and historical low yields on display.
This week, soft global data is providing only tentative support.
Actually, said Jennifer Nayar, head of global data products at the firm, most are taking both so they can test the value of the analysis NYSE Technologies performs.
Along with Jelly Bean, you can also expect to see support for global data roaming, mobile payments through Isis, some extra preloaded applications and miscellaneous enhancements across the board.
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According to Cisco, the global cloud traffic will grow at an annual rate of 45% and reach 4.3 zetabytes by 2016, while global data center traffic will grow to 6.6 zetabytes.
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Equinix, a provider of global data center services which host hundreds of telecommunications connections and many financial exchanges including NASDAQ OMX, CBOE Stock Exchange and BATS Europe, is launching the Equinix Marketplace.
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Erlang, developed by telecommunications company Ericsson for massively parallel computing in a phone network, then later released as an open source language, both influenced Scala and is enjoying some rebirth in the world of global data centers.
Signature programmes include Beyond Grey Pinstripes, a global data base and report card on MBA business education, and the Corporate Values Strategy Group, a forum for business leaders to promote change in policy and business practice in pursuit of long-term value creation.
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The average amount of data used on a smartphone tripled from 2010 to 2011, according to Cisco's Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update.
According to the Global Soil Moisture Data Bank, global soil moisture increased throughout the 20th century at almost all sites.
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Weak global economic data did not help stocks on Monday and the European markets were mostly closed.
Silver prices sank further into bear-market territory, and weak global manufacturing data stoked fears of more falls.
It may not be a coincidence that Cisco recently revised its global mobile data growth assumptions sharply downwards.
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Mobile search increasingly can weave global positioning data and profiles of a user's past searches to yield relevant, location-sensitive "contextual" results.
Companies like DigitalGlobe and GeoEye are capturing massive quantities of global sensor data and making it commercially available at marginal cost.
According to the Cisco VNI Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast, CAGR for mobile data traffic is expected to be around 108%.
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The NASDAQ, which experienced an outage on its global index data service, led the way down, losing 37.8 points or 1.4% by 11:28 PM.
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The amount of mobile data traffic generated by tablets in 2016 (1 exabyte per month) will be four times the total amount of monthly global mobile data traffic in 2010 (237 petabytes per month).
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