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• Better chip-cooling with nanotubes

  University researchers have discovered a way to use nanotechnology to boil water very quickly. And that, they say, will help to more efficiently cool computer chips, leading to more powerful and smaller machines.

• Forum: Power worries a wake-up call for datacentres

  Worries about the reliability of our electricity supply and the danger of power cuts this winter are a wake-up call for datacentre operators to put their houses in order.

• Datacentre cooling a hot topic at panel discusssion

  Datacentre operators will go to almost any lengths to avoid an overheated server. Case in point: a financial institution in London suffered a power shortage during a very hot day one recent summer, and was left with no ability to cool its servers and storage.

• NZ datacentres 'irresponsible', says Revera chief

  Most New Zealand datacentre investment is irresponsible in terms of location, sustainability and management, says Revera chief executive Wayne Norrie.

• Revera builds cool next-generation datacentres

  Datacentre outsourcing company Revera has invested up to $10 million in new datacentres to capitalise on the move towards dense computing and virtualisation.

• Climate change arrives in NZ datacentres

  Gartner recently predicted that by 2008 up to 50% of datacentres will be unable to meet the increased power consumption and cooling requirements of high density equipment such as blade servers, but according to operators in New Zealand, the crunch point may already have been reached.

• MetService invests to boost datacentre resilience

  The MetService in Wellington is moving its 100 servers to a new datacentre and investing in new cooling, surveillance and power systems.

• Maxnet expands Albany datacentre capacity

  Datacentres are where it’s at, or at least where it’s going, for Auckland ISP Maxnet, which is spending big on its facilities.

• Dead servers, bad engineering and datacentres

  The business benefits arising from Moore’s Law, which says the number of transistors on a chip will double about every two years, is being turned on its head by the cost of providing power, cooling and other facility support for servers. Those costs now exceed the price of the computing hardware, according to Ken Brill, founder and executive director of The Uptime Institute. In a recent interview, he talked about those escalating costs and outlined what ICT managers can do to improve datacentre energy efficiency, including the elimination of dead servers and more efficient cooling.

• Water-cooling for servers endorsed

  IBM has signed a deal to licence its method of cooling servers with water instead of air to another company, a seal of approval for the emerging technology.