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HP chills out datacentres
News Hewlett-Packard is taking a simulation technology out of its labs and using it to help companies cool off equipment-packed datacentres, easing the growing adoption of centralised computing. Current datacentres -- specialised chambers dominated by...
[March 5, 2003, 12:26]
Microsoft puts datacentres on wheels
News Microsoft is taking its container approach to datacentres a step further, making the building that houses the datacentre itself a module. In a blog posting on Tuesday, Microsoft detailed what the "generation four" datacentres will look like.
[December 3, 2008, 10:44]
Virtualisation seen as key for greener datacentres
News Virtualisation is the key technology for creating less power-hungry datacentres, according to numerous speakers at the Energy Logic Symposium in Sydney. Global electricity prices increased 56 percent between 2002 and 2006," which has generated the...
[July 4, 2008, 8:50]
More low-energy datacentres reach planning stage
Blog However, if cutting energy is the end-game, there's a couple of initiatives that are worth noting: according to this story, IBM is reportedly building what's described as one of the greenest datacentres that will use 50 percent less energy than a...
[June 4, 2009, 18:07]
'Napping' datacentres could save 75pc of energy
News Researchers at the University of Michigan have announced a plan to save up to 75 percent of the energy that power-hungry computer datacentres consume by putting idle servers to sleep when they are not in use.
[March 6, 2009, 7:35]
Gartner: Linux continues drive into datacentres
Talkback Windows on a mainframe? That is like putting a Volkswagen motor in a Bentley.
[March 14, 2006, 12:42]
Gartner: Linux continues drive into datacentres
Talkback Windows on a mainframe? how is this done?
[March 13, 2006, 18:02]
Gartner: Linux continues drive into datacentres
Talkback Windows on a mainframe? how is this done? In an emulator on a virtual machine running under Unix/Linux the question is, Why?
[March 14, 2006, 0:49]
Intel: Chips will meet the needs of new datacentres
News At the same time, datacentres are becoming more diverse, so there is no longer a one-size-fits-all way of dealing with them, he said. Some datacentres are designed to power a small or medium-sized business or remote office, while others might be...
[September 23, 2009, 14:33]
Gartner: Linux continues drive into datacentres
Talkback There are those who think that when a Windows PC is connected to a mainframe then it is a windows mainframe. Lets hope none of then work within Gartner.
[March 14, 2006, 18:59]
Tech execs: Green datacentres are crucial
News Power usage related to datacentres doubled from 2000 to 2006 to comprise about 1.5 percent of the energy Americans use annually, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. That's why tech executives are examining new ways to design...
[September 10, 2008, 8:28]
Intel: Fresh air is good for datacentres
News Despite a lot of dust and major temperature changes — both long considered undesirable in datacentres — the equipment wasn't affected, said Intel. If subsequent investigation confirms these promising results, we anticipate using this approach in...
[September 19, 2008, 12:51]
HP chills out datacentres
Talkback A" Building Services Design Consultancy" such as ourselves will undertake the complete design of dedicated close control cooling to data centres (or any other facility for that matter) and will ensure optimium application and energy consumption.
[February 24, 2004, 15:19]
HP takes aim at 'scale-out' datacentres
News The HP Extreme Scale-Out (ExSO) package, announced on Wednesday, covers hardware, software and services for datacentres with thousands of servers. HP has joined Dell, IBM and SGI in launching a range of products tailored to cloud, Web 2.0 and high...
[June 12, 2009, 15:29]
Gartner: Linux continues drive into datacentres
Talkback Windows or/and UNIX for zSeries - sheer noncence. Open Edition - as a UNIX-guest in MVS may be considered, but Windows. It's a pity that Colin Barker does not know what does it mean "mainframe" It's a pity that nobody in ZDNet pay attention to...
[April 6, 2006, 8:17]
Credit crunch hits London datacentres
News London's datacentre sector has suffered a downturn, with no corporates taking up space in the capital this year. Businesses chose London for just four percent of the datacentre space taken up across Europe in the first quarter of this year...
[July 7, 2008, 8:36]
Gartner: Linux continues drive into datacentres
News A straw poll of attendees at Gartner's Data Centre Conference in January revealed that 40 percent of them were running a combination of Linux or Unix and Windows. This shows that there is little sign that "Linux will 'hit a wall', the analysts...
[March 13, 2006, 17:25]
Dell and EMC ally to keep businesses online
News Dell and EMC have linked their respective datacentres in the Republic of Ireland to help companies test the resilience of business-critical storage systems -- a process termed business continuity. The fibre channel link between the two datacentres...
[October 1, 2003, 15:55]
Can tech giants talk you out of your datacentre?
Comment Several big technology vendors are racing to build a fleet of big datacentres that will enable them to offer more internet-based services to consumers and enterprises over the next five to 10 years. While neither is being noticed for building new...
[July 3, 2009, 12:01]
Cisco braced for torrent of smart-meter data
News Cisco is betting that utilities are more likely to invest in new datacentres than new power plants in the coming years. But a large chunk of the $20bn (£12bn) per year in smart-grid spending that Cisco anticipates is in traditional datacentres.
[July 29, 2009, 13:17]
