datacentre in pictures

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  IN PICTURES: Rittal’s mobile datacentres - the Australian roadshow
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  In Pictures: Emerson Network Power opens new datacentre
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  Data centers in a box

• Eaton unveils rewards program for disties and resellers

  By Mike Gee | 22 May, 2012 15:06

  Diversified industrial manufacturer, Eaton Corporation, has unveiled its PowerAdvantage Rewards Program, an incentive scheme created exclusively for the company's Australian channel distributors and resellers.

• EMC backs its channel with Cloud solutions

  By Mike Gee | 22 May, 2012 12:35

  EMC has announced a bunch of new initiatives and products to enable channel partners to accelerate their customers’ journey to the Cloud.

• Datacentre spend to hit $3 billion: DPSA

  By Hafizah Osman | 20 May, 2012 18:00

  The datacentre spend in Australia is expected to grow from $2 billion in 2010 to $3 billion this year, according to DPSA national datacentre architect, Jason Rylands.

• aCure builds new Perth datacentre

  By Spandas Lui | 16 May, 2012 10:45

  IT service provider, aCure Technology, is building a new datacentre in Perth CBD, Western Australia.

• Fujitsu unveils $60 million upgraded Melbourne datacentre

  By Spandas Lui | 11 May, 2012 14:03

  The facility in Noble park is now one of the most energy efficient facilities of its size in Australia.

• Channel to benefit through business transformation: Intel

  By Patrick Budmar | 10 May, 2012 15:30

  Enabling transformation for businesses and consumers was the key message at the 2012 Intel Solutions Summit in Bali, Indonesia.

• Campbell takes over as DiData's Director of Solutions, Australia

  By Mike Gee | 07 May, 2012 14:14

  ICT services and solutions provider, Dimension Data Australia, has appointed Neil Campbell to the position of Director of Solutions, Australia.

• 6YS uses Brocade to address Cloud evolution

  By Nermin Bajric | 01 May, 2012 15:35

  Australian hosted application and Cloud computing services provider, 6YS, has replaced its Gigabit Ethernet and fiber channel infrastructure with Brocade’s VDX 6720 datacentre switches to serve as a foundation for its infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offering, Ironpoint.

• PROFILE: Powering Asia

  By Hafizah Osman | 26 August, 2011 16:43

  With the evolving needs of regional management, Emerson Network Power is transitioning to dedicate and focus on growth in its specific organisations within the Asia-Pacific. ARN spoke to the company’s new president of the Asia market, Anand Sanghi, about his recent promotion, company strategy and recent acquisitions.

• Cisco's McCool sees growing data-center role

  By Stephen Lawson | 23 January, 2010 12:03

  While Cisco Systems branches out into consumer electronics, video, mobile data and other areas, one of its biggest areas of focus today is enterprise data centers. The dominant LAN provider thinks the transformation of data centers through virtualization calls for new kinds of connections and a broader role for network technology and intelligence. John McCool oversees this push as senior vice president and general manager of Cisco's Data Center, Switching and Services group. IDG News Service talked with McCool recently about the company's own role and its partnerships with other vendors in this arena.

• Looking for problems

  By Trevor Clarke | 02 September, 2009 10:08

  Dr Kai Li is a professor at Princeton University and one of the founder fathers of de-duplication vendor, Data Domain, which was the subject of an acquisition battle between rivals, NetApp and EMC (the latter won). He talked to TREVOR CLARKE about the technology and what it takes to create a successful start-up.

• Where today's datacenters have gone wrong

  By Tom Sullivan | 10 March, 2009 09:25

  Today's datacenters are downright cramped, yet forced to continue absorbing more technologies and tapping into the latest trends, all while maximizing efficiency and reducing costs. The current recession makes now the time to glance back for a historical perspective to better understand how to not only survive in this different world but also to best prepare for the future.

• Disaster recovery: Save the day

  By Patrick Budmar | 28 May, 2012 11:39

  2011 was a bad year for natural disasters. Several nations were rocked either by earthquakes, tidal waves, or floods. There was even a nuclear accident. But has the tumultuous year convinced businesses to bolster their disaster recovery?

• Tech Watch: Who watches the datacentre?

  By Patrick Budmar | 28 May, 2012 10:58

  The proliferation of datacentres around the world has made the Cloud not only accessible, but also affordable in the process. However, the issue of data sovereignty, the location of where the data is stored, has been an inhibitor.

• SPECIAL REPORT: Hybrid transformation of the cloud

  By Jennifer O'Brien | 09 August, 2011 11:12

  For one of the world’s largest producers of zinc as well as a substantial producer of copper, lead, gold and silver, moving towards a hybrid cloud computing environment was a no-brainer.

• Carbon tax: bring it on

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 10 March, 2011 12:20

  The Gillard Government’s carbon tax has provoked varied and, in some cases, extreme reactions but the message from the channel is simple - bring it on.

• Special report: Emerging IEEE Ethernet standards could soothe data center headaches

  By Jim Duffy | 19 January, 2010 17:34

  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 Ethernet standards that could greatly ease management of those increasingly virtualized IT nerve centers.

• Analysis: Would you like a data center with that server?

  By Robert L. Mitchell | 20 January, 2010 08:03

  Faced with the continued commoditization of servers, IT vendors this year will try to differentiate their offerings by moving toward more highly integrated, unified compute platforms.

• 10 ways to cut cost in the datacentre

  By Trevor Clarke | 03 June, 2009 16:41

  It’s the heart of the IT infrastructure and when it is beating too fast, energy – and by default money – goes to waste. For many organisations, the datacentre provides the lifeblood of operations, but when it is running ineffi ciently it eats up a signifi cant amount of dollars. In this feature, TREVOR CLARKE outlines 10 ways to help cut datacentre costs.

• What IT pros like best about next-generation technology

  By Ann Bednarz | 21 October, 2008 10:00

  Do hundreds of gallons of used vegetable oil belong anywhere near a data center, let alone inside? Phil Nail thinks so.