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Hong Kong, Australia & Singapore Among Top 20 Data Centre Locations

Hong Kong and Australia are leading destinations for locating a data centre according to a unique study just released by international consultancies Cushman & Wakefield and hurleypalmerflatt.

The Data Centre Risk Index (DCRI) evaluates the top risks likely to affect the successful operation of a data centre in the 20 most important global markets.


"The underlying value of a data centre lies in its infrastructure. Data centre owners can mitigate risk by ensuring their facilities have the capacity to meet current demand for services as well as the flexibility to meet future demand, in terms of technological advances and changing operational requirements," said Cushman & Wakefield Executive Director - Occupier Services Tom Pullinen.
 

Why Data Centers Aren’t Energy Hogs

Kenneth G. BrillWith the impact of IT on corporate power consumption being increasingly in the spotlight, founder of the Uptime Institute, Kenneth G Brill points out that moving ‘’bits’’ instead of ‘’atoms’’ is more energy efficient.

Feng shui & the art of datacentre design

Julius Neudorfer explains how even high-tech facilities can benefit from the principles of ancient arts – and might even prove to be more effective.

Datacentres: no longer your problem?

Facilities folks are used to dealing with hard, physical things. So when a datacentre is viewed as a service does that leave anything left to manage?

Energy management for virtual environments turns a corner

According to a paper just published entitled Virtual Machine Power Metering and Provisioning by Aman Kansal, Feng, Zhao, Jie Liu, Microsoft Research, Nupur Kothari, University of Southern California and Arka Bhattacharya, IIT Kharagpur they have now determined a way to measure teh energy consumption of software and machines operating inn the virtual world. In the abstract to the article the authors go on to explain:

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