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Inside an Icelandic datacentre

Inside an Icelandic datacentre

...in the KEF101 warehouse complex (pictured) of an old NATO airbase. Verne Global has taken a lease on the entire site, which gives it access... Read more

17 March, 2012 by Jack Clark

Photos: One of the coolest datacentres in the world - on the edge of the Arctic Circle

A 500-square-metre datacentre is being deployed at the Verne Global site, made up of modular datacentres provided by Colt. The datacentre modules... Read more

1 November, 2011 by Nick Heath

Global IT services hit eight-year low, report says

...The global IT services market saw contract value fall 40 percent in the second... Read more

6 September, 2011 by Liau Yun Qing

Level 3 to buy Global Crossing for $3bn

...Level 3 Communications said on Monday it will buy Global Crossing in a stock swap valued at $3bn. With the combination, Level... Read more

11 April, 2011 by Larry Dignan
Inside <endeca_term>Global</endeca_term> Switch's Sydney datacentre

Inside Global Switch's Sydney datacentre

...ZDNet UK's sister site ZDNet Australia was invited inside Global Switch's datacentre facility based in Ultimo, Sydney, for a tour of... Read more

27 October, 2010 by Luke Hopewell

Up to 1.5m MasterCard, Visa account details hacked

...million Visa and MasterCard accounts may have been compromised by the recent Global Payments security breach, the payment processor announced on Sunday. Up to 1... Read more

2 April, 2012 by Steven Musil

Google and OpenDNS try to speed up the internet

...Google, OpenDNS and various content delivery networks have formed the Global Internet Speedup initiative, a project aimed at helping web pages load faster... Read more

31 August, 2011 by David Meyer

Tablet shipments stop short of expectations

...Global tablet shipments in the first quarter of 2011 fell 28 percent from... Read more

11 July, 2011 by Larry Dignan

US musters Global Hawk drone for Japan relief

...damage caused by the earthquake on Friday and the subsequent tsunami. The Global Hawk drone will be used to gauge damage from the Japan quake... Read more

17 March, 2011 by Jack Clark

Western Digital to buy Hitachi's storage arm

...Western Digital plans to acquire Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Hitachi's storage subsidiary, in a cash-and-stock deal... Read more

7 March, 2011 by Jack Clark

IBM chief calls for consumer focus in smart energy tech

...LaMonica/CNET News Palmisano, the keynote speaker on Tuesday at the GridWise Global Forum conference in Washington, DC, argued that modernising energy requires a systems... Read more

22 September, 2010 by Martin LaMonica

Iceland hopes to export energy via datacentres

...mid-2010 that consumes around 3.5MW of power, and the Verne Global datacentre, which officially opened on Thursday and has leased a campus that... Read more

10 February, 2012 by Jack Clark

Seagate and Western Digital cut hard-drive warranties

...or Seagate-branded external solutions," it added. Western Digital is buying Hitachi Global Storage Technologies — one of its main competitors — while Seagate recently acquired Samsung... Read more

16 December, 2011 by Jack Clark

Hitachi GST plugs MLC flash into Ultrastar drives

...Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has updated its Ultrastar solid-state drive range with multi... Read more

9 August, 2011 by Jack Clark

Regulators probe major storage mergers

...drive (HDD) division of Samsung into Seagate, and the other of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies into Western Digital. The investigations, announced on Monday, will try... Read more

31 May, 2011 by Jack Clark

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