More than half of IT decision-makers have cited power efficiency as their number one priority in the datacentre for the next three to five years, according to a study of 250 IT executives. The research by Computacenter revealed that ...
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Enterprises want the best value from their investments and will try to reduce costs and improve the efficiency of their datacentres in 2013, according to a study from analyst Ovum. The sustainable datacentre market will see accelerated ...
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Microsoft has wasted thousands of pounds worth of electricity at its Redmond Quincy datacentre to avoid a $210,000 (129,000) penalty for underuse from its energy provider, according to the New York Times. According to the report, ...
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Schneider Electric today announced it has seen 4% growth in the last quarter, as well as 9% in the first nine months of 2012, with infrastructure, buildings, power and IT business units showing the most momentum, during the first day of its ...
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ARMv8 architecture includes 64-bit execution UK based semiconductor and software design firm ARM has announced integrated semiconductor products company Cavium as an architecture licensee for the ARMv8 architecture. The ARMv8 ...
IT must move beyond just measuring a datacentre's energy efficiency and power consumption to assessing its overall environmental impact to make meaningful changes and ensure IT facilities are truly sustainable. As businesses come under ...
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NetApp has claimed sales of its FlexPod integrated storage,server and networking stacks grew nearly 1,000%in a year. In a presentation at the NetApp Insight partner event in Dublin,product solutions and alliances director John Rollason ...
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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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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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The global market for green datacentres will grow from $17.1bn (£10bn) in 2012 to $45.4bn (£28bn) by 2016, as rising energy costs, tighter carbon emission regulations and economic pressure force IT executives to make their ...
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