IBM builds greenest data centre

IBM says its data centre at Highbrook business park in Auckland, New Zealand, will be one of the eleventh greenest out of more than 400 data centres it operates around the world when it opens next year, reports Stuff.co.nz.

IBM expects to invest $80 million in the facility over 10 years.

Cloud computing specialist Phil Sheehan says IBM plans to roll out cloud-based services to customers on the back of the centre's opening. Candidates include providing processor power and secure computer storage on a pay-as-you-go basis.

HP has unveiled its Just Right IT portfolio of hardware and software, which it calls reliable, affordable technology for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), states eWeek.

The Just Right IT offerings range from server and desktop PCs to storage products, printers, networking and communications solutions, and virtualisation software.

As part of the offering HP introduced the StorageWorks P2000 G3 Modular Smart Array and the P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance software. This enables businesses with virtualised servers to move shared storage without buying a physical storage area network infrastructure.

The Worldwide external controller-based (ECB) disk storage market experienced robust recovery in the second quarter of 2010, says CIOL.

ECB revenue totalled $4.6 billion, up 21.4% from $3.8 billion in the second quarter of 2009, according to Gartner.

Renewed product-refresh initiatives; expanded deployment of server virtualisation infrastructures, the emergence of desktop virtualisation infrastructures, backup, recovery and archiving modernisation, and new file-based applications drove growth in the ECB disk storage market in the second quarter of 2010.