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Data centre energy crisis looms
News According to the study, the average energy costs of running a corporate UK data centre is currently about £5.3m a year. The rise in costs will make the UK the most expensive place in Europe in which to run a data centre, according to the BroadGroup...
[October 25, 2006, 15:35]
Data-centre power usage phones home
News At CeBIT, Ronald Timmermans from Methode Schleifenbauer explained how to measure power consumption throughout a data centre.
[March 7, 2008, 17:01]
Data-centre worker sabotages California power grid
News A computer technician at a data centre that administers power supply to part of California's vast power grid pleaded guilty on Friday to trying to shut down the grid. The technician, Lonnie Charles Denison, 33, was working at the data centre in...
[December 17, 2007, 16:04]
Data centre firms settle cookie spat
News The data centre gear makers announced the confidential settlement in a joint press release on Thursday. F5 Networks and Radware have settled a patent dispute over F5's "cookie persistence" technology.
[September 17, 2004, 11:45]
Photos: Data centre in a shipping container
News On Friday Sun invited ZDNet.co.uk to an army museum in London to see what it is calling the world's first "virtualised data centre" — basically a data centre housed in a standard 20-foot shipping container.
[May 21, 2007, 17:52]
HP sets out next-generation data-centre agenda
News At the LinuxWorld conference on Wednesday, Livermore outlined how the company envisions the next-generation data centre, which has been on the lips of IT executives for several years. HP, she said, is committed to expanding and being an all-in-one...
[August 9, 2007, 8:44]
The green data centre: An oxymoron?
News The data centre is the first and most obvious place the IT industry has looked in addressing its overzealous consumption of power. A data centre is the single biggest computing draw you can make," said Brad Engstrom, business development manager...
[June 6, 2007, 10:45]
Google patents data centre in a shipping container
News Google has patented the idea of putting a complete data centre in a shipping container. Its patent, which was granted earlier this week, is for a "modular data centre with modular components suitable for use with rack or shelf-mount computing...
[October 11, 2007, 18:04]
HP pulls the plug on Utility Data Centre
News The company has decided to discontinue its Utility Data Centre package, designed to let administrators pool servers and storage systems so that tasks can be shifted as demands shift. Hewlett-Packard is getting rid of one of its high-profile utility...
[September 28, 2004, 11:05]
Sun tackles data-centre power concerns
News Sun has become the latest company to play the energy-efficiency card for its data-centre technology. Barrington added that for every degree less of heat that data-centre equipment generates, typically four percent is saved on cooling costs.
[August 21, 2007, 16:16]
Rackable puts data centre in a box
News Rackable Systems has begun selling a data centre packed into a modular storage container, getting to market ahead of a rival system from Sun. Sun and Rackable both are racing to promote products that simplify data centre design.
[March 27, 2007, 9:50]
Burglars plunder Verizon's London data centre
News Criminals posing as policemen conned their way into a data centre near London's King's Cross station, tying up staff and stealing computing equipment, the Metropolitan Police said on Friday. The theft was undertaken at 9.17pm on Thursday when...
[December 10, 2007, 12:12]
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]
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]
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]
Wheeling on the mobile data centre
Blog A data centre on wheels might look strange, but it's an illustration of some fundamental changes in the way our systems are made. A single PC processor is now capable of driving systems that can outperform blade servers in a data centre," said a...
[December 22, 2008, 7:49]
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]
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]
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]
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]
