Is the browser the new operating system? It is by no means a new question, but it is certainly one that has gained in credibility in recent years. That is...
Bennie Vorster, vice president, IT solutions & technology standards at BMW Group talks about the company's Munich data centre, where using renewable energy resources has reduced cooling costs.
Are we alone in the universe? Could life exist on other planets? Questions like these have inspired countless science fiction stories, but at the University of Exeter's Astrophysics department, these queries are at the forefront of research. The department is using a range of supercomputers coupled with its own bespoke open source software to study how stars and planets are formed.
Powering and cooling data centres can be expensive if done incorrectly. Gartner analyst Rakesh Kumar gives the latest advice on how to spot the symptoms of a data centre under stress and how to control and measure power to correct the problem.
Datacentre managers face a growing dilemma as businesses put pressure on them to deliver more computing power while also asking them to reduce rising IT energy costs, the British Computer Society has said.
Npower, the retail arm of the UK's largest electricity supplier, RWE npower, is consolidating the details of its six million residential customers onto a single database.
Shell’s $4 billion IT outsourcing deal announced earlier this month, will see outsourcer EDS take over the risk and governance of the oil company’s key networks and data centre IT suppliers. In this podcast Cliff Saran speaks to Swee Chen Goh, vice president for IT infrastructure and services for Shell globally, about this innovative contract.