EU launches initiative to increase use of renewable energy in data centres

RenewIT, a three-year EU project to investigate how datacentres can be designed and operated to make more efficient use of renewable energy, is now underway.

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Datum welcomes financial services solutions provider NetPay Group as latest client

Business critical data centre operator, Datum Datacentres, welcomes on board NetPay Solutions Group as their latest client. As a provider of online and in-store card processing and merchant services, where physical and operational security are of paramount importance for both regulatory compliance and customer confidence, NetPay agreed a multi-year contract with Datum for the provision of highly efficient and flexible colocation services, strategically located on the highly secure QinetiQ Cody...

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Gaps in Microsoft SharePoint are challenging organisations, but there are ways to unlock valuable enterprise information

Nearly 80 percent of users believe that SharePoint needs help to deliver on its ability to make content more findable and accessible, recent research finds. Jeremy Bentley, chief executive of Smartlogic, discusses the gaps in SharePoint's information management and how integrating ‘content intelligence’ applications with SharePoint can help enterprises overcome these challenges.

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IT professionals cautiously optimistic on 2014 revenues, IT budgets, and hiring plans

Spiceworks has announced the results of a new survey analyzing the perceptions small-to-medium enterprise (SME) and large organization IT professionals have of the United Kingdom (UK) economy, government policies and the perceived IT skills gap. Despite new technology initiatives and policies aimed at driving growth, most IT professionals feel the UK remains in a recession. However, IT professionals, particularly those in large organizations, are optimistic that revenue, IT budgets, and hiring...

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100 percent renewable tariff

Optimum, a leading UK data centre owner and operator, has successfully secured its first 100% renewable electrical energy supply contract. The agreement will cover the entire electricity supply at the Optimum data centre facility in Hayes.

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The power of technology

The improving economy heralds a heartening year for UK investment in IT, according to a new survey from American Express Company (NYSE:AXP) and CFO Research, Supporting Growth with New Technologies. Results of the survey show that more than three quarters (76%) of those surveyed plan to increase investments in technology in 2014, with 41% of CFOs planning to increase their spending on IT by 10% or more in 2014.

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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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