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smart light bulbs, the next big thing? by Doug Mohney
Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jan 25 2012)
Last year, plug-and-play LED bulbs were all the rage. Pricey compared to CFLs but without the headaches of mercury, LEDs provide a plug and play solution to cut energy usage. But that's not good enough for some manufacturers, who feel the need to throw in networking capabilities to sex-up an already expensive purchase. For example, Fujikom is building a 100-watt replacement bulb with a built-in Z-Wave radio. At $100 per bulb retail, Fujikom enables users to cycle the bulb through colors and adjust brightness via the Z-Wave home automation technology. Z-wave is designed to be a low-power wireless network to integrate all of a home's electronics into a single network. Putting Z-Wave into a light bulb enables the ability to remotely and automatically turn lights on and off. If you forgot to turn off a light, you can "call" home via a smartphone app and switch off the lights. When ...
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Comment Mentions: Doug Mohney
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homes get smart meters, data centers need smart managers - by Peter Judge
Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jan 22 2012)
Is there anything data center managers can learn from the world of domestic energy consumption? Consumer demand and the infrastructure to meet it go hand-in hand, of course. As Doug Mohney found at CES, it is clear that consumer electronics is continuing to develop, and will demand more and faster data. So while data centers get more efficient, the fact that demand is ramping up so quickly may mean overall energy use goes up. Meanwhile, in the home, there’s a similar urgent need to find a balance. Technical improvements are actually reducing the amount of energy used, but the overall trend is going relentlessly up. Last Thursday, Pilgrim Beart, of energy management company AlertMe, gave this year’s Clerk Maxwell lecture in London, at the Institute of Engineering and Technology. Named after the great physicist James Clerk Maxwell (whose eponymous equations unified electricity and magnetism), these lectures tend to be on ...
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Comment Mentions: Doug Mohney Peter Judge
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A speedy echo of the future from the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show - by doug mohney
Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jan 19 2012)
Last week, I was in reporter hell, also known as the 2012 International CES in Las Vegas. The multi-day event with around 140,000 or so of my annual best friends is not easy on the psyche or the feet. But you can spot trends that will roll directly to green data centers in the years to come. Sheer speed is going to be a big one. All the next-generation ultrabooks and tablets and 3D smart OLED TVs have to get downloadable and streaming content from somewhere. Manufacturers are starting to loading up laptops and storage devices with wired 10 Gbps Thunderbolt connections -- better than Ethernet, because it is synchronous -- along with plans to plug in room-based 60 GHz WiGig wireless connections to download full 1080p HD movies and backup tablets in minutes rather than hours. Even stodgy WiFi is getting a refresh with multiple antennas and better silicon ...
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Comment Mentions: Doug Mohney
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Featured Articles
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RagingWire Gains Certifications for Data Centers
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jan 27 2012)
Data center provider RagingWire has announced four certifications awarded to its California data centers: compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, completion of its latest Statement on Standards and Attestation Engagements No. 16 (SSAE 16) audit with zero exceptions for the period between September 1, 2010 and August 31, 2011, Awarded LEED Gold certification by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), and earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR certification, becoming the only 2011 ENERGY STAR certified data center focused on multi-tenant collocation services.
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Comment Mentions: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory SunGard LEED
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CoSentry To Add Second Kansas City Data Center
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jan 27 2012)
CoSentry announced that it will build a new $31.6 million data center in Lenexa, Kansas, a northern part of the greater Kansas City area. Located at 14500 W. 105th Street in Lenexa, the new 57,517 square foot facility will be a little over 30 miles north of its first Kansas City data center located in the southern portion of the city. Construction is expected to begin next month and the project will create more than 60 jobs. The Kansas City Area Development Council, the Kansas Department of Commerce and the Lenexa Chamber and Economic Development Council worked together to bring CoSentry to the Kansas City region.
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Technology Wholesaler Ingram Micro UK Offers ThinkGrid Cloud Services to Resellers
Explore Web Host Industry Review (Jan 26 2012)
Technology products wholesaler Ingram Micro UK announced on Thursday that it will offer ThinkGrid‘s cloud platform and cloud services to its resellers. This comes three months after ThinkGrid announced that venture capital firm Runa Capital made a “significant investment” in its company, but didn’t disclose the specific amount. Ingram Micro says this agreement will support its mission to become the leading aggregator of cloud services to the channel and will expand ThinkGrid’s global reach. Ingram Micro recently launched its Ingram Micro Cloud program to offer channel partners business, sales and technical knowledge for selling and supporting cloud services. This program, combined with its ThinkGrid partnership, both support Ingram Micro’s focus on cloud computing technology.
