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  • IT titans to put datacentres on energy diet?

    The Green Grid, a nonprofit organisation designed to improve energy efficiency for datacentres and corporate computing, announced on Monday its first board of directors.

  • HP drinks to NZ brewer's million dollar spend

    Auckland-based DB Breweries has spent NZ$1 million on datacentre equipment -- including servers and storage solutions -- from Hewlett-Packard to support its SAP rollout which began last September.

  • Mainfreight keeps data in motion

    Auckland-based Mainfreight will undertake three major IT projects, including the building of a "greenfield" datacentre and the migration of SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005, in the first half of the year.

  • HP cuts down internal datacentres

    Giant vendor Hewlett-Packard this week revealed it was consolidating its 85 global datacentres down to just six in a bid to simplify its internal IT infrastructure and rein in costs.

  • Datacentre energy crisis looms

    Datacentres are consuming power at a rate that can no longer be sustained, a new report warns.

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  • Storage-server hybrids coming into vogue

    When designing a data centre, conventional wisdom holds that servers should do the thinking while storage systems should hang onto the data. But some industry heavyweights have begun seeing things a little differently.

  • HP developing 'smart rack' to ease data centre work

    Business executives and bureaucrats are salivating over the potential labour-saving benefits of radio frequency identification technology, and soon technology workers may find reason to be enthusiastic, too.

  • VMware completes storage code testing

    The company says its server software has now been tested for compatibility with products from firms such as EMC, Siemens, IBM and Hewlett-Packard.

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