• Opinion: Private data centre relevance in a cloud-centric world

  There’s no doubt cloud computing is a very real trend. While many organisations keep their core IT assets in-house and under direct control, nowadays you would struggle to find an enterprise that didn’t make use of any third-party cloud service.

• NextDC awarded ISO quality management certification

  NextDC (ASX: NXT) has received a quality management system certification from the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO).

• NextDC completes S1 base building

  Data centre provider NextDC (ASX: NXT) has received the thumbs up that its Sydney (S1) facility achieved practical completion.

• Telecom NZ completes Revera acquisition

  Telecom New Zealand has announced it has completed its acquisition of data centre and infrastructure services provider Revera.

• Optus delivers cloud services to NextDC data centres

  Optus today announced it will offer its PowerON cloud services at Melbourne-based data centre provider NextDC's sites.

• The future of data centre cooling

  As Westpac Bank recently discovered, keeping a data centre running smoothly can be complicated if you don’t look at alternative cooling methods for when the air conditioning fails.

• Slideshow: Verb IT first with HP Performance Optimised Datacentre (POD)

  Sydney-based Verb IT is the first company in the Asia Pacific region to provision an HP Performance Optimised Datacentre (POD) next-generation data centre in a shipping container. The new Verb DC site where the POD is located is a standard industrial warehouse in Wyong on the NSW Central Coast (one hour north of Sydney). Verb DC is schedueld to go live in September after a 14-week project, including the POD delivery time. In what is being painted as a big win for the Central Coast IT industry, the new POD will provide computing services to local businesses and the world.

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  Data centers go underground

  As Hurricane Ike bore down on Houston one Friday last September, the Continental Airlines' flight operations center, located on the 14th floor of a glass-sided downtown high rise, suddenly went dark. For the airline's pilots and flight crews, however, business proceeded as usual.

• Researchers speed up the chase for cooler data centers

  With energy costs rising and data centers at the core of IT strategy for many companies, cooling the growing number of computers jammed into data centers is an issue that has taken center stage.

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  Inside Internode's data centre

  Computerworld gets an exclusive behind the scenes look inside Internode's Adelaide data centre with network guru Mark Newton

Whitepapers about data centres

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  10 Cooling Solutions to Support High-density Server Deployment

  This paper provides 10 approaches for increasing cooling eficiency, cooling capacity, and power density in existing data centres.