A massive data centre being built by the National Security Agency in Utah has been plagued by “chronic electrical surges” that have destroyed equipment and delayed its opening for a year, according to a report Monday. The ...
The physical location of a data centre is crucial to its security, according to John Noakes, director of product marketing & partners for cloud firm Attenda. Noakes was speaking as part of the 'Insights into the data centre of the future' ...
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Few parts of the world house data centres that require air conditioning, and operators need to "push the envelope a little harder" to stop using it. This is the view fo Frank Frankovsky, vice president of hardware design and supply chain at ...
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Cisco has overtaken IBM?as the leading provider of infrastructure for cloud computing, analysts at Synergy Research reported on Monday. Synergy says there was a $9.7 billion market in the first quarter of 2013 for hardware to support ...
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A new survey suggests that large data centers might be less energy efficient than was previously thought. The survey, by data center hosting vendor Digital Realty Trust, quizzed 300 IT decision makers at large corporations in North ...
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A group of UK workers are driving the use of consumer devices in the workplace and are risking being sacked as a result, according to research. A Unysis commissioned survey of over 350 workers and over 95 IT decision-makers in the UK, ...
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Consumers worldwide are projected to spend some spend $2.1 trillion in 2012 on digital information and entertainment products, such as mobile phones, computing equipment, digital media and services, according to Gartner. The Gartner ...
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Taiwan-based LED companies have held different views over the outlook for the first quarter of 2012 after most of them posted a decline in revenues in December. Taiwan-based LED firm Unity Opto reported 2011 total revenues of NT$5.76 ...
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