data centre
RSS data centreData centre employs James Bond-style security
News The Internet Data Centre (IDC) opens today in Slough, and has employed a range of technology from humble CCTV systems and infra-red motion detectors right through to high-tech retina scanners. IDC claims its data centre is the most secure in Europe. [19 Jan 2001]
Data centre chiefs under more pressure
News Data centre chiefs are struggling with staff shortages, more work to do and minimal increases in budgets. According to research from Symantec, the biggest challenges for data centre managers are tough internal service-level agreements, continuing... [30 Oct 2007]
Data centre in a box
Comment Sun's new 'data centre in a container' is certainly innovative. Rapidly growing companies that cannot build data centre space fast enough to keep up with demand could use a Project Blackbox solution. So who wants a back-of-a-truck data centre? [18 Jun 2007]
Data centre costs top reason for virtualisation
News Nine out of 10 organisations that have adopted virtualisation technologies have done so to reduce data centre costs, according to research from IDC. The survey claims "virtualisation is mainstream and is becoming a standard deployment platform for... [08 Jul 2008]
Abbey National picks up data centre award
News Abbey National's Life division has won the Compass 1998 award for the fastest rate of improvement in a UK data centre. We assess hard data such as use of resources, efficiency in the manufacturing cycle, the quality of contracts and procurement... [22 Jun 1998]
Video: The greening of the data centre
Video In this video debate, silicon.com editor Tony Hallett is joined by three experts on this subject, Murray Keig who works at the data centre coal face at Qube, Accenture's Steve Nunn, whose remit also covers greener computing, and ZDNet UK... [07 Sep 2007]
IBM pledges $1bn to slash data-centre energy use
News He added there is demand for more data centre capacity but there is a power issue: "Large companies are facing a real crisis around energy. IBM is to invest $1bn per year in developing technology it hopes can double the capacity of its data centres... [10 May 2007]
IBM floats $360m on cloud data centre
News IBM has announced it will spend $360m on a new cloud data centre facility in North Carolina, US, providing another indication that major vendors see cloud computing as the future for mainstream systems. [04 Aug 2008]
Barclays invests £11m in UK data processing centre
News Barclays is to spend approximately £11m on a data processing centre in Leicester, UK. Barclays is also remaining tight-lipped on what the Leicester facility will mean for its other UK data processing sites. [26 Oct 1998]
NHS data centre repairs "almost complete"
News This follows an interruption to the computer services provided by CSC Alliance due to an interruption to the power supply at the data centre where data is stored.silicon.com Public Sector It said the incident was caused by storage area network... [02 Aug 2006]
Reducing Data Centre Costs and Simultaneously Implementing Environmental Policy
White Paper In Q1 this year, analyst IDL to profiled decision makers with responsibility for environmental policy and Data Centre operations to better understand how the need for a more energy-efficient enterprise is affecting UK organisations and their IT... [31 Jul 2008]
Implementing Shibboleth at a UK National Academic Data Centre
White Paper This paper recounts the early experiences of a large academic data centre in implementing support for Shibboleth across its range of services. The UK education sector is embarking upon the adoption of Internet2's Shibboleth software for federated... [11 Apr 2008]
Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS) Chooses the Cisco Business Ready Data Centre Solution
White Paper The banking group Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS) used Cisco's Business Ready Data Centre framework to create a network architecture, which helped reduce operational costs, improve flexibility and enhance business agility. [04 Dec 2007]
Bank admits rising leccy bills on 'green' data centre
News Banking group Citi is on the verge of completing a major sustainable data centre project but has admitted the power requirements of its IT equipment are continuing to rise by 12.5 per cent per year. In a statement announcing the Frankfurt project... [14 Apr 2008]
Photos: Unearthing the zero-carbon data centre
Photo Managed services provider Centrinet has launched what it claims is the UK's first data centre that has zero carbon emissions. The data centre has been built 100 metres underground in a former-RAF radar station. [03 Jul 2007]
