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When scientists at Imperial College London claimed that downloading a single gigabyte of data could waste up to 200 litres of water, their claims generated one of two reactions. Those who follow such things were visibly shocked while those who do not went on with their lives completely unaffected. Little...
A bit of irony struck this past weekend when the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) was forced to announce late last Friday that an incident at one of their outsourced data centres caused a widespread outage that affected a number of the watchdog's IT services. The FCA described the outage as...
If you haven't heard the news yet, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is taking aggressive action against cyber criminals with the establishment of a new division known as the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). The centre, which is slated to open sometime in October (2016), will be the first such...
ING Bank found itself apologising to customers this week after a data centre failure in Bucharest, Romania left them without most online services over the weekend. The good news in an otherwise disturbing situation is that the event could have been much worse. The outage led mostly to inconvenience, due...
The second-largest airline carrier in the US is still struggling to regain normal operations after a data centre failure that grounded hundreds of flights and stranded thousands of passengers worldwide. Somewhere around 2.30am EDT on Monday, August 9 Delta staff in Atlanta were unable the access computer networks for some...
We have smartphones, smart cars, and smart homes filled with dozens of smart devices. So, are you now ready for “smart cities”??? They may have been a fanciful thing of the past for futurists and dreamers, but smart cities are now here. They are beginning to emerge thanks to billions...
Most of us are fully aware of the fact that the UK is a world leader in clean energy – particularly in the area of solar - so it should be no surprise that a new analysis offered by the Solar Trade Association (STA) reveals that producers have recently hit...
The Brexit votes had barely been tallied and made official when opponents of the outcome established an online petition calling for a second vote. That much was expected in the days and weeks leading up to the vote, given that polling showed things to be extremely close. What was not...
We all know Apple as a maker of computers, smartphones, tablets and wearables. Now it appears that the California company is getting into the renewable energy business thanks to a deal signed with a US landfill to utilise methane gas. This could be a precursor to other similar projects around...
Given that a large percentage of the power used to run the average data centre is directly related to cooling, builders and designers do their best to locate new facilities in locales with cooler climates and lower humidity. The idea is to save money by reducing the amount of power...
The risk of an electrical fire in data centres is an ever-increasing concern for owners and operators. It has been an ongoing battle for when it comes time to decide what type of fire suppression system should be utilised in their facilities. The use of a water-based system could risk...
If Ofcom has its way, you could be in store for faster wi-fi in your UK home or office within the next couple of years. The independent regulator and competitive authority recently unveiled plans to improve wi-fi speeds by opening up additional channels by which routers and wireless devices can...