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ABN Amro, Barclays: Data centres on savings hit-list
News The merger between banks ABN Amro and Barclays will see the consolidation of both companies' data centres and IT networks to realise cost savings of €1.65bn by 2010. The goal is a universal banking model that includes the use of best practice... [23 Apr 2007]
Data centres struggle to keep their cool
News New research from ARI found 38 per cent of data centres are already running at dangerous levels of power consumption, meaning they are at risk of failing due to a power shortfall. According to analyst house Gartner, 50 per cent of data centres will... [12 Apr 2007]
Data centres fuelling climate change?
News The intensive power requirements needed to run and cool data centres now account for almost a quarter of global CO2 emissions from information and communications technology, according to analyst Gartner. [12 Oct 2007]
BT data centres "50 per cent full"
News Andy Green, Ignite's chief executive, admitted the data centres are only half full and hinted that some of the locations will be closed down. Speaking to the Independent on Sunday, Green said: "Vacancy rates at the centres are around the 50 per... [24 Jun 2002]
Government: Extranet VPN for Cheque Distribution to Regional Data Centres
White Paper A Threat/Risk Assessment conducted by the client concluded that under the proposed new laser print system, a serious threat to data integrity existed if the existing security check was employed during the transmission of data from the centre to... [24 Feb 2004]
IBM turning green over data centres
News IBM is launching an initiative to give its corporate customers a way to measure and potentially monetise energy-efficiency measures in their data centres using an emerging form of currency. The computing giant has detailed a programme - starting in... [02 Nov 2007]
Energy crisis looming for UK data centres
News A crisis is looming in the UK's data centres around the most fundamental of requirements: the need for power, according to a study published by BroadGroup consultants. A big part of the problem is the need to cool data centres and IT departments. [26 Oct 2006]
Power shortages squeeze London's data centres
News Power supply issues and soaring lease costs in London are being blamed for forcing companies to look outside the M25 when building new data centres. Accenture claims the lack of growth in new data centres, compared to demand in London means the... [27 Feb 2008]
Colt to axe 500, put data centres on ice
News It will now also make savings by mothballing seven data centres. Colt Telecom has continued the bad news coming from the UK telecoms sector with an announcement that despite seeing revenue grow 32 per cent last year it will cut 500 jobs. [22 Feb 2002]
WorldCom to increase global data centres
News WorldCom aims to open 13 more International Data Centres (IDCs) in Europe, over the next twelve months. WorldCom are slightly late in announcing their data centres, but this doesn't mean they won't finish them first, as they have a strong pan... [01 Jun 2000]
Power-hungry data centres prey on CIOs' minds
News David Douglas, Sun's vice president of eco-responsibility, said: "There are people out there running out of power in their data centres and thinking about energy but [who] have not yet moved to the next stage - managing power consumption, which is... [11 Oct 2006]
Barclays data centres get green with HP
News Heyworth said all Barclays' data centres will use the cooling technology in the future. Barclays is using cutting-edge cooling technology in its new Gloucester data centre to help reduce the bank's energy bill and carbon footprint. [13 Mar 2008]
IBM tools to curb data centres' power-hungry appetite?
News The products, announced at an IBM business-partner conference in Los Angeles, are designed to measure power consumption and reduction across energy-hungry computer data centres that run corporate networks and websites. [01 May 2008]
Why you should be outsourcing your data centres
Comment Multinationals have led the way in outsourcing their data centres to specialised third parties. Building impregnable data centres places severe strain on limited resources. Deutsche Bank got around the problem in 2004 by deciding that only... [04 Feb 2008]
Abbey data centres transferred to EDS
News The contract will see 1,500 Abbey National staff from data centres across the UK move under the control of the EDS managed project. The venture will service Abbey National's existing two million mortgage customers, as well covering plans to expand... [04 May 2001]
