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TelecityGroup becomes first data centre provider to achieve Carbon Trust Standard

30 Jul 2010

• Delivers improvement in carbon efficiency
• Environmental leadership further highlighted through ISO 14001 certification

TeleCityGroup has been awarded the Carbon Trust Standard across their operations in the UK and achieved ISO 14001 certification for environmental management, highlighting its commitment to maximising the energy efficiency of its operations.

End-to-end FCoE solution with VMware

29 Jul 2010

As part of their ongoing collaboration, Cisco, NetApp and VMware have announced the industry's first certified end-to-end Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) solution for VMware-virtual environments.

Cardiff University expands deployment of Brocade

29 Jul 2010

University has spent £5 million on Brocade technology since 2003, deploying Brocade BigIron, FastIron and NetIron platforms to deliver a high-performance campus-wide solution.

Platform Computing survey: Private clouds high on IT execs agenda in 2010

29 Jul 2010

Increased awareness of private cloud benefits influence drivers for adoption

Demand for private clouds remains undiminished in 2010, with 28% of organisations planning a deployment in 2010, according to the third annual benchmark survey of delegates by Platform Computing at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC'10) in June. While the level of intent to deploy is the same as in 2009 (also 28%), the main drivers have changed dramatically, reflecting improved awareness and understanding of the benefits of private clouds. As the leader in cluster, grid and cloud management software, Platform Computing has been tracking adoption of private clouds and the drivers for uptake.

Datamatics opts for Ingres Worldwide

29 Jul 2010

Datamatics Leverages Open Source Technology and Ingres Database to Expand Business Support Systems (BSS) Portfolio and Underpin Core Business

Ingres Corporation announced today that it has agreed to a strategic worldwide partnership with Datamatics Global Technologies GmbH, a globally active provider of innovative and sound technologies and business IT solutions. In preparation of leveraging the powerful Ingres VectorWise technology, Datamatics will expand its BSS portfolio and migrate its core applications to Ingres Database.

Mimecast Launches Support for Microsoft Exchange 2010, Easing Migration Concerns for Administrators

29 Jul 2010

Innovations include greater policy control, load reduction on Microsoft Exchange and automated message management controls

Mimecast today announced support for Microsoft Exchange 2010, easing migration headaches and controlling costs while unlocking the immediate benefits of Microsoft’s newest 64-bit architecture. Avoiding expensive on-premise management overheads and removing the need for .PST files, Mimecast’s Unified Email Management (UEM) suite of services now fully supports Microsoft Exchange 2010 and provides a single-platform approach to archiving, security, continuity and policy control; integrating seamlessly into customers’ existing – or newly planned – IT infrastructures.

Equinix opens new Washington DC data centre and expands in Singapore

29 Jul 2010

Sixth D.C. Area Data Centre Will Help Meet Global Demand for Peering and Traffic Exchange Services, and the Expansion of Cloud and IT Provider Services

Equinix has announced the opening of DC6, its sixth International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. The new IBX data centre offers 1,750 cabinets to the telecommunications, enterprise, cloud and IT, and content companies that are either headquartered or have a significant presence in the area. Adding the DC6 IBX data centre to the existing campus of data centres will enable Equinix to strengthen its peering, cross connect and traffic exchange services, and help its customers extend their market reach.

Trusteer Adds Free Financial Malware Removal to Rapport Secure Browsing Service

28 Jul 2010

New Capability Addresses Low Detection Rates by Anti Malware Tools; No Additional Cost for Customers and End Users

Trusteer today announced that it has added financial malware disinfection to its Rapport service. In addition to preventing Trojans like Zeus, Silon, Bugat, DBJP and zero day malware from tampering with website communications and transactions, Rapport now removes malicious code that attempts to attack browser sessions. This new capability is being provided at no additional cost to all Rapport customers and end users. Trusteer will also submit any new (zero day) malware it discovers to all anti malware vendors in an effort improve notoriously low detection rates for crime ware.

Telstra International selected by Aspire Media Group for managed virtualised hosting

28 Jul 2010

Telstra International has been selected by Aspire Media Group, the online recruitment solution provider, which includes the world’s first internet recruitment service, JobServe and web development company HotLizard, to manage its hosting infrastructure at its state-of-the-art London Hosting Centre.

