Datacentre

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

Rometty: IBM Faces ‘Rocky Time’

IBM's growth may have stalled, but it is now poised for the future, according to chief executive Virginia Rometty

11 years ago

Colt Expands Data Centre Capacity In UK, Germany

Growing business demand for secure colocation options has led to the expansion of two Colt data centres

11 years ago

Why Unix Server Makers Are Still Fighting

Unix may be declining, but HP, IBM and Oracle could keep customers on board a bit longer with more efficient…

11 years ago

VMware Adds Spinning-Disk Storage Option To Cloud Service

vCloud Hybrid Service users can now opt for a less costly storage tier for data that doesn't require high performance,…

11 years ago

Nokia And Juniper Team up On Mobile Operator Cloud Services

Nokia and Juniper are to work together on services aimed at helping mobile network operators take advantage of the cloud

11 years ago

AMD Extends ARM Roadmap

AMD has said it sees half of its revenues coming from non-PC markets by the end of next year, thanks…

11 years ago

Let’s Build A Data Centre From Straw!

Dell is making computer packaging out of wheat straw. Peter Judge wants to see the company go further and build…

11 years ago

IBM Launches First OpenPower Servers For Hyperscale, Big Data

IBM creates mega servers with its Power8 processor, but will other OpenPower partners like Google also pick it up ?

11 years ago

First .London Addresses Go Live

Addresses using the new top-level domain have gone on sale, with the first few .london addresses launching under a pilot…

11 years ago

IT Life: Minds And Machines

Lawrence Jones wanted to be a musicion. Now he orchestrates a tech empire

11 years ago

HP Moonshot: Micro Servers Versus Virtualisation

Early users of HP's Moonshot microservers buck the virtualisation trend, and early customers are in strange niches, says Peter Judge

11 years ago

Could Scotland Achieve Data Centre Independence?

Customers want local data centres after The Snowden revelations. Peter Judge thinks a new site might be just what Scotland…

11 years ago

Microsoft To Spend $1bn On Iowa Data Centre

Microsoft is reportedly the company behind a massive data centre project in Iowa, joining the company's nearby 'Project Mountain' cloud…

11 years ago

Oracle Introduces Cloud Workload Appliance

Oracle has launched its Virtual Compute Appliance, intended to work with Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c and the 12C database

11 years ago

AMD Plans ARM Server Chip Launch Late This Year

AMD has begun sampling its first ARM-based Opteron chip, key to its 'ambidextrous computing' strategy

11 years ago

Microsoft Partners University For Data Centre Energy Efficiency

Microsoft teams up with Texan university to explore green ways to meet data centre energy needs

11 years ago

Scotland’s Biggest Data Centre Will Be The UK’s First On Fully Renewable Power

The Queensway plant in Glenrothes hopes to serve government IT using 9MW of biomass-powered electricity

11 years ago

Two-Phase Liquid Cooling Bubbles Up

The boiling coolant in SGI's ICE X supercomputer is a sign to Peter Judge that liquid cooling is still evolving

11 years ago

HP Launches Faster Test As Moonshot Servers Take Off

HP has some customers for its Moonshot servers, but a new express test of the system could persuade more users…

11 years ago

Microsoft Makes Business Case For Kinect v2

Microsoft's upgraded Kinect sensor technology has applications in health IT and business computing, according to the company

11 years ago

Greenpeace Slams ‘Dirty’ Amazon Web Services, Twitter

Leading tech firms praised by Greenpeace for their renewable energy drive, with the exception of AWS and Twitter

11 years ago

Intel And Co Create 100G CLR4 Alliance For Data Centres

Intel and Arista join forces to develop the specs for 100 Gbps networking in data centres

11 years ago

SAP Data Centres To Run On 100 Percent Renewable Power

New approach signals SAP efforts to move towards a green cloud

11 years ago

AMD To Combine Data Centres In Massive Consolidation Scheme

AMD is to scrap all but two of its data centres, as it looks to showcase its own power-efficient technology

11 years ago

Liquid Cooling Gets Inside Chips

Researchers at Lausanne's EPFL institute explain how chips can be made more efficient by running liquids through them in tiny…

11 years ago

Everbridge Buys UK Comms Provider Vocal

Unified communications specialist Everbridge has added business continuity offerings to its lineup with the Vocal acquisition

11 years ago

Facebook And Ikea Fans Make Flatpack Data Centres

Ikea inspired Facebook's next data centre in Sweden, but Peter Judge says these are not the first flatpack racks

11 years ago

Intel Touts 800Gbps Optical Cables For Data Centres

Intel to release new networking technology that will transfer data at speeds of up 800Gbps in each direction

11 years ago

Delphix Launches Modernisation Engine For Data Centre Upgrades

The new tool creates a virtual copy of all applications, databases and files

11 years ago