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RSS datacentreDatacentre failure caused Barclays payday outage
News The five hours of system downtime - which coincided with many customers' monthly pay-day - were caused by a hardware failure at the company's Gloucester datacentre, according to a spokeswoman. A datacentre in Wythenshawe, Greater Manchester, serves... [01 Mar 1999]
Datacentre war hots up as KPNQwest opens in Munich
News KPNQwest has joined the datacentre battle, opening its first facility in Munich this week, with 18 more planned around the world. The news comes just one week after Exodus Communications opened its own rival datacentre in Frankfurt as part of a... [01 Aug 2000]
Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processor 5100 Series Makes Energy-Efficient Datacentre a Reality
White Paper However, as an ISP, Host Europe spends significant sums of money on energy supply and datacentre space. To keep pace with its growth, Host Europe needed to significantly increase the capacity and power of its server infrastructure housed in its... [25 Apr 2007]
Relocating the Datacentre Pays Off for Zurich Financial Services
White Paper The datacentre was located on the top floor of an eight-storey, curtain style building. Zurich Australia, owned by the Swiss-based worldwide Zurich Group, offers a wide range of investment and risk management products to corporate, commercial and... [03 Jul 2008]
ICL provides datacentre services to Vodafone
News ICL has signed an £11m contract with Vodafone to provide datacentre services in the UK. The system - based on a Trimetra enterprise server - was installed in only three weeks and will be used for processing data associated with call records... [07 Jul 1999]
Reckitt Benckiser Cleans Up With Dell's Datacentre Solution
White Paper The company has implemented a Dell/EMC CX600 Storage Area Network (SAN) that extracts data from a number of geographically diverse sources, relaying it to a newly established datacentre in Holland. Following a major corporate merger, Reckitt... [25 Aug 2004]
Trouble-Free Datacentre Relocation at CGE&Y UK
White Paper CGE&Y UK decided early on in the planning process that selecting a partner to take on the physical relocation of the kit would provide focus, continuity and synergy. HP was selected from a shortlist of three hardware move specialists as the... [21 May 2004]
Redbus ploughs on with datacentre opening
News Redbus will next week open the doors to its London III facility despite the depressed state of the web hosting market. The new building has capabilities that are four times more powerful than the facilities already operational. [15 Nov 2001]
Case Study - Datacentre Consolidation at Ernst and Young
White Paper Ernst & Young AG is one of Germany's leading certified accounting companies, and is part of Ernst & Young Global operations. The company decided to embark upon a radical act: IT decided to bring the IT servers of its national data centres in... [10 Aug 2006]
HP Business Continuity Services Swing Into Action to Avert Datacentre Disaster
White Paper Data is critical to most companies but it is the vital life-blood of dunnhumby, a specialised provider of database management and analytical services to a range of high-profile clients. To support the need for total reliability, the company has a... [25 Aug 2006]
Atos picks up KPN Datacenter for E163m
News Dutch telco Royal KPN has agreed to sell its datacentre unit to Atos Origin for E163m. Atos Origin, an information technology service provider, has secured a long-term E163m (£100m) deal with Royal KPN, to outsource its datacentre unit. [27 Jul 2001]
Police road camera network targets criminals
News The updated ANPR strategy calls for the development of a national infrastructure of ANPR-enabled cameras and readers, and a national datacentre to analyse intelligence from ANPR readers. The datacentre will collect all the readings for crime... [23 Mar 2005]
New Windows release 'will boost Itanium'
News The main ones are Datacentre, for top-end machines with dozens of processors and high reliability requirements; Enterprise Server, for more mainstream multiprocessor servers; Standard Server, for low-end servers; and a new Web Server for low-end... [31 Mar 2003]
KVM: An essential component for physical security in the data centre
White Paper This white paper describes how you can greatly increase physical security in the datacentre by enabling full remote access to securely located servers, comprehensive user authentication, user tracking, and immediate problem alerts. [13 Jul 2005]
Server Efficiency: Make The Case
White Paper Here, we present an overview of the key issues facing datacentre managers, examine blade servers and take a look at Microsoft's upcoming Windows Server 2008 release. Welcome to the PDF version of ZDNet's Intel-sponsored Server Efficiency special... [07 Mar 2008]
