Data centres may take up a single room of a building, an entire floor, or even the whole building. Generally, the equipment comes in the form of 19-inch rack cabinets where servers are mounted. In order to enable easy access to the front and back of each, the cabinets tend to be placed in “aisles”

In the political world, the argument over whether or not climate change is real is a bitter one. However, in the scientific world, there is a consensus that the world is in fact warming, and that we need to take steps to fix this for the good of the planet. Still, there are many skeptics

In the early Nineties, the United Nations created the Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) treaty, the objective of which is to stabilise greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere to combat the dangerous effects of global warming. One of the chief methods that has been implemented around the world is the introduction of carbon taxes

With the potentially devastating effects of global warming becoming more and more apparent, governments around the world are encouraging businesses to take steps to lower their carbon emissions. In fact, with carbon taxes being introduced, businesses will have even more incentive to reduce their carbon footprint, which is basically defined as the total amount of

Businesses and other organisations of all sizes rely heavily on their data centre in order to run their operations. In this article, we’ll take a look at seven of the most crucial requirements of modern data centres. 1. Continuity For many organisations, if a system was to become unavailable even for a short period of

From July 2012 onwards, polluters in Australian business will need to pay $23 per tonne of carbon released into the atmosphere. This price will increase gradually until the year 2015, when an emissions trading scheme will be introduced that allows the market to set the cost. Many industries will be affected by this carbon tax,

The data centre is without a doubt one of the most important locations for any large organisation. It’s the central repository for all company information, so ensuring that it is well-maintained and working at its optimum level is critical. In this article, we’ll take a look at six different services that data centre experts should

The new carbon tax that will be introduced in Australia as of July 2012 is bound to have an impact on many industries. From increased transport costs to the need for greater efficiency in the IT data centre, we look at eight industries that can expect to be impacted — for better or for worse