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Data centre hardware

• 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

• April 14, 2014 14 Apr'14

  Most cloud services pose security and compliance risks to European businesses

  About 99% of cloud services used in Europe either don’t have enterprise-grade security or store data outside Europe’s jurisdictional boundaries

• April 10, 2014 10 Apr'14

  BT and Microsoft to offer secure fast lane to Azure cloud

  Microsoft’s UK cloud chief hails service as critical step in supporting CEO Satya Nadella’s ambitious plans for global cloud dominance

• April 08, 2014 08 Apr'14

  UK cloud pioneer scores world first with true utility pricing

  ElasticHosts steals a march on Google, Amazon and Microsoft by billing on the basis of actual consumption of resources

• April 07, 2014 07 Apr'14

  The problem with regional clouds

  The clamour to keep clouds closer to home could lead to internet restrictions, fragmentation and a slowdown in the movement of data

• April 02, 2014 02 Apr'14

  CIO interview: Andrew Marks, Tullow Oil

  How speeding up seismic data transfer between African oil fields and a Dublin datacentre helps the London-based oil exploration company save millions

• March 28, 2014 28 Mar'14

  Google throws down cloud gauntlet with massive price cuts

  Automatic discounts for sustained use bring true utility computing a step closer and could help Google close the gap on Amazon Web Services

• March 27, 2014 27 Mar'14

  Will Cisco’s $1bn Intercloud bridge the way for enterprise customers?

  The networking giant’s bid to build an open, hybrid cloud ecosystem could be good news for buyers - but analysts say its vision needs more clarity

• March 21, 2014 21 Mar'14

  EU project aims to boost urban datacentre efficiency

  GreenDataNet consortium will develop smart, open-source technologies to stop smart cities grinding to a halt amid rocketing energy demands

• March 20, 2014 20 Mar'14

  Mine machine data to boost business value

  Businesses risk losing their competitive edge if they are unable to drill down into the information captured by machine-generated data

• March 19, 2014 19 Mar'14

  Oracle finally sees revenue growth from hardware business

  Oracle has finally seen a boost from its server business, with hardware sales up 8% in its latest financial results

• March 18, 2014 18 Mar'14

  Case study: University of St Andrews squeezes green datacentre into squash court

  University of St Andrews CIO Steve Watt tells how the 600-year-old institution squeezed an energy-efficient datacentre into a squash court

• March 18, 2014 18 Mar'14

  Global taskforce agrees on green datacentre metric

  DCeP hopes to win widespread support as a useful and meaningful standard for measuring datacentre efficiency