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Efficiency is key at Data Centre World
Blog Power and energy savings and green IT in its own right are all by products of saving money, according to those running the biggest energy users in IT, data centre managers. At least that was a key message to take away from the Data Centre World...
[February 24, 2009, 16:34]
SunGard opens first major data centre in London City
News High-availability systems infrastructure specialist SunGard said on Wednesday that it has opened a second data centre in London. Dubbed the Technology Centre 2, or TC2, the centre is a 1,000 square-metre facility in London's Docklands with a...
[March 8, 2006, 16:40]
Symantec: Virtualisation a cure for data-centre woes
News Data-centre chiefs are struggling with staff shortages, more work to do and minimal increases in budgets. According to research from Symantec, the biggest challenges for data-centre managers are tough internal service-level agreements, continuing...
[October 31, 2007, 9:08]
Accenture to launch 'Green Data Centre Calculator'
News On Friday, Accenture will launch the beta of its Green Data Centre Calculator, aimed at helping companies tame energy-hungry data centres, potentially bringing huge cost savings and environmental benefits.
[January 31, 2008, 7:29]
PlusNet suffers data-centre outage
News Internet service provider PlusNet suffered a complete power outage in its primary data centre early on Thursday morning. Also in 2006, a power outage at a Docklands co-location centre temporarily knocked PlusNet offline, and, in 2007, many of its...
[February 21, 2008, 12:34]
Avocent Remote Data Centre Control: The Benefits of KVM over IP
White Papers Download the Avocent Remote Data Centre Control Whitepaper and see how the IT administrator can improve quality of service and reduce data centre downtime By consolidating access to all of your IT hardware resources through a single remote...
[December 1, 2004, 10:40]
Video: Novell reveals green data-centre plans
News At the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, Novell chief executive Ron Hovsepian discusses the company's plan to reduce power consumption by developing more environment-friendly technologies inside the data centre.
[August 9, 2007, 16:11]
Achieving a seamless transition: managing your data centre migration
White Papers Any data centre migration is a complex and potentially disruptive undertaking that involves thorough planning and execution. Global Switch has identified the key issues and has created a checklist to ensure you achieve a seamless transition when...
[May 4, 2007, 0:46]
Virtualisation in the Data Centre
White Papers Novell sees virtualisation as a tremendous opportunity for its data centre customers. SUSE Linux Enterprise 10, the flagship Linux platform from Novell, continues to lead the way in data centre virtualisation, with support for both x86-based...
[April 4, 2007, 1:00]
Gartner urges action on data-centre emissions
News The main issue is not the current amount of data-centre emissions, but the fact that data-centre emissions are increasing faster than other carbon emissions, the firm said in a research advisory. Despite widespread publicity around the issue, not...
[October 11, 2007, 11:46]
How well would your data centre work underwater?
News When thinking about setting up your data centre, the risk of flooding isn't likely to be that near the front of your mind. Backing up and/or replication of data to an off-site location is mandatory here, just as it is for most Disaster Recovery (DR...
[April 12, 2005, 10:40]
IBM targets data centre power crisis
News The company hopes its new portfolio of five services will slash data centre power costs and reduce the emission of greenhouse gases. CIOs are facing a power and cooling crisis in their data centres," said Steven Sams, the vice president of IBM's...
[October 11, 2006, 16:55]
European Union Satellite Centre Selects Atempo Time Navigator for Data Protection
White Papers As a result, protecting its operational data set is one of the highest priorities in the EUSC's datacenter. Located in Torrejon, near Madrid, Spain, the European Union Satellite Centre (EUSC) is an agency of the Council of the European Union.
[November 4, 2008, 0:01]
Contractors 'killed' PlusNet data-centre power
News The PlusNet outage that hit the internet service provider's users early on Thursday was the result of human error at a third-party data centre, it now appears. A full report on the incident is yet to be drawn up but, according to PlusNet, initial...
[February 22, 2008, 10:58]
London losing lustre as data-centre destination
News The company said the capital only has about five percent capacity for data-centre space, forcing lease prices up by 60 percent and making it increasingly unattractive as a data-centre location. One company that has gone down that route is Netcetera...
[February 28, 2008, 10:00]
Industry connects to data centre standard
Talkback I rather see them invest in industry proven SNMP and MIB's again as they did before they each got the bright idea to do things for themselves (and failed). That's what started the mess in the first place and coming up with a new and unproven "happy...
[August 1, 2006, 22:37]
Video: HP outlines next-generation data centre
News At LinuxWorld in San Francisco, Ann Livermore, executive vice president of HP's Technology Solutions Group, discusses the company's plan to support a fully automated, power-efficient, low-cost data centre.
[August 10, 2007, 11:50]
Government launches data-centre taskforce
News The government has set up a public-private taskforce to look at ways to reduce power in data centres across the UK. Green Shift" is a major initiative intended to encourage businesses to move power consumption from thousands of individual PCs to...
[June 11, 2007, 12:23]
Cisco Systems Optical and SAN Technology Underpins High-Availability HP Managed Data Centre Services in EMEA
White Papers Cisco Systems' optical transport and Storage Area Network (SAN) technology solutions are being deployed to help improve the management and resilience of HP's business and mission-critical data throughout the company's European operation.
[August 29, 2006, 0:00]
Intelligent cooling system designed to cut data centre bills
News Some companies want to control the data that flows on the Internet. The firm has devised a novel system that it says can reduce the utility bills associated with air conditioning large data centres by up to 30 percent.
[January 4, 2006, 9:00]