BlueSquare Data signs £2million contract with C4L to provide co-location services

28 Jul 2010

BlueSquare Data has signed a £2million contract with C4L, a major data centre aggregator and internet backbone provider, to supply interconnected co-location services across the company’s Maidenhead and Milton Keynes sites. The deal, which comprises more than 100 racks over the two locations, allows C4L to take advantage of the dark fibre between the two sites to offer disaster recovery services to its customers.

RF Code and Future Facilities integrate monitoring and modelling

27 Jul 2010

RF Code and Future Facilities have integrated RF Code's wire-free environmental sensor-based monitoring solution into the Future Facilities "Virtual Facility" data center modeling environment. Available in July upon the release of 6SigmaDC V6, the integrated solution will be the first to combine real-time monitoring and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation tools.

Saginaw school learns about virtualization

27 Jul 2010

Saginaw Intermediate School District (ISD) has replaced a legacy storage area network (SAN) and fully embraced virtualization in its centralized data center built on DataCore, VMware and Xiotech. Saginaw ISD’s VMware- DataCore-based cloud for servers and storage serves as both a centralized data center and a hosting service for the majority of school districts in the county.

Redstor data protection service RBUSS reaches over half of UK Schools

27 Jul 2010

Continued Success for Reading based Cloud Services Provider within Education Services Market

Redstor has revealed that over half of all UK Schools have access to RBUSS, a fully automated, online backup and recovery service which simplifies the management of backups.

Entity FX Accelerates Visual Effects Workflow with Isilon

27 Jul 2010

Emmy-Winning Studio Uses Isilon Scale-Out Storage to Manage Data in Fast, Reliable 2D and 3D Post-Production Pipeline

Isilon today announced that Entity FX is using Isilon scale-out storage to enhance and speed content management for its 2D and 3D post-production pipeline, producing visual effects (VFX) for television programs such as Breaking Bad, Entourage, The Vampire Diaries and Smallville, as well as motion pictures including This Is It, Law Abiding Citizen and The Final Destination: 3D, and upcoming films including Yogi Bear and Conviction. Using Isilon, Entity FX has unified its data-intensive VFX applications onto a single file system, increasing data access and productivity for its range of projects. With Isilon scale-out storage, Entity FX can easily scale and manage storage resources and requirements in-line with application demands, while expanding bandwidth to accommodate new business.

Nexans completes Creekside Cancer Care project

26 Jul 2010

Nexans provided Cat 7A cabling to support CyberKnife system

Nexans has completed a project providing infrastructure cabling for the Creekside Cancer Care Outpatient Centre in Lafayette, Colorado. The centre is home to CyberKnife VSI, a new version of the CyberKnife, the world’s only robotic radiosurgery system which offers patients a non-invasive alternative to surgery for the treatment of tumours anywhere in the body.

Vizioncore Launches First Free Management Pack for VMware to Extend Microsoft System Centre Operations Manager

26 Jul 2010

Centralised Monitoring Solution Fills Gap Between the Major Players in Virtualisation

Vizioncore Inc. today announced the release of Quest® Management Pack for VMware, the first free management pack on the market to extend Microsoft System Centre Operations Manager to monitor VMware virtual infrastructure. The solution offers free community support with paid product support as an option.

Lupus alpha optimises performance with Interxion

23 Jul 2010

Frankfurt-based asset management firm optimises its mission-critical IT applications at Interxion.

IBM expands Cloud Computing capabilities

23 Jul 2010

IBM has announced a new IBM Cloud Computing Competence Center in Ehningen, Germany, which will provide a broad range of cloud solutions and services to clients locally and internationally. Located in Ehningen, Germany, home to IBM's largest data center in Europe, the new facility will host a range of technology platforms and optimized service delivery processes, enabling its clients to harness the immense potential offered by cloud computing.

IBM unveils zEnterprise system

23 Jul 2010

IBM has announced the zEnterprise mainframe server and a new systems design that allows workloads on mainframe, POWER7 and System x servers to share resources and be managed as a single, virtualized system. The new mainframe is also the most powerful and energy-efficient mainframe ever.

A ClearPath into the Cloud?

23 Jul 2010

Unisys-hosted solutions give ClearPath clients new, cost-efficient options to source IT infrastructure for application development and modernization.

DPS and Geist Forge New Partnership

23 Jul 2010

Data and Power Solutions, a leading manufacturer of power distribution and environmental monitoring solutions, has announced a new partnership with US firm Geist Manufacturing.

