Data Center

Meta will use geothermal energy to run its data centers

The company says the move will significantly increase the use of geothermal energy in the United States.

By Viktor Eriksson

27 Aug 20241 min

Data CenterGenerative AIRenewable Energy

NZ Fry Up: CDC’s hyperscale data centres; Funding for Māori research, science workforce; National Security Strategy; Input sought on biometrics; Microsoft pledges carbon free data centres

By Louis van Wyk

21 Aug 20225 mins

CareersData CenterSecurity

Q&A: Computer chip start-up CTO: Our business isn't boring — or a career dead end

By Lucas Mearian

09 Aug 202211 mins

Augmented RealityCareersIT Jobs

Articles

Apple, the move to renewable energy, and why it matters

Apple's decision to pivot to services and subscriptions means that 40% of its gross revenues after costs in the last quarter came from those sources. But what about the energy needed to drive them (and build on them down the road)? Apple's thought about, too.

By Jonny Evans

29 Jul 2022 5 mins

AppleData CenterEnterprise Mobile Management

NZ Fry Up: Colocation centre lands in Southland; Kiwi workers want recognition on deliverables; Hi-Tech awards finalists revealed; A/NZ startup hub

New Zealand IT, tech, and telco news and views from our correspondent in the Central North Island.

By Louis van Wyk

03 Apr 2022 5 mins

Data CenterIT Leadership

Multicloud savings banked, Auckland Council pursues vision of ‘spot pricing’

ICT director credits his ”bloody good team” as New Zealand's biggest council aims to sell its innovations to others.

By Rob O'Neill

23 Feb 2022 4 mins

Cloud ComputingData CenterIT Leadership

Huawei supports the ICT and business requirements of Digital DEWA

07 Jul 2021 4 mins

Data Center

5G, IoT, SaaS to drive Netherlands data centre growth

Government initiatives and enterprise deployment of IoT, 5G, SaaS, and AI applications will fuel an increase in data centre investment, leading to additional cloud and hosting options for companies, according to an Arizton Advisory & Intelligence research report.

By Marc Ferranti

01 Jul 2021 4 mins

5GIoT PlatformsSaaS

AWS now offers Mac mini in the cloud

Developers can now build across all Apple's products using hosted Mac minis on AWS.

By Jonny Evans

01 Dec 2020 5 mins

AppleCloud ComputingData Center

How City of Unley is delivering its digital strategy

From hyperconverged infrastructure to smart cities, South Australia’s City of Unley rebuilds its infrastructure to deliver better services to the community.

By Samira Sarraf

21 Oct 2020 7 mins

Cloud ComputingData CenterGovernment IT

Scaling down: How Joval Wine Group saved on IT costs during COVID-19

While most companies that move to the cloud do so for the ability to scale up as the business grows, Australia’s Joval Wine Group needed to scale down during COVID-19 when orders slowed down.

By Samira Sarraf

02 Aug 2020 5 mins

Cloud ComputingData Center

How AusPost dealt with Christmas parcel volumes in April

With an unprecedented amount of mail suddenly coming through, the Australia Post digital applications team was relieved they had just done a peak load readiness check.

By Samira Sarraf

26 Jul 2020 4 mins

Cloud ComputingData CenterRetail Industry

Not only cars, also data centres could be powered by fuel cells

Bosch and Ceres Power show a fuel cell based PDU prototype for data centres

By Sander Almekinders

04 Mar 2020 8 mins

Data Center

Top software failures in recent history

The biggest software failures in recent history including ransomware attacks, IT outages and data leakages that have affected some of the biggest companies and millions of customers around the world.

By Computerworld UK Staff

17 Feb 2020 14 mins

Data CenterRetail IndustrySmall and Medium Business