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  Construction Control awarded Australian Data Centres contract

  Australian Data Centres (ADC) has awarded a multi-million dollar contract to Construction Control to develop the vendor’s new facility in Mitchell in the ACT.

  By Hamish Barwick | 06 May, 2013 09:31

  Tags: Construction Control, construction, Data Centre, ACT, Australian Data Centres

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  In pictures: Datacom opens second NZ data centre

  Australia and New Zealand IT service provider, Datacom, has opened a second data centre in NZ called Kapua. Based in Hamilton, the Tier III facility covers 11,000 square metres of land and has the capacity to house over 920 racks across five data floors. Datacom also operates the Orbit data centre in Auckland.

  By Hamish Barwick | 02 May, 2013 10:53

  Tags: Datacom, New Zealand, Kapua, Data Centre

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  Telecom NZ to expand cloud with Revera acquisition

  Telecom NZ has agreed to pay $96.5 million to acquire IT infrastructure and data centre company Revera Limited in a move meant to deepen the telco’s range of cloud services for business customers.

  By Adam Bender | 29 April, 2013 10:50

  Tags: infrastructure, IT, New Zealand, Cloud, Revera, telecom, Data Centre, acquistion, Telecom NZ

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  ICT upgrade drives Yokohama Tyre to cloud

  Yokahama Tyre Australia is moving to the cloud following a recent ICT upgrade, according to the company’s IT manager, Duance Hum.

  By Adam Bender | 17 April, 2013 11:02

  Tags: Yokohoma Tyre Australia, NTT Communications, ICT, Networking, security, Cloud, IT manager, Data Centre, internet

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  Australia Post selects NextDC to host data

  Australia Post has been confirmed as the newest tenant at NextDC’s (ASX: NXT) Melbourne 1 (M1) facility.

  By Hamish Barwick | 08 April, 2013 14:54

  Tags: NextDC M1, australia post, Data Centre, NextDC

• Four considerations for SSD deployment

  While solid state drives offer increased performance, the key to figuring out the role they can play in the data center is balancing that performance against cost.

  By Bob Fine | 02 November, 2009 19:01

  Tags: solid-state drives, SSD, Data Centre

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  Six Steps to a Green Data Center

  Environmental issues exposed by the media and driven by consumers have placed IT departments under pressure to develop "green" data centers. Factors including the reduction of energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions in large data centers often provide the impetus for becoming green. A recent report issued by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) highlights the need for data center efficiency and demonstrates the increased pressure that IT departments are under.

  By Darryl Wilson | 13 October, 2008 09:31

  Tags: green, Data Centre

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  Running servers in a tent outside: It works

  You've heard about data centers in shipping containers. But how about a data center in a tent? And in rainy Seattle?

  By Nancy Gohring | 26 September, 2008 11:24

  Tags: Data Centre

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  Managing at Petabyte Scale

  Given the proliferation of external source-generated information, it's no wonder that stored data growth within the data centre now averages 50 - 80% on a compounded annual growth rate basis. This growth is only expected to accelerate - not decrease - and many enterprises should prepare to manage storage at the petabyte scale. This resource proposes a method for today's enterprise to handle this data - storage equipped for the petabyte scale. Check it out now to discover the attributes of a storage infrastructure that can be managed at the petabyte scale and learn how you can turn these attributes into concrete features of your storage.

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  ASIC Optimises and Promotes Network Automation Using HP Software

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  Defending Against Increasingly Sophisticated Cyber Attacks

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  Integrated Computing Platforms: Infrastructure Builds for Tomorrow’s Data Centre