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  Opinion: Private data centre relevance in a cloud-centric world

  There’s no doubt cloud computing is a very real trend. While many organisations keep their core IT assets in-house and under direct control, nowadays you would struggle to find an enterprise that didn’t make use of any third-party cloud service.

  By Rodney Gedda | 21 May, 2013 08:50

  Tags: data centres, cloud computing

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  NextDC awarded ISO quality management certification

  NextDC (ASX: NXT) has received a quality management system certification from the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO).

  By Hamish Barwick | 20 May, 2013 10:59

  Tags: data centre security, data centres, iso, NextDC

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  NextDC completes S1 base building

  Data centre provider NextDC (ASX: NXT) has received the thumbs up that its Sydney (S1) facility achieved practical completion.

  By Hamish Barwick | 16 May, 2013 10:48

  Tags: S1, Asia Pacific Data Centre Group, data centres, NextDC

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  ASE IT moves into iseek’s Sydney data centre

  Cloud services provider ASE IT has signed a contract with iseek Communications to move into the vendor’s data centre in Gore Hill, Sydney.

  By Hamish Barwick | 18 April, 2013 15:39

  Tags: ASE IT, data centres, iseek Communications

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  In pictures: ASX Liquidity Centre

  The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) took the media on a tour of its Australian Liquidity Centre data centre in Gore Hill, Sydney. The ALC provides co-location services and data centre space to customers, allowing them to place trading equipment in cabinets within the same facility as the ASX and the ASX 24 primary matching engines.

  By Hamish Barwick | 15 April, 2013 10:20

  Tags: Australian Liquidity Centre, Sydney, data centre cooling, data centres, ASX, Gore Hill, Australian Securities Exchange (ASX)

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  Slideshow: Verb IT first with HP Performance Optimised Datacentre (POD)

  Sydney-based Verb IT is the first company in the Asia Pacific region to provision an HP Performance Optimised Datacentre (POD) next-generation data centre in a shipping container. The new Verb DC site where the POD is located is a standard industrial warehouse in Wyong on the NSW Central Coast (one hour north of Sydney). Verb DC is schedueld to go live in September after a 14-week project, including the POD delivery time. In what is being painted as a big win for the Central Coast IT industry, the new POD will provide computing services to local businesses and the world.

  By Rodney Gedda | 20 August, 2010 08:57

  Tags: HP, Portable Modular Data Centre (PMDC), Verb IT, HP POD, Triforce Services, data centres, green IT

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  Data centers go underground

  As Hurricane Ike bore down on Houston one Friday last September, the Continental Airlines' flight operations center, located on the 14th floor of a glass-sided downtown high rise, suddenly went dark. For the airline's pilots and flight crews, however, business proceeded as usual.

  By Robert L. Mitchell | 29 July, 2009 08:20

  Tags: data centres

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  Researchers speed up the chase for cooler data centers

  With energy costs rising and data centers at the core of IT strategy for many companies, cooling the growing number of computers jammed into data centers is an issue that has taken center stage.

  By Robert Lemos | 11 June, 2009 00:36

  Tags: data centre cooling, data centres

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

• HP uses outside air, big fans, 12-foot raised floor to cool servers

  Just off the North Sea coast in the United Kingdom, Hewlett-Packard Co.'s EDS unit has built a data center that largely relies on cold sea air to keep servers chilled and -- by doing so -- cut the center's cooling power needs in half.

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 03 June, 2009 03:44

  Tags: HP, storage, data centres, eds

Whitepapers about data centres

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  10 Cooling Solutions to Support High-density Server Deployment

  This paper provides 10 approaches for increasing cooling eficiency, cooling capacity, and power density in existing data centres.