DataCentre Expo’s Visitor Marketing reaches over 1 million internationally

23 Jul 2010

DataCentre Expo’s visitor marketing plan is extremely high-profile, with a ‘global reach’ of over 1 million recipients.

Email broadcasts, off-the-page advertisements, online advertising and press coverage will really take off throughout July and August. The marketing campaign has already produced impressive results with appearances in: IT Mittelstand, eWeek and Network Computing, DV Dialogue, Manage IT and of course TheDataChain.

Cloud Computing confidence expected to drive economic growth

22 Jul 2010

The flexibility of cloud computing could help organizations recover from the current global economic downturn, according to 68 percent of IT and businesses decision makers who participated in an annual study commissioned by Savvis.

Cloud computing delivering on its promise but doubts still hold back adoption

22 Jul 2010

The majority of IT departments now use cloud-based applications, with users reporting better security and lower costs.

Colt offers low latency connectivity to NYSE Euronext’s SFTI® Access Centres for Colocation Customers

21 Jul 2010

Helping connect customers to NYSE Euronext’s new European Liquidity Centre

Colt today announced it has been selected by NYSE Technologies to provide customer connectivity to NYSE Euronext’s SFTI® Access Centres via the low latency SFTI® Optic service. Once connected, customers will be provided with low latency access to their colocation racks at the new NYSE Euronext European Liquidity Centre located outside of London.

Station Casinos bets on Cisco

20 Jul 2010

Station Casinos Inc., a large casino and resort operator in Las Vegas, has implemented one of the gaming industry's most sophisticated data center infrastructures using the Cisco Unified Computing System. The network-based infrastructure serves as a platform for virtualizing a number of operations and gaming applications, from mobile Internet Protocol phone and safety systems to account-based sports betting.

CIOs vote for The Cloud

20 Jul 2010

Colt has published the results of a European CIO survey that demonstrates that awareness of cloud services among CIOs and senior IT decision makers has increased by over 20 per cent in just seven months. Over 68 per cent of CIOs and their peers are now saying that they are familiar with cloud technology. The UK has the highest levels of awareness (77%) followed by Germany (75%), France (71%) and Italy (66%). Spain has the lowest levels of familiarity with cloud services, with 58 per cent of CIOs and their peers saying they are familiar with the technology.

Interxion increases power capacity in Germany

20 Jul 2010

With a capacity of 14 megawatts of additional electricity the privately financed energy infrastructure will increase the power availability to Germany's leading data hub, which Interxion has been operating for more than 11 years. The new power supply will not only benefit Interxion, but potentially other key industries in the region.

Dimension Data boosts Global Talent processes with Taleo

20 Jul 2010

Specialist IT services and solutions provider expands use of Taleo on-demand talent management

Taleo Corporation today announced that global IT specialist Dimension Data has selected the company to help employees reach full productivity more quickly by speeding the induction process for new hires.

Atempo Joins the Active Archive Alliance

20 Jul 2010

Industry Association Dedicated to Education and Awareness of Active Archiving

Atempo today announced that it has joined the Active Archive Alliance, a non-profit storage industry association dedicated to market education on the evolving use of active archives for simplified, online access to all unstructured file data.

City of Ettlingen Chooses “Hassle-Free” Virtualised Backup and Restore from Vizioncore

19 Jul 2010

German city deploys vRanger Pro and vReplicator to manage entire virtualised infrastructure; achieves significant cost and efficiency gains

Vizioncore today announced that Ettlingen, a city in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, has chosen Vizioncore vRanger® Pro and Vizioncore vReplicator® to manage backup, restore and server replication of its virtual IT infrastructure. The new technologies will augment disaster recovery initiatives and help simplify administrative complexity for the city.

New hybrid cloud offered to UK Channel

19 Jul 2010

- Independent data centre’s new hybrid cloud platform focuses strongly on security and compliance offerings -

UKSolutions (UKS), one of the countries largest privately owned data centre specialists, today unveiled a new hybrid cloud platform as a wholesale package for the UK Channel. The solution can be divided and used in conjunction with individual and bespoke requirements, importantly providing the security of the private cloud, while also incorporating the flexibility and cost saving ‘pay as you go’ model of the public cloud.

Rosslyn Analytics launches world's first - and fastest - fully automated cloud-based spend data integration service for IT managers

19 Jul 2010

Rosslyn Analytics releases new whitepaper, “A Gift from IT to the Business: Cloud-based spend analytics” Download the whitepaper here.

