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HP tailors datacentre tools for Oracle apps
News HP has released tools for its BladeSystem Matrix integrated datacentre package that aim to make it easier to run Oracle applications. The templates can be customised to ensure compliance with customers' datacentre policies.
[October 13, 2009, 16:39]
Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processor 5100 Series Makes Energy-Efficient Datacentre a Reality
White Papers However, as an ISP, Host Europe spends significant sums of money on energy supply and datacentre space. To keep pace with its growth, Host Europe needed to significantly increase the capacity and power of its server infrastructure housed in its...
[April 25, 2007, 1:00]
Cutting datacentre costs main driver for virtualisation
News Nine out of 10 organisations that have adopted virtualisation technologies have done so to reduce datacentre costs, according to research from IDC. Of those organisations surveyed, almost half said they see virtualisation as standard for new...
[July 7, 2008, 15:48]
Novell buys datacentre-management services firm
News This acquisition extends Novell's strategy of making IT work as one in the datacentre," said Joe Wagner, senior vice president of systems and resource management at Novell. Partnership with Microsoft will probably help it gain access to a broader...
[October 15, 2008, 13:12]
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]
London datacentre to power local community
News Waste heat from a new datacentre being built in London Docklands will power nearby homes and businesses, the company behind the project says. Work has started on the new datacentre, which will be nine storeys high and provide 19,000 square metres...
[April 16, 2009, 15:37]
Can tech giants talk you out of your datacentre?
Comment While neither is being noticed for building new datacentres the way Google, Microsoft and Amazon are, both are in the midst of massive, multi-year datacentre consolidations, and it is possible that they are quietly building lots of extra capacity...
[July 3, 2009, 12:01]
Rackspace opens wood-powered datacentre
News Hosting company Rackspace's latest datacentre — its first in Europe — draws its energy from a wood-burning power station, a strategy which the company says is cleaner than many of the alternatives. In line with the feeling among many companies that...
[June 10, 2008, 17:47]
Microsoft delays plans for Iowa datacentre
News Microsoft on Friday announced that it is delaying its plans for a massive datacentre to be built in West Des Moines, Iowa. It is an abrupt reversal for Microsoft, which announced its plans for Iowa just five months ago as part of its massive push...
[January 26, 2009, 16:43]
Intel plots the dynamic, scalable datacentre
Blog To run them efficiently you need an efficient architecture and, according to Intel, efficiency is what Nehalem, an eight-core Xeon, is all about for the chip is aimed at the datacentre and especially at the largest datacentres or mega datacentres.
[February 20, 2009, 11:12]
HP converges on the datacentre
News HP has launched a suite of datacentre products and services aimed at tidying up the sprawl caused by legacy architecture and technology. The suite, called HP Converged Infrastructure, consists of management systems for the virtualised datacentre...
[November 4, 2009, 16:06]
A new threat from the datacentre: you're making your staff deaf!
Blog An interesting side effect of datacentre growth has come to my attention, as part of this month's intense look by ZDNet.co.uk into server use in the UK (based originally into our poll of the ZDNet UK community, but since bolstered by commentary...
[June 18, 2008, 11:59]
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]
IBM to open Scottish datacentre for SMEs
News IBM is building a £2m datacentre in Scotland, with the intention of offering co-location services to small and medium-sized enterprises. The Greenock datacentre is being built in line with IBM's 'green' datacentre standards and will use best...
[October 3, 2008, 16:08]
Inside Microsoft's biggest datacentre
News Microsoft opened the doors to its Chicago datacentre in October. Containers will eventually house two-thirds of the servers in the datacentre, with the more traditional server rooms upstairs accounting for the remainder.
[November 5, 2009, 13:40]
HP ProCurve puts emphasis on the datacentre
News HP ProCurve has launched a datacentre networking push, introducing switches and management software, and enlisting technology vendors as networking allies. On Monday, the company announced what it called its "first dedicated datacentre solutions...
[January 27, 2009, 15:20]
Green IT strategies beyond the datacentre
News At the Business Goes Green conference in San Jose, California, Christopher Mines, senior vice president of Forrester Research, talks about strategies that managers can use to green IT in areas of an organisation outside the datacentre.
[June 24, 2008, 13:11]
A new threat from the datacentre: you're making your staff deaf!
Blog Comment I keep being told datacentre managers are all for sensible redesign of the spaces, with hot and cold rows and better underfloor ventilation and what have you, but isn't this a bit like insulating your house - yes, great idea, I'll get round to it...
[June 25, 2008, 10:03]
MoneyWorks Datacentre
Downloads MoneyWorks Datacentre offers server-based multi-user accounting for multiple accounts databases on one central server. MoneyWorks Datacentre offers the same industry-leading functionality and performance as MoneyWorks Gold with the convenience of...
[September 24, 2009, 2:26]
HP warns of datacentre-capacity shortfall
News In addition, 46 percent of those surveyed expect to see an increase in the number of datacentre-transformation projects being planned. According to Reinier van Hoeijen, director for datacentre-transformation services at HP EMEA, datacentre...
[November 24, 2008, 16:36]
