NGD Europe has about 750,000 square feet of floor space
One of the world's largest data centers has opened for business in the U.K., protected by bomb-proof glass and powered by enough electricity to run a small city.
The best sys admins are like Swiss Army Knives
For as long as there have been computer systems, there have been system administrators.
When your data centre can't meet the needs of your latest IT project
When Australian firm WesTrac needed to expand its data center capacity quickly, the company bought the equivalent of a Band-Aid for its server needs: A containerized data center.
Will flash memory fix problems in the data centre?
As a new decade opens, more and more data centre operators find themselves struggling with an enterprise bottleneck not of their own making.
The EPA sees it as a way to encourage better energy practices
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is wrapping up work on an Energy Star program for data centers that it hopes to launch in June, EPA officials said this week.
Data center applications already demand the coming 100-Gigabit version
Facebook's data centers already need 100-Gigabit Ethernet and ideally could use 1-Terabit Ethernet, according to a senior network engineer at the company.
Next-generation datacentre initiatives are driving LAN switching market consolidation, analysts claim
2010 promises to be an interesting year in the enterprise LAN switching market.
Focus will be on private and public cloud management
Microsoft and data storage company NetApp, have announced a three-year agreement that cements what had already been years of product collaboration and technical integration. The deal also extends worldwide joint sales and marketing efforts.
A sharp contrast to that endorsed by Cisco
Extreme Networks this week unveiled a blueprint for migrating data centers from the physical world to virtualization, and then ultimately to cloud computing.
Despite its drawbacks, Flash has advantages over traditional storage devices, says analyst
Flash-based storage will quickly become one of the most important technologies in the data center, according to Gartner.
Arista Networks unveils switch design to accommodate increasing traffic loads
Arista Networks has unveiled a Gigabit Ethernet data center switch designed to better accommodate increasing traffic loads between the server access and core layers of the network.
'Will not discuss' data centre policy preventing organisations from assessing the risk posed by placing enterprise applications in EC2
Amazon's cloud computing service should not be used for applications that require advanced security and availability, the Burton Group analyst firm says in a report accusing Amazon of secrecy regarding its cloud data centers.
Fujitsu has unveiled a 10Gbps Ethernet switch designed to handle important applications in an energy efficient way.
Fujitsu has unveiled a 10Gbps Ethernet switch designed to handle important applications in an energy-efficient way.
Will sell 'Vblocks' - preconfigured Cisco, EMC, VMware combination packages
Cisco, EMC and VMware last week unveiled the much rumored joint venture to sell their products to companies wanting to build internal clouds. Called Acadia (for who knows what reason), the joint venture is a collaboration between the three companies that will launch in 2010 and sell what they call Vblocks, preconfigured packages of Cisco UCS blade servers, EMC storage gear, VMware virtualization software and EMC Ionix management software.
Cisco's Unified Computing System is a more manageable, more scalable, essentially superior blade server system, despite warts
Revolutionary. Cutting edge. State of the art. These are words and phrases that are bandied around so very many products in the IT field that they become useless, bland, expected. The truth is that truly revolutionary products are few and far between. That said, Cisco's Unified Computing System fits the bill.