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Cloud Platform ServiceMesh Gives Customers Access to Fujitsu Global Cloud
Explore Web Host Industry Review (Jan 26 2012)
January 26, 2012 -- Cloud platform provider ServiceMesh announced on Thursday that it now supports Fujitsu's Global Cloud Platform so customers can gain access to Fujitsu's global cloud computing footprint. This announcement comes two months after ServiceMesh completed a $15 million funding round led by Ignition Partners.
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DataDirect Networks Builds Niche in Big Data
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jan 26 2012)
If your company’s entire services are built on cloud storage, how do you accommodate growth in your business and the need to move and store massive volumes of data? That was the challenge facing YouSendIt, Inc., a fast-growing company that offers cloud-based services where users can send files, share folders and sign documents. The company recently investigated storage offerings that chose DataDirect Networks (DDN), which has built a niche handling large volumes of data. DataDirect Networks is the world’s largest privately-held data storage infrastructure provider. Its focus is on the requirements of today’s massive unstructured data generators, such as high performance computing; life science research; Web and cloud content; professional media; homeland security; and intelligence communities.
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UK Colocation Firm LDeX Launches Data Center as a Service
Explore Web Host Industry Review (Jan 26 2012)
London-based colocation provider London Data Exchange announced on Thursday that it has launched what it refers to as a “cloud colocation” service, a product officially named Data Centre as a Service, and designed to support service providers as they deliver cloud services. The company says the product is aimed at cloud and on-demand IT service providers looking to deploy their cloud infrastructure within a third-party data center, offering a relative billing system that translates easily into a service provider’s own pricing model.
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UK Cloud Firm Richardson Eyres Offers NaviSite Cloud Portfolio to Customers
Explore Web Host Industry Review (Jan 26 2012)
Web hosting provider NaviSite announced on Wednesday that IT solutions and services provider Richardson Eyres has added NaviCloud to its portfolio of cloud offerings. According to the press release, this partnership will help Richardson Eyres meet the growing demand for cloud-based managed services in Europe. The UK-wide partnership will cover all of NaviSite’s product range. This announcement follows the recent launch of NaviSite’s cloud node and is the culmination of 12 months of association between NaviSite and Richardson Eyres. Richardson Eyres says it chose NaviSite over other cloud platform providers after a lengthy period of in-depth analysis.
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Intel: Emerging Player in DCIM Ecosystem
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jan 26 2012)
As data center infrastructure management (DCIM) continues to gain traction and funding, an unexpected name is building a key role in this emerging business: Intel Corp. While known primarily for processors, Intel’s innovation extends to middleware like Data Center Manager, which captures real-time information on servers’ energy use and temperature and packages it in a data feed.
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Comment Mentions: Intel IBM Intel Corp.
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Roundup: Ibm, Nec, Cisco, Talari Networks
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jan 26 2012)
IBM and NEC announced that the originators of the OpenFlow protocol will deploy IBM and NEC’s solution in a parallel network to test OpenFlow’s applicability to the university’s production environment. Cisco (CSCO) announced that Argentina-based bank Supervielle has selected Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) to extend the power of virtualization, unifying servers, and the network and storage in a single system in its new data center. Talari Networks announced it has secured $4.5 million in financing from current backers including Menlo Ventures, Silver Creek Ventures and private investors. F5 Networks (FFIV) announced that the latest release of the F5 BIG-IP product family has been certified by ICSA Labs as a network firewall, helping customers protect their public-facing websites from today’s massive cyber attacks.
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Web Host Interoute Launches Virtual Data Center Infrastructure as a Service
Explore Web Host Industry Review (Jan 26 2012)
Web hosting provider Interoute announced on Thursday that it has launched Virtual Data Centre, its infrastructure as a service offering for enterprises. According to the press release, Interoute’s virtual data center is built into the fabric of its pan-European network so organizations can deploy virtual computing and storage infrastructure for their enterprise applications. Built into the MPLS/IP network, organizations are assured of optimal routing, security, performance and end-to-end SLAs of 99.99 percent. With this new offering, organizations can have the convenience of the public cloud with the security of a private cloud. Interoute says its network infrastructure provides the security of a private cloud, while the pay per use model makes it as cost effective as a public cloud.
