Alibaba is to open another data centre just outside Hong Kong, as it grows its AliCloud service offering
If you've got a data centre, it's time to dip your toes in liquid, says Peter Judge
Politicians may get votes by binning wind power, says Peter Judge, but tech firms still see the benefit
The social network is beefing up the securtity of its servers with the purchase of a US software start-up
An American judge sets a legal precedent by ordering Microsoft to surrender emails stored in an Irish data centre
Intel's server unit can expect more competition as Applied Micro signals a data centre challenge
Cisco releases a new UCS server for smaller businesses that don't need to scale to hundreds of blades
Big Blue adds some go-faster communications tech to its SoftLayer Cloud platform for speedy data transfers
Microsoft's purchase of a wind farm will increase pressure on Amazon to respond to environmentalists, says Peter Judge
New capacity in Chessington supports VMware's vCloud Hybrid Services for the UK
Thanks to a green tax break, co-location providers and cloud services get cheaper electricity than in-house IT, says Peter Judge
Big players commit to Google's Kubernetes scheme for open source container management, taking virtualisation up a level
Tech giants including Google and Microsoft back new consortium to develop 25GbE and 50GbE specifications for data centres
IBM's SoftLayer business plonks a server barn down in Chessington to satisfy London customers' need to keep their data local
A new approach can dish out bare-metal hardware on demand - and the standards are emerging to support it, says…
One in the eye for Cisco! Facebook will make its own SDN switches using its own Open Compute server hardware
Older mainframes can be replaced with compatible models based on x86 chips
The most efficient liquid cooling systems use advanced engineering. Peter Judge finds that basic tech can be just as effective
IBM readies two new data centres for the US government as part of its program to deliver 15 new facilities…
You might not want the EU meddling, but Peter Judge says the data centre industry must get involved or suffer…
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Cavium's Thunder line of chips will offer up to 48 cores per SOC, with versions tuned to particular workloads
Host Europe Group (HEG) improves efficiency with a data centre re-fit in Leeds
Huawei expands its agile SDN platform to cover all parts of IT infrastructure
The data centre Climate Change Agreement doesn't quite use the PUE efficiency measurement. So what, says Peter Judge
Westminster has noticed data centres, and tiven them a slice off their electricity bill - if they sign up to…
A Climate Change Agreement will get UK data centres out of the green taxes, if they jump through the right…
The network equipment maker's shares rose in after-hours trading, as it reported recovering demand in developed markets and a revenue…
Facebook has got data centres as efficient as it can. Now it's working on the building process, says Peter Judge
The Texas hosting company's shares rose as it benefited from rising demand for cloud services