Rosslyn Analytics today launched the industry’s first fully automated spend data integration service developed specifically to accelerate the speed, ease and scalability in which IT organizations obtain, integrate and deliver spend data across the enterprise. This new cloud-based service, RA.Pid^®, enables CIOs to significantly improve process efficiencies, increase productivity and enhance the business and technology agility of their IT organizations to support the information needs of business users.

Single architecture fo SEDCO's traffic

16 Jul 2010

The Saudi Economic and Development Holding Company (SEDCO), a leading private wealth management organization, has selected Brocade to develop a high performance IP network for its new facility in Red Sea Mall, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Featuring Brocade FastIron Super X and Brocade FastIron GS Series switches, the network allows SEDCO to converge voice and data traffic over a single architecture while providing the scalability to grow with the company’s demands.

Daxten signs Vello

16 Jul 2010

Daxten has announced a distribution agreement covering Europe, Middle East, and African (EMEA) markets, with Vello Systems, a leader in next-generation high performance IP+Optical networking systems for carriers and eEnterprise.

Green Grid's PUE metric is ratified

16 Jul 2010

The Power Usage Efficiency (PUE) metric, created and promoted by The Green Grid, has been established by a cross-industry task force as the recommended metric for determining energy efficiency in dedicated data centre facilities.

CentraStage Achieves Record Quarter

16 Jul 2010

- UK based device management and support software provider challenges market leaders -

CentraStage, a leading IT device management and support software provider, has announced a record breaking quarter for 2010. 32 Local Authorities across the UK now support IT in schools with CentraStage, allowing LAs to reduce the cost of IT support to schools and improve efficiency by over 20%.

HP Secures Applications Services Contract with 3M

15 Jul 2010

HP Enterprise Services today announced that 3M, which produces thousands of innovative products for dozens of diverse markets, has signed a multimillion dollar, three-year applications services agreement to help improve productivity, enabling the company to get innovative products into the market more quickly.

Deutsche Börse Systems selects Equinix as strategic data centre provider in Frankfurt

15 Jul 2010

Eurex and Xetra customers to benefit from enhanced capacity and further reduced latency

Deutsche Börse Systems, the IT division of Deutsche Börse Group, and Equinix, Inc., (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data centre services, today announced the completion of a strategic data centre services contract, which will both increase data centre capacity and improve execution times for algorithmic traders located in Frankfurt. From 2011 onwards, Equinix’s FR2 International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre, will serve as the new main data centre for Deutsche Börse Group in Frankfurt, where electronic trading platforms will be deployed, and acting as the central colocation site for customers of Eurex, the international derivatives exchange, and Xetra, the cash market within Deutsche Börse Group.

PGS Data Centre achieves annualised PUE of 1.17 to achieve major reductions in energy usage and emmisions

15 Jul 2010

A data centre designed and built by Keysource for oil exploration surveyor Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) has achieved an annualised PUE of just 1.17, making it one of the most energy-efficient facilities of its kind in Europe. As a result, the data centre has achieved first year savings of £650,000 and a 6.7 million KWh drop in power consumption, equating to a 2.9 million kg reduction in CO2 emissions.

ControlCircle Meets Demand for Maximum Availability and Security with Interxion

14 Jul 2010

Interxion today announced that it has partnered with ControlCircle, a global provider of design, implementation and outsourced managed services of complex IT infrastructures. The agreement will permit ControlCircle to deliver enhanced colocation data centre packages to customers where security, infrastructure and availability are critical to their business.

Low latency connectivity

13 Jul 2010

Equinix and Transaction Network Services (TNS) say that TNS’ Secure Trading Extranet is now offering low-latency connectivity through Equinix’s International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centres in Australia and Singapore.

BATS takes wing with Interxion

13 Jul 2010

Interxion is now offering low-latency access to BATS Europe, the fast-growing European Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF).

Imperva Introduces File Security Family to Help Mitigate Insider Threats

13 Jul 2010

Expands Data Security Suite Beyond Web Applications and Databases to File Systems

Imperva, the leader in data security, announced today the introduction of a new family of File Security products, the latest addition to the company’s SecureSphere Data Security Suite. Imperva’s File Security products include SecureSphere File Firewall, which prevents unauthorized access to unstructured data residing on file servers, network attached storage (NAS). Additionally, SecureSphere File Activity Monitoring (FAM) allows enterprises to monitor access to sensitive file data, establish audit for compliance and reduce data access rights to a business need-to-know level. With this product expansion, Imperva’s data security suite helps enterprises protect not only web applications and databases but file systems as well.