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Europe Netherlands
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Sustainability as Economic Game Changer
Explore environmentalleader.com (Jan 26 2012)
“It is one thing to flirt with an idea, and another thing to be married to it.” –Freud In founding a new long-term, visionary world economy, there is no more apposite topic than sustainability — where we develop and establish a durable, value-generating business model delivering long-term protection of the global economy, society and natural capital. And in order to establish sustainability as a business model, organizations need to understand the interdependence between its various capitals – such as human capital, manufactured capital, etc. – and their impacts on energy, water, bio-diversity, green house gas emissions. They must also understand the wider societal impacts of sustainability, and define all of these into one coherent policy and reporting framework.
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Comment Mentions: The Economist IBM
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Notes from the Road: DCIM User Experience
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jan 26 2012)
In the fast-paced sector of Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM), there are dozens of DCIM vendors out there, each with their own products, user interfaces, and claims. For IT executives who are purchasing and using these tools, determining what is truly “usable” can be quite a challenge.
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Comment Mentions: Data Center Knowledge
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AWS Storage Gateway Connects On-Premise Appliances to the Cloud
Explore Web Host Industry Review (Jan 25 2012)
In a long post on the Amazon Web Services blog Wednesday, Amazon launched the AWS Storage Gateway service, a tool for connecting on-premise software appliances with its cloud storage services, making its cloud products more accessible to users currently dealing entirely (or mostly) with on-premise IT. Amazon says the new AWS Storage Gateway service enables data stored in a customer’s data center to be backed up to Amazon’s S3 storage, as EBS snapshots, which can be treated as backups, and restored to the on-premise hardware when necessary. The stored files can also be accessed as Amazon EBS volumes, which means data can be mirrored between on-premise applications and those based on EC2.
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com
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Fujitsu Touts Web Hosting Application of High-Density Server Rack
Explore Web Host Industry Review (Jan 25 2012)
Data center hardware manufacturer Fujitsu issued a press release this week saying that the scale-out potential demonstrated in a recent test of its PRIMERGY CX1000 Cloud eXtension server rack illustrated the possible web-hosting and telecommunications application of the technology. According to Fujitsu, capacity tests carried out by Open-Xchange, developer of a communications software platform that is very popular among web hosting providers, demonstrated that up to 1.5 million concurrent users could be supported on a single 19-inch PRIMERGY CX1000 server rack.
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IBM Sees Green in Going Green in Data Centers
Explore Welcome to IT Jungle (Jan 25 2012)
In New York City today, when the weather was just starting to get a little muggy but the air conditioning was cranking so high in the Helen Mills Theater that you could just about hang sides of beef on the stage, IBM announced a new initiative, dubbed Project Big Green, under which it will sell technology and services to help the world's data centers consume less power as they support expanding IT workloads. While IBM as well as other server and storage array makers have been conscious of power and cooling issues surrounding IT gear since there were data centers, the issue has come to a head in recent years as dense X64 servers and myriad pieces of networking equipment have stormed the data centers of the world and taken over. When blade servers entered the market seven years ago, they were the straw that broke the air conditioner's back, ...
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Comment Mentions: The Green Grid IBM Interactive Data Corporation
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News From Around The Web
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VMware Launches Online Cloud Solutions Marketplace for Partners, Developers, Clients
Explore Web Host Industry Review (Jan 25 2012)
Virtualization and cloud infrastructure provider VMware announced on Wednesday that it has launched its VMware Solution Exchange, an online virtualization and cloud solutions marketplace. Customers, partners and developers can use the marketplace to help simplify the process of evaluating and selecting solutions through its self-service portal. VMware also announced the general availability of the VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite. The exchange offers partners and developers who integrate, interoperate or complement VMware’s product portfolio a one-stop location to market and sell their solutions. It allows customers to use search tools, explore multimedia content and engage with partners and developers. VMware has a community of more than 2,000 technology partners who have built more than 3,500 applications and 6,000 infrastructure products compatible with VMware’s products.
