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The article reports on the defects on the modernization of the National Health Service (NHS) in Great Britain. 80 NHS trusts in the North West and West Midlands area of England have been without their information technology systems for a while due to storage area network failure of the data center in Kent and the inaccessibility of the back-up systems. As a result, several NHS staff will have to enter the backlog of information that is accumulating up on paper.

The article discusses the factors to be considered in the adoption of cloud computing technology including cost, efficiency and accessibility. Topics include U.S. President Barack Obama administration's Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative arguments on data center servers' idle time as reported by the Treasury Department, the Magellan project report by the Department of Energy and service-level agreements (SLAs). Also mentioned were concerns on security, reliability and privacy.

The article presents a report on the changes in the global data centre sector. It explores the changes in the broader data centre market, the changes in the technology environment and the growth of regional secondary data centres. It also mentions the trend of rising maintenance and energy costs, the growing number of environmental considerations and the possible shift toward selective outsourcing.

The article reviews the several publications discussing issues related to education in Great Britain including "Engineering Skills: Perkins review progress report," by the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills, "FE Data Library: Apprenticeship vacancies," by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Skills Funding Agency and "Child Questionnaire (11 to 15-year-olds: Taking Part survey 2014 to 2015," by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

Data centers consume 1.5% of the world’s energy, a figure which doubled between the years 2000 and 2006, and which will double again in the next five years. On scale with the airline industry, data centers are second only to heavy manufacturing in terms of energy use and, as a result, are a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions. The EPA states that the growth in demand for data centers is driven by increases in electronic transactions in financial services, expanded use of internet communication and entertainment, a shift to electronic medical records for healthcare, and growth in global commerce and services.

The article focuses on the introduction of information technology (IT) in the National Health Service (NHS) of Great Britain. The best project managers in the public sector have been hired for this huge IT project. 80 NHS trusts were affected by the collapse of the data center in Kent, England that supported their IT systems. That data center is operated by one of the 5 local service providers for the NHS Programme for IT CSC Alliance.