Datacentre

Microsoft Proposes Servers As ‘Data Furnace’ Heaters

Small micro-data centres could help to heat homes and run cloud services, says Microsoft

13 years ago

Tilera Chips Beat Intel And AMD Claims Facebook

Facebook engineers say Tilera’s multi-core processors are more efficient than low-power Intel and AMD chips

13 years ago

Hemel Hempstead Gets Low-Power Data Centre

Gyron has begun work on a massive data centre that will aim to use all-renewable energy sources

13 years ago

Dell Beefs Up Networking Play With Force10 Acquisition

Dell has equipped itself with serious networking capabilities thanks to its acquisition of Force10 Networks

13 years ago

Data Centre Managers Warned On Cooling Regulations

Around 2,500 UK cooling companies are trading illegally, as fluorinated gases contribute to the greenhouse effect

13 years ago

Intel Bids To Buy Ethernet Chip Maker Fulcrum

Intel is expanding its networking portfolio by acquiring Fulcrum, a maker of high-speed switch chips

13 years ago

Data Centre To Save Yorkshire Water £90k Per Year

Yorkshire Water is set to save itself £90,000 a year thanks to a new data centre incorporating green tech

13 years ago

European Data Centres Set For Impressive Growth

The data centre sector will grow another 28 percent, according to a report from Tariff Consultancy

13 years ago

AMD Chips To Offer Power-Capping Technology

Opteron chips with the "Bulldozer" core will allow power reduction without impacting performance

13 years ago

FBI Seizes Web Servers In Data Centre Raid

The FBI has seized web servers during a data centre raid as part of its efforts to tackle Lulzsec hacktivists

13 years ago

Is Greenpeace’s War On ‘Dirty Data’ A Just One?

Greenpeace is putting pressure on companies to improve their data centre practices, but ultimately the industry will have to find…

13 years ago

IBM SmartCloud Adds Disaster Recovery, Data Archive

Two IBM cloud services launch to help extend backup, archiving and recovery for critical data and applications

13 years ago

Bridging The Gap Between Private And Public Clouds

Scaling IT means using tools and services on both sides of the cloud divide

13 years ago

VMware vFabric 5 Brings In New Licensing Model

VMware vFabric 5 introduces the Spring framework and a new flexible packaging and licensing scheme

13 years ago

Power Saving Promise Brings JouleX $17m Investment

Joulex has just received a $17 million injection to fund the promotion of data centre energy monitoring software

13 years ago

AWS Uses Low-Density Containers To Cut Cooling

Amazon Web Services says its data centre custom containers are cost-effective, greener building blocks

13 years ago

Vendors Converge On Packaged Clouds

HP and Oracle extend their converged infrastructure products but smaller packages are also appearing

13 years ago

How Green Is Apple’s iCloud?

Apple's iCloud will boost adoption of cloud computing - but questions remain about the energy efficiency of the project, says…

13 years ago

Green Google’s Sea Change In Data Centre Design

A Finnish data centre will use seawater to cool Google's servers and wind power to supply the electricity

13 years ago

IBM: 100 Years of Innovation

From mainframes to PCs, from software to operating systems, from open source to services - IBM has done it all

13 years ago

HP Launches Containerised, Green ‘EcoPOD’

HP's EcoPOD can be deployed in 12 weeks, costs 75 percent less to build, and cuts energy costs by 95…

13 years ago

Our Readers Want Reliable Servers

You say you would choose a reliable server over a cheap one. Next: What is your strategy for office productivity?

13 years ago

Server Immersion Offers Cooling Benefits

Green Revolution Cooling claims that totally immersing servers in oil can cut cooling costs by 95 percent

13 years ago

Wind Power Bid Pushes Google’s Green Funding To $400m

Google's $55 million investment will power 450,000 homes and boost California's green power by 30 percent

14 years ago

Virgin Media Launches Co-Location Service

Local data centres and fast fibre networks back a co-location service from Virgin

14 years ago

Multinationals Push Key Services Into The Cloud

It's no longer just SMBs that are keen on the cloud. Multinational companies want a piece of the action too

14 years ago

Report: IT Downtime Costs Average £3K Per Minute

Businesses lose an average of about £3,000 per minute in a data centre outage, says a report

14 years ago

Acer Server Is A Solid Compute Platform: Review

The Acer AR380 F1 packs a compute punch and even provides extras at no additional cost

14 years ago

State Of UK Data Centres Could Threaten Growth

UK data centres must improve if the country is to remain a financial powerhouse, Quocirca warns

14 years ago