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Preview of the forthcoming DataCentres Ireland 2018 Conference & Exhibition Find out What Makes their Irish Datacentres sector a €5.7 Billion Industry?

DataCentres Ireland 2018 Explains Why Ireland is the ‘Land of Opportunity’ for DataCentres and Data Hosting DataCentres Ireland, is being held at the Royal Dublin Society (RDS) on 20 – 21 November 2018. This free two-day event which brings together

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Facebook’s €300m Irish data centre site is 100pc powered by renewable energy

Every detail for the Facebook data centre in Clonee has been considered, even a plan for saving the bees. Facebook’s new €300m data centre park in Clonee, Co Meath, is powered 100pc by renewable energy and boasts the most advanced

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Novi invests €160,000 in CyberView to help Irish businesses identify hidden threats

Naas, 1st July 2018 – Novi, the cybersecurity and proactive IT provider, today announces the launch of a new service to help Irish businesses identify hidden threats on their networks. The company has invested €160,000 to develop and launch CyberView,

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New INEX internet exchange to open in Cork to boost region

Ireland’s Internet Neutral Exchange Association (INEX) is to open its first regional internet exchange point in Cork to help facilitate faster internet in the region. Founded in 1996, INEX has been providing IP peering facilities to more than 100 members,

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Cloud giant VMware names Irishman Ray O’Farrell its CTO and CDO

In the combined CTO and CDO roles O’Farrell will be responsible for orchestration across all of VMware’s R&D business units and he will lead VMware’s CTO team. Prior to this O’Farrell served as general manager of the Software-Defined Data Centre

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Airspeed in €1.5m investment

Multi gigabit broadband is going to be made available across Ireland as part of a €1.5m investment by fibre and wireless communications player AirSpeed Telecom. As part of the rollout, AirSpeed has struck a deal with forestry organisation Coillte to

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Vodafone confirms spying piplelines linked with mobile networks

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

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Intel Doubles Down on Cores With Itanium 9500 Processor

Intel (INTC) announced the Itanium processor 9500 series Thursday, based on its new microarchitecture. With twice the number of cores, Intel said the 9500 series will provide vastly improved performance scaling and faster I/O speed over its previous generation of

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Panasonic warns of $10bn annual loss

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IBM Global Services Integration Hub to employ several hundred in Mulhuddart

Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton TD, welcome investment by IDA key strategic client. Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton TD, today,welcomed the announcement that IBM is to create

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