Posts Tagged ‘Data’
Landis+Gyr snaps up Ecologic Analytics for grid big data
January 4th, 2012
Meter giant Landis+Gyr has snapped up smart meter data management company Ecologic Analytics, the companies announced on Tuesday. Ecologic Analytics has been around for over a decade and Landis + Gyr was already a minority shareholder in the firm. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Ecologic Analytics makes software that manages all of the data that comes off of smart meters and which is crunched in utilities data centers (these are commonly called meter data management systems, or MDMS).
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European Data Centres Set For Impressive Growth
July 18th, 2011
Over the next five years the data centre sector will grow dramatically, according to a new report from Tariff Consultancy Ltd (TCL), which found that raised floor space will increase by 28 percent on average.
The report also predicted that data centre revenue across Europe will increase by 53 percent over the 5 year period to the end of 2016.
The Tarrif research, “Data Centre Pricing in Europe 2011″, looked at the key data centre markets in 23 European countries. It analysed key data centre players, raised floor space, rack space rental, revenue per square metre and data centre revenues.
Industry Trends
The report also pinpointed some of the key trends that are impacting the data centre industry in Europe. It
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Computacenter Adopts NetApp For Virtual Data Centres
March 22nd, 2011
Infrastructure service provider Computacenter has turned to storage vendor NetApp to build a virtual data centre service for customers.
NetApp’s FlexPod architecture can expand in four directions – increasing storage, network bandwidth, servers or applications, allowing customers to save because they don’t have to invest in infrastructure they don’t need, explained the company at a London launch.
Virtualised Data Centre
Computacenter’s Virtual Datacenter service uses Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) for its infrastructure and VMWare for virtualisation, but Computacenter majored on its agreement to use NetApp FlexPod at the launch.
“Why NetApp, and not Exadata or Vblocks?” asked Neill Burton, data centre solutions director at Compuatacenter, referring to storage products from Oracle and EMC, both of which Computacenter supports. “It was a simple
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