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Latest Datacentre articles

EMC World 2011: Big data meets the cloud

The Strip in Las Vegas
The annual conference kicks off in Las Vegas today
09 May 2011

Matterhorn invests £250m in south-east datacentres

Facebook's Open Compute server racks at its datacentre in Prineville Oregon (Photo by Alan Brandt)
Sites in Bury Green and Chesham will house more than 180,000 sq ft of data hall space
03 May 2011

Amazon profits dented by cloud

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Retailer's profits expected to be damaged by increased cloud investment
26 Apr 2011

Force10 Networks launches Open Cloud Networking

ISPs and multinationals offered low power, high network capacity datacentre-focused infrastructure
26 Apr 2011

Centrica signs new deals in IT revamp

Energy firm pays £8m for a one-year contract with SQS and extends deal with Fujitsu
20 Apr 2011

Technology giants cross swords in the cloud

Moves by IBM, Dell and HP mark a major milestone on the road to mainstream enterprise acceptance of cloud computing. But which has the most convincing offering?
20 Apr 2011

Microsoft to reduce datacentre PUE to 1.25 within 24 months

The giant has created modular datacentres and designed a new motherboard to help it go green
18 Apr 2011

CIO Green Forum 2011 turns (low-energy) spotlight on green tech

Exploring efficient use of technology in business
13 Apr 2011

Facebook to share green datacentre design with competitors

The social networking company says its new facility uses 38 per cent less energy than its older datacentres
11 Apr 2011

Dell set to invest up to $1bn in datacentres and cloud offerings

Gartner suggests this points to a strategic move away from its usual product offerings
07 Apr 2011

Government ICT strategy aims to cut costs and boost governance

Plan also aims to reduce ICT complexity, minimise risk, and open door to smaller suppliers
31 Mar 2011

Retrieving data from cloud


22 Mar 2011

Datacentres to shrink significantly, says Gartner

Change drivers include green IT and innovative datacentre design
15 Mar 2011

HP aims to reduce datacentre power usage by 70 per cent

HP Labs is researching photonics, a technology it hopes will provide significant savings in the datacentre
11 Mar 2011

Loughborough University opts for hybrid cloud to keep costs down

Private cloud services still too pricey, says university IT manager
10 Mar 2011

Keep disaster at a distance


08 Mar 2011

Blades point up datacentre cooling inadequacies, say analysts

Gartner report recommends high density zones to optimise power and cooling provision
02 Mar 2011

Centrica signs £250m datacentre deal

Energy firm's infrastructure, applications and services to migrate to HP-run private cloud
01 Mar 2011

Christchurch networks up and running after quake

Telcos have moved quickly in Christchurch to restore services
28 Feb 2011

Clifford Chance to close European datacentres

Part of move to reduce infrastructure significantly by 2015
28 Feb 2011

Juniper Networks targets Cisco market with QFabric datacentre technology

New tecnology designed to improve network switching to flatten tiered datacentre infrastructures
23 Feb 2011

Why it pays to go green


17 Feb 2011

University of Salford aims for shared student services with £5.7m datacentre upgrade

University to fund datacentre expansion by sharing infrastructure with other academic institutions
17 Feb 2011

New online market launched to sell surplus cloud computing capacity

Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider Enomaly launches beta of new service
17 Feb 2011