Next Generation Data have started to fill up their massive 180MVA data centre site at Newport Gwent and are celebrating with a new website.NGD 1 is offering large scale space only contracts and managed service options for the small to medium business....
Topics: Data Center Reviews

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 From the coal or oil delivered to the power station all the way through to the energy that drives our business applications the efficiency story is woeful.
Topics: 21st Century Data Centre, Cooling, Electrical Systems, Electricity, energy efficiency, Feature, Green IT, Power, PUE, Service Protection, UPS, Virtualization

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A recent Hot Aisle poll about the use of hypervisor technology in enterprises offers some interesting insights.96% of respondents use at least one hypervisor44% of respondents use two or more hypervisors16% of respondents use three or more hypervisors98%.
Topics: Cloud, Feature, Leadership, Research, Software, Survey, Surveys, Virtualization, vmware

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Today I spoke to a UK based Infrastructure Consultancy Anix (now part of ACS) about an XIV storage solution they have just sold and delivered to a European financial services organization. The business requirement was to deliver a low cost, high...
Topics: Articles, News

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Today my friend and colleague Peter Hopton gave me the neatest piece of software I have seen in a long time. Software that knows if you are sitting in front of your computer or not, and if you are not shuts down the display to save energy. As soon as you.
Topics: Articles

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