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Thousands of Internet users in Australia were without Internet access for up to 6½ hours after extreme heat forced the country's second-largest ISP to shut down its Perth servers. The outage occurred on January 5 (2015), with external temperatures at the time in excess of 44°C. According to chief technology...
During the final hours of the 113th Congress, the US Senate attempted to finish some last-minute legislation including an energy efficiency bill that proponents claimed would make the federal government a more responsible user of energy in their data centres. The bill was blocked on a procedural motion by retiring...
Capturing data centre heat for other purposes is not a new idea however the practical aspects of making it work efficiently have prevented the concept from being adopted on a large scale. That may change in the future, thanks to the example being set by a Norwegian University now heating...
A new report from Ofcom clearly shows that broadband service in Great Britain is not exactly where the Government wants it to be. Despite being a clear leader in Europe for providing affordable broadband services to residents, there are still problems within the system that have to be overcome, the...
Firms are increasingly relying on IT to deliver business advantages and the number of streams of data that have to be stored, managed and analysed are expanding. This puts CIOs in a tough position. Forces such as cloud computing, data centre integration and security all have to be addressed, yet...
When Bitcasa opened for business in 2011, it attempted a business model that would eventually result in the end of the hard drive in favour of unlimited storage on a Bitcasa cloud server. The company had every intention of being a serious competitor to Amazon and others offering inexpensive storage...
When Google flips the switch on their brand-new data centre in Delfzijl, Netherlands, it will be powered entirely by renewable energy generated by local power providers. Some of that power will come from a new wind farm now being constructed by Dutch energy company Eneco. Google and Eneco just signed...
It wasn't too long ago that the main responsibility of the chief information officer (CIO) was to ensure that the company IT department kept up with the interoffice e-mail system and the website however that was then. Today, however, things have changed. The modern CIO is an integral part of...
Cyber security these days focuses almost entirely on electronic data breaches by way of network hacks, malware and the like. And rightly so however the recent fraud conviction of a telecom director suggests that we might be ignoring one of the most fundamental aspects of fraud – to our own...
Data centre design and build specialists 2bm have recently received some great news. One of their most recent and challenging contracts has been nominated for three separate awards in the Datacenter Dynamics North American Awards 2014. 1. Special Assignment Team of the Year 2. Innovation in the Medium Data Centre...
The term ‘free cooling’ has been used more and more in recent years in relation to data centre cooling. However, on the basis that there is no such thing as a free lunch, we suspect there’s no such thing as FREE cooling either. In this blog, Alan Beresford, Technical and...
There is a new term emerging in the world of cloud computing: 'cloud sprawl’. It is a term being used to describe current conditions in which organisations have multiple cloud environments all in place simultaneously, with each one including multiple instances of virtualisation. The principle of cloud sprawl is based...