NightWatchman Server Edition 2.0 Targets Waste in Physical and Virtual Server Environments

12 Jul 2010

Version Two of 1E’s Innovative Solution Combats Server Sprawl by Measuring and Reporting Server Efficiency, Maximizing the Value of Existing Servers

1E, a software and services company that improves IT efficiency by identifying and reducing costs and waste in hardware, software, energy and time, today announced its release of NightWatchman® Server Edition 2.0. 1E was recently selected by Microsoft as ISV/Software Solutions Innovation Partner of the Year for NightWatchman Server Edition, which also received the “Minister of Energy” award at the 2010 Green IT Awards.

Vizioncore reduces Virtual Storage Cost and improves Virtual Machine performance

12 Jul 2010

New Version of vOptimizer Pro Extends Platform Support to Include Linux-Based and VMware Thin Provisioned Virtual Machines

Vizioncore Inc., the market leader in virtualisation data protection and management solutions, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Quest Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: QSFT), today announced the availability of a new version of vOptimizer Pro. This market-leading storage optimisation solution provides broader platform support for virtual machine (VM) storage reclamation and optimisation operations, which enable customers to experience greater benefits and additional value from their virtual infrastructure. Additional enhancements include support for both Linux-based and VMware® Thin Provisioned VMs.

AEG Power Solutions Appoints Mayflex to champion UPS Channel Sales

12 Jul 2010

AEG Power Solutions has announced the appointment of Mayflex UK Ltd. as distribution partner for its growing range of technology leading, energy efficient back-up power and UPS solutions. Mayflex is a well-known distributor of cabling infrastructure, networking and physical security products with operations in the UK and EMEA. Commenting upon the agreement, Stuart Priest, UK Channel Manager for AEG Power Solutions said, “Mayflex is an ideal fit for AEG Power Solutions channel strategy. As a dynamic and growth oriented organisation, Mayflex combines UPS knowledge with the opportunity to add-value through mass-cabling solutions.”

Carbon Trust halves data centre emissions, by design

12 Jul 2010

Low carbon design of Lockerbie ‘Data Fortress’ paves way for new Carbon Trust Design Service

The rise in carbon emissions threatened by the projected exponential growth of data centres could be halved in the UK, thanks to a new design service launched by the Carbon Trust today.

Colt launches innovative approach to Data Centres

12 Jul 2010

Colt delivers high quality, large-scale Modular Data Centre halls within 4 months.

Colt, a leading provider of business communications and IT managed services, today announced the launch of the Colt Modular Data Centre, a radical new approach to data centres which redefines the method of construction and delivery of large data centre halls.

SourceFire offers Cloud-based Security through Amazon Web Services

12 Jul 2010

Open Source Snort with Sourcefire VRT Rules Protects Cloud Deployments from the Latest Threats

Sourcefire, Inc. (Nasdaq:FIRE), the creator of Snort® and a leader in intelligent cybersecurity solutions, today announced that it is delivering cloud-based Intrusion Prevention services, based on its award-winning open source Snort technology. Snort and Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team (VRT) rules are now available through the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) in the form of an Amazon Machine Image (AMI), enabling customers to proactively monitor network activity for malicious behavior and provide automated responses.

Tuning up Cloud provisioning

09 Jul 2010

In a move focused on enabling customers to build and deploy cloud-like IT platforms faster and more easily than ever before, Fujitsu is introducing the powerful system management software ServerView Resource Orchestrator. The technology is an integral part of Fujitsu’s standardised global cloud platform, announced in April.

Driving green networking

09 Jul 2010

ADVA Optical Networking has been selected to participate in a research project focused on the development of a new generation of photonic components that will reduce power consumption and reduce costs. Named "Colorless and Coolerless Components for Low-Power Optical Networks" (C-3PO), the grant-based project is focused on increasing communications network capacity for the next generation of optical-networking applications.

Interxion Recognised for ‘Outstanding Contribution’ to the Data Centre Sector at Data Centre Europe

08 Jul 2010

Interxion has announced that its Technology & Engineering Group, has been recognised for their “Outstanding Contribution to the Data Centre Sector” at the sixth-annual Data Centre Europe Awards ceremony held at Espaces Antipolis in Nice, France.

