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Datacentre cooling infrastructure
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The end is nigh: Are datacentre operators prepared for a potential no-deal Brexit?
Datacentre operations are resilient and forward-thinking by nature, yet pitfalls and cost impacts are looming large with a potential no-deal Brexit on the horizon Continue Reading
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How intelligent workload management tools can help IT admins cut through cloud complexity
IT administrators have to manage an increasingly complex and varied range of application types and IT environments, and intelligent workload management tools offer a helping hand with that Continue Reading
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The datacentre chill-factor: Finding the right conditions
Computer Weekly explores a variety of cost-effective, energy-efficient services currently using innovative methods to keep datacentres cool Continue Reading
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Datacentre liquid cooling: What needs to happen for it to become commonplace in colocation?
As demand for increasingly dense racks and compute-heavy workloads increases within datacentres, could this lead to a wholesale shift in preference from air-to-liquid-based cooling systems? If so, at what cost to the environment? Continue Reading
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Lean, mean and green: The datacentres of the future
Working out how to develop more efficient datacentres in an increasingly resource-hungry world is not easy, but it is possible Continue Reading
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Datacentres operators must move away from diesel backup generators to give back to grid
While the diesel backup generators used by datacentre operators have a limited environmental impact, using them for extended periods of time to power sites to feed energy back into the grid is not a sustainable solution to growing electricity demand Continue Reading
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Driving adoption: Are high costs putting public cloud out of reach to non-profits?
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s insights into the sky-high cloud bills faced by some non-profit organisations prompts questions about whether the public cloud giants should do more to make their services more accessible to the third sector Continue Reading
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From consumer to prosumer: Reducing the datacentre industry’s reliance on the national grid
With the government ramping up plans to go net zero on carbon emissions by 2050, where does the datacentre industry stand – and how can it become more sustainable over the coming years? Continue Reading
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Unpicking the datacentre industry’s complicated relationship with climate change
The energy usage habits of datacentres often see the sector labelled as a contributor to climate change, but the situation is far more nuanced than that, it seems Continue Reading
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Log management: Helping IT admins to achieve infrastructure-wide visibility
When properly configured and deployed, log management tools can unearth a veritable treasure trove of data that IT administrators can use to triage and diagnose problems in enterprise IT infrastructures Continue Reading
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Evolution in action: The changing face of the datacentre
The role datacentres play in the wider enterprise IT landscape is changing, fuelling the demand for a mix of different types of facilities that are capable of meeting the growing variety of enterprise data-processing requirements Continue Reading
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Staffordshire University goes all-in on Microsoft Azure for digital transformation
Andrew Proctor, director of digital services at Staffordshire University, describes how ditching its datacentres and moving to the Microsoft Azure public cloud has set the organisation on the path to digital transformation Continue Reading
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The Sanger Institute on using datacentre upgrades to help decode the human genome
Paul Woobey, IT director at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, tells Computer Weekly why the organisation's HPC workload requirements cannot be fulfilled by a move to the cloud Continue Reading
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Datacentre cooling upgrades: Helping operators decide where best to invest
Upgrading a datacentre cooling system is an expensive undertaking, but should operators stick with what they've always done or try something new? Continue Reading
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Datacentre heat reuse: Why aren’t more operators doing it?
With the datacentre industry’s sustainability habits coming under increasingly close scrutiny, we find out why operators are not rushing to reuse their waste heat Continue Reading
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Microsoft’s underwater datacentre: The pros and cons of running subsea facilities
Underwater datacentres can help providers save on land costs and cooling, but at what cost to the environment? Continue Reading
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Modular datacentre helps Belgian IT firm support Dutch and German customers
Cegeka commissioned a new datacentre when its customer base expanded and decided on a modular approach to get it up and running quickly Continue Reading
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Top 10 datacentre stories of 2015
Computer Weekly's top 10 datacentre stories and trend pieces of 2015 Continue Reading
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How Verne Global tackled the Icelandic datacentre connectivity gap
The wide availability of renewable energy has made Iceland an attractive location for datacentre operators, increasing demand for global network connections to the country Continue Reading
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Datacentre PUE: Who's keeping score?
With datacentre operators under increased competitive pressure to cut their PUE scores, are their ratings really all they seem? Continue Reading
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Energy-efficient Europe: How the datacentre sector is keeping it clean
With users becoming increasingly savvy about environmental issues, we take a look at how the datacentre sector is responding Continue Reading
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Cloud boosts demand for datacentres in Poland and eastern Europe
The datacentre market in both central and eastern Europe and Poland has recorded double–digit growth Continue Reading
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Co-location services and datacentres feel the CCA heat
A climate change agreement (CCA) for datacentres has come into force. How will its energy-efficiency rewards shape the industry? Continue Reading
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Green storage is dead. Long live green storage
Green storage may have slipped from the headlines, but the need for better energy efficiency in storage is more pressing than ever Continue Reading
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Distributed power generation – Is it right for your datacentre energy strategy?
