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Thai flooding to cause HDD shortage in 2012

 10 November 2011

The worst flooding on record in Thailand has hit the hard disk supply chain harder than the Japanese earthquake did in March, says Probrand

Restricted view

 23 September 2011

Many organisations are struggling to meet unpredictable demand for IT services with constrained data centre capacity, Information Age’s latest roundtable debate heard

Despite virtualisation, server sales booming in Europe 

 30 August 2011

IDC finds EMEA server market growing at 12.5% – its fastest rate in seven years

PC shipments drop 15% in the UK

 17 August 2011

Dwindling consumer demand sees PC market decline across Europe, new Gartner research finds

Blade servers seen as a 'mature technology'

 28 July 2011

Western Europe's spending on blade servers increased at a slower rate than its spending on rack architechture, according to research from IDC

Energy innovation

 28 July 2011

Presenters at the Future of the Data Centre 2011 conference discussed the practicalities of energy efficient data centre provision

Businesses driving PC growth, says Gartner

 08 June 2011

Windows 7 driving business PC upgrades, analyst company finds, while consumers find little reason to purchase new computers

An upgrade for HECToR

 31 May 2011

The UK's fastest supercomputer is about to get faster

Smart buildings the "killer app" for Smart Grid, says IDC

 27 April 2011

Systems that monitor and control energy consumption in buildings might be the first breakthrough use of Smart Grid technology, market watcher proposes

Costing the cloud

 22 March 2011

Two views of the cost impact of cloud computing

Use fresh air cooling

 22 February 2011

Turn the UK's dreary climate to your advantage

Allow staff to use their own laptops

 22 February 2011

Why buy more equipment when they're happy to use their own?

The bigger picture

 26 January 2011

The focus of sustainability technology projects is shifting from IT’s own carbon footprint to organisation-wide energy consumption

Data compression

 26 January 2011

Some organisations might be building giant new facilities, but most data centre operators are still focused on density and efficiency

Waiting for the cloud

 24 January 2011

It was not the ‘year of the cloud’ that many had hoped for, but 2010 did see some organisations begin to use cloud computing in earnest

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