TelecityGroup’s innovative Paris facility wins Data Centre Europe Award

08 Jul 2010

Industry leading data centre awarded ‘Best Colocation Facility’ for unrivalled customer satisfaction

TelecityGroup, Europe's industry leading provider of premium network independent data centres, has been awarded ‘Best European Colocation Facility’ for its new Condorcet centre in Paris at the 2010 Data Centre Europe Awards.

Isilon chosen by NavTeq to scale out file-based applications

08 Jul 2010

Global Leader in Maps, Traffic and Location Data Deploys Isilon Scale-out Storage to Help Drive Increased Data Availability and Workflow Efficiency

Isilon today announced that NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of maps, traffic and location data, has deployed multiple tiers of Isilon scale-out storage to help support its comprehensive database of digital location content. Working with leading data center solutions provider and Isilon partner Datalink, NAVTEQ has deployed the Isilon IQ X-Series and NL-Series across multiple international data centers to aggregate content, software development and other file-based applications onto a single, shared storage resource, increasing data availability and workflow productivity. Using Isilon scale-out storage, featuring its OneFS® operating system, NAVTEQ can support a wide range of applications simultaneously from a single file system, simplifying management and improving data access, while reducing storage costs and complexity.

EMC to acquire data warehouse vendor Greenplum

07 Jul 2010

EMC will continue to offer all current Greenplum products

EMC has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Greenplum Inc., a provider of data warehousing software that is used to build large cloud computing infrastrutures.

Isilon helps Central and Eastern Europe's largest broadcast over satellite provider meet growing demand

07 Jul 2010

STN gains rock-solid reliability and a huge boost in performance while helping the company reduce number of staff assigned to managing storage by 40%.

Isilon today announced that STN, a leading teleport service provider delivering broadcasts over satellite for Central and Eastern Europe, has successfully implemented an Isilon scale-out Storage platform for its existing environment and to help migrate clients onto its new playout system and meet strong demand for its innovative services.

Taiyo Life Insurance reduces carbon footprint

06 Jul 2010

Fujitsu Limited, Taiyo Life Insurance Co., and T&D Information System Inc. have collaborated to upgrade and enhance the platform servers installed at 146 of Taiyo Life's branch offices supporting their core business across Japan. Through using its newest ICT virtualization technology, Fujitsu has successfully helped Taiyo Life to cut its annual CO2 emissions by roughly 150 tons, and reducing costs by approximately 500 million yen.

Third IBX data centre for Sydney

06 Jul 2010

Equinix has announced plans to build its third International Business Exchange™ (IBX) in Sydney, Australia. The new IBX data center, called SY3, will significantly increase the company’s Sydney capacity to meet the high demand for premium colocation and interconnection data center services in the Sydney market. The $65 million first phase of the SY3 IBX data center will add 1,000 cabinets and is targeted for opening during the second quarter of 2011.

On-campus private cloud for JAIST

06 Jul 2010

Service launched for 1,500 students, faculty, and administrators with goal of 90% server capacity utilization.

Sentrum warns UK businesses not to ignore space for power

06 Jul 2010

Sentrum has released new research findings which show that space and power issues currently top the data centre agenda. Despite these being the key business concerns that are continuing to drive companies to outsource data centre requirements, Sentrum warns that the over emphasis on power in particular could limits future business agility and growth in this sector - and that space, in fact, should become the priority consideration.

September Roadmap seminar

05 Jul 2010

No-cost, one-day seminar in Interxion’s AMS 5 Amsterdam data centre; Practical focus on mapping out and testing medium-term energy efficiency strategies.

Architectural flexibility for virtualisation and The Cloud

02 Jul 2010

Cisco has introduced new technology that supports its Data Center 3.0 strategy to help customers increase the flexibility of their data centers as they become more virtualized and cloud-based. The new technology advances Cisco's underlying unified fabric capabilities that help customers enhance the efficiency of information delivery in physical and virtualized data center environments, and manage public and private cloud resources more effectively.

Green data centre model for Malaysia

02 Jul 2010

Cisco is working toward a green data center with Teliti Datacenters (Teliti), a locally owned systems integrator, in Malaysia. Under this collaboration, Cisco will share data center best practices and work with Teliti as it develops a business model for data center management and a governance structure that enables Teliti to achieve world-class standards for data centre infrastructure technology in Malaysia.

Emerson partners with Panduit

01 Jul 2010

Emerson Network Power is partnering with Panduit to meet the rising demand for effective enterprise system integration and risk management in the data center.