Articles about datacentres

eBook: Microsoft makes cloud migrations fast and friction free

Cloud adoption has increased significantly as it provides considerable value over traditional datacentres, achieving greater scalability, cost efficiency, and improved performance.

The evolution of the datacentre

Company executives have a lot of big decisions to make when it comes to their datacentres. There is compelling argument to do away with it all together and transfer all the data into some outsourced facility. But there are also reasons to keep the datacentre on-premise. This roundtable dives into the reasons for and against these moves.

Making data green

Greening up a datacentre makes sense, but there are cost implications.

How will the roll out of Microsoft's SA data centres work?

With the advent of Microsoft's local data centres, latency is set to fall dramatically for Azure users.

Azure lands in Africa

Microsoft plans to deliver cloud services from two new South African datacentres.

Sun, Oracle alliance delivers

The new Solaris 10 operating system aims to enable users to lower data warehousing costs by taking advantage of Oracle`s grid technology.