Metafor Software: Using Machine Learning To Predict Server Issues
Toufic Boubez, co-founder of Layer 7, wants to pre-empt problems in the data centre with the help of clever algorithms
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Seagate Gets Serious About SSDs
Read Full ArticleSeagate, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of hard disk drives, has announced four new Solid State Drives (SSDs) that will spearhead its new flash strategy. The new drives include consumer-friendly 600 SSD and 600 SSD Pro models, enterprise-grade 1200 SSD, and even a superfast flash PCIe appliance for the data centre developed jointly with its partner Virident, the X8 Accelerator, which Seagate claims is “twice as fast as the nearest competitor”. By launching several new product lines, the company hopes to own the broadest storage device portfolio in the industry.
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Tech Success Awards: When The Cloud Is Right
Read Full ArticleBy moving into Orbian's IT Adapt’s Virtual Data Centre, Andrew Notman and his team saved money and won our Cloud Project Of The Year award
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Apple begins Construction Of ‘Green’ Oregon Data Centre
Read Full ArticleLast week, Apple started construction of its latest data centre in Prineville, Oregon – a centre which apple promises will be carbon neutral. This is the first phase of the project that will eventually see two 338,000 square-foot buildings erected in the Oregon High Desert, to host Apple’s iCloud services. In April, following vocal criticism by Greenpeace, Apple announced that its new facilities will run on “100 percent renewable energy” – wind, hydro, and geothermal power from local sources.
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Apple begins Construction Of ‘Green’ Oregon Data Centre
Read Full ArticleLast week, Apple started construction of its latest data centre in Prineville, Oregon – a centre which apple promises will be carbon neutral. This is the first phase of the project that will eventually see two 338,000 square-foot buildings erected in the Oregon High Desert, to host Apple’s iCloud services. In April, following vocal criticism by Greenpeace, Apple announced that its new facilities will run on “100 percent renewable energy” – wind, hydro, and geothermal power from local sources.
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Microsoft Cuts Data Centre Waste Water To Zero
Read Full ArticleNext on the agenda - getting rid of diesel generators and producing energy on the spot
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UK Universities Launch Intel Supercomputer For Hire
Read Full ArticleThe University of Cambridge and Imperial College London have announced a partnership that will see their High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructures combined to create CORE, a world-class cloud supercomputer, available for hire. CORE is the 93rd most powerful HPC system in the world, and the fastest Intel-based HPC system in the UK, with 22,000 cores, amounting to over 300 teraflops of sustained computational throughout. It was launched yesterday and is now being offered to SMEs, industry and academia as a pay-per-use service. CORE also provides complete technical support for its supercomputing cloud, by the same experienced team that manages the universities’ resources.
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Huawei Debuts CloudEngine 12800 Super-Switch
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EMC And NetApp Poised To Fight Over Green Storage Company?
Read Full ArticleInformation management company EMC is holding talks to buy XtremIO, an Israeli manufacturer of all-flash enterprise data storage systems, reports local business news site Globes. It is thought that the price of acquisition lies in the range of $400-450 million (£248 – £279 million). Last week, XtremIO won the Uptime Institute’s 2012 Green Enterprise IT Award in the IT Product Deployment category, which recognised that its all-flash arrays can improve energy and resource efficiency. According to Globes, EMC’s rival NetApp is also interested in XtremIO.
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Microsoft Announces Biogas-Powered Green “Data Plants”
Read Full ArticleYesterday evening, Microsoft Global Foundation Services’ blog laid out plans for “Data Plants” – data centres with integrated power plants – which had been hinted at on Tuesday. In future, data centres must become independent of the electricity grid, and move to renewable energy, fuel cells and biogas for the power needs, according to Microsoft’s Christian Belady. Against the grid “Without a bold shift in strategy, our entire industry will become more dependent on a costly, antiquated, and constricted power grid,” says Belady. The animosity doesn’t stop there. He goes on to call the electrical grid dirty, expensive and unreliable.
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Volta To Build Reliable Data Centre In The Heart Of London
Read Full ArticleSpecialist data centre developer Volta has today announced its first project in Central London– a flexible data centre space located in the old Reuters headquarters in Great Sutton Street. Situated in close proximity to the City, the West End, and a stone’s throw from the Silicon Roundabout in Shoreditch, the facility will provide sub-millisecond latency connections for surrounding financial and media industries. Volta is a combined real estate, infrastructure and IT business. Once the renovation of the building is complete, it will offer co-location services – resilient power and cooling for single or multiple server racks, and private caged data suites for especially security-conscious clients. The company doesn’t sell the servers – but it does pretty much everything else.
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Apple Defends iCloud Against Greenpeace Attack
Read Full ArticleApple made public information about its data centre energy consumption today after a damning report by Greenpeace. The report rated Apple among the worst cloud computing companies, judging by their energy consumption. Greenpeace accused Apple of contributing to the carbon pollution by using coal energy to power its North Carolina data centre, which supports the iCloud service.
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Microsoft Wants Data Centres To Power Themselves
Read Full ArticleMicrosoft wants to change how the industry powers data centres by integrating them with full-scale power plants, two company executives wrote in a blog post yesterday. According to Christian Belady, general manager of data centre services, and Vijay Gill, senior director of network engineering, data centres of the future will feature renewable power generation on the premises, completely eliminating transmission losses. Data into energy Today, Microsoft’s cloud supports more than one billion customers and 20 million businesses in 76 countries. Its data centres are powered by one of the world’s largest fibre optic backbones, providing more than 3.5 terabits per second of capacity to more than 1200 networks.
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Apple Confirms It Will Build Data Centre In Oregon
Read Full ArticleA spokesman for Apple confirmed the company will be building its third data centre in Prineville, in Oregon, just a quarter mile south of the spot where Facebook had opened its first US data centre in 2011. The Facebook facility in the so-called Beaver State was widely criticized by Greenpeace for its use of dirty coal-sourced electricity from PacificCorp, until two organisations made peace earlier this year. Project Maverick In a statement to Oregon’s News Channel 21, Apple confirmed that the mysterious company earlier known only as “Project Maverick” really is the tech giant from Cupertino.
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