HP Debuts New Portable Container Datacentre

IT solutions provider Dimension Data has moved to acquire OpSource, a provider of enterprise cloud hosting services.According to the company, OpSource will form Dimension Data’s Data Cloud Solutions Business Unit which will...

HP has launched its new data containerised data centre EcoPod, a move by the company that will provide it with the same sort of high efficiency that other market leaders like Google, Facebook etc. usually able to derive from...

IBM is ramping up its investment in cloud computing with a $38 million capital injection in a Singapore data centre. The centre will launch in April and aims to provide Indian customers with scalable cloud storage for a variety...

In an attempt to expand its cloud computing services and user base, International Business Machines (IBM) has announced that the company will be opening a new data center in North Carolina, USA, which will be focused solely on...

The Scottish council of Dumfries and Galloway has received documents related to a £800 million data centre that could create up to 1000 new jobs in the region. The plans for the huge project were submitted by the Lockerbie...

The unit established to deal with online child abuse in UK has had to spend thousands of pounds in order to fetch required information from the internet service providers, a recent report revealed.  The Child Exploitation...

It appears that, once again, UK PLC is following in the footsteps of our cousins across the pond and suffering (albeit a little later than they did) a credit crunch.  There is talk of a full blown recession, but that remains...

Fujitsu Services opened its newest secure data centre which ha cost £44 million data centre to build  and will be the first in Europe to be independently certified to the Uptime Institute’s international Tier III...

Gordon Rapkin, president and CEO of Protegrity, has come across every conceivable data security issue. Here he has highlighted the most common ones, along with some advice on resolving the problems.#1 – Not knowing who uses...

Data replication provides a continuously updated copy of critical data at a remote site. In the event of a disaster, users are rapidly failed over to the live backup systems at the remote site, minimising data loss and greatly...

Data centres around the world are being tasked with storing ever-greater amounts of digital content. This burgeoning storage requirement drives many data centre managers to recommend that the business increase investment in...

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. and the only provider of Services Oriented Storage Solutions, today announced that Hitachi Ltd, has shipped more than 6,000 intelligent virtual storage...

SonicWALL, Inc. today announced that it has opened a new research and development (R&D) centre based in Shanghai’s Fudan Science Park in order to expand its global software development capabilities. The move supports...

‘Acts of theft, fraud and vandalism in the data centre are three times more likely to be an ‘inside job’ than perpetrated by someone who’s unconnected with the company or Centre,’ according to data centre specialists Migration...

Breaches: "Contrary to popular opinion, 2006 was not the Year of the Breach," insists Jay Foley, Executive Director of ITRC. "Rather, it was the year when breaches received a great deal of public awareness. Many companies have...