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Vocus has been left red-faced after a video showing a broken front door at one of its data centres went viral on Twitter Twitter user Liam Farr has embarrassed Oceanic data infrastructure firm Vocus after a video he posted on Twitter showed the security gate and front door at one of its NZ data centres could… Read More
Vertiv has released its top five data centre trends for 2019, and unsurprisingly it predicts edge computing to have the biggest impact Data centre solution provider Vertiv has shared its top five trends for the year ahead, predicting the edge of the network to be the epicentre of innovation in the data centre space. Vertiv experts… Read More
We are at the beginning of a long and exciting journey, where robotics can complement humans to improve data centre operations, says Giuseppe Leto, Global Data Centre Portfolio Manager at Siemens For everyone involved in data centres, the evolution of robotics is of great interest. It is a topic that is getting relevant visibility in all kinds of… Read More
Amazon is coming for those unable or unwilling to shelve on-premise infrastructure by bringing AWS hardware and services to the data centre Amazon Web Services’ encroachment into enterprise IT went one step further yesterday with the cloud giant announcing the hardware it uses to power its own cloud is available to purchase. Unveiled at re:Invent… Read More
Criminal group’s methbot scheme rented more than 1,900 computer servers hosted in Dallas data centres to load ads on fabricated websites A major fraud operation which caused businesses millions of dollars in losses from falsified ad revenue has been dismantled by US authorities. Two global cybercrime rings were uncovered resulting in the indictment of eight men on… Read More
AWS has launched EC2 cloud instances powered by its new ARM-based AWS Graviton processor At AWS re:Invent on Monday night, it was a new processor announcement that drew the loudest cheers from the Las Vegas crowd. In his opening keynote, AWS VP Peter DeSantis announced that Amazon has designed 64-bit ARM server processors in-house. The energy-efficient… Read More
As 2018 comes to a close, all indicators suggest it will be another record-breaking year for the major cloud providers According to new Q3 data from Nevada-based Synergy Research Group, the capital expenditure of the hyperscale operators topped $26 million last quarter, maintaining the level recorded in Q2. This means hyperscale capital expenditure for the first three… Read More
Any organisation facing constrained budgets and resources, while trying to deliver a hybrid cloud service offering, should now be looking at data centre automation. It’s not “whether to adopt it”, but “how far to take it” If you want a taste of what network automation can achieve, take a look at the data centres powering… Read More
British Airways is taking property specialist CBRE to court over last year’s data centre failure which cost the airline almost £60 million The outage plunged Gatwick and Heathrow’s busy bank holiday schedule into chaos when 672 flights had to be cancelled leaving thousands of passengers stranded. According to the Mail on Sunday, BA is suing CBRE in London’s High… Read More
HPE has announced that InfoSight – its cloud-based AI management tool – is being extended to HPE ProLiant Servers, Synergy compute modules, and Apollo systems How to manage an increasingly complex hybrid environment? Well, like most other IT challenges, a combination of sensors and AI analytics is proving capable of handling the challenge, as HPE… Read More
Chi Sen Gay, head of data centre software solutions, APJ & EMEA, at Schneider Electric argues a cloud-based management system is required to manage today’s complex and distributed IT ecosystems With the exponential growth of data, the rise of IoT and the increasing adoption of cloud applications, the data centre industry is experiencing tremendous disruption. We… Read More
Towns in Ireland are scrambling to compete for a slice of the data centre pie, viewing centres as a quick route to transforming the economic fortunes of their areas The latest proposition is an eye-watering €400m, 51-hectare, 90mw, site in Clare, presented to councillors this week, one year after the council earmarked Clare’s potential as a… Read More