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Arup outsources data centre to Vtesse, to cope with growth

More cost-effective than refurbishing existing space
Facebook 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 on yesterday, with some top technology companies joining the effort and introducing server designs.
Amazon uses nearly half a million servers to power EC2

Although most end users never get a clear view of the infrastructure underlying the services they consume via Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, Accenture Research Manager Huan Liu recently estimated that a whopping 454,400 individual blade servers are currently being used to power that product.
eBay's Arizona data centre gets Green Grid stamp of approval

Online auction site eBay has slashed costs and maximised energy efficiency at its enormous new Arizona data centre, after employing best practices from The Green Grid.
Atlantis Computing announces new VDI using only server memory

Atlantis Computing is offering a software product that uses only server memory to run non-persistent virtual desktop infrastructures.
Japan K supercomputer cracks 10 petaflop performance barrier

Japan's K Computer has retained its pole position on the Top500 list of fastest supercomputers and become the first machine on the list to achieve performance of more than 10 petaflops.
Oracle still supports x86 despite Ellison quip

It can't be easy working for Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. Just ask John Fowler, the head of Oracle's systems business, who has spent the past two weeks trying to convince customers that Ellison didn't really mean it when he said Oracle is "phasing out" its x86 business.
Intel builds sensors into server chips to control data centre cooling

Intel is adding new sensors to its server chips to help companies improve the efficiency of data centre cooling systems, with a view to cutting operating costs and prolonging the life of equipment.
Avaya adds new top-of-rack switch to VENA range

Avaya this week will extend it data centre networking line and architecture with a new top-of-rack switch.
Brocade extends Fibre Channel connections to 32Gbps

Brocade Technologies, which announced 16Gbps (bit-per-second) Fibre Channel products on Monday, is already working on a 32Gbps version and expects to have it on the market within three years.

Latest Features

Why is converged I/O in data centres taking so long?

So if converging the I/O infrastructure in data centres is all the rage, what's taking IT shops so long to do it?
How Japanese data centres survived the earthquake

Smart construction and good planning allowed Japan's data centres to escape virtually unharmed from the massive earthquake that rocked the country in March, a Japanese executive said Thursday.
Top 12 most popular green IT products

IT managers are thinking green from the desktop monitor to the recycling bin to the copy machine. Here are the dozen most popular tools and technologies that cut energy costs, boost data centre efficiency and promote green IT practices.
Facebook and eBay share green data centre tips

Facebook and eBay shared some tips this week for improving efficiency and cutting energy bills in data centres.
Will web servers find a role in the enterprise?

An emerging class of extremely low-power servers is helping Internet companies and hosting providers to slash their energy bills, and proponents say they could have a role in the enterprise as well.
Trends shaping data centre design

In the past, companies built data centres like parents buy clothes for their children: Buy big and wait for the kids to grow into them.
Inside HP's first wind-powered data centre

The north-east of England is a chilly, forbidding place but HP is tapping into the elements by installing what it claims is the most energy-efficient data centre going.
IEEE to standardise virtual data centre switching

Cisco, HP and others are waging an epic battle to gain control of the data center, but at the same time they are joining forces to push through new IEEE Ethernet standards that could greatly ease management of those increasingly virtualized IT nerve centers.
Five lessons from a data centre's crisis of capacity

In 2005, problems in the data centre at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory came to a head, when it reached its capacity limit. Here is how the organisation revamped its data centre over three years, moving from 500 applications on 500 servers to 800 applications running on 150 servers.
The effect of raising data centre temperatures

Last year, the recommended data centre temperature was raised by American Society of Heating Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, causing data centre managers to rethink their cooling requirements. Roger Schmidt, the leader of the society's IT team discusses the implications.

How-tos

Case Study: How to build a datacentre in six months for $800,000

Eight ways to green your existing datacentre

Beating datacentre heat, on the cheap

Case Study: Power struggle: How IT managers cope with data centre power demands (part 2)

Case Study: Power struggle: How IT managers cope with data centre power demands (part 1)

Case Study: Sealed racks take the heat off blades

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