Singapore wants only data centres that are efficient
Singapore's trade minister says it will be "more selective" of data centres it will allow in the country, singling out facilities that demonstrate high "resource efficiency".
Singapore's trade minister says it will be "more selective" of data centres it will allow in the country, singling out facilities that demonstrate high "resource efficiency".
Its fifth data centre in Singapore houses an additional 1,475 cabinets, offering 83,000 square feet of colocation space, and is touted to meet the government's focus for such facilities in the country to be resource-efficient.
Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily:Jason Perlow: Linux: The Joe Sixpack StrategyMary Jo Foley: Microsoft Big Brains: Brad LoveringMicrosoft confirms MinWin is in Windows 7, after allEd Bott: That "unlocked" Windows 7 taskbar is also unfinishedJason Hiner: Who would be better for tech, McCain or Obama?
Researchers at PARC, famed for its computing innovations, say printers and copiers have a lot to offer on the eco-tech front.Photos: PARC prints green tech
Reviewing someone else's article on the joys and virtues of 70s style data center centralization left me with a pithy new saying to try out on you: " the more money organizations save by centralizing IT control and processing, the more it costs them" - because none of the rationalizations account for the costs of the rebel IT this process tends to spawn.
The thing to remember about all of the archiving and data protections that's exponentially increased as businesses have gone digital is that it creates a very nice business for companies in the storage management game. According to today's release of IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker, the storage software market in the third quarter of 2008 saw revenues of $3.
The social media giant has announced new sustainability goals and a Climate Science Information Center.
Dan Darling, CIO of Turner Broadcasting System, believes that almost all companies have "green" issues on their mind. At Turner, they have a council to examine every part of the business, from vendors to production facilities to the equipment they buy, to see how they can be greener.
In a reasoned approach to the Federal mandate, the FBI looks to build more effective datacenters, not just reduce their numbers
With high-efficiency servers built from standard components Lopoco looks to sneak into your datacenters