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Colt Data Hall

Colt invents new way to build a data centre in four months
Modularity is key

Colt has spent two years on a top secret project. To make data centre production as efficient as building a PC. Now it claims it can create a 500 square metre units in a fraction of the time. They're greener too!

Frank Foxall, CEO Camwood

The Rough Guide to the promised Lan
Windows Migration

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Smog Computing

Cloud computing: is it the perfect cover for criminals?
Yes, says Dom Monkhouse

Your marketing budget could disappear in a cloud, warns a data centre guru. And it's all because nebulous conditions are great for mounting a DDOS raid that could empty your purse in no time
PRAM

EMC plays hard disk green card
Hard discs

Its long awaited Summer product refresh went heavy on the energy saving message.
"Symmetrix DMX-4 is the most energy efficient enterprise storage array in the world, using up to 70 percent less power than competitive offerings," EMC said. And "By placing the right data on the right type of disk drive to meet service levels, customers can reduce the amount of power it takes to store a terabyte of information by up to 91 percent."

Colt creates Hof Haus data centres
Modular data centres

Colt Data Hall Building a data centre is like building an oil rig. You should get most of the work done off site, say the engineerws who created Colts' new modular data centre model



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