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Photos: Inside Cisco's European Datacentre
News This anonymous building, tucked away in a side street close to Dell's Amsterdam office, is Cisco's European datacentre. Like any company, Cisco faces many of the usual challenges in running a datacentre, including constant pressure to reduce budget...
[April 10, 2006, 10:10]
Relocating The Datacentre Pays Off For Zurich Financial Services
White Papers The datacentre was located on the top floor of an eight-storey, curtain style building. Zurich Australia, owned by the Swiss-based worldwide Zurich Group, offers a wide range of investment and risk management products to corporate, commercial and...
[December 7, 2004, 23:00]
Cisco Sees Its Future In The Datacentre
News Cisco is expanding its fledgling datacentre strategy by releasing a second switching product family and by buying out the company that developed it. The new products, which will be known collectively as the Cisco Nexus 5000 series, are datacentre...
[April 9, 2008, 10:43]
Reckitt Benckiser Cleans Up With Dell's Datacentre Solution
White Papers The company has implemented a Dell/EMC CX600 Storage Area Network (SAN) that extracts data from a number of geographically diverse sources, relaying it to a newly established datacentre in Holland. Following a major corporate merger, Reckitt...
[August 11, 2004, 0:00]
New Backers Join Datacentre Standards Group
News The companies joined the datacentre Markup Language (DCML) Organization, a group of 37 companies working to establish a standard that will enable computing gear from multiple providers to share important operational information.
[November 18, 2003, 16:15]
Building Boom Leads To Datacentre Crash
News Billions have been spent on data hosting, but now datacentre companies are in crisis Whatever glimmers of light Ernst is seeing, it's clear that the datacentre companies are quickly rethinking their expansion plans.
[May 10, 2001, 11:04]
HP To Integrate Opsware Into Datacentre
News Last year, however, the company switched gears and decided to concentrate its efforts on its software for managing applications in a datacentre. Aiming to boost its products for managing large corporate data centres, Hewlett-Packard plans on Monday...
[June 2, 2003, 8:23]
Windows 2000 Datacentre To Go Beta Next Week
News Microsoft says it will deliver to 300 beta testers next Monday the first public beta of its Windows 2000 Datacentre package. Datacentre is the high end of Microsoft's planned Windows 2000 lineup, with the other SKUs being Professional, Server and...
[September 23, 1999, 16:03]
BT Outlines Big Datacentre Push
News BT has outlined a plan to invest $2bn over three years to develop 44 Internet datacentres in an alliance with AT&T in a bid to become the leading datacentre supplier. Intel expects to open its first UK Internet datacentre this year in Winnersh...
[April 12, 2000, 7:11]
Datacentre: Heal Thyself
News IBM has released new datacentre software designed to automatically detect and fix performance problems, advancing its effort to build "self-healing" technology. The new programs, which IBM announced on Thursday, are from the company's Tivoli unit...
[December 2, 2005, 9:05]
NetBotz Monitor Senses Datacentre Security
News According to NetBotz, when a disaster occurs, the first hour is spent trying to get someone to confess that they were the last person to go into the datacentre and touch something. Network-connected physical security maker NetBotz has launched a...
[May 20, 2003, 7:00]
Digging Into The Underground Datacentre
News This hoist is responsible for lowering servers down into the datacentre, which measures 25,000 square feet. It's also far easier to keep the datacentre cool, as the natural temperature underground is 13°C.
[May 9, 2008, 17:19]
HP To Integrate Opsware Into Datacentre
Talkback To Mr. Marc Andreesen, I read your comments concerning the"Virtue of hiring overseas" and to put it clearly your point of view is extremely negative to the vitality and health of our nation. You're a smart guy and you know this but apparently the...
[March 31, 2004, 18:08]
Linux Clusters Head To The Datacentre
News Dell and Oracle strengthened their ties in New York on Wednesday when the companies announced at a press conference they were going to work even closer together in an attempt to push Linux into the enterprise datacentre.
[April 3, 2003, 9:48]
IBM Puts A Chill On The Datacentre
News The company's "Cool Blue" component (officially known as the IBM eServer Rear Door Heat eXchanger) draws on the supply of chilled water produced by a standard datacentre cooling setup. The Heat eXchanger can remove up to 55 percent of the heat...
[July 13, 2005, 9:45]
HP Business Continuity Services Swing Into Action To Avert Datacentre Disaster
White Papers Data is critical to most companies but it is the vital life-blood of dunnhumby, a specialised provider of database management and analytical services to a range of high-profile clients. To support the need for total reliability, the company has a...
[August 25, 2006, 0:00]
German Company Bids For KPNQwest Datacentre
News German Web hosting company 1&1 Internet plans to bid for a major data centre owned by bankrupt KPNQwest, the company said. The news comes as KPNQwest, which runs the biggest fibre-optic Internet backbone in Europe, struggles to keep its network...
[June 10, 2002, 12:30]
IT Chiefs Need More Incentive To Go Green
News Szubert feels datacentre managers would take more responsibility if they were given more information about what their hardware consumes. Szubert argued datacentre managers would be more inclined to improve efficiency if they are the ones who have...
[March 20, 2008, 8:11]
Sun To Demo 'green' Thin Clients To The G8
Talkback Isn't the datacentre where IT should be managed? Managing desktops in the datacentre by professionals has a far great chance of stopping incomning viruses and from stopping information theft.
[July 6, 2005, 10:01]
Bank Group Stumped By Rising IT Power Consumption
News Banking group Citi is on the verge of completing a major sustainable-datacentre project, but has admitted that the power requirements of its IT equipment are continuing to rise by 12.5 percent per year.
[April 11, 2008, 15:07]
