Datacentre

Sony Joins Forces With Panasonic On Archival Optical Discs

Sony and Panasonic are to work together on next-generation optical discs, including systems with a recording capacity of 300GB per…

11 years ago

CommScope Modular Data Centre Aims To Reduce Up-Front Costs

CommScope argues its offering offers more flexibility and energy-efficiency than those of competitors

11 years ago

Facebook To Build Second European Data Centre In Sweden

The new ‘Rapid Deployment Data Centre’ design will be assembled on-site like Ikea furniture

11 years ago

Will Data Centres Take Part In Demand Reduction?

British energy policy is moving towards demand reduction. Peter Judge thinks there may be a way for data centres to…

11 years ago

Chip Makers Build SDN Into Microprocessors

Semiconductor companies including Freescale and Broadcom are supporting software-defined networking efforts with chip-level technogies

11 years ago

Salesforce To Open Its First UK Data Centre In August

The Salesforce servers will be located in the unofficial data centre capital of the UK - Slough

11 years ago

IDC: 10GbE Demand Driving Ethernet Growth

Cisco, HP, Juniper and others are seeing strong growth as organisations push 10GbE and 40GbE into the data centre

11 years ago

Microsoft Delivers Windows Azure To Japan

Microsoft opens two data centres in Japan as it delivers on Azure promise for the land of the Rising Sun

11 years ago

IT Life: The Joy Of Networking

LDEX CTO Simon Chamberlain loves networking, Cisco and sat nav but hates hackers

11 years ago

Rackspace Starts Work On New UK Data Centre

Rackspace's 130,000 sq. foot, ultra-sustainable data centre will be the centrepiece of 15 acre campus in Crawley

11 years ago

Ericsson Joins Forces With Ciena On SDN

Ericsson and Ciena are to pool their development and marketing efforts around the development of flexible networking technology

11 years ago

Samsung Commits To IBM’s OpenPower Foundation

The OpenPower Foundation gains a big name backer as Samsung signs up to IBM's data centre server venture

11 years ago

Schneider Electric PowerChute Offers Extended Power Failure Protection

Schneider Electric's PowerChute platform allows users to migrate data to an unaffected area in the event of an extended power…

11 years ago

EU Carbon Trading Chokes On Data Centre Diesels

Data centres burn almost no diesel, but the EU's carbon trading scheme is taxing them by mistake, says Peter Judge

11 years ago

Symantec NetBackup Upgraded To Tackle VM Sprawl

Symantec upgrades its NetBackup data protection package to tackle the data centre issue of "virtual machine sprawl"

11 years ago

Microsoft Reveals Data Centre Secrets And Joins Open Compute Project

Facebook's Open Compute Project can share Azure, Bing and Office365 data centre designs now Microsoft has signed up

11 years ago

Infinity SDC Opens Flagship Data Centre In Slough

The Home of Horlicks is becoming the data centre capital of the UK

11 years ago

Emulex Adapters Target SDN, Hybrid Cloud

Emulex's OneConnect OCe14000 adapters are intended to improve server virtualisation density and make it easier to connect hybrid clouds to…

11 years ago

Equinix To Open £47.5m Data Centre In Slough

Built to LEED specifications, the new facility could become “the most advanced data centre in the UK”

11 years ago

Google Agrees Swedish Wind Power Deal For Finnish Data Centre

The company will buy all energy produced by 29 wind turbines for the next ten years

11 years ago

Microsoft Readies Zero-Carbon Data Centre

Microsoft to utilise biogas derived from local municipal waste for clean data centre energy

11 years ago

AMD Adds To Opteron 6300 With 12-, 16-Core Chips

AMD aims Opteron 6338P and 6370P chips at virtualised data centres and cloud environments

11 years ago

Intel Says It Expects No Revenue Growth in 2014

Prediction comes despite Intel reporting a 6 percent growth in Q4

11 years ago

SGI Planning In-Memory Appliance For HANA Analytics

SGI's upcoming appliance is designed to run high-volume databases in DRAM with up to 200 times the performance of flash…

11 years ago

IBM To Invest $1.2 Billion Into New Cloud Data Centres

Big Blue is looking to expand its cloud capabilities across the globe

11 years ago

Iceotope Raises $10 Million For Liquid Cooling In Data Centres

The tiny start-up from Sheffield is making waves in the liquid cooling market

11 years ago

Post Office Seeks £500m Worth Of IT And Network Services

The Post Office has put out contract tender notices for back office and communications services

11 years ago

Open Source Storage Relaunches With New Platform

OSS has reinvented itself with the Niazi 1.618 Middleware System, which allows organisations to shift to open source IT without…

11 years ago

Inside The World’s Most Interesting Data Centres

Data centres have to be efficient. That doesn't stop them being beautiful

11 years ago

Calxeda Closes Down After Funding Shortfall

A potential blow for the microserver market after ARM-server developer Calxeda goes out of business

11 years ago