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Data centre hardware

• May 15, 2014 15 May'14

  More user control and freedom from lock-in will make cloud successful: Werner Vogels

  Giving users more control and freedom from supplier lock-in will ensure cloud’s success in Europe, says Amazon CTO, Werner Vogels

• May 15, 2014 15 May'14

  Microsoft funds datacentre and cloud energy efficiency research projects

  Microsoft has awarded $160,000 to four university projects focusing on cloud and datacentre energy efficiency

• May 14, 2014 14 May'14

  ‘Real cloud’ is much more than cheap infrastructure, says Rackspace as cloud price war continues

  Rackspace CTO warns cloud buyers of the dangers of buying cheap, raw infrastructure for their IT strategies as cloud price war intensifies

• May 12, 2014 12 May'14

  IDC survey puts IBM, Cisco and HP ahead of AWS, Google and Azure for IaaS

  IBM, Cisco and HP have been rated as the top three infrastructure as a service providers according to a study by analyst IDC.

• May 09, 2014 09 May'14

  Facebook debuts ‘Rapid Deployment Data Centre’ design in Swedish facility

  Facebook is expanding its Luleå datacentre in Sweden by deploying Rapid Deployment Data Centre (RDDC) design developed in collaboration with Emerson Power Network

• May 08, 2014 08 May'14

  Industry needs to do more to benefit from utility incentives for datacentres

  Potential energy efficiencies from utility incentives cannot be realised without more efforts from datacentre operators and utility firms

• May 08, 2014 08 May'14

  Colt increases colocation datacentre capacity in London and Hamburg

  The carrier-neutral datacentre and colocation facility provider, is increasing its datacentres in London and Hamburg by 2MW to meet Europe's datacentre demand

• May 07, 2014 07 May'14

  CIOs fear compliance and regulation over IT failure to tackle big data

  As many as 87% of CIOs fear that failing to address their untapped intelligence will lead to issues with compliance and regulation, a research revealed

• May 07, 2014 07 May'14

  HP pumps in $1bn in open source and hybrid cloud services

  HP will invest $1bn over the next two years on cloud-related products including an investment in OpenStack and is launching HP Helion too

• May 06, 2014 06 May'14

  Cloud is one of the 'most disruptive forces' in business in past 20 years: KPMG

  A KPMG research report on the future of investment banking has concluded that cloud is one of the “most disruptive forces in business in the past 20 years”

• May 06, 2014 06 May'14

  Our datacentres are energy efficient and green too, says AWS

  Amazon Web Services says it runs its facilities with energy efficiency in mind despite Greenpeace criticisms

• May 02, 2014 02 May'14

  Microsoft buys PaaS firm Greenbutton to improve Azure service

  The software giant will integrate Greenbutton’s PaaS offerings into Azure and release it as a new cloud service within Azure later in the year

• May 01, 2014 01 May'14

  Datacentres to evolve in next dacade, says research

  Use of solar power, increased cloud adoption, higher utilisation rate and increased density will characterise the datacentre by the year 2025

• May 01, 2014 01 May'14

  Case study: How the BBC uses cloud to process media for iPlayer

  The BBC has taken its iPlayer video-on-demand service to the cloud and cut media processing time from 9-10 hours to 20-30 minutes

• April 30, 2014 30 Apr'14

  Oracle updates Solaris, but is its server strategy sound?

  Oracle has released a beta versdion of Solaris 11.2. But does Solaris and the Sparc server platform have a future?