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Clustering for high availability and HPC
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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