Facebook: 'Open hardware' integral to green IT infrastructure
Open Compute Project strives to model itself after the Apache Software Foundation, with technical contributions vetted by community members.
Open Compute Project strives to model itself after the Apache Software Foundation, with technical contributions vetted by community members.
The owners of the Brisbane Polaris datacentre, Springfield Land Corporation, will branch out and build a $200 million facility in Melbourne, with work scheduled to start in July.
Over the past 12 months, networking solutions and switch company Blade Networks has been expanding its reach into Australia and has increased its local staff count from one to five.
The partnership plans to offer a range of datacentre infrastructure packages called Vblock, to eventually be built by a new joint venture
Surplus heat from the warm-water-cooled supercomputer will heat university buildings at research partner ETH's Zurich campus
While 2008 has been a tumultuous year in business, there have also been a series of developing trends that are quietly transforming the traditional strategies and the standard operating procedures of IT. Here are the five trends that having the biggest impact.
The £2m datacentre is being built in line with IBM's 'green' datacentre standards, and will offer co-location and other services
Rackspace has touted the 'green' credentials of its first European datacentre, fuelled by a wood-burning power station
Being green, in terms of IT and datacentres, only very superficially has anything to do with saving the environment. In reality it is about cold, hard cash — and how to spend less of it.
Despite investing €170m to develop a sustainable datacentre, Citi has admitted its IT equipment is consuming increasing amounts of power