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Clustering for high availability and HPC

• March 07, 2013 07 Mar'13

  Case study: How Advania maintains a low PUE in its Icelandic datacentre

  Advania's Thor datacentre near Reykjavik uses Iceland's natural energy resources and free air cooling to maintain a low PUE

• March 01, 2013 01 Mar'13

  Verne Global expands green datacentre footprint in Iceland

  Verne Global has selected Colt's UK-made modular datacentres to expand its Icelandic facility

• February 28, 2013 28 Feb'13

  Big data is adding tremendous strain to datacentres, says IDC

  Big data is causing a lot of strain to datacentre facilities and spiking datacentre workloads creating serious security concerns

• February 27, 2013 27 Feb'13

  Frequent hardware upgrades help optimise datacentre cooling and efficiency

  UK organisations must refresh their datatcentre hardware every three years to make systems more power efficient

• February 26, 2013 26 Feb'13

  Lufthansa Systems modernises its datacentre for higher efficiency

  Lufthansa Systems modernised its datacentres to host applications more robustly for its customers

• February 26, 2013 26 Feb'13

  DDN launches hScaler Hadoop appliance for enterprises

  HPC and clustered NAS supplier Data Direct Networks aims at enterprise customers with Hadoop appliance comprising its SFA12K storage and commodity compute components

• February 22, 2013 22 Feb'13

  Facebook to build cold storage facility at Prineville datacentre for old photos

  Facebook is planning a ‘cold storage’ facility at its Prineville datacentre facility in Oregon to archive users’ old photographs

• February 22, 2013 22 Feb'13

  News International to collapse six datacentres as part of its cloud strategy

  News International will close down two datacentres each in the UK, the US and Australia as it looks to use more cloud services

• February 22, 2013 22 Feb'13

  Tesco to host private cloud infrastructure within its internal datacentres

  Tesco will run a private cloud infrastructure from its internal datacentre to host its website and retail related apps

• February 20, 2013 20 Feb'13

  British businesses are not making most of the cloud, study shows

  British businesses have yet to make the most of cloud computing services because many are hesitant to adopt it

• February 20, 2013 20 Feb'13

  Action for Children takes fundraising to the cloud with Rackspace

  Charity Action for Children has overcome its website traffic issues and has saved costs by using Rackspace cloud

• February 18, 2013 18 Feb'13

  Rackspace creates 300 UK jobs with datacentre expansion

  Rackspace is leasing datacentre space in the UK to serve customers who want to host data in the EU to comply with data sovereignty rules

• February 15, 2013 15 Feb'13

  Daisy Group takes control of 2e2's datacentre operations

  Daisy Group has entered an agreement to acquire and manage 2e2's datacentre business unit

• February 14, 2013 14 Feb'13

  CIF urges users follow procurement best practice after 2e2 closure

  The high-profile closure of 2e2 should serve as a lesson in best practice for businesses contracting cloud or managed service providers, says CIF

• February 14, 2013 14 Feb'13

  Businesses are more willing to take datacentre risks amid budget cuts

  Datacentre cost, traditionally a secondary consideration to resilience, has moved higher on IT’s agenda, shows DataCentre Dynamics study