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• Takanini datacentre on track to finish in October: Gen-i

  Gen-i has stated that the company's new Tier 3 datacentre, built along with Revera and currently under construction in Takanini, is on track for completion in early October 2014.

• Datacom extends Kapua data centre capacity

  Datacom has extended its Hamilton located Kapua data centre with two new data floors providing an additional 376 rack spaces.

• Increase rack density to avoid buying new

  Despite the bait dangled by Intel and AMD — twice as much server in the same space every two years — that rule of thumb won’t work for capacity planning. We can’t really count on cores per socket doubling on alternating years, even though I believe it’s likely.

• Thureon launches its 'server room in a box' in US

  Auckland-based engineering company Thureon is stepping on to the international stage at the Interop conference in Las Vegas this week to launch what it describes as a server room in a box.

• 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.

• 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.