Datacentre

IBM Cools Data Centres With Unchilled Tapwater

IBM researchers cut the cost of water cooling for data centres, by allowing sites to use unchilled tapwater

12 years ago

Fortinet Security Blade Targets Data Centres

Fortinet has released a new security blade aimed at large data centres and managed security service providers

12 years ago

Imation Enters Data Centre With Nexsan Buy

Imation has bolstered its enterprise data centre storage portfolio with the acquisition of Nexsan

12 years ago

SDN Momentum Continues For Data Centres, IDC Reveals

Software-defined networking is gathering steam and will become a key data centre technology, says IDC

12 years ago

Pica8 Touts Customisable SDN Architecture

Pica8 is offering an SDN reference architecture for cloud providers, to be customised for their own solutions

12 years ago

Did Google Just Patent Hot Aisle Data Centre Cooling?

Hot aisle containment is an efficient way to cool your data centre. Peter Judge is intrigued by a Google patent…

12 years ago

Google Patents Modular Heat Exchangers For Data Centres

Google patent promises more efficient data centres by positioning heat exchangers right behind the servers

12 years ago

IT Life: A Lifeline For City IT

Complexity and unpredictability are what worries Roger Keenan, managing director of London-based co-location company City Lifeline

12 years ago

IT Life: The Joy Of Building Data Centres

Lawrence Buxton likes building Sentrum Colo's data centres, and looks forward to organic computers

12 years ago

Cisco Beats Expectations As Data Centre Move Pays Off

Cisco has posted positive financials, with a fall in switch and router sales offset by its data centre strategy

12 years ago

Big Switch Networks Joins SDN Gold Rush

A startup has joined the SDN data centre trend by offering its own software-defined network products

12 years ago

HP Upgrades HP-UX And Launches New Itanium Servers

New HP Itanium servers and better Unix should keep customers on board

12 years ago

Samsung Touts SSD Potential For Green Data Centers

Samsung continues to argue that solid state drives (SSDs) can make for more energy efficient data centres

12 years ago

Cisco Beefs Up UCS Data Centre Management Tool

Cisco Systems has expanded its UCS management platform to cater for multiple cloudy data centres

12 years ago

Fuel Buckets Keep New York Data Centre Live Through The Hurricane

Peer 1 remained online, thanks to a bucket brigade carrying fuel up 18 floors

12 years ago

AMD Partners With ARM To Sell Efficient Server Chips

New partner to continue the struggle against Intel in the data centre

12 years ago

Let’s Save Data Centres From Stupid Austerity!

Data centres' contribution to our economy will be enormous, and they richly deserve a tax break in the form of…

12 years ago

Green Group Tells Data Centres To Run Servers Hotter

IT kit has toughened up, so data centres can turn off the coolers

12 years ago

Apple begins Construction Of ‘Green’ Oregon Data Centre

Yet another server farm located in the Oregon High Desert

12 years ago

Google Opens Data Centre Doors: Gallery

Google’s data centres look like spaceships, and are guarded by Storm Troopers

12 years ago

Google Offers Virtual Tour Of Secretive Data Centres

Google is famous for being very secretive about its data centres, but is now offering the general public virtual tours

12 years ago

IBM PureSystems – A Bit Of Cloud For Mainframes?

IBM PureSystems are a quiet revolution, says IBM's Tikiri Wanduragala

12 years ago

Cloud To Hit 500 Million Users This Year

Consumer adoption of cloud services passed 375 million users in June, ahead of schedule to hit a prediction of 500…

12 years ago

ARM Targets Energy-Efficient Data Centres With CoreLink

British chip designer has turned its low-power expertise to enterprise networking inside data centres

12 years ago

BMW Shifts Supercomputing To Iceland To Save Emissions

BMW saves 3600 tonnes of carbon - while its cars generate millions more

12 years ago

Data Centre Power Usage Surges 63 Percent

Data centres want more power per rack as the cloud boosts demand

12 years ago

Microsoft Denies Energy Waste At Data Centre

NY Times' data centre energy waste story was just hot air?

12 years ago

Microsoft Takes The Data Centre Naughty Chair

Microsoft got caught burning energy simply to reduce a fine. That's just symptomatic of data centres, says Peter Judge

12 years ago

Report Paints Unflattering Picture Of Microsoft Cloud

A New York Times article has highlighted the real-world impact of the data centres powering Microsoft's cloud services

12 years ago