The big three datacentre cooling infrastructure providers – Schneider Electric, Emerson and Eaton – together held 47% of the total datacentre energy market in 2011, a report has found. The report – titled Datacentre ...
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Software defined datacentres, cloud management and automation, virtualisation licensing, mobile virtualisation, heterogeneity and the need for IT executives to develop new skills in the cloud era were some of the themes of the VMworld ...
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A shift has taken place with companies running public, private and hybrid cloud. So said Jorg Liebe, chief information officer of Lufthansa Systems, during a session at VMworld Europe 2012. Headquartered in Kelsterbach, near ...
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Reseller and cloud service provider, Mason IT has managed to avoid the use of costly storage area network (SAN) architecture, after deploying Nutanix for the cloud. Mason IT, which partners with Cisco, VMware, Juniper, Huawei and now ...
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VMworld Europe 2012 has kicked off in Barcelona,with 11,000 attendees expected to descend on the Fira Gran Via over the next four days. VMware's annual European event was opened with keynotes from VMware senior executives giving an ...
Cloud computing is an opportunity information security professionals should not miss,according to Philippe Courtot,chairman and CEO of security company Qualys. "This is a fantastic and opportunity to sit down with the CIO and the ...
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VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger (pictured) used his keynote presentation at VMworld Europe in Barcelona to unveil how the virtualisation company would build software-defined datacentres using IT management and automation tools. "We need to make ...
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Datacentre energy requirements have grown massively in the past 12 months,suggesting that rising energy costs and stricter regulations are not helping to limit datacentre power use and cut carbon emissions. Between 2011 and 2012,power ...
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Although the server market is mature, it will experience strong growth through to 2015, as large customers such as Google, Amazon and Facebook will demand servers to fuel their datacentres' growth, says Gartner. "The server market was ...
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Edinburgh Airport's new owner is attempting to grow the business,with a multi-million pound IT outsourcing deal the first of many investments planned. The airport will spend 3m pounds over five years with service provider Onyx to provide ...
European regulations for the gambling sector,launching new products and driving revenue growth as a recently floated public company put enormous pressure on the IT team at Betfair. But chief technology officer(CTO)Tony McAlister,in post ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)has published new guidelines that underline businesses'sole responsibility for the protection of data,even if it has been outsourced to third-party cloud network providers. As more businesses ...
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A majority of IT executives have said that a growing demand for increased network bandwidth is one of the most critical issues facing their datacentres, with more than half looking to deploy 100Gb ethernet by 2016 to improve input/output ...
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Equinix,the provider of network-neutral datacentres,is adding 4,000 square metres of datacentre space with an additional capacity for 1,400 cabinets at its London Slough LD5 International Business Exchange(IBX)datacentre. Equinix will ...
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Goldman Sachs is launching a new datacentre strategy to achieve higher cost savings and improved IT energy efficiency.The investment bank will replace its existing real estate-based datacentre infrastructure with modular datacentre ...
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