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Aircon Maintenance work DC2, Derby

Please note that over the next 3-4 weeks, we will be performing maintenance work on our Airconditioning units in Derby DC2 Hall 2. DC1 and DC2 Hall 1 are not affected. Work will start immediately. The nature of this work means that cooling redundancy levels (the number of standby units available) will be slightly reduced for periods throughout the [...]

New Node4 DNS Servers

Two new DNS servers are now available to customers on the Node4 network. These servers support both IPv4 & IPv6 – they will REPLACE the existing servers. The existing DNS servers will be decommissioned on Friday 13th January 2012 therefore you must update your equipment configurations to use the new servers before this date Old IPv4 [...]

21CN Network Upgrades Affecting BT IP Stream DSL Customers

We would like to advise you of the upcoming 21CN (21st Century Network) upgrade works which will be affecting customers BT IP Stream DSL connections over the coming weeks and months.   The work is required to allow DSL customers to benefit from developments in next generation technologies including higher bandwidth speeds.   Whilst we will aim to make [...]

Global Cooling

Continuing the Green theme from the last post, I’d like to explain a bit about how our new air conditioning system gives us the best possible combination of performance, resilience, economy and flexibility. Our Wakefield site makes use of a technology called free cooling. Well it’s not quite free (these things cost hundreds of thousands of [...]

A Decade As A CCIE

By Chris Pagel, Network Services Manager Being a Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert can actually be a burden. why? Well there’s a perception that CCIE’s know everything about everything and can answer any question thrown at them. Well I’ve been a CCIE for almost ten years now and I still don’t know everything and I never will. [...]

Virtual Reality

By Paul Bryce, Business Development Director, Node4 No, this is not a blog post about virtual gaming or how to make money out of the virtual world of second life, it’s about how virtualisation of servers and applications is fast becoming a reality and with increased focus on economic and environmental issues, it’s probably worth checking it out. Top [...]

It’s Green Up North

By Rik WIlliams, Data Centre Operations Manager How do you make a 3.5MVA N+1 data center Green, yet still cost effective? That’s the big question that Node4 have been wrestling with over the last few months, but we reckon we’ve come up with the solution. Our brand new data centre (DC3) in Wakefield will be one of the [...]

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