A combination of solar power and carefully automated management should let data centres have a net grid impact of zero, …
Renewable sources will power Apple's data centre by 2013
Apple has announced that its North Carolina data centre will be powered entirely by renewable energy sources by the end …
Juniper to license Radware tech for data centre, claims Oppenheimer & Co
Juniper Networks is negotiating a deal with Radware to license application delivery controller technology from the company, according to investment …
Facebook's open-source data centre project gains strength
Facebook’s year-old project to develop open-source hardware designs with the aim to build efficient data centres gained momentum yesterday, with …
HGST announces 12Gbps SAS SSDs for use in enterprise data centres
Western Digital company HGST yesterday announced what it claimed to be the first 12 gigabits-per-second (Gbps) SAS solid state drive …
IDC: Data centres increasingly overwhelmed by business demand
Businesses are struggling to ensure their data centres cope with demand, according to analyst house IDC. Chris Ingle, an associate …
BT selects Equinix data centres to roll out proximity hosting service for traders
Communications provider BT has revealed that it will use Equinix’s data centres for the rollout of its cloud-based Radianz Venue …
Symform has a cloud without a data centre, says co-founder
Symform co-founder and president Praerit Garg says there’s something wrong with the way data is being stored in public clouds …
United selects Brocade for data centre networking
United Broadcast Facilities, part of the Euro Media Group (EMG), has selected Brocade to deliver it an end-to-end data centre …
Cisco challengers should be buoyed by data centre network market growth, researcher says
Continued growth in the data centre network equipment market has opened a window of opportunity for vendors looking to cut into industry …
Data centre investments growing in the region: Al Malik, DOZ
Investments in data centres are growing as regional enterprises increase their capabilities in running large consolidated operations from one location, …
Dell plans over 20 data centres in Asia
Dell plans to set up over 20 data centres in Asia to meet growing demand from customers for a mix …
Intel targets data centre with new Xeon E5-2600 chips
Intel on Tuesday announced the Xeon E5-2600 processors for 2- and 4-socket servers, which is the company’s first major chip …
HP, Clinton Foundation set up data centres in Kenya as part of the Early Infant Diagnosis project
Hewlett-Packard (HP), the Clinton Health Access Initiative and Kenya’s Ministry of Public Health have completed the rollout of a series …
Ericsson enters data centre market
At Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Ericssonis launching its new offering for building and optimising data centres. This is …
New mega data centre in India among world’s largest
IBM has designed and helped to build a 900,000-square-foot data centre in India that it says is the largest in …
Schneider Electric launches ‘data centre in a box’
Energy management firm Schneider Electric today announced the launch of its ‘out-of-the-box’ data centre solution that can be installed and …
Regional companies yet to reach European data centre standards: Heger
Enterprises in the Middle East must prepare themselves for the big data boom or risk being pushed aside by international …
Data centre management has improved in the region: Oracle survey
Results from Oracle’s second Next Generation Data Centre Index show that data centres in the Middle East are geared for …
Microsoft aims Windows 8 storage at enterprise data centres
Windows 8 includes a storage scheme suitable for business deployment that can treat hundreds of disks as a single logical …