In the long-running debate about the definition of cloud computing, many cloud-watchers insist that a true cloud must be self-service, allowing users to provision and deploy their own servers. With its new savvisdirect service, CenturyLink is bringing that capability to…
IT organizations are desperate to make their current data centers more flexible and higher performing before resigning themselves to building out new facilities. The capacity (power, space, compute and network) and utilization/load profiles allocated for a facility when it was…
Here’s one thing you can say about the New York Times’ series on data centers and energy: it has the industry talking like never before about its successes and its shortcomings. Here’s a roundup of some of the notable commentary…
3M has developed a data center cooling concept called “open bath immersion cooling,” which it says is simpler and less expensive to implement than other pumped liquid cooling techniques. The system is an example of passive two-phase cooling, which uses…
Despite the hype and claims by large software companies about the miracles of cloud computing, a combined study by Ireland’s National Software Engineering Research Centre (Lero) and NUI Galway has shown that cloud actually results in significant time savings for…
A year after announcing its plans to construct a €75m data centre in Dublin, Google has opened the new centre at Profile Park in Clondalkin, creating 30 roles and bringing the company’s headcount to over 2,500 in Ireland. The new…
Boston-based marketing software firm HubSpot is set to open its European headquarters in Dublin next January and the company is aiming to create 150 new jobs by the end of 2015. HubSpot has announced the January 2013 opening of the…
Businessman Denis O’Brien has funded the new Centre of Cloud Computing which will be based at the National College of Ireland in Dublin. The amount provided by O’Brien hasn’t been disclosed. The new centre will support the development of the…
Internet giant Google is to open its new data centre in Clondalkin, west Dublin, today, that will help run Google’s online services, such as the Google search engine, Gmail and Google Maps. A year ago, Google announced an investment in…
SSI Investments, the parent company of cloud-based learning provider Skillsoft, has acquired the entire share capital – or 80pc – of another Irish e-learning player, ThirdForce plc, which trades under the MindLeaders brand. The all-cash deal was announced on 10…
