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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]
Come talk to us about datacentre efficiency
Blog We're inviting people to come have dinner and take part in a roundtable on datacentre energy efficiency, sponsored by Intel, at the Cafe des Amis in Covent Garden on 18 September. I'll be there, along with our illustrious editor Rupert Goodwins...
[August 29, 2008, 17:02]
Google steams ahead with 'floating datacentre'
News The search giant has filed a patent for a 'floating datacentre' that uses wave motion to power on-board computers and the ocean's water to cool them. The system Google engineers sketch out is a self-powered datacentre placed three to seven miles...
[September 9, 2008, 10:08]
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]
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]
VMware aims for datacentre unity
Blog And applications for vSphere may not lie within a single datacentre but instead might be spread across multiple datacentres. There's also an underlying assumption in a datacentre operating system that there's always adequate hardware waiting to be...
[June 1, 2009, 16:34]
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]
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]
Green IT strategies beyond the datacentre
Video 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]
Microsoft uses trucks to install its datacentre servers
News The Chicago datacentre, for example, will use containers on the first floor and more traditional racks on the second level. The company has opened a datacentre in Quincy, Washington, and will also open a Chicago facility, as well as one in San...
[August 21, 2008, 8:24]
Cisco brings out blades in grand datacentre push
News Cisco has launched 'Unified Computing', a next-generation datacentre effort that encompasses virtualisation, a group of major technology partners and the networking company's first foray into making server hardware.
[March 16, 2009, 17:01]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Would you put your datacentre near a volcano?
Blog Sounds like a win-win, as marketing buffoons like to say, and for Google a company that sited a major datacentre at The Dalles in Oregon, to make use of energy generated by the damming of the Columbia river, geothermal energy is a no-brainer...
[September 1, 2008, 14:36]
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]
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]
Microsoft opens mega datacentre in Dublin
News Microsoft on Wednesday launched a new datacentre in Dublin, describing it as the largest it has built outside the US. The site is what Microsoft calls a "mega datacentre", a class the company has constructed previously only in the US.
[July 1, 2009, 16:34]
