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Data centre hardware

• 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?

• April 30, 2014 30 Apr'14

  News Corp rolls out cloud to Harper Collins, Dow Jones and WSJ after News UK success

  News Corp is rolling out cloud services across its Harper Collins, Dow Jones and Wall Street Journal titles.

• 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.