Datacentre

Alibaba Grows Data Centre Portfolio With New Facility

Alibaba is to open another data centre just outside Hong Kong, as it grows its AliCloud service offering

10 years ago

Liquid Cooling: A Trickle, Not A Tsunami

If you've got a data centre, it's time to dip your toes in liquid, says Peter Judge

10 years ago

Windy Politics Won’t Keep Tech Out Of Wind Power

Politicians may get votes by binning wind power, says Peter Judge, but tech firms still see the benefit

10 years ago

Facebook Tightens Security With PrivateCore Purchase

The social network is beefing up the securtity of its servers with the purchase of a US software start-up

10 years ago

Microsoft Ordered To Hand Over Irish Emails

An American judge sets a legal precedent by ordering Microsoft to surrender emails stored in an Irish data centre

10 years ago

Applied Micro Issues Data Centre Challenge As Sales Slide

Intel's server unit can expect more competition as Applied Micro signals a data centre challenge

10 years ago

Cisco Adds Entry-Level UCS Server To Portfolio

Cisco releases a new UCS server for smaller businesses that don't need to scale to hundreds of blades

10 years ago

IBM To Add InfiniBand Option To SoftLayer Cloud

Big Blue adds some go-faster communications tech to its SoftLayer Cloud platform for speedy data transfers

10 years ago

Will Microsoft’s Wind Of Change Hit Amazon?

Microsoft's purchase of a wind farm will increase pressure on Amazon to respond to environmentalists, says Peter Judge

10 years ago

VMware Opens Second UK vCloud Data Centre

New capacity in Chessington supports VMware's vCloud Hybrid Services for the UK

10 years ago

Should The UK Climate Change Agreement Favour Colos?

Thanks to a green tax break, co-location providers and cloud services get cheaper electricity than in-house IT, says Peter Judge

10 years ago

IBM, Microsoft And Red Hat Back Google Kubernetes Container Project

Big players commit to Google's Kubernetes scheme for open source container management, taking virtualisation up a level

10 years ago

Faster Ethernet Pledged By 25GbE Consortium

Tech giants including Google and Microsoft back new consortium to develop 25GbE and 50GbE specifications for data centres

10 years ago

IBM Announces London SoftLayer Data Centre

IBM's SoftLayer business plonks a server barn down in Chessington to satisfy London customers' need to keep their data local

10 years ago

Bare Metal: The Cloud Is Not Always Virtual

A new approach can dish out bare-metal hardware on demand - and the standards are emerging to support it, says…

10 years ago

Facebook To Build Its Own ‘Wedge’ Datacentre SDN Switch

One in the eye for Cisco! Facebook will make its own SDN switches using its own Open Compute server hardware

10 years ago

Unisys Finally Retires CMOS Mainframe Processors

Older mainframes can be replaced with compatible models based on x86 chips

10 years ago

Liquid Cooling Is Not Rocket Science, Says HP

The most efficient liquid cooling systems use advanced engineering. Peter Judge finds that basic tech can be just as effective

10 years ago

IBM Builds Two Data Centres For US Federal Government

IBM readies two new data centres for the US government as part of its program to deliver 15 new facilities…

10 years ago

European Data Centre Rules Are On Their way

You might not want the EU meddling, but Peter Judge says the data centre industry must get involved or suffer…

10 years ago

Mini-Survey: How Do You Manage Your Data Centre?

How do you tackle the data centre challenges? Let us know!

10 years ago

Cavium Announces Mainstream ARM Server Chips To Challenge Xeon

Cavium's Thunder line of chips will offer up to 48 cores per SOC, with versions tuned to particular workloads

10 years ago

HEG Data Centre Re-Opens In Leeds

Host Europe Group (HEG) improves efficiency with a data centre re-fit in Leeds

10 years ago

Huawei Expands Agile Network With Agile Branch And Data Centre Cloud Connect

Huawei expands its agile SDN platform to cover all parts of IT infrastructure

10 years ago

The Data Centre Tax Break Might Offend PUE-rists

The data centre Climate Change Agreement doesn't quite use the PUE efficiency measurement. So what, says Peter Judge

10 years ago

Britain’s Green Tax Break Will Boost Shared Data Centres

Westminster has noticed data centres, and tiven them a slice off their electricity bill - if they sign up to…

11 years ago

Colo Carbon Tax Deal Will Cut UK Data Centre Power Bills

A Climate Change Agreement will get UK data centres out of the green taxes, if they jump through the right…

11 years ago

Cisco Beats Estimates With 5.5 Percent Revenue Decline

The network equipment maker's shares rose in after-hours trading, as it reported recovering demand in developed markets and a revenue…

11 years ago

Data Centre Developments Will Focus On The Building

Facebook has got data centres as efficient as it can. Now it's working on the building process, says Peter Judge

11 years ago

Rackspace Reports Strong Quarter On Cloud Demand

The Texas hosting company's shares rose as it benefited from rising demand for cloud services

11 years ago