Data Centers News

Mark Hurd

Oracle to open G-Cloud certified UK datacentre

News 14 May, 2013 Caroline Donnelly

New Thames Valley-based facility set to open in July.

Facetime suffers downtime

News 10 Apr, 2013 Rene Millman

Apple coughs to iMessage outage as well.

University of Leeds tests immersed servers

News 27 Feb, 2013 Rene Millman

Liquid-cooled computers could achieve 97 per cent energy savings in cooling

Cloud in hands

Memset comes to the rescue of stranded 2e2 datacentre customers

News 8 Feb, 2013 Caroline Donnelly

Cloud services firm offers to move 2e2 customers' data for free.

Servers

IBM takes on HP and Oracle with new low-cost servers and storage

News 5 Feb, 2013 Reuters

Big Blue to flesh out Power Systems range with new affordable products.

Servers

Fusion-io makes all flash datacentres a reality for the enterprise

News 17 Jan, 2013 Caroline Donnelly

Flash memory firm claims new product has already been trialled by Facebook.

past and future

Webcast: Preparing your datacentre for the new world of work

News 3 Jan, 2013 PROMOTION

Watch our webcast to gain the knowledge and insight you need to ensure your datacentre is up to the workplace demands of both today and tomorrow.

Business person on cloud

Google extends datacentre support for EU cloud customers

News 28 Nov, 2012 Jane McCallion

IaaS offering now supported on European infrastructure.

Cray XC30

Cray unveils Cascade XC30 supercomputer

News 9 Nov, 2012 Rene Millman

New system scales to 100 petaflops, and takes Titan’s title as fastest supercomputer.

Pulsant's Croydon DC

South London gains datacentre boost

News 9 Oct, 2012 Stephen Pritchard

New facility in Croydon will offer 8,400 sq m of space 10 miles from the City.

Datacentre

VMWorld 2012: VMware bangs drum for software-based datacentres

News 28 Aug, 2012 Caroline Donnelly

Virtualisation giant takes wraps off new cloud product suite and talks up benefits of software-defined infrastructure.

data

Olympic press centre to become East London technology hub

News 18 Jul, 2012 Rene Millman

Preferred bidder iCITY gets nod to turn building into datacentre and business park.

simplification

IBM simplifies infrastructure costs with PureSystems

News 12 Apr, 2012 Rene Millman

New product combines compute, networking and storage in one, aims at cost reduction for business.

Boxing gloves

Flynn: EMC is the data centre ‘bottleneck’

News 29 Mar, 2012 Jennifer Scott

The CEO of Fusion IO claims EMC’s storage strategy is holding back progress in the data centre.

server

Server issues ruin data centre strategy

News 29 Mar, 2012 Max Cooter

IT departments are still struggling to cope with server management, as it continues to take time away from strategic planning.

Servers

Microsoft targets Big Data with SQL Server 2012

News 7 Mar, 2012 Bryan Betts

SQL Server 2012 offers a leap forward in turning Big Data into business intelligence, says Microsoft.

Servers

Iceotope touts super liquid cooling for data centres

News 6 Mar, 2012 Jennifer Scott

Using 3M’s Novec coolant, the company claims it can cut cooling costs to zero.

Cloud

AMD buys into cloud server market with SeaMicro

News 5 Mar, 2012 Jennifer Scott

The acquisition of SeaMicro will give the chip manufacturer a clear entrance into the cloud.

future road sign

Firms still unprepared for mainframe skills shortage

News 2 Mar, 2012 Karrie Kehoe

A lack of focus on the mainframe is hindering development and productivity and putting potential recruits off, a study has found.

Data centre

Microsoft investing $130m in Dublin mega datacentre

News 24 Feb, 2012 Tom Brewster

The Redmond giant says its cloud products are getting mighty popular, so it is expanding its Irish datacentre.

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