A report published by Tariff Consultancy Ltd notes that European data centre revenue is "set to more than double over the five year period from 2010 to 2015, with net raised floor space to increase by 70%, driven primarily by price increases."
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White Paper: Major advancements in UPS and server designs have improved energy efficiency in data centers in recent years. The key to improving overall power efficiency is to look at end-to-end power distribution.
Will the data center of the future have no central UPS units, and be filled with servers with on-board batteries? The data center team at Facebook believes it should.
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Here's a video tour of the Telecity Group's Powergate data center, the newest of eight data centres the company operates in the London market. Powergate can support power densities of up to 20 kW a rack, and is backed by 12 diesel generators.
A roundup of industry news from Ciena, Nortel, Equinix (EQIX), Hibernia Atlantic and Rackspace (RAX).