Data Centre

Will Apple’s Data Centre Really Increase Ireland’s Electricity Consumption By 8 Percent?

Documents sent to Galway County Council estimate Apple's Ireland data centre would dramatically increase Ireland's electricity consumption, but are the…

9 years ago

UK Hosting Giant 123 Reg ‘Deletes’ Customer Sites

123 Reg, the UK's biggest domain name registrar, said it has mistakenly deleted an unspecified number of the 1.7 million…

9 years ago

Microsoft Knows It Needs To Be ‘Explicit And Transparent’ With Customer Data

As Microsoft sues US gov for the right to alert customers when their data is snooped upon, its cloud director…

9 years ago

Quiz Of The Week: Facebook

Facebook is the world's biggest social network and one of the most influential firms in Silicon Valley, but what do…

9 years ago

Box CEO Supports Apple In FBI Battle But Looks At Privacy Shield Alternatives

Box CEO Aaron Levie says there needs to be a discussion between the tech industry and authorities about digital regulation…

9 years ago

Box: It Makes No Sense For Us To Build Data Centres When IBM Can Do It At Scale

IBM says only a few major players can deliver cloud scale and help other tech firms focus on their product,…

9 years ago

Microsoft Will Open German Data Centres In June

Microsoft’s two German data centres will be opened on a rolling basis, with Office 365 coming in September, three months…

9 years ago

Box Zones Lets Customers Store Data In Europe In AWS, IBM Data Centres

Box Zones will launch in May, finally letting users store data in Ireland, Germany, Japan and Singapore, boosting privacy and…

9 years ago

Global IT Spending Set To Decline To £2.5 Trillion

Belt tightening? Data centre spending remains stable, but overall IT spending forecast to drop 0.5 percent according to Gartner

9 years ago

Facebook Is Doubling The Size Of Its Irish Data Centre

Facebook's County Meath data centre gets extension approval as work starts on 621,000 sq ft site

9 years ago

Nvidia ‘Deep Learning’ Supercomputer To Tackle AI Challenges

New supercomputer meets the need of next-generation AI applications, coupled with release of new data centre accelerator

9 years ago

LinkedIn Opens First International Data Centre In Singapore

LinkedIn said that growth in Asia Pacific has led to increased demand on its infrastructure

9 years ago

Equinix Releases Data Hub For Enterprises Wanting Power On The Edge

Equinix claims it can solve data demands brought on by real-time analytics, IoT, and data protection by moving storage and…

9 years ago

Ericsson Acquires Data Centre Automation Startup NodePrime

Ericsson says all-cash purchase is 'strategic' to its cloud offering, integrates NodePrime's software into Hyperscale Datacenter System 8000

9 years ago

Brocade Acquires Ruckus Wireless In £1bn Networking Deal

Wireless infrastructure player scooped up by Brocade to strengthen 5G and Wi-Fi services amid growing demands for networking speed and…

9 years ago

Intel Tightens Cloud Focus With New Xeon Chips, SSDs And Partnerships

Chip giant expands Xeon line with new processor models and partnerships to aid cloud workload migrations

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HPE, Dell, Lenovo Refresh Servers With Intel’s New Xeon E5 Chips

HPE also is introducing its new Persistent Memory technology on two of its ProLiant systems that is designed to speed…

9 years ago

‘The Bunker’ Wins Britain’s Most Picturesque Data Centre Award

Beating hundreds of other competitors, Sandwich’s The Bunker deemed to have the ‘X’ Factor

9 years ago

5 Things You Need To Know About The Data Centre Colocation Market

How is the colocation data centre market reacting to increased demand from enterprises for cloud services?

9 years ago

Brocade’s StackStorm Acquisition Will Bring Data Centre DevOps To Networks

Startup StackStorm specialises in DevOps - and Brocade thinks the company's open source software can help its customers act more…

9 years ago

Newcastle ‘Data’ Centre Will Cost £30m And Create 1,000 Jobs

Newcastle University matches Budget's £15m pledge for big data research centre that will help businesses exploit benefits of a data-driven…

9 years ago

How To Break Into A Google Data Centre

Google lifts the lid on its data centre security, revealing laser beam security and biometric verification for employees

9 years ago

Oracle Ships Public Cloud To Its Customers’ Own Data Centres

Oracle Cloud at Customer gives CIOs a potential workaround for regulatory and legislative barriers holding back public cloud adoption

9 years ago

Google Set For Massive Cloud Expansion With 12 New Data Centres

Google reveals plans for 12 new data centres in bid to catch up with Amazon Web Services - the first…

9 years ago

UK Lagging In Terms Of Data Centres, But Cloud Giant Expansions Will Change That

UK plays host to less than 5 percent of world's major cloud data centres, but expansions from AWS, Google, and…

9 years ago

Google Shares Details Of Its Software-Defined Load Balancer

The Maglev software-defined load balancer, which runs on commodity Linux servers, has been critical to Google Cloud Platform for eight…

9 years ago

Data Centre Outage Causes Drama For Theatre Ticket Seller

Data centres: "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none." Rack's faulty network switch knocks out theatre ticketing system…

9 years ago

Huawei And Deutsche Telekom Launch ‘AWS-Beating’ Public Cloud

Deutsche Telekom goes live with Huawei-built Open TelekomCloud and digs at 'American competitors' on Amazon cloud's tenth birthday

9 years ago

Microsoft Tackles Cloud Data Centre SDN With SONiC

Microsoft's latest contribution to the Open Compute Project is aimed at helping cloud data centre operators more quickly embrace efficient,…

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