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Marriott takes disaster recovery underground

Marriott takes disaster recovery underground

Marriott is about to become the largest private datacentre customer in Iron Mountain's 145 acre 'underground city'.

E.on's roadmap to reduced energy consumption

E.on's roadmap to reduced energy consumption

Real business drivers for 'Green' or sustainable IT are now very clear, despite the industry hype and greenwashing. The question for CIOs and IT managers is not 'should I be doing something about Green IT' but 'how do I implement Green IT?'

Servers go front and centre

Servers go front and centre

General Motors might be globalising its business, but in the area of servers, the auto-maker is thinking small.

Gannett’s virtualisation vet lets us pick his brain

Gannett’s virtualisation vet lets us pick his brain

Eric Kuzmack, IT architect at Gannett newspaper publisher talks about using virtualisation, and the problems of supervising an enormous IT infrastructure.

LinuxWorld: eBay imparts datacentre knowledge

LinuxWorld: eBay imparts datacentre knowledge

Imagine creating and managing a datacentre that handles 241 million registered users and sells a car a minute, an auto part every second, and a piece of diamond jewellery every two minutes.

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Welcome to world's largest supercomputing grid

Welcome to world's largest supercomputing grid

With 20 petabytes of storage, and more than 280 teraflops of computing power, TeraGrid combines the processing power of supercomputers across the US

Sun teams with Intel, aims for broader x86 user base

Sun teams with Intel, aims for broader x86 user base

The direction that one enterprise has embarked upon illustrates why Sun announced last week that it's opening its doors to Intel chips once more.

Want to cool your data centre? Plant greenery on the roof

The next step that one ISP intends to take to improve the energy efficiency of his data centre is to put a layer of earth on the roof.

Simplify the workplace with IT data centre consolidation (part 2)

Data centre consolidation is all the rage again, but today's payoff is more about agility than mere cost savings. Here's how a range of organisations have managed to shrink IT -- and stay in one piece.

Simplify the workplace with IT data centre consolidation (part 1)

Data centre consolidation is all the rage again, but today's payoff is more about agility than mere cost savings. Here's how a range of organisations have managed to shrink IT -- and stay in one piece.

Scottish banking organisation does double take

Ten thousand Scottish bankers rely on Double-Take replication between their chartered institute's data centres for disaster recovery.

Procter & Gamble finds IT innovation is best bet

Supporting sprawling business operations seamlessly across 86 countries would challenge any IT team, but at Procter & Gamble, a company known for innovation, even this is not enough. Since the IT organisation at the 169-year-old consumer products titan was merged into its shared services business in 2005, chief information officer and global services officer Filippo Passerini has challenged the IT team to live up to the company's reputation for creativity.

Procter & Gamble finds IT innovation is best bet

Supporting sprawling business operations seamlessly across 86 countries would challenge any IT team, but at Procter & Gamble, a company known for innovation, even this is not enough. Since the IT organisation at the 169-year-old consumer products titan was merged into its shared services business in 2005, chief information officer and global services officer Filippo Passerini has challenged the IT team to live up to the company's reputation for creativity.

Procter & Gamble finds IT innovation is best bet

Supporting sprawling business operations seamlessly across 86 countries would challenge any IT team, but at Procter & Gamble, a company known for innovation, even this is not enough. Since the IT organisation at the 169-year-old consumer products titan was merged into its shared services business in 2005, chief information officer and global services officer Filippo Passerini has challenged the IT team to live up to the company's reputation for creativity.

Biggest is best for Chevron’s projects

Petrol giant Chevron accumulates data at a rate of 2 terabytes a day, or 23MB every second. But accommodating this data is seen as neither a technical challenge nor a financial burden – it is an opportunity, says Gary Masada, corporate chief information officer and president of Chevron's Information Technology Company (ITC). "You have this information – how are you going to search it and use it?"

AlphaServer users face hardware decisions

HP will sell its last new AlphaServer system late next month, forcing users to decide whether to make one last hardware upgrade or move to a new platform.

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