About 50% of companies host their web sites and e-business infrastructure in-house, using their own facilities. However, with new pressures to consider such as the rising costs of power and cooling and the growing imperative of green IT, is hosting in-house still the right option for a business?
IBM has announced a research breakthrough in photovoltaics technology, which could significantly reduce the cost of harnessing the sun's power for electricity.
Computer Weekly reviews how the main server makers are formulating strategy for the datacentre, and whether any viable alternatives are on the way. Our conclusion: keep an eye on Dell
The datacentre is the heart of the organisation. The network provides the arteries and the veins that distribute vital information to the various parts of the corporate body, but it is the datacentre that keeps pumping it out. Keeping the heart in the best of health is critical to your long term survival, a difficult task with the stresses and additional burdens of the modern business environment.
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.