Data centre opens and closes
02 February, 2009
Polaris, the disaster, terrorist and earthquake proof centre that will host mission-critical ICT systems for government departments and corporate enterprises, will open and close tomorrow.
Use CUPS and save on data centre energy costs
29 January, 2009
Emerson has introduced a new universal measure for data centre efficiency — a way to measure how much power a data centre consumes, but more importantly, a way to calculate savings from energy optimisations at different stages in the data centre design process.
Are internet data centres inefficient power hogs?
14 January, 2009
Dr Steve Hodgkinson, Research Director at Ovum, raises the question: Should it one day be green to shun the internet? The answer is, of course, that data centres need to be more efficient but there is also a 'catch 22' scenario that he explores.
MS brings fault-tolerance software to Windows Server, Hyper-V
13 January, 2009 by Bridget Botelho
Windows Server and Hyper-V will soon benefit from Marathon's everRun fault-tolerance features, thanks to a recent move by Microsoft.
