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  What does a real green data center look like?

  Data center shines with top-down green design and gets money for it

  By Tim Greene | 23 February, 2009 10:46

  Tags: data centre, data centre top pick, green IT

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  How to build your own supercomputer

  Supercomputer do-it-yourselfer Bruce Allen says anyone can build one with some simple equipment

  By Tim Greene | 18 February, 2009 11:19

  Tags: data centre top pick, supercomputers

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  Data Center design: Form follows function

  American architect Louis Sullivan, the father of modernism, is widely credited with the key axiom of 20th century modern architecture: "Form follows function." That adage is also vital to data center design.

  By Jim Hull | 18 February, 2009 09:27

  Tags: data centre, data centre top pick

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  The great co-location debate

  With cloud computing growing in popularity, SMBs are questioning whether it is more practical to co-locate their data centers or completely bypass that option and head into the cloud? First, let's briefly clarify the two:

  By lint Harder | 04 September, 2009 08:19

  Tags: servers, SMB, data centre top pick

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  Inside Internode's data centre

  Computerworld gets an exclusive behind the scenes look inside Internode's Adelaide data centre with network guru Mark Newton

  By Kathryn Edwards | 05 June, 2009 14:39

  Tags: data centres, internode, servers, data centre top pick

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  Five tools to prevent energy waste in the data center

  These products will make the data center more efficient by reducing power usage of existing hardware

  By Jon Brodkin | 23 April, 2009 15:02

  Tags: data center power consumption, data centre top pick

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  Inside Tsubame - the Nvidia GPU supercomputer

  When you enter the computer room on the second floor of Tokyo Institute of Technology's computer building, you're not immediately struck by the size of Japan's second-fastest supercomputer. You can't see the Tsubame computer for the industrial air conditioning units that are standing in your way, but this in itself is telling. With more than 30,000 processing cores buzzing away, the machine consumes a megawatt of power and needs to be kept cool.

  By Martyn Williams | 10 December, 2008 12:20

  Tags: nvidia, supercomputers, data centre top pick

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  Sun, wind, algae: Future data-center power sources?

  The potential for wind power in the upper Midwest United States has led some to dub the region the "Saudi Arabia of wind." But tapping that potential isn't easy. In particular, the difficulty of integrating wind power into utility companies' transmission grids is hampering adoption.

  By Ann Bednarz | 26 November, 2008 07:37

  Tags: data center power consumption, green IT, data centre top pick

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  Eliminating Tape

  When it comes to storage and backup, the old tape may not ‘cut the mustard’ in today’s world. But how does one move on from tape? This Computerworld Australia Guide, sponsored by EMC, examines whether the Cloud will provide a viable long-term archiving option to magnetic tape. This guide also looks at eliminating tape by examining storage and backup alternatives, taking examples of organisations that have managed to overcome problems with tape. Read more.

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  OVUM Report: Governance Risk and Compliance-- GRC usage and buying trends in the ANZ markets

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  Delivering Tomorrow's Backup and Recovery Infrastructure

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  Seven Steps to Effective Data Governance