As datacentre complexity grows, enterprises seek greener ways to power them. But is distributed generation right for all? Continue Reading
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Get datacentre cooling under control
Reviewing existing datacentre cooling designs and exploring new ones for efficiency may not be as hard as you think. Here's how Continue Reading
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Can telcos tap into the datacentre business?
Telcos have always run datacentres, but now many are hoping to give commercial providers a run for their money Continue Reading
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BAFTA nominates cloud to boost web performance
Arts organisation moves to Rackspace to handle awards-season peaks and help meet the ever-growing demand for rich media content Continue Reading
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Blackrock: measuring risk in a datacentre
How the investment giant handles the risk of managing $13 trillion of other people’s money Continue Reading
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Human factors in the datacentre
Whether to ensure business continuity or maximise returns, everyone from the finance director to the facilities manager needs further datacentre education Continue Reading
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The UK’s problem with power
Datacentre power buyers say Britain’s deregulated energy market is as complex as trading in derivatives Continue Reading
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Get ready for the datacentre storm
With a wave of innovations rolling ever faster towards the datacentre, analysts say 2014 is the year organisations must plot their course through choppy waters Continue Reading
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How the datacentre market has evolved in 12 months
The increasing interest in co-location, hosting and cloud has led to murmurings around the death of in-house datacentres Continue Reading
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How Capgemini keeps its Merlin datacentre green and energy-efficient
Capgemini's Swindon-based Merlin datacentre is one of the most energy-efficient in the world. But what makes it green? Continue Reading
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How to be a front runner in the shift towards datacentre commoditisation
Companies will need a responsive, flexible datacentre able to deliver greater competitive edge and the IT horsepower to support it Continue Reading
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What's on an enterprise's checklist when seeking a datacentre provider?
Is it energy efficiency? Is low cost or low latency the deal maker? Top enterprises disclose their checklists for datacentre providers Continue Reading
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Oh dear, our datacentre provider has gone bust
Ensure that you enter into a sensible contract with your datacentre provider and factor in all possibilities including them going bust Continue Reading
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Configure datacentres with green tech to save costs
The current driver for green technology is to save money through optimising energy use, rather than a desire to be seen to be green. Continue Reading
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Top technologies that can make your datacentre green
Energy-efficient technologies that can reduce running costs in the datacentre and across the business Continue Reading
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How to effectively manage datacentre temperature and humidity
A datacentre is a complex facility with different cooling equipment and power systems. Here's how to monitor its temperature and humidity Continue Reading
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Six datacentre resolutions IT must make and stick to in 2013
IT executives must put the datacentre where it needs to be – at the heart of the business – with these new year's resolutions Continue Reading
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How to minimise costs when overhauling a datacentre
Virtualisation and cloud technologies are pushing IT to take a revolutionary and replacement approach to datacentres. How can it be done efficiently? Continue Reading
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Combining DCIM and BIM tools for effective datacentre management
If datacentre IT equipment and datacentre building was combined, the building and cooling could be tailored to increase efficiency Continue Reading
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Identifying truths and myths of datacentre efficiency
There is no one-size-fits-all solution to optimising datacentre efficiency, so CIOs should consider all available options. Archana Venkatraman reports Continue Reading
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Is wind energy just blowing in the face of datacentre cooling reality?
Using renewable energy such as wind energy for datacentre cooling may not address issues of carbon emissions as directly as suppliers claim Continue Reading
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How IBM researchers hope to change the world
IBM's Zurich research labs opened its doors to reveal some of the technologies we can expect to be using in 10 to 15 years Continue Reading
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Top five virtualisation case studies of 2011
Our recap of 2011's most popular case studies shows how other IT users conducted their virtualisation projects and all about their challenges and the efficiencies they achieved. Continue Reading
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The data centre boom: Finding the right site just got serious
Our expert poses some basic, but important, tests of potential data centre sites, including location, connectivity and power, that companies should be aware of. Continue Reading
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The real value of virtualisation
Discover how to fully realise the benefits and cost savings of virtualisation, including the importance of maximising energy efficiency and meeting IT project deadlines. Continue Reading
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CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme: How to be on track with I/O virtualisation
The launch of the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme means that companies are liable for their carbon output. How should data centres respond? I/O virtualisation is one solution. Continue Reading
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Improving data centre power consumption and efficiency
Following the opening of hosting provider PEER 1's new data centre in Toronto, the VP of data centre operations offers advice on why tackling energy issues should be a top priority in data centre planning. Continue Reading
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How to save money by saving energy
A data centre expert explains the importance of building a green data centre and how to measure power usage efficiency. Continue Reading