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Data Center Firm QTS Transitions from SAS 70 to SSAE 16
Explore Web Host Industry Review (Jan 25 2012)
Data center operator and hosting firm Quality Technology Services announced on Wednesday that all of the company’s data center facilities have made the transition from auditing their processes and procedures via the SAS 70 auditing standard to the Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements No. 16, or SSAE 16. The SSAE 16 audit is broadly considered a replacement for the SAS 70 report, which many consider to be a flawed reporting system, since data centers are audited against standards and procedures laid out by the company being audited. SSAE 16 measures a facility’s processes against a set of standardized best practices.
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Comment Mentions: Quality Technology Services
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Smart lights, bright data center
So the law firm is Fenwick and West LLP, a national law firm with offices in California, Washington and Idaho that specializes in technology and life sciences. When the firm updated its 2,000-square-foot data center, it focused on energy efficiencies across the board, such as cold aisle containment and controlled airflow management. Its efforts helped the data center attain its U.S. Green Building Council LEED Gold certification, according to the article. Included in the renovation was the selection of LED fixtures and Redwood Systems’ lighting technology. The lighting system centralizes control of the data center’s lighting, with web-based access, improved lighting quality, and increased visibility into the facility’s energy usage, the article states. The system lets the firm use light in its data center only when and to the degree needed, and analyze data gathered on each individual light fixture to enhance configuration and space utilization. There are sensors attached ...
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NTT Communications Acquires India’s NetMagic
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jan 25 2012)
In a move to expand into the growing data center market in India, NTT Communications will acquire a controlling stake in Netmagic Solutions, a leading managed hosting provider in India. The acquisition, in which NTT is buying 74 percent of NetMagic’s shares, is subject to the approval of authorities in India. The addition of Netmagic Solutions’ datacenter services and sites will expand NTT Com’s capability to provide IT solutions in the fast-growing Indian market, the company said as well as accelerate its offering of globally seamless cloud services through expanded ICT infrastructure across Asia.
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12 Data Center Energy Management Trends for 2012 and Beyond
Explore GreenBiz.com (Jan 25 2012)
The days of IT managers being able to take power for granted in the data center are rapidly coming to an end. Beginning in 2012, the way organizations -- enterprises, government agencies and service providers alike -- all analyze and utilize energy in their data centers will witness some major changes. Already, a growing number of organizations are starting to grapple with increased power demands in the face of constrained capacity. The reason underlying the need to make these changes is rather simple: Most data centers were designed for high performance and high availability, with little or no attention paid to power.
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Telehouse, KDDI Launch TeleCloud Solutions
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jan 25 2012)
Colocation provider Telehouse has teamed with its parent company, KDDI, to launch a portfolio of enterprise cloud solutions, the company said this week. The Telecloud portfolio of services include cloud infrastructure, managed private cloud environments, a public virtual data centre (Telecloud Shared VDC), storage and disaster recovery solutions. “Telecloud is a joint venture between two industry leaders,” said Tokuji Mitsui, Managing Director of KDDI and Telehouse Europe. “It marks the next stage in the evolution of Europe’s first purpose-built data centre provider and a step forward for the cloud industry. The data centre is at the heart of a cloud solution making the physical infrastructure the integral role in maintaining the reliability and accessibility of a company’s application. That is why the partnership of Telehouse and KDDI brings a new unique perspective to the cloud market.”
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Infinity to Build 4 Megawatt Data Center for C&W
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jan 25 2012)
Infinity has concluded an agreement with Cable & Wireless Worldwide (C&W) to provide a new 4.3 megawatt data centre facility at a secure site in the southeast of England. The new Tier III certified facility will ensure that C&W can support the increasing demands from clients for secure, robust and reliable hosting and shared services solutions. The data center will provide a 25 percent expansion in C&W’s data hosting capacity.
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Comment Mentions: Infinity Martin Lynch
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How Cloud Redefines Our Most Important Business Technology Relationships
Explore Forbes.com (Jan 25 2012)
In a previous post, David Nichols, principal and CIO services leader for Ernst & Young IT Advisory Services, outlined some compelling business cases for the cloud, and described the threshold many enterprises have yet to cross before they become cloud-intensive enterprises. But what’s it doing to our important relationships — between companies, IT managers, business managers, and even outsourcers?
