EDITOR'S NOTE

Good morning,

National Australia Bank has shifted into the second phase of a carbon reduction program that will see it trial cogen, trigen and Kyoto cooling, among other data centre buzzword technologies.

Interestingly, one of its reasons for going down this path is that server virtualisation didn't deliver the level of consolidation promised in the brochureware.

Also, reducing the reliance of data centres on the grid is a big talking point right now, particularly as some centres near (or hit) their maximum available power allocation...

-- Ry Crozier

TODAY ON ITNEWS

By Brett Winterford | May 19, 2009

The National Australia Bank (NAB) is trialling radical power generation and cooling technologies in its data centre after being disappointed with the lack of power savings yielded from server virtualisation.

By Staff writers | May 19, 2009

Premium SMS providers will soon be forced to operate a business-hours customer call centre whilst mobile users will be able to permanently bar such services from their account.

By Phil Muncaster | May 19, 2009

The much-heralded Wolfram Alpha computational knowledge engine has finally launched.

By Staff Writers | May 19, 2009

Twitter plans to introduce tools and services by year-end to help businesses serve their customers, and may charge fees for such services, co-founder Biz Stone said.

By Rosalie Marshall | May 19, 2009

EMC has unveiled a web-delivered version of its Atmos cloud storage service.

By David Neal | May 19, 2009

Microsoft has made a number of announcements today designed to boost its standing in the open document standards world.

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