Blackout disruptions show no sign of going away

Electrical blackouts could cost the UK economy billions of pounds and with the number of incidents on the rise, organisations are being warned not to underestimate the threat to supply. These are just some of the conclusions from Eaton’s latest annual Blackout Tracker UK Report that provides a comprehensive overview of power outages in 2014 and their potentially disastrous effects.

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SUSE and Veristorm bring Hadoop solutions to IBM z and Power Systems

Customers use Linux to effectively process big data for better business decisions.

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Huawei and SAP cooperate on Industry 4.0 and IoT

Huawei has revealed an expanded partnership with SAP to establish joint innovation efforts in Shenzhen, China and Walldorf, Germany. The SAP-Huawei joint innovation efforts will focus on establishing a technical collaboration between SAP and Huawei, and to advance research on the Internet of Things (IoT) to provide new solutions to market.

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Combining Big Data and predictive modelling

Building on its reputation as the leader in predictive cost and performance management in the data center, Romonet today announced the latest release of Romonet Portal, its advanced data center analytics service: along with a range of new and updated products to cover the needs of those involved in running or looking to invest in data centers.

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Siemon publishes white paper on low loss fibre in the data centre

Siemon has published a white paper entitled ‘The Need for Low-Loss Multifibre Connectivity in Today’s Data Centre’. The paper considers optical insertion loss budgets, of particular concern for data centre managers in today’s large, virtualized server environments, with longer distance 40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet backbone switch-to-switch deployments for networking and storage area networks (SANs).

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Dirty Looks has committed to move all its computing onto Deep Green’s heat re-use data centres in...
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Equinix Insider - White Ops President & COO, Eddie Schwartz

Eddie has over 25 years experience in information security, including recent work as the CISO of RSA, the Security Division of EMC, and Co-Founder/CSO of NetWitness.

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