data centres
Cloud Model and Hierarchical Clustering Based Spatial Data Mining Method and Application
White Paper Firstly, according to the weather sampling data from FY-2C images, cluster the brightness values of five wave bands by hierarchical clustering approach based on cloud model, and generate the centres and... [29 Aug 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.08.09
Round-Up The campaign centres around a 22 minute film called 'The Risk! If they created a fictional movie about a USB drive with a lovable, huggable personality, perhaps our personal data would be a little safer... [07 Aug 2009]
Photos: Barclays turns to Hollywood to sell security
Photo The campaign centres around a 22 minute film The Risk! focuses on key security messages, such as how to keep data safe and what types of security issues should be flagged up with Barclays' IT security... [03 Aug 2009]
Managed Hosting in Europe: A Review of the Managed Hosting Market and Suppliers in Europe
White Paper Providers house the infrastructure in central data centres accessed by customers over the internet. The term "Managed Hosting" describes the provision of a ready to use IT stack including hardware and... [01 Aug 2009]
E-mail and Web Security SaaS
White Paper The services are delivered through data centres across three continents (Europe, North America, and Australia), with full redundancy capabilities. The e-mail security suite comprises anti-spam,... [31 Jul 2009]
Where to Next?: How to Harness Your Business Potential and Enhance Your IT Strategy
White Paper Managed hosting in enterprise class data centres is a critical element in business today to underpin eBusiness and ecommerce. Managed hosting can enable business agility in the market place and allow... [31 Jul 2009]
Photos: From Big Bang physics to F1 racing - how analytics is shaping the world's decisions
Photo The four detectors within Cern's particle accelerator - each looking for different particles and energy signatures - have built-in electronics and attached computer centres that analyse and throw away the bulk of the... [27 Jul 2009]
Mobile WiMax won't win race to become 4G king
News We see mobile WiMax [as being] less about mobile broadband and far more about an untethered, ubiquitous DSL alternative, delivering an open IP broadband connection across town centres and things of that nature, rather... [23 Jul 2009]
Data moving to the cloud? Cybercrime will follow
News Looking ahead five years, "I'm thinking the attack is going to be on cloud computing centres," said Parrella, chief of the computer hacking and intellectual property unit at the US Attorney's Office. As... [13 Jul 2009]
Large Hadron Collider's grid gets stressed
News The tests, called Scale Testing for the Experiment Programme '09, threw huge amounts of data around the distributed computing project, which uses dedicated optical-fibre networks to distribute data from... [03 Jul 2009]
Why Google's security arm doesn't have a war room
News In traditional network operation centres someone sitting in front of a screen notices a rise in error rates or some other problem, then conducts triage and follows a set workflow procedure for dealing with events,... [02 Jul 2009]
O2 gets into bed with BT wi-fi
News Many of the new Openzone hotspots are in locations such as railway stations, airport lounges, conference centres and motorway service stations, as well as in Caffè Nero and Starbucks coffee shops, and Hilton hotels. [29 Jun 2009]
CIOs: Go large for services
Comment A large-grain service centres on a decision or action the enterprise requires across multiple processes. It has aspects of traditional services in terms of data, processing logic and interfaces. When it... [24 Jun 2009]
BAA on IT offshoring, T5 opening and selling Gatwick
News The cost of maintaining applications this year is expected to be 28 per cent lower than in 2007, thanks to the reduced number of staff needed to look after the applications and through lower wage costs in Logica's offshore delivery... [18 Jun 2009]
'IT is the central nervous system of the company'
Comment We went from 125 or 130 datacentres down to around 75 over the last three years, [and] we have consolidated down to a couple of enterprise datacentres, so our enterprise applications are now consolidated into two centres. [26 May 2009]