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Data centre hardware

• April 28, 2014 28 Apr'14

  US cloud security firm builds datacentre in Cardiff for EMEA expansion

  US cloud security company Alert Logic is building a datacentre and security operations centre in Cardiff to support its EMEA expansion strategy

• April 28, 2014 28 Apr'14

  LateRooms overcomes database bottleneck with flash storage strategy

  The hotel and accommodation booking firm refreshes its datacentre with virtualisation, consolidation and flash-based storage

• April 24, 2014 24 Apr'14

  Modular datacentres yield 30% more savings than traditional datacentres

  A comparison of the total cost of ownership of two datacentre architectures – traditional facility and the modular datacentre reveals which one is cheaper

• April 23, 2014 23 Apr'14

  Six Degrees datacentre suffers outage for more than 12 hours

  Customers using Six Degrees’s datacentre and hosting services faced downtime as the hosting and managed services provider suffered an outage for over 12 hours

• April 23, 2014 23 Apr'14

  Google’s renewable energy purchase for datacentres soars over 1GW

  Google's latest agreement with MidAmerican Energy to power its Iowa datacentre with 407MW of wind energy takes its renewable energy deals to 1GW

• April 23, 2014 23 Apr'14

  HP firmware bricks ProLiant server models

  HP has released a server patch which it has admitted will kill 100 of its server models and 14 network adapters.

• April 22, 2014 22 Apr'14

  Microsoft and Equinix collaborate to privately connect Azure cloud and on-premise IT

  Equinix and Microsoft have collaborated to help businesses connect their on-premise IT infrastructure with Azure cloud via a private network

• April 22, 2014 22 Apr'14

  Microsoft invests in next-gen energy technologies to power datacentres

  Microsoft is investing in next-generation energy technologies such as microturbines and distributed generation for datacentre power

• April 17, 2014 17 Apr'14

  Dell skips smartphones to focus on convergence

  With the smartphone industry grinding to a halt,Dell has chosen to take the software avenue rather than trying to push into the smartphone space.

• April 17, 2014 17 Apr'14

  IBM hardware struggles, with first quarter earnings a fifth lower than last year

  IBM reports 21% drop in first quarter revenue as it continues to "take actions to transform parts of the business"

• April 17, 2014 17 Apr'14

  Datacentre lessons learnt from Heartbleed bug

  The Heartbleed bug, an OpenSSL flaw affecting millions of websites, has some lessons for datacentre providers and operators

• April 17, 2014 17 Apr'14

  Claranet acquires Dutch cloud provider NovaData

  Managed hosting provider Claranet has acquired Netherlands-based cloud firm NovaData to expand its services portfolio

• April 16, 2014 16 Apr'14

  Scotland will be home to UK’s first fully green datacentre

  Come summer and work will start on a £40m green datacentre covering 75,000 sq ft at Queensway Business Park in Glenrothes, Fife

• April 16, 2014 16 Apr'14

  Ericsson picks OpenStack for its $30m datacentre and cloud infrastructure

  Ericsson has picked open-source cloud computing platform OpenStack for its $30m datacentre, cloud and telecommunications infrastructure update

• April 15, 2014 15 Apr'14

  Greenpeace singles out datacentre firms for lack of energy efficiency

  Greenpeace's new report on datacentre energy efficiency lauds efforts of some tech giants while singles out others for their lack of commitment to green energy