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US data centres consume (and waste) massive amounts of electricity

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Much of the massive amounts of electricity America’s data centers devour supporting our business and online activity is being wasted running computer servers doing little or no work most of the time, according to a report released by the Natural Resources Defense Council. Improved energy efficiency practices could cut energy waste by at least 40 percent, saving over $3 billion annually.

VMware unveils EVO: RAIL

VMware, Inc. has introduced VMware EVO: RAIL™, a hyper-converged infrastructure appliance that helps customers streamline the deployment and scale-out of Software-Defined IT infrastructure at the speed of business. VMware EVO: RAIL is the first solution in a family of hyper-converged infrastructure offerings from VMware.

VMware delivers innovations for the open, agile, secure software-defined data centre

VMware, Inc. has announced new virtualization, cloud management and integrated OpenStack solutions that dramatically advance the industry's most complete product portfolio for implementing a software-defined data center, and supporting the dynamic needs of businesses.

HP and VMware collaborate

HP and VMware have announced the expansion of a long-standing relationship to help customers gain competitive advantage by adopting the software-defined data center and hybrid cloud.

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Designed to withstand harsh, mobile environments.

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By Roger Keenan, managing director of London data centre, City Lifeline.

Data Loss Prevention now ‘easier’

According to a recent SolarWinds survey- of over 160 IT professionals, the No. 1 security concern...

Tarmin ‘transforms’ Data Management

Tarmin Inc. hasunveiled the latest release of GridBank, the industry’s first Data Defined...

Aon expands data centre lifecycle insurance program

Aon is set to expand its Data Center Lifecycle Insurance Program, increasing coverage to address...

Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust awards three year maintenance contract

Secure I.T. Environments Ltd, one of the UK’s leading designers and builders of modular data...

In 2015 businesses will start to understand the importance of data classification

2015 predictions come from Bob Plumridge, EMEA CTO at HDS, and also chairman of SNIA Europe.

Downtime costs two work weeks a year

For a 10,000-person organisation, IT downtime could be costing $25 million (£20 million) a year.

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