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Cost governs green IT agenda

Energy costs drive environmental policies

Balancing availability with environmental responsibility

Can businesses guarantee availability without wasting energy?

Energising the Green IT debate

Two new reports on power consumption highlight the urgent need for greater energy efficiency in IT

The new data centre

As the subject of energy use moves ever higher on the IT agenda, efficiency has become the watchword for data centre operations

Mid-sized businesses demand co-location

One in every two medium-sized businesses will have significant co-location requirements in 2008

Crossed wires

Challenging the conventional data centre thinking.

A grand 3G theory

Technology desperately seeking a killer app.

Colocation's hunger for power

Demand for rented data centre space is soaring, but co-location providers are under intense pressure of their own.

Data centre co-location prices set to soar

A shortage of space and power for data centres is driving up prices in the collocation market.

Mobile VoIP causes friction

VoIP functions on handsets give mobile operators a headache.

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Hypervision

Virtualisation threatens to usurp the classic role of the operating system - and reshape the industry.

Wonder drug?

The "magic pill "of virtualisation is not without its side effects.

The space conundrum

Virtualisation is offering data centre managers a compelling solution to the space problem.

Gravitational pull

Centralising IT can result in concentration of power in data centres, which is complex to manage.

Grand designs

What lessons can be learnt from companies that have already invented the data centre of the future?