Tagged: Data Centres & News
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The five minute CIO: Germain Masse News
25.05.2012 Welcome to the latest in a series of exclusive interviews on Siliconrepublic.com, where IT leaders share their thoughts on technology trends and strategy. Germain Masse is chief... -
Apple’s Cupertino HQ targeted by Greenpeace activists News
15.05.2012 Two Greenpeace activists today barricaded themselves in a giant Greenpeace version of an iPod outside of Apple’s Cupertino HQ in California. Why exactly? Well the tirade from...Tags: iPod, Apple, iCloud, Data centres, Cloud, Clean Energy, Yahoo!, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Cloud Computing -
Dublin disaster recovery firm Network Recovery acquires Barlan News
16.05.2012 Dublin-based cloud and disaster recovery firm Network Recovery, of which Digicel founder Denis O’Brien is a shareholder, has acquired the entire share capital of Barlan, an IT... -
20 years of the internet in Ireland (timeline) News
15.05.2012 Twenty years ago today Barry Flanagan began Ireland On-Line in his house in Galway, kick starting the internet as a consumer phenomenon in Ireland. We look back at some of the... -
Green handset shipments may reach 392m by 2017 News
09.05.2012 Are we about to witness a massive splurge in green handsets hitting the marketplace? Juniper Research appears to think so, as its latest analysis is predicting that green...Categories: Engineering, Green, Green Tech, Intellectual Property, Mobile, Recycling Services, Sustainability -
Microsoft vows to be carbon neutral by 1 July News
09.05.2012 Microsoft is pledging to become carbon neutral from 1 July across all of its direct operations, including its data centres, software development labs, air travel, and office... -
Greenpeace activists target Apple stores in US and Canada News
25.04.2012 Apple may have reported incredible second-quarter revenues of US$39.2bn yesterday, but that didn’t deter Greenpeace activists, as they staged protests at Apple stores in San...Categories: Green Computing, Green, Sustainability, Servers, Renewable Energy, Multimedia, Green Tech, Data Centre, Computers -
Carlow company to power up London Olympics News
23.04.2012 Whitelite Automation, an engineering firm based in Carlow, has secured a multimillion euro contract to keep the London Olympics powered up via its UPS modules.Categories: Green Tech, Green, Engineering, Engineer, Energy, Data Centre, Renewable Energy, Sustainability -
BT makes multi-million euro investment in Dublin cloud data centre News
28.03.2012 Global telecoms giant BT is expanding its Dublin data centre as part of a multi-million euro investment that will see the addition of 5,500 sq feet of data centre, including 300... -
Apple to build 20MW solar farm at North Carolina data centre News
21.02.2012 In its latest environmental report, Apple has revealed how it is planning to build a 100-acre solar farm around its data centre in Maiden, North Carolina. Apple is also building...Categories: Sustainability, Servers, Science, Renewable Energy, R&D, IT Organisation, Global CIO, Engineering, Engineer, Energy, Data Management, Data Centre, Consumer Tech, CIO -
Digital Realty Trust acquires 10-acre site in Dublin for new data centre News
08.02.2012 US data centre provider Digital Realty Trust has acquired a 10-acre site in West Dublin that will be capable of supporting a massive 193,000 sq-foot data centre requiring 11.5... -
DataCore aims to double Irish customer base in a year News
22.12.2011 Global storage virtualisation software provider DataCore has won four contracts with Irish county councils as it sets its sights on doubling its Irish customer base over the...Categories: Virtualisation, Storage, Software, Management, Leadership & Management, CIO, Investments, Infrastructure Management, Hardware, Contract -
5,000 digital healthcare jobs could be created in Ireland by 2020 News
15.12.2011 Some 5,000 new jobs could be created by 2020 if Ireland seizes the opportunity to establish an International Healthcare Services Centre, which would serve the global healthcare...Tags: Medical, Healthcare, IFSC, Fibre, Cloud, Data centres, Job Creation, IDA Ireland, Enterprise Ireland, HP, IBM, Intel, Supply Chain Management, Philips, -
Facebook on a clean energy mission with Greenpeace News
15.12.2011 Greenpeace has today ended its Unfriend Coal attack on Facebook. Instead, the duo are now teaming up to launch an ambitious clean-energy drive, which will involve encouraging...Categories: Energy, Global CIO, Economy, Consumer Tech, Green Tech, Renewable Energy, Search Engines, Social Media, Sustainability -
Avnet expands distribution agreement with VMware News
07.12.2011 Avnet Technology Solutions has expanded its distribution agreement with virtualisation and cloud giant VMware. Avnet, as a result, will provide VMware virtualisation technology...Categories: Virtualisation, Software & Web Development, Software, Servers, Data Management, Data Centre, CIO -
Rollout of Ireland’s dark fibre network to generate 277 new jobs News
03.12.2011 Some 277 new jobs are to be created in the rollout of dark fibre across Ireland by PiPiper Infrastructure, which is deploying the infrastructure as part of an overall €88m... -
US$300m transatlantic fibre network to arrive on Ireland’s west coast News
02.12.2011 A major transatlantic fibre optic network will come ashore at Belmullet in Mayo in early 2013 that will link data centres in Ireland and Iceland with the financial capitals of... -
Cisco: Cloud computing to grow 12-fold by 2015 News
29.11.2011 Cloud computing traffic globally is expected to grow 12-fold from 130 exabytes to reach a total of 1.6 zettabytes annually by 2015, a 66pc compound annual growth rate, according...Categories: Virtualisation, Storage, Networks, IT Management, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Data Management, Data Centre, CIOTags: Video, high definition, Music, Streaming, Virtualisation, Data centres, Cloud Computing, Cisco -
TelecityGroup plans to add 7.5MW of power in Dublin News
25.11.2011 TelecityGroup, which acquired Irish data centre group Data Electronics in August for €100m, plans in progress to add an additional 7.5MW of incremental customer power, which... -
Hibernia Atlantic in fibre deal with Interxion News
21.11.2011 Transatlantic fibre cable provider Hibernia Atlantic is to host a point of presence for its cable system at Interxion’s DUB2 data centre.