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Infosec 2013: cyber security sector failing to attract new talent
The cyber security sector in the UK is failing to attract young people into the industry ? especially women ? according to research released this week by e-skills UK.
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Data centre energy efficiency: Worse than we thought?
A new survey suggests that large data centres might be less energy efficient than was previously thought.
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Upload 100X faster to Amazon's cloud with optimization service? Not quite, one analyst says
WAN optimisation vendor Silver Peak last week announced a service that it proclaims speeds data transfers into Amazon's cloud by 100 times compared to not using Silver Peak's deduplication system.
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BCS proposes FVER data centre efficiency metric to complement PUE
Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) has been a tremendously useful metric for the data centre so far, but it is not a complete measure of data centre efficiency, according to BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT.
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Data centres still lagging behind in IT efficiency
Dynamic power variation is a new phenomenon that is severely affecting the efficiency of data centres, according to APC.
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VMware seeks to make cloud provision easy for SMEs
VMware has launched a new service for SMEs helping them to provision cloud services
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Energy Star rating for green data centres to launch
The US Environmental Protection Agency is wrapping up work on an Energy Star program for data centres that it hopes to launch in June, EPA officials said this week.
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HP creates data centre pod
Hewlett-Packard has released a smaller version of its portable data centre, this time based on a standard 20-foot shipping container, half the size of its first model.
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Remote cloud control for Microsoft Windows
Quest Software has announced the launch of its first set of Software as a Service (SaaS) Windows management solutions.
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Audit looks to tighten datacentre efficiency
It's a pressing problem; how can datacentres be made more energy efficient when managers often have little idea as to the true environmental cost of running their datacentres.