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GoGrid Extends Cloud to Amsterdam
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jan 25 2012)
Cloud infrastructure company GoGrid has expanded its operations into Europe, opening a new data center and EMEA Headquarters in Amsterdam, the company said today. The new infrastructure will help GoGrid provide on-demand cloud infrastructure services around the globe. GoGrid is deploying its cloud infrastructure in Equinix’s International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Amsterdam. Using “Platform Equinix,” GoGrid can directly connect to customers and partners and access high-performance connectivity through Equinix’s ecosystem of more than 680 network suppliers.
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Comment Mentions: Europe Netherlands
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Growth In Private Cloud Adoption Continues To Rise
Explore da.feedsportal.com (Jan 24 2012)
The adoption of private cloud technology keeps going and going. In December, Cloud hosting company Softlayer reported that it had record-setting growth for its private cloud deployments, almost doubling revenue in the process. Another example is DynamicOps, a cloud services provider that has seen some 300 percent growth in the private cloud market through 2011. Record growth While Softlayer and DynamicOps are the latest example of rapidly-growing cloud services companies, they are by no means the only one. Many other services vendors are claiming that 2011 has been a banner year for growth. INetU, a managed hosting provider, reported that it added a sixth data centre last summer to support demand for cloud services and expanding its property holdings by 144 percent in 2011 in anticipation of additional growth.
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A CTO’s take on cloud
As Capgemini’s CTO for North America, Joe Coyle hears an awful lot about cloud computing. He hears it from customers that want to evaluate cloud solutions and from vendors that want to win that business. Capgemini, a $12 billion global systems integrator, has relationships with all the major vendors and many enterprise customers, so it’s interesting to hear what Coyle has to say about the current state of the market.
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Cisco IBM
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Executive Hirings: Dca, Id Group, CoreLink, 8 Solutions
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jan 24 2012)
Here’s a look at some of this week’s executive changes in the data center industry: Willner to Chair Data Center Alliance: Guy Willner, Founder & CEO of the International Data Centre Group (IDC-G), has been appointed as the new chairman of the board of governors of the Data Centre Alliance (DCA), an industry association comprising of leaders from across the industry. Integrated Design Group, an architectural, engineering and planning firm focused on data center design, announced today that Bradley Gray, LEED AP, has been named a company principal. Data center hosting provider CoreLink Data Centers has announced the hiring of John Duggan as Vice President of Sales. 8 Solutions, the UK’s leading data centre healthcare company specialising in the deep cleaning and decontamination of critical environments has announced the appointment of Alan Howarth to the position of Chairman.
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Comment Mentions: Europe Interactive Data Corporation LEED
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Developing a Rapport Between Facilities and IT
Explore Relocate (Jan 24 2012)
Facilities and IT have largely acted as separate entities in the data center, each with its own goals, priorities, concerns and procedures. A number of factors that have gained emphasis over recent years, however, make this separation problematic for companies. Since facilities and IT are ultimately working toward the same goal, establishing and nurturing a rapport between them can be a profitable venture. Here are some ways to do so. Ongoing disagreements and resentment between facilities and IT personnel can spell trouble for a company. Both are equally important to delivering the needed data center resources to both the company and customers, and working to foster understanding and mutual respect can increase uptime, increase energy efficiency and decrease costs.
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Infinity Signs Deal to Provide UK Data Center for Web Host Cable&Wireless
Explore Web Host Industry Review (Jan 24 2012)
UK data center operator Infinity announced on Tuesday that it has signed a 15 year deal with cloud computing and hosting firm Cable&Wireless to provide a new data center to expand CWW’s data hosting capacity. This announcement comes a couple weeks after Infinity named Ashley Davis its non-executive director. According to the press release, CWW has made a multi-million investment as part of this agreement to support increasing client demand and will expand its capacity by 25 percent. The 4.3MW data center will be based in the southeast of England and will be Tier III certified facility.
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Comment Mentions: Europe Infinity Martin Lynch
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7 Things Your CEO Should Know About the Cloud
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jan 24 2012)
The IT community has identified, discussed and brooded over the challenges of reaching the cloud. We’ve examined and addressed the causes of virtual sprawl and stall, we’ve figured out the importance of automation in private cloud deployment, and we’ve come to an understanding about the value of bringing cloud computing into the enterprise, where end users can gain some autonomy for provisioning and self-service management. The biggest hurdle left to clear will become the most pressing in 2012. IT is still struggling to communicate cloud realities to business leaders. Until the CIO and the CEO see eye to eye on the path to the private cloud, too many companies will fail to reach that goal.
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