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Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT

• January 20, 2014 20 Jan'14

  IBM to open London datacentre as part of $1.2bn global cloud push

  New facility first in UK to be based on IBM SoftLayer cloud architecture

• January 17, 2014 17 Jan'14

  South Eastern Health & Social Care Trust unveils HP datacentre PODs

  NHS Trust implements HP Performance Optimised Datacentres (PODs) for IT services across 120 facilities and five hospitals

• January 16, 2014 16 Jan'14

  Schneider backs British liquid cooling startup

  Support from the datacentre giant could help Iceotope spread its innovative immersion cooling system around the globe

• January 14, 2014 14 Jan'14

  Regional datacentre growth tempers UK price rises

  New datacentre clusters outside London keep average costs down, but firms that need space in the capital face a growing premium

• January 13, 2014 13 Jan'14

  Open arguments stack up as hybrid cloud takes hold

  A lack of cloud standards is causing headaches for IT departments, but the drive for greater interoperability is gaining pace

• January 09, 2014 09 Jan'14

  UK blazes trail for cloud use in Europe

  Survey suggests UK companies are more comfortable with the cloud than their Continental counterparts

• December 31, 2013 31 Dec'13

  Top 10 premium content articles of 2013

  Computer Weekly presents a selection of the most popular premium content reports and articles of 2013

• December 28, 2013 28 Dec'13

  Top 10 datacentre stories of 2013

  The drive for greater efficiency, CO2 reduction and the development of new technologies continued to dominate datacentre developments this year

• December 23, 2013 23 Dec'13

  Top 10 cloud computing stories of 2013

  It was the year big business warmed to the cloud while NSA snooping revelations sent shivers down the industry’s spine...

• December 11, 2013 11 Dec'13

  Can HP Moonshot deliver blue-sky energy management in datacentres?

  New servers that have more in common with laptops than datacentre hardware are being developed to tackle the energy time bomb

• December 06, 2013 06 Dec'13

  Chancellor George Osborne announces datacentre carbon tax break in Autumn Statement

  George Osborne exempts datacentre operators from blanket carbon taxes in exchange for climate change agreements

• December 03, 2013 03 Dec'13

  Microsoft invests in Ireland datacentre

  Microsoft is expanding its Dublin datacentre with a €170m investment

• December 02, 2013 02 Dec'13

  Case study: Sudlows pushes tight-squeeze datacentre to the limits

  Award-winning project turned a would-be office block into a high-capacity, energy-efficient colocation facility in six months

• November 29, 2013 29 Nov'13

  Computer Weekly European User Awards 2014 open for entries

  Computer Weekly is running its European User Awards for a second year in 2014. Find out all the details here

• November 26, 2013 26 Nov'13

  How web giants are making datacentres lean and green

  Facebook and eBay infrastructure chiefs outline their efficiency strategies at DatacenterDynamics Converged conference in London