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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 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 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 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 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]
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]
Sun to unveil stackable data-centre boxes
News Giving a new meaning to the term "portable computer", Sun plans to sell a working data centre packaged in a stackable shipping container. About 70 percent are out of space, power and cooling in the data centre.
[October 17, 2006, 10:30]
Inside the recycled data centre
News This 200m-squared demonstration data centre was built by German sister companies Rittal and Lampertz on the floor of the CeBIT trade show in Hanover. Constructed entirely of recycled materials, the Rittal data centre is designed to withstand fire...
[March 11, 2008, 16:38]
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]
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]
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]
Level 3 falls victim to data centre robbery
News Global telecoms carrier Level 3 has fallen victim to a robbery at its London data centre. And just 10 days earlier, thieves walked into fellow carrier Easynet's London data centre, and drove off with a van full of equipment.
[November 2, 2006, 16:38]
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]
Sun plots its data-centre domination
News And like Microsoft and Sun's other competitors, Sun is expected to emphasise the idea that managing servers is passe; instead, managing services is key for data-centre customers. Like Microsoft, with its Windows 2000 Datacenter product, as well as...
[December 4, 2000, 8:27]
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]
Cisco Data Centre Networking White Paper
White Papers This white paper looks at Cisco's data centre networking solutions and how they address the common business goals of improved productivity, business resilience and agility.
[September 13, 2005, 10:44]
Price hike could damage the data centre
Talkback And that's why they're being considered - and in some cases even deployed - in the data centre. And with energy consumption at the top of the agenda for data centre managers, theyr are scrutinising SSDs as one way to help mitigate spiralling energy...
[July 10, 2009, 9:27]
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]
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]
