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Parallels have announced the latest patch for Parallels Plesk Panel 9.2 which is now available for download. This release will also available through auto-update.

This point release includes a number of version upgrades and bug fixes. Key areas of improvement include email greylisting, migration utilities for all previous versions of Parallels Plesk Panel and also Cpanel. Also included are stability of upgrades from Parallels Plesk Panel 9.0. For a full list of new features and bug fixes, please refer to the release notes for the appropriate version.

Parallels Plesk is available on all Coreix Linux and Windows Dedicated Servers.

Dell has announced a partnership with the company that will see Dell use its 6Sigma DC virtual data centre modeling tools in its efforts to peddle products and services. These days, IT shops are not just looking to replace servers and storage to support more workloads or just make existing ones go faster. They want help reducing costs on the IT infrastructure as well as the means of improving efficiencies and reducing costs in the facilities that wrap around that infrastructure.

Albert Esser, vice president of power and infrastructure solutions at Dell’s Product Group says that the company does not have the luxury of doing data centre engagements with “armies of consultants,” as IBM and HP can certainly do. It will instead rely on tools to assess current data centers and then model changes to them to see the effect of new gear, new cooling gadgetry, and other technologies inside the data centre before the customer commits to the plan.

Source: The Register

The Planet has announced plans for its first international data centre, located in London. Based on significant customer demand for both international and globally redundant hosted infrastructure, the company initially will offer its virtual racks solution when its centre opens in April. Preleasing begins immediately. The data centre features up to 20kW of power per rack, backed by N+1 redundancy on generators, transformers and UPS systems. Customers gain access to a 10GB private fiber interconnect to The Planet’s core network through its Ashburn, Va., data centre, as well as local connectivity to Tier-1 providers and the major European peering exchanges.

The Planet has forged a colocation agreement with TelecityGroup, which operates 20 network-independent data centres across seven European countries. Procedures in the new facility comply with ISO 9001:2000, which benchmarks quality processes for data centre operations and management. TelecityGroup is highly regarded for both its premium data centres and operational expertise. It is also taking the lead in driving energy efficiency in the data centre in Europe as the first data centre operator to sign up to the new “EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres.” It is also a member of the Green Grid.

Source: Market Watch

About half of data centres are responding to the economic crisis by cutting their budgets an average of 15% for 2009, according to a new survey by the AFCOM Data Center Institute.

While the overall cuts were “surprising low” in the view of Jill Eckhaus, the CEO of the Association for Computer Operations Management (AFCOM), she said she doesn’t want to minimize the impact those cuts will have on the 49% of affected data centres. Eckhaus said the low number of data centres making cuts indicated their importance to the businesses. And while half are cutting, the budgets for the remainder are staying the same or going increasing. That’s important, because it wasn’t long ago when data centres “used to be known as the money pit,” she said.

Source: Computer World
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Dell was mum about its containerised data centre designs. But once the company announced it would supply the servers behind Microsoft’s Azure compute cloud and Microsoft said it was embracing containers in a big way, it was only a matter of time before Dell opened up a bit and explain its container plans – intended for “a select number of customers.”

Dell’s data centre shipping container package – code-named “Humidor,” if you trust the graphics files that give us an outside and an inside view of the containers – is not a traditional commercial product, but rather a custom product that Dell’s Data Centre Solutions unit has cooked up for the several dozen customers in the world who have tens or hundreds of thousands of servers and who are trying to get out of building hundreds of thousands of square feet of data centre as they roll out infrastructure. The DCS unit is kicking out tens of thousands of servers itself and is one of the bright spots in enterprise sales at Dell.

Source: The Register
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