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US data centres consume (and waste) massive amounts of electricity

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Much of the massive amounts of electricity America’s data centers devour supporting our business and online activity is being wasted running computer servers doing little or no work most of the time, according to a report released by the Natural Resources Defense Council. Improved energy efficiency practices could cut energy waste by at least 40 percent, saving over $3 billion annually.

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AT&T and VMware, Inc. will deliver highly secure, flexible bandwidth, low latency private cloud network connectivity for VMware vCloud® Air™ customers using AT&T NetBond(SM). Working together, VMware and AT&T will enable customers to quickly connect to VMware vCloud Air using AT&T's Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) based private network solution.

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Continuing the rapid expansion of its VMware vCloud® Air™ hybrid cloud platform, VMware, Inc. has unveiled new hybrid cloud service capabilities and a new lineup of third-party mobile application services designed to enable enterprise and application developers to better support the dynamic needs of modern businesses.

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VMware, Inc. has announced joint initiatives with Docker, Google and Pivotal to help enterprises run and manage container-based applications on a common platform at scale in private, public and hybrid clouds. The collaboration will enable enterprises to leverage their existing VMware infrastructure as a unified, scalable and secure platform for running and managing enterprise applications whether in a container or a virtual machine or a container within a virtual machine in a platform as a...

VMware unveils EVO: RAIL

VMware, Inc. has introduced VMware EVO: RAIL™, a hyper-converged infrastructure appliance that helps customers streamline the deployment and scale-out of Software-Defined IT infrastructure at the speed of business. VMware EVO: RAIL is the first solution in a family of hyper-converged infrastructure offerings from VMware.

VMware delivers innovations for the open, agile, secure software-defined data centre

VMware, Inc. has announced new virtualization, cloud management and integrated OpenStack solutions that dramatically advance the industry's most complete product portfolio for implementing a software-defined data center, and supporting the dynamic needs of businesses.

Virtus Data Centres appoints Equinix’s Matthew Larbey as Director of Product Strategy

Virtus Data Centres Ltd. has announced the appointment of Matthew Larbey as Director of Product...

Interxion London facilitates Global Transit’s first step towards European expansion

Leading Asian network provider locates at Interxion London to provide connectivity for customers...

Steigende Strompreise in Deutschland – Es ist an der Zeit, mit seinen Daten auszuwandern

Laut dem Vergleichsportal Verivox planen mindestens 32 Stromanbieter ab 01. April eine weitere...

Reliability and maintenance score hih in UPS survey

The annual industry survey from Uninterruptible Power Supplies Limited (UPS Ltd.), which questions...

CloudBees raises $11m in Series C financing

CloudBees, Inc. has closed an $11.2 million Series C financing round. The round was led by Verizon...

Largest second quarter on record for data centre demand in Europe

114 MW of take-up tracked across Europe’s established markets with Frankfurt driving momentum.

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