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When Deltalis was looking for a location for their new data centre and collocation facility, one of the things at the top of the list was the potential for making the facility as green as possible. What they found was beyond anyone's expectations. The new Deltalis RadixCloud ended up occupying...
The world's largest search engine is at the forefront of the latest datacentre news thanks their announcement of a new facility planned for the United States. Currently the company operates eight different data centres in the U.S., Chile, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and Belgium. The new facility will be located...
ZD Net contributing author Dan Kusnetzky recently wrote a very compelling piece talking about virtualization and how it relates to fault tolerance in the cloud computing and colocation environments. The main thrust of his piece was the assertion that the need for affordable fault tolerance is driving the next generation...
Even as the UK government is pressing hard to advance cloud computing, data centres and collocation throughout the Kingdom, they are simultaneously making things more difficult through more restrictive green regulation. Data centre owners and operators are crumbling under the weight of carbon emission restrictions, rising energy costs, and an...
Any organisation involved in the financial sector needs reliable data communications, infrastructure, and so on. It should be no surprise then that London Capital Group, one of the UK's biggest spread betting companies, has teamed up with Exponential-e to come up with a Virtual Private LAN capable of providing London...
Two of Europe's regional IT companies have entered into a strategic marketing alliance in an effort to boost the capabilities of both and reach more clients. Global data centre company Equinix, Inc. has reached a deal with Capita IT Services, a provider of managed IT services in Europe. The two...
The UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD) is now officially part of the cloud after signing a deal with Skyscape Cloud Services Limited to host their GEMS online system. The GEMS scheme is a tool whereby MoD and Armed Forces personnel will be able to make suggestions on improving the Ministry...
One of the most exciting things in recent datacentre news comes by way of the October 31, 2012 announcement that the EU’s BonFIRE infrastructure would be opened up November 1 with free access for the next 12 months. The announcement means organisations can access BonFIRE's six European cloud sites for...
Virtus Data Centres opened a state-of-the-art data centre in London back in March 2011. That facility originally offered more than 8,600 ft.² of technical space for customers. At the same time Virtus was also planning two future expansions to the Enfield Centre. The completion of the first of those expansions...
What is the worst nightmare for IT services when deploying new versions of software? A system crash. That's why operators of datacentres of all sizes are constantly creating backups that take up valuable storage space on the rack. Even worse, if datacentre technicians forget to do backups immediately before a...
American datacentre and collocation provider CoreSite has reached an agreement with Germany's DE-CIX Internet exchange to provide direct access to the DE-CIX peer exchange from U.S. sites. In doing so CoreSite opens a greater European access to its American clients through peer connections with other DE-CIX partners. Earlier this year...
The UK's National Health Service (NHS) recently announced the awarding of several contracts to Sudlows for the expansion of a datacentre facility used by the Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust. Lancashire Care, as part of the UK health system, provides health services for approximately 1.5 million people. The expansion of...