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Data centres to get smart
News Speaking to ZDNet Asia at IDC's InfraVision conference held in Singapore on Thursday, William Wu, Intel's Asia-Pacific regional marketing manager for server platforms, noted that the complexities and challenges faced by data centres today are...
[November 16, 2007, 14:28]
Data centres face cooling crisis
News New research from ARI found 38 percent of data centres are already running at dangerous levels of power consumption, meaning they are at risk of failing due to a power shortfall. According to analyst house Gartner, 50 percent of data centres will...
[April 13, 2007, 10:02]
Data centres get greener
Blog Data centres are becoming greener - the economics say they have to. Went to visit a new data centre last week. There's a number of other innovative tweaks too, all with the idea that lowering energy costs is a good thing - and allows users of the...
[August 25, 2009, 9:27]
Sun's eco-friendly data centres
News At a press conference in Santa Clara, California, Sun chief information officer Bob Worrall outlines Sun's plans to make data centres more energy efficient, for the company and its customers, by reducing space and utility requirements.
[August 24, 2007, 13:31]
London's data centres bursting at the seams
News Data centres, which have been yawning empty caverns since the dot-com crash of 2000, are apparently now bursting at the seams -- despite the space and power saved by using blade servers. Hosting firm Redbus Interhouse estimates that data centres...
[March 2, 2005, 14:15]
Start-ups back Linux for data centres
News OpsWare and CoroSoft, two companies that sell software designed to ease the operation of data centres, are expanding their support for Linux. In addition, CoroSoft, which sells data centre management software specifically for Linux machines, last...
[January 22, 2003, 10:14]
10 Gigabit Ethernet Technology Overview and Applications for Enterprise Data Centres
White Papers The second part examines BLADE's RackSwitch product line, including 10 GbE applications within enterprise networks and data centres. This Technology Brief is divided into two parts. The first part discusses the evolution of Ethernet, and then...
[January 22, 2009, 0:00]
Virtualisation key to next-gen data centres
News Virtualisation will play an important role in next-generation data centres, but that will also create new challenges that require better security planning, according to IDC. In a statement on Thursday, Willie Low, senior market analyst of IDC's...
[September 21, 2007, 9:26]
Out of the cardboard box thinking on green data centres
Blog A lot of companies out there would like us to believe that data centres can somehow be green. Data centres are just inherently unsustainable places. According to a report last year from the charity, Global Action Plan, An Inefficient Truth, the...
[September 24, 2008, 22:50]
Data centres - it's time to cut the power
Talkback Notwithstanding these problems an office building is generally designed to provide between 30 and 40 watts per sq metre whereas a data centre will have been purpose-designed to deliver as much as 800 watts per sq metre.
[March 4, 2005, 15:51]
Data centres get greener
Blog Comment Its a good start especially the gyroscopic approach but the mention of the diesel engine made me cringe, there still a lot more can be a achieved but i suppose thats in the eye of the beholder and how much they want to spend setting a precedence.
[August 25, 2009, 19:33]
Making data centres more energy efficient
News At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference last week in California, panel moderator Andrew Hargadon, of the University of California at Davis, leads a discussion with executives on how new technologies and better engineering will make the data centre...
[September 21, 2007, 13:35]
London's data centres bursting at the seams
Talkback i was interested to read this article. What is the survey you refer to in the piece.regards Peregrine Newton CEO
[March 7, 2005, 10:46]
HP helps data centres play it cool
News Of the money spent to operate data centres, 15 to 20 percent goes on power and cooling. Electricity distribution systems 10 years ago were designed to deliver 5 to 8 kilowatts, but new data centres are designed for 20 kilowatts and up.
[May 4, 2006, 10:25]
Cisco targets data centres with Nexus 7000
News The product, which is expected to have a life cycle of decades rather than years, will serve as the centerpiece of Cisco's strategy to help large companies build new and more efficient data centres using its technology.
[January 28, 2008, 7:55]
Cisco pushes for data centres in Scotland
News Cisco has been seeking the support of a number of politicians in its effort to promote Scotland as a suitable place for data centres, such as the SNP's John Swinney, who is also the finance minister in Scotland.
[September 25, 2007, 16:39]
How secure are data centres?
Talkback Yes, the robbery does pose many questions about data centre security. Whenever I've visited a data centre, it's been darn difficult to get in - and I've usually been accompanied by a senior exec from the data centre provider.
[December 10, 2007, 13:49]
HP recycles old tech for new data centres
News Hewlett-Packard has launched a hardware and software package that lets IT managers (re)wire the data centre once in order to gather storage, processor and network resources in pools that can be switched between jobs on the fly, to provide constant...
[February 27, 2002, 16:21]
HP sees money in simpler data centres
News The service is built around a computer and storage system that keeps track of all the servers, networking details and storage systems in a large company's data centre. To get started, it's $1m-plus, depending on the size of the data centre," with a...
[November 5, 2001, 10:06]
Data centres - it's time to cut the power
Leader Rack space in London is reaching a premium, but does that really mean they are all filled to bursting with servers? Well, not exactly. That may well be the case in co-location facilities, but it is certainly not the case in most in-house server...
[March 3, 2005, 14:05]
