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Queensland’s $220 million Polaris 1 Data Centre, located in Springfield and soon to be one of the largest in Australia, had six huge 22 tonnes diesel generators installed five floors high last week and is on track for construction completion by Christmas.

Putting data centers on decommissioned ships and reusing hot water from cooling systems to fill the town swimming pool were among the wackier ideas floated at the Data Center Energy Summit last week.

Fujitsu today announced it has officially opened its new purpose-built sustainable data centre in Sydney’s Homebush Bay.

Gustav had nowhere near the effect on the Louisiana Supreme Court that Katrina did three years ago -- in fact, the network never went down.

IBM's new focus and push around the enterprise data center with come with a new Business Partner program that's still being developed and will be launched later in the year, but Big Blue says partners shouldn't wait to develop the required skill sets within their organizations.

As Hurricane Gustav approaches the US Gulf Coast, the IT lessons learned from the devastating Hurricanes Katrina and Rita that smashed New Orleans and other areas in 2005 are on the minds of many worried IT managers.

More servers, more racks, more UPSes, more users -- the reasons for expanding a datacenter are the same everywhere. Today's datacenter projects, however, have the additional component of modernisation. Rebuilding takes place for tighter integration, greener power usage, greater redundancy, and especially more control. Datacenter administrators would control individual dust motes in their racks if they could.

If your data center processing load doubled this year, could you handle the growth?

Banks may be closing branches to the disgust of many customers, but for one local IT services company, a disused bank vault became the ideal secure site for a new data centre to enter the hosting market.

With a student population of less than 4,000, Bryant University certainly isn't the largest institution of higher learning in the United States. It's regarded as one of the most wired schools in the world, however, boasting "one port per pillow" in the dorms.