Power consumption, cooling of high density configurations and environmental impact are the top concerns of datacentre managers in the Middle …
Brocade boosts 10G Ethernet density for data centres
The new modules are an eight-port 10G Ethernet blade for the MLX and a 64-port 8Gbps FibreChannel card for Brocade's …
Juniper collapses the data centre
The new products and services address automation, virtualization and fabric technologies. Taken together, Juniper claims they can dramatically increase performance, …
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3Com announces new products for data centre security
3Com has announced four new products and solutions from its TippingPoint and H3C portfolios to extend the Secure Network Fabric …
Seagate doubles capacity of data centre hard drive
The Savvio10.4K 2.5-in serial-attached SCSI (SAS) drive, aimed at external storage arrays, also increases meantime before failures (MTBF) by 25% …
HP opens first ever wind-cooled data centre
From the outside, Hewlett-Packard’s newest data center looks like a massive, well-secured loading dock, devoid of logos and surrounded by …
APC plans new push into containerised data centres
Power and cooling company APC by Schneider Electric will make a new push this year into the market for containerized …
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BT unveils data centre cloud service
BT has announced its cloud computing service called Virtual Data Centre (VDC) at the Handelsblatt Telecommunications Market Europe conference in …
Nexans EMAC devices to help create greener data centres
Nexans has launched a new series of environmental monitoring and access control (EMAC) devices that provide intelligent management of power …
Does the data centre dustup favour Cisco?
Although the announcement didn’t come as a surprise to the IT industry, it is the way competitors lined up to …
Downturn drives demand for outsourced data centres
With demand for data centre space showing no sign of slowing, and the ongoing effects of the credit crunch affecting …
Low awareness of escalating need for superior data centre efficiency: Survey
Given the growing strain placed on the power grid every day and the increasing demand for data processing and storage, …
Extreme adds 10Gig switch for data centres
The X650 runs the same ExtremeXOS operating system and uses the same stacking technology as its other switches, allowing any …
EIIC deploys mobile data centre
Dimension Data helped EIIC implement a state-of-the-art ’high availability’ mobile data center solution, which will help the investment company improve …
HP enhances portfolio of data centre management software
Hewlett-Packard (HP) has announced new features for its suite of data centre management software. The improvements encompass both physical and …
Wanted: A long-term data centre strategy
Although trends point to industry-wide consolidation of data centres, many businesses find themselves with more then they used to have …
Data centre wiring
Data centers underwent a network convergence in the early and mid-'90s as Ethernet became the de facto standard. But as …
From data centre to desktop: VMware’s roadmap
Virtualisation tech major VMware is all set its comprehensive roadmap for the Middle East market. The strategy will hinge on …