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IBM sends $300m to the cloud
News Big Blue is using that money to equip 13 data centres around the world with infrastructure that will let customers access a bevy of cloud-based computer services in the event service disruptions take down their networks. [20 Aug 2008]
IBM floats $360m on cloud data centre
News The facility is a part of IBM's Project Big Green, an initiative aimed at improving energy efficiency within data centres. The company said it will invest nearly $400m in total on two delivery centres, which means up to $40m will be available for a... [04 Aug 2008]
The McCue Interview: Phil Pavitt, CIO, Transport for London
Comment Across the various IT teams and whopping £1bn annual tech budget at TfL there are about 500 direct employees (nearer 1,400 when you add in the outsourced pieces), supporting 14,000 desktop PCs, 14,000 handheld devices, 30-plus data centres and... [29 Jul 2008]
Photos: Broadband in London's Victorian sewers
Photo And Icelandic Telco provider Siminn uses the network to provide a dedicated fibre connection between its two London data centres. Geo recently announced further extension of its fibre network, connecting into a major data centre on London's South... [22 Jul 2008]
Photos: Waging war on the web's bad guys
Photo The centres protect and monitor more than 7,000 devices for 650 customers against everything from viruses to data theft. Symantec has four security operations centres worldwide in India, the UK and the US. [21 Jul 2008]
Quocirca Insight Report: Data Centre Asset Planning -- Regaining control of the data centre
White Paper Inefficent power and space usage in data centres wastes both money and energy -- and it's a universal problem. The report also includes five recommendations based on the belief that only a thorough and rigorous approach to data centre design and... [17 Jul 2008]
Exclusive: Barclays to offshore 1,800 UK tech jobs
News Barclays is to cut 1,800 IT posts in the UK as part of plans to create centrally managed technology "centres of excellence" in key offshore locations around the globe. This will allow Barclays to create around 1,700 new roles offshore in global... [14 Jul 2008]
Aviva strikes $1bn BPO deal
News Over the next three months about 6,000 staff will be transferred from offshore arm Aviva Global Services (AGS) to WNS, which will take over five AGS centres in India and Sri Lanka. Aviva will withdraw from running the centres offshore after... [11 Jul 2008]
Data centre costs top reason for virtualisation
News The survey claims "virtualisation is mainstream and is becoming a standard deployment platform for applications in data centres around Europe", according to Chris Ingle, research director for IDC's European systems group. [08 Jul 2008]
London data centres hit by credit crunch
News London's data centre sector has suffered a downturn, with no corporates taking up space in the capital this year. Businesses chose London for just four per cent of the data centre space taken up across Europe in the first quarter of this year... [04 Jul 2008]
German Red Cross Banks on IBM eServer pSeries as Its Life-Saver
White Paper With different applications running on various platforms in each of its main donation centres, IT expenditure at DRK was relatively high. Working with IBM Life Sciences, they selected Inlog EDGE-BLOOD and EDGE-LAB software and determined that the... [03 Jul 2008]
Google: Server efficiency needs different approach
News Naturally, with at least hundreds of thousands of servers in operation and its data centres placed near power plants to cut electricity costs, Google is trying to get computing-equipment makers more excited about efficiency. [25 Jun 2008]
Travis Perkins builds its tech future
Case Study Clive Carter, IT Infrastructure manager of Travis Perkins, told silicon.com: "We bought Wickes in February 2005 and we needed to look at bringing the two data centres together. Logicalis built and tested two data centres at its base during the... [20 Jun 2008]
UK contact centres up there with world's priciest
News Attrition remains a global problem, with agents being tempted away by the plethora of opportunities in other industries in India and Mexico and centres poaching agents off each in other in the crowded Philippine market. [20 Jun 2008]
Photos: The building of a data centre
Photo As the beating heart of business, data centres store and process the information that keeps UK Plc afloat. Here are the under-floor pipes that carry chilled water around the data centre. Electronically controlled fans only provide the chilled air... [11 Jun 2008]
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