We filmed at a massive data centre in Slough run by the American firm Rackspace.
The server problems are believed to have originated at RIM's UK data centre in Slough.
Nissan intends to use telemetry to send information to a global data centre from every LEAF sold.
Microsoft has blamed an overheating data centre for a 16-hour shutdown of its Outlook and Hotmail systems.
Tech Hub will develop start-up businesses and Infinity, a provider of data centre services, will be based there.
Many Indian businesses get by without a calculator, let alone a data centre.
When he first returned to the data centre on Tuesday last week he was struck by his colleagues' gallows humour.
It has asked Beijing to approve the building of a data centre in China, reports the Wall Street Journal.
The very act of shifting from an in-house data centre to an on-demand service can start a powerful discovery process.
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Morgan Stanley was able to open for business this week because it had a duplicate back-up data centre located outside Manhattan.
Netflix also uses the Amazon data centre that went on the blink, but avoided any problems as a result of this.
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According to TechEye, Intel may also announce a new chip aimed at the data centre processing market and an alternative to Xeon.
Windows 2000 looks almost certain to succeed, eventually taking Microsoft, for the first time, into the inner sanctum of the corporate data centre.
In a few years, thanks to the efforts of millions of developers working on improvements and fixing bugs, Linux should be ready for the data centre.
This allows the heat to be drawn off by the usual currents in liquids and can thus save greatly on the cooling costs of a data centre.
"This past year, unlike the US they were not a record globally but they certainly were warm, " said Thomas Karl, director of Noaa's National Climatic Data Centre.
Cisco will soon start selling servers, and has formed an alliance with several smaller hardware and software firms to build, in effect, a data centre in a box.
If it goes ahead, the computer data centre would provide services for a number of companies and would be powered by tidal energy rather than rely on fossil fuel.
He still goes to the plush data centre in Nicosia to manage the technical transition that goes with the sale of the Greek arm of the bank to Piraeus Bank.
Yet for the vision to become reality, something is still missing: a set of tools to manage all these computing resources an operating system for the data centre, if you will.
In essence this means that the servers in a data centre are turned into a pool of computing power to be tapped into as needed rather than being used individually.
For computing to become a utility, which is the promise of the cloud, a data centre cannot be a hotch-potch of boxes cobbled together from different vendors, but must be tightly integrated.
"I think it's just an after-the-fact excuse, " said Sean Blaney, senior botanist at the Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre, who first brought the image to the attention of the broadcaster CBC.
The ultimate goal of virtualisation is to make a data centre, or even several of them, look like a single pool of computing, storage and networking resources that can be allocated as needed.
"When you do an internet search your data goes into a data centre and the information wanted might not be on just one chip or even one rack of chips, " he told the BBC.
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The firm's user base has tripled since last year - it now has 30m users worldwide, and a data centre based in China could open a market that currently has 500 million internet users.
Gaikai, headed by David Perry, has taken a different road from OnLive, which uses a dedicated application in effect to open a remote session with a data centre and deliver access to entire games.
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Bruno Michel, manager of advanced thermal packaging at the laboratory, reckons the heat from a medium-sized data centre one consuming a megawatt of power would be enough to warm about 70 houses within a range of 3km.
Davies Murphy Group's Chris Green said companies would worry about their lack of control over the new process even though it did not rely on a third-party's data centre to update what might be sensitive files.
The tests simulate both normal circumstances as well as preparing the team for the unexpected, with tests of how data will be crunched in the event of a data centre fire, virus infection or other crises.
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