'It was raining in the data centre': Facebook's disaster
June 12, 2013 | SALVADOR RODRIGUEZ FOR LA TIMES (VIA SMH)
In the early days of Facebook's first data centre, an actual indoor rain cloud brought down the company's web cloud, according to Jay Parikh, Facebook vice president of infrastructure engineering.
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Switch on to new power thinking
June 12, 2013 | MAHESH SHARMA (VIA SMH)
Data centre managers are putting their revenues at risk by persisting with old power management techniques.
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Formula 1 McLaren partners IO for green data centres
June 11, 2013 | CAROLINE NG
IO has tapped into McLaren’s performance expertise to power more efficient data centres.
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SingTel forum: Living in a volatile world
June 11, 2013 | ROSS MILBURN
Exploiting information intelligence to achieve business productivity and agility was on the agenda at the i.luminate 2013, one of Hong Kong's largest ICT shows.
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Cisco overtakes IBM as top cloud hardware provider, research firm says
June 11, 2013 | BRANDON BUTLER
$9.7 billion market of supplying hardware to build clouds is facing headwinds though.
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New York's Uptime Institute awards design certification to Malaysian data centre
June 11, 2013 | AVANTIKUMAR
The Tier III Certification is a big win for Malaysia and is the second distinction given to the country's largest data centre, says CSF Group's chief executive officer Adrian Yong.
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What China's supercomputing push means for the U.S.
June 11, 2013 | PATRICK THIBODEAU
China is developing its own software and building its own infrastructure to create a tech industry, says a top computer scientist at the DOE's Argonne National Laboratory
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BLOG: 10 things the CEO can do to drive digital
Forrester held its European Business Technology Forum in London this week -- a convocation ofCIOs, Enterprise Architects, Infrastructure and Operations Professionals, Security and Risk Professionals, and Sourcing and Vendor Management Professionals.
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BLOG: The day human privacy died
Just lamenting is not enough to save human privacy and dignity.
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BLOG: India’s ecommerce woes: Managing logistics challenges in India
Coca-Cola recently announced that it is jumping into the red-hot Indian online retail arena by selling directly to consumers and small businesses
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BLOG: A new service architecture for business innovation
The IT services industry is being challenged on two opposite fronts.
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BLOG: Google acquires Waze: what it means
Maps are only growing in importance as they become the primary portal on mobile phones for a growing list of information and services.
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