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Photos: Inside a Microsoft datacentre
Photo In its first phase, the ground floor of the facility is designed to hold up to 56 containers, each filled with somewhere between 1,800 to 2,500 servers. Building the facility, however, generated roughly... [04 Nov 2009]
Photos: New BlackBerry Bold-ly goes for European design
Photo The BlackBerry Bold 9700 was unveiled today and has something of a European flavour too - being the first device from RIM entirely designed in its R&D facility in Bochum, Germany. RIM's Bochum facility... [21 Oct 2009]
CIOs waste energy and budget as one in six servers go unused
News He said in a statement: "While we expect server capex to shrink yearly by eight per cent through 2013, following consolidation and the adoption of virtualisation, datacentre expenses are projected to remain around the same levels, as... [19 Oct 2009]
Tax-refund phishing scams hit an all-time high
News The growth in reported phishing scams is likely to be partly down to people following HMRC advice and forwarding the offending emails to the department's online reporting facility, the HMRC spokeswoman said. [16 Oct 2009]
RFID-Integrated Technologies for Infection Control: Background and Technology Comparison on Key Adoption Considerations
White Paper The second part of the paper will outline several different types of RFID solutions for automatic infection control surveillance and help shed some light on things decision makers should consider when selecting a system for their... [14 Oct 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: What is intelligence?
Comment S = Sensor facility Written in a coffee shop on the corner of 1st and 71st Street in New York on bright autumn day. Dispatched to silicon.com via a free wi-fi node. For more than 20 years now I have worked on artificial... [08 Oct 2009]
A Quick Primer on Data Center Tier Classifications
White Paper Their decisions are often based on the appropriate "tier level" of the IT facility. A four-tier system rates a facility's ability to support uninterrupted operation of its data processing activities. At... [06 Oct 2009]
National Ignition Facility & Photon Science Drives Research With Robust Data Infrastructure
White Paper To manage all of this data, as well as the business of constructing and budgeting for the facility, NIF selected Oracle Database 11g with Real Application Clusters. NIF's scientists and engineers use highly powerful... [02 Oct 2009]
Reliability Analysis of the APC InfraStruXure Power System
White Paper This paper summarizes the key findings of MTechnology's quantitative risk assessment and discusses their implications for facility managers and designers. The APC InfraStruXure product line offers an alternative... [01 Oct 2009]
Battery Technology for Data Centers and Network Rooms: Ventilation
White Paper This paper summarizes some of the factors and codes to consider when selecting and sizing a ventilation system for a facility in which stationary batteries are installed. Lead-acid batteries are the most widely used... [01 Oct 2009]
Photos: Inside Big Blue's big green datacentre
Photo Temperatures can easily get over 90 degrees at the back of a rack, while the overall facility is only about 70 degrees. Rather than pile all manner of cabling below the floor, this facility has only... [22 Sep 2009]
Buy or Lease Your Own Data Center?: Think About It
White Paper There is a big difference between running the IT infrastructure of an organization and being the facility manager. Before a company buys the data center, however, it will want to consider some of the factors not often... [19 Sep 2009]
Photos: Medical tech of the future, from robo-pills to cyber-surgeons
Photo Another exhibit - the Bloodbot - was developed by Imperial College London in 2001, and is aimed at allowing people to carry out medical procedures without the need to go to a medical facility. This is the legged camera... [15 Sep 2009]
Datacentres: The temples of IT
Comment Having said that, it is not easy to keep such a large facility secret. Quocirca recently visited MHP Savvis's new datacentre and it is as impressive as any co-location facility. Just one of Equinix's... [08 Sep 2009]
Photos: Restoring one of the world's oldest computers
Photo The machine was developed to automate laborious mathematical calculations at the Harwell facility. Work began this week on restoring what will be the world's oldest working stored-program electronic computer. [04 Sep 2009]
