Looking beyond the EU Code of Conduct

When the early rumblings of cloud computing hit the industry wires, it was all new companies we had never heard of, emerging from the deep dark depths of Silicon Valley. The Amazons and Googles of this world were toddlers...

Search giant Google revealed on Thursday the company’s energy consumption footprint - and to everyone’s shock, it was found that the company uses as much electricity as would be required to power 200,000 homes. The...

Microsoft Office 365 promises a complete user experience in terms of word processing, collaboration, messaging, voice and video calls, publishing, etc. through the different component services like Office Professional Plus,...

Seagate has introduced what it says is the industry’s first 1TB 2.5-inch enterprise-class hard drive. The Constellation.2 drive is designed for server storage applications and offers high capacity combined with 6Gb/s...

The Seagate Momentus XT combines traditional spinning storage technology with non volatile silicon-based flash memory in an attempt to get the best of both worlds, ultra fast access and massive capacity at an affordable...

A lot has been written in the last few years about how virtualisation makes data centres `greener,' but how much is hype and how much is tangible benefit that IT managers can prove - as far as it is reasonable to do so - to their...

The global economy has gone to the dogs, the environment is in dire straits and there is a very real possibility the data centre industry will run out of capacity in the next few years. Ah the festive season, a time to be...

In a world increasingly reliant on power-hungry complex carbon technology, the IT industry itself is initiating changes to reduce our impact on the environment – with data centres as the key driver.  As a supplier of...

When it comes to environmental impact, data centres are of course already highly regulated facilities, attracting scrutiny for a number of different areas of operation, but what is the impact of these regulations? The physical...

Green initiatives have moved from something to talk about to the point where project plans are being created. In most cases, plans are elaborate and will take months, if not years, to implement. If traditional NAS systems are not...

Is installing new, more efficient equipment good for the environment? Well, actually no!  Installing new plant and IT is good for the environment when it is needed – but throwing out perfectly good equipment which will...

Many organisations are adopting virtualisation technologies in their data centre to secure the benefits of increased hardware utilisation, reduced power consumption and simplified management. The reliability of this new...

European businesses are overtaking taking the US in the drive for greener data centres. A recent survey by ONStor, the leading provider of scalable clustered NAS solutions for the enterprise, has already shown shocking statistics...

In the sobering wake of the Stern report, the rallying cry came from the very top. The Prime Minister himself went public with his fears, labelling the findings both ‘overwhelming’ and ‘disastrous.’ The...

BroadGroup has announced the launch of the second annual Power and Cooling Survey 2007, to coincide with the major international Power and Cooling conference taking place in London 4-5 October 2007. The report warns that as...