Data centers are being reinvented via virtualization, servers with better performance per watt, and the increasing popularity of cloud computing. Key vendors such as Cisco, EMC, HP, IBM, VMware and others are all pushing to make the data center more efficient.
The year-long trial at Singapore's island resort, Sentosa, taps the use of solar energy to power outdoor public Wi-Fi networks, eliminating the need for costly and tedious trenching work.
Optus is offering its wholesale customers highly scalable SDN services via Equinix datacentres in Sydney and Melbourne through an online self-serve portal.
Country will create test environments with temperatures of up to 38 degrees Celsius to assess if data centres, typically maintained in under 25 degrees Celsius, can operate optimally in tropical climates.
The 6,600-kilometer submarine cable will be completed by October 2017 and will link the US east coast to Spain.
Listening to cloud vendors, you'd think it isn't possible for enterprise data center storage to compete on cost. That's just wrong. Here are four companies that offer lower-cost alternatives to the big cloud services.
A new strategic partnership with a hybrid cloud security company is 'fundamental' to Telstra's overarching cloud plans.
The two companies create a pure-play IT services firm with about $26 billion in annual revenue. Can the new company deliver the growth?
Based in Mountain View, vArmour specializes in application-aware micro-segmentation to bring security analytics to data centers and cloud platforms.
The Urika-GX aims to fuse supercomputer power with an open, enterprise format.
Subsea cables, 4G, datacentres, and the deployment of smart devices will allow the Pacific islands to join the digital economy, according to Huawei.
Singapore Technologies Telemedia will take a majority stake in the Indian IT company's datacentre businesses in India and Singapore, which include 17 facilities in both countries.
In its second datacentre announcement in as many days, NextDC has unveiled Tullamarine, Victoria as the site of its new AU$85 million M2 datacentre.
Cisco allays concerns about an economic slowdown by managing its quarter well.
New centre is part of a S$200 million joint initiative with industry players to drive Singapore's cybersecurity ecosystem, with services to be commercially available in second-half 2016.
Microsoft and 451 Research survey finds executives ready to sign on the dotted line for more cloud services -- but are looking to multiple providers.
At about 50 miles from the Arctic Circle, the frequent -25C (-13F) winter temperatures make the question of how to keep equipment racks cool less of an issue for the Hydro 66 datacenter.
With more businesses and applications moving data to the cloud, even small outages can be devastating. By studying the worst cloud fails, we can find clues to avoiding problems in the future
The fall of the Iron Curtain in early 1990s left a number of military facilities across Europe without a purpose. Here's one that's re-emerged as a datacenter.
As well as acting as the hub for a grid of scientific institutions around the world, CERN's datacenter has to cope with vast amounts of raw data from its particle physics experiments.
Managed cloud firm Rackspace says the design and technology in its latest datacenter could slice as much as 80 percent off energy overheads compared with typical builds.
Located in Canberra, the National Computational Infrastructure stores and manages access to more than 10 petabytes of national and international data sets, including from the Bureau of Meteorology, the World Climate Research Programme, and observation data from NASA.
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Yes, it's Halloween of 2014, and we're here to revisit the technologies that are so frightening, they'll make you evacuate from multiple "interfaces".
Data centers provide the backbone for many tech services we take for granted, but what goes on behind those doors -- and why might firms including Apple and Google be interested in moving over?
Grounded in open source and energy efficient designs, the world's largest social network shared its latest updates for cost and power savings attributed to its cutting-edge datacenters.
The Spanish telco's largest facility is based outside the Spanish capital. ZDNet was invited along to see inside.
From CDC's 40MHz "supercomputer" to 2014's Tianhe-2's 33.86 PetaFlops per second, supercomputers are continuing to push computing to its ultimate limits.
Facebook's sprawling Forest City, North Carolina data center is designed to be a beacon of energy friendliness in the watt-sucking world of server farms. On a recent media tour of the facility, officials showed off green-computing practices that they say have saved the company more than $1 billion.
Tower, rack and blade servers are familiar enough, but what do microservers look like? We examine examples from HP, SeaMicro and Dell.
After years of speculation, Microsoft has finally delivered editions of its flagship business productivity programs to the iPad platform. Here's what you'll find in the new Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps.
Marketing communications firm DDB Worldwide is consolidating its IT infrastructure with other sister companies under the Omnicom Group, with the objective to have one major data center per region.
ABN AMRO is relocating its data center from its current office premises to an external location to comply with security requirements, and will take the chance to upgrade its network infrastructure for fully native connectivity.
ABN AMRO is relocating its data center from its current office premises to an external location to comply with security requirements, and will take the chance to upgrade its network infrastructure for fully native connectivity.
Marketing communications firm DDB Worldwide is consolidating its IT infrastructure with other sister companies under the Omnicom Group, with the objective to have one major data center per region.
When you’re delivering business services 24/7 to 430,000 staff across 226 countries you’ve got to have reliable, robust datacenter capabilities. DHL’s datacenter leaders explain how they do it.
Launched in June 2010, DirectAsia.com is on an upward trajectory. Singapore’s first online retailer insurer is hatching plans for its datacenter of the future.
A look at how eco-friendly features in a Singapore data center yielded savings in electricity costs, with more pressure on such facilities to adopt sustainable technologies.
Thanks to Good Friday and an epic five-day long weekend, there will be no Technolatte podcast this week. Instead, we have prepared some mischief to tide you over until next week.
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