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Datacentre cooling infrastructure

• September 26, 2012 26 Sep'12

  Microsoft's datacentre energy waste highlights datacentre bad practices

  Microsoft has wasted millions of watts of energy in its Quincy datacentre to avoid a $210,000 fine for underuse, according to the New York Times

• September 21, 2012 21 Sep'12

  Goldman Sachs adopts modular datacentres to save costs, improve efficiency

  In its bid to reduce carbon footprint and save energy costs, investment bank Goldman Sachs has adopted modular datacentres in US, UK and Singapore

• September 19, 2012 19 Sep'12

  Green datacentre market to grow from £10bn to £28bn by 2016

  Rising energy costs, EU regulations and economic pressure are driving organisations to invest in green datacentres

• February 03, 2012 03 Feb'12

  Palmer's College scores on virtualisation, data centre consolidation

  Palmer's College's virtualisation and data centre consolidation project did not just improve IT efficiency and scalability, but also saves on data centre cooling costs.

• January 05, 2012 05 Jan'12

  Surrey County Council's data centre efficiency project: Case study

  The council will replace its existing primary IT facility this spring with a new energy efficient data centre facility which will help it save around £160,000 every year.

• August 04, 2011 04 Aug'11

  VMware bows to customers, changes vSphere 5 licensing: News in brief

  After facing customer backlash, VMware has raised the virtual RAM limit in its new vSphere 5 licensing model.

• December 10, 2010 10 Dec'10

  A quarter of servers shipped in 2014 to support VM technology, says IDC

  Almost a quarter of all servers shipped in 2014 will support virtual machine technology, according to report from analyst IDC; and other news in brief.

• November 05, 2010 05 Nov'10

  Welsh council goes green with data centre redesign

  A council in Wales has a newly tailored green data centre to reduce its energy costs and carbon footprint; plus more daily news.

• September 20, 2010 20 Sep'10

  IBM set to buy Netezza for $1.7 billion

  IBM will buy data analytics company Netezza for $1.7 billion; Yahoo opens new energy-efficient data centre with 'chicken coop' design; plus more daily news.

• September 17, 2010 17 Sep'10

  Tech companies storm top 10 best global brands list

  Six of the top 10 best global brands are tech-based companies, according to Interbrand; plus more daily news.

• September 09, 2010 09 Sep'10

  Cisco and Citrix buddy up on desktop virtualisation

  Cisco and Citrix have joined forces on a desktop virtualisation offering that combines Citrix's XenDesktop platform with Cisco's Unified Computing System; plus more daily news.

• September 07, 2010 07 Sep'10

  Managing data centres: People and hardware don't mix

  Turning a data centre into a lights-out, hands-off environment saves money and removes the possibility of human error. Find out how to properly separate humans and hardware.

• September 06, 2010 06 Sep'10

  Reach Internet moves in with UKSolutions

  UKSolutions has announced that online training provider Reach Internet has moved its in-house data provision to the company's Studley data centre; plus more daily news.

• September 03, 2010 03 Sep'10

  Does InfiniBand interconnect score over options such as FC, 10 GbE?

  Storage options abound today – whether it’s fiber channel, 10 GbE or InfiniBand interconnect. Let us take a look at how InfiniBand fares among the lot.

• August 19, 2010 19 Aug'10

  UK businesses failing on EU data centre energy rules

  Consultancy on365 warns that UK businesses are vulnerable to financial penalties and rising energy costs based on an EU directive; plus more daily news.