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Last year officials in Spain were delighted to learn their country had been taken off the U.S. watch list of nations that do not do enough to fight online piracy. However, the elation might be short-lived. Spain has received word that they stand a real chance of being put back...
Probably the most significant design discussion point when considering a modular data centre is cooling. Most current solutions typically utilise fresh air cooling technology, which mostly achieve the level of efficiency owners and operators are looking for. However, as well as introducing a number of fundamental design considerations they can...
Every year the Uptime Institute honours individual technology organisations for their creative ideas through the Green Enterprise IT Awards. This year's winner, TeraCool, has proposed a way of powering Europe's data centres at virtually no cost. If the company is successful in convincing others, it could change the landscape of...
At the flip of a switch, the final piece of the London Array construction phase was recently completed; with little fanfare, we might add. Yet the importance of the event is not lost on proponents of renewable energy. The fact that this milestone has been reached at all is fairly...
The results of a recent survey conducted by Enlogic which highlight that human error is still the biggest cause of downtime in the data centre, came as no surprise. This isn’t the first such result and certainly won’t be the last. For too long now, the industry has turned a...
As March rolled in April, the news media was awash in stories about what was being billed as the "biggest cyber-attack in history." CNN, the New York Times, and a host of other news outlets were warning computer users around the world that a prolonged Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)...
Passengers aboard Indian Railways' Howrah Rajdhani Express (HRE) are already used to amenities, like air conditioning, not available on other trains. Shortly they will have access to another amenity by way of free Wi-Fi Internet. According to an announcement from Railways Minister Pawan Kumar, the country's busy New Delhi train...
Using super high-speed Internet could become noticeably faster if recent research being conducted at the University of Southampton in England translates into real-life application. Researchers recently announced that they have found a way to increase data speeds over optical fibre cables while minimising bandwidth and data loss issues. The standard...
In Hong Kong, it appears as though they are preparing to take their data centres underground. It has nothing to do with China by the way, nor is it an effort to achieve any sinister plans in one of the Orient's most technologically advanced cities. Rather, moving data centres to...
Residents and business in Hampshire, England have plenty to be pleased about now that BT has signed a deal securing an additional £13.8 million of combined funding from the Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) and other sources; funding that will all but guarantee almost everyone has access to super-fast fibre broadband....
In the world of datacentre news, there are many interesting developments being reported on every day. Some stand out more than others do, as is the case with some recent announcements coming out of Sweden's Bahnhof. As a cutting-edge ISP company, Bahnhof's claim to fame is coming up with extraordinary...
When it comes to fighting cybercrime, the UK government has proven that it's very good at one thing: launching new initiatives to try to combat the problem effectively. The latest initiative comes by way of a government/academic partnership designed to bring together various experts who will collaborate to fight cybercrime....