The Digital Hub Development Agency (DHDA) has today (15.07.14) announced the appointment of Gerry Macken as its Interim CEO. His appointment follows the departure of Edel Flynn, who served as Interim CEO of The Digital Hub since April 2013, following…
Members of the 90s rock band Live decided data was the new punk rock and started Think Loud, a project to build data centers in four Pennsylvania cities, as well as a fiber line from New York to Northern Virginia.…
This is the third feature in our three-part series on the growing data center market for Bitcoin mining. Read the first one about a new breed of colocation for Bitcoin infrastructure or the second one about the tough economics of…
The revolution in software-defined networking (SDN) that is sweeping the data centre and telecoms industries has been inspired by the collision of virtualisation with advanced processing capabilities, said Dan Pitt, executive director of the Open Networking Foundation (ONF). Pitt was…
Telecom carriers are looking to virtualisation to give them greater agility to compete with web companies such as Google, Facebook and Amazon Web Services, says Bethany Mayer, HP’s senior vice-president and general manager of Network Functions Virtualisation Business. Mayer was…
Ireland has found itself in No Man’s Land amidst a post-Edward Snowden battle between software company Microsoft and US authorities over whether data stored in data centres outside the US can be subject to search warrants. An ongoing legal battle…
Vodafone, one of the world’s largest telecom providers, has confirmed that secret cables exist which connect to mobile networks which allow them to listen and record any conversation across 29 countries. According to the Guardian, the company has reacted to…
Intel has made major moves in the data transfer sector, particularly with regard to cloud computing, and now the chip giant is to release cables capable of transferring data at up to 800Gbps. The new MXC cables will eventually replace…
Tech giant Google is set to expand its presence in Ireland, following the approval of its proposed €150 million new data centre in west Dublin by Dublin City Council. As reported in February, the internet search engine provider will construct…
Facebookhas developed a storage system that packs 1 petabyte of data into a single cabinet filled with 10,000 Blu-Ray optical discs. Facebook hopes to put the Blu-Ray storage unit into production by the end of this year, providing “ultra-cold” storage…
