data centres
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IBM Finally Opens Sydney SoftLayer Data Centre
When IBM opened its first Australian SoftLayer data centre in Melbourne last year, it promised a second Sydney centre would be open by the end of the year. A few months behind schedule, the Sydney site is now live.
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Microsoft Azure In Australia: How Much Extra You’ll Pay
The good news? Microsoft’s Australian Azure data centres in Sydney and Melbourne are finally open today. The bad news? You’ll pay extra to use them in many cases, and not every service is available at launch. Here’s what you need to know.
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How To Safely Transform To An Agile Data Centre
As Lifehacker covered in ‘The Next Five Years Of IT‘, the modern data centre is no longer a static environment. To stay competitive, you need an agile data centre which can deploy on-premises, pure cloud or hybrid technologies as the need arises. But what’s the best way to effectively manage and deploy those resources? Here’s…
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Here’s A Thought: Data Centres Near Gas Storage Sites
One problem with data centres is excess heat. The problem with liquified natural gas terminals is excess cold. In a perfect world, one problem would neatly cancel out the other — which is exactly the world imagined by Massachusetts-based TeraCool. Coupling data with liquified gas could make a lot of energy sense.
