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Citadel100 inks deal with Mercury CLOUDCOVER for its Mission Critical Data Centre needs

DUBLIN, IRELAND, Dec 10, 2013 (Menafn – Marketwired via COMTEX) –Editors Note: There is a photo associated with this press release. Mercury CLOUDCOVER (MCC), a leading Total Facilities Management (TFM) whole lifecycle service provider, today announced a major contract with

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Microsoft’s Cloud Services Growth Drives Second Expansion of its Dublin Datacentre

Dublin, 3rd December 2013 – Microsoft today announced plans to further expand its Europe Middle East and Africa mega datacentre in Dublin, Ireland. The expansion, due for completion in Spring 2014, represents a new investment of €170m million.   Construction of

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Dataplex opens €23m data centre in Dublin

Dataplex is to open a new data centre in Dublin today as part of a €23 million investment by the firm. The company expects to create 25 jobs at the facility in Dublin 15. Dataplex is already building the second

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A Visual Guide to the Top 10 Supercomputers

The twice-a-year list of the Top 500 supercomputers documents the most powerful systems on the planet. Many of these supercomputers are striking not just for their processing power, but for their design and appearance as well. For a look at

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Cray Unveils New Hadoop Solution For Big Data Analytics

Cray announced a new Hadoop solution, which will allow customers to apply the combination of supercomputing technologies and an enterprise-strength approach to Big Data analytics to high-value Hadoop applications. Available later this month, Cray cluster supercomputers for Hadoop will pair Cray

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Modernizing Vintage Data Centers

Hardware refresh cycles grew longer and more organizations tried to squeeze as much life as possible out of their data center environments. Unfortunately, there came a time when vintage systems could no longer meet modern demands. In fact, because of

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What About Dell’s $1 Billion Cloud Buildout?

Dell has abandoned its plans to offer its own public cloud, shifting to a partner-focused cloud model instead. Most of the chatter has been around what this means for OpenStack. But what does this mean for Dell’s plan to invest

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Modular Data Center Park Planned for Barcelona

An entire campus for modular data centers? That’s the concept for a new project coming together in Barcelona, where the government of Catalonia is teaming with AST Modular on the Barcelona Data Center Cluster, a 320,000 square foot development dedicated

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Google Plans Double Decker Design

Google is looking into expanding its data center presence in Oregon with a new two-story building at its campus in The Dalles. The company has filed plans with local officials to build a 164,000 square foot data center on its 37-acre

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Cray Supercomputer Powers German Weather Service

Cray announced it has been awarded a $23 million dollar contract to provide two Cray XC30 supercomputers and two Cray Sonexion 1600 storage systems to Germany’s National Meteorological Service — the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD). The new systems will enable DWD to produce higher resolution and

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