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Cloud demand prompts Microsoft data centre expansion

$130 million investment in Dublin DC to support growing regional demand Peter Klein, chief financial officer, Microsoft Corporation, said "This investment shows where we are placing our bets for the future," as demand for Office 365, Windows Live, Xbox Live, Bing and the Windows Azure platform grew. The investment is a further development on the existing $500 million DC infrastructure. "We are delighted to build on the long history of Microsoft investment and partnership in Ireland, starting in 1985. As we expand our Dublin data centre, we remain committed to efficiency and sustainability. Our expanded facility will be 50% more efficient than traditional data centres, and will use renewable wind energy when available. I would like to thank the Irish government and its agencies, particularly the IDA, for its continued support for Microsoft as we grow and invest here," said Klein. Both Taoiseach Enda Kenny TD and Minster for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton TD welcomed the investment and the confidence it demonstrates in the Ireland. "We welcome this significant announcement from Microsoft as Ireland continues to regain its international reputation for investment and business," said an Taoiseach. "Now central to our Action Plan on Jobs we are delighted that our strategy to become the country of choice for data centres is coming to fruition. We very much recognise the role that cloud computing can play in transforming our public sector as well as being a catalyst for economic growth. Through the Action Plan on Jobs we will continue to make the necessary changes to make Ireland more attractive to companies such as Microsoft. As a long term investor we welcome this commitment by Microsoft to Ireland." Minster Bruton said that the government had targeted cloud computing "as a sector with potential for significant job-creation and economic growth for Ireland," and that the announcement endorsed the direction being taken. Microsoft Ireland managing director Paul Rellis said that the investment deepens the company's roots here and allows it to provide governments and businesses throughout the region with high impact cloud services. "Investments like this, by a company of Microsoft's calibre, reinforce our growing reputation as a leading world-wide location in cloud computing," said Barry O'Leary, CEO, IDA Ireland. The new DC "will use renewable wind energy when available," said Klein, and will be up to 50% more efficient than "traditional data centres". "Microsoft has turned up the dial on efficiency in power optimisation of the entire infrastructure of our data centres, enabling us to reduce our carbon footprint and minimize waste," said Christian Belady, GM of Data Centre Services, Microsoft. "This expansion will add a 112,000 square foot Generation 4 facility and create approximately 400 construction jobs over the next 12 months. Once complete, we will employ approximately 50- 70 people to manage the needs of both the existing and expanded facility." The company said that DC makes extensive use of outside air economisation to cool the facility year round, resulting in greater power efficiency with a resultant reduction in carbon footprint and an annual Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) average of 1.25 across the entire facility during peak usage hours. Approximately 99% of all waste at the facility is recycled, including packaging, pallets, crates, and cabling, and it uses only 1% of the water used by other similarly sized data centres in the industry, said Microsoft. 

source: techcentral.ie

Wake up to a career, and good coffee at McDonald's

Named fifth best employer in Ireland for 2012, the multinational fast food chain is investing in its staff in this country via third level qualification opportunities.

"THIS was the longest executive search process that's ever been undertaken," jokes Adrian Crean as he sits in one of the trendy training rooms above the McDonald's restaurant on Dublin's O'Connell Street.

He's not wrong, though.

Last October, Crean became the first Irish managing director of the McDonald's chain in Ireland.

That's something, considering the Illinois icon opened its first outlet here, on Dublin's Grafton Street, back in 1977. For many, it was the first tangible taste of Americana. Today, McDonald's has 81 restaurants in Ireland, 12 of which are company-controlled, the rest run by a tight group of 27 franchisees.

"McDonald's has always been good at creating opportunities for really talented people," he says, sipping on one of the chain's own coffees, which he is at pains, more than once, to point out is made from freshly roasted beans and tastes just as good as anything people can get anywhere else.

11 jobs set to go at Lunn’s jewellers

One of Northern Ireland’s most prominent jewellery retailers is to make more than 10% of its workforce redundant, it emerged last night.

Eleven jobs out of a total workforce of 98 are set to go at the family-run fine jewellery business, Lunn’s, which has been operating for over 50 years.

The diamond specialist has shops at Queen’s Arcade and Victoria Square in Belfast city centre and in Shipquay Street in Londonderry.

Management are thought to have discussed redundancy packages with staff and in a statement, the company said it regretted starting a consultation process, which would lead to a “small number of redundancies”.

Managing director Peter Lunn said the jewellery firm would continue to invest heavily in its showrooms, staff and brand, which is called Portfolio of Fine Diamonds. 

source: belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Ireland reveals plans to cut dole queues

Long-term unemployed not willing to take up training will be penalised. Dublin has reviled its plans to target the dole queues.
Also those claiming state benefits and at the same time working illegally will have their benefits reduced.
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Ireland’s €6.5m boost for applied research

The Irish Government is to inject more than €6.5m in funding into 58 research awards, as part of Science Foundation Ireland’s Technology Innovation Development Award programme. The aim is to ultimately spin out new commericalisable opportunities from Ireland’s scientific research base.

The Minister for Research and Innovation Seán Sherlock, TD, made the announcement this morning about the funding, which is being facilitated by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation.

The investment is being made as part of Science Foundation Ireland's (SFI) Technology Innovation Development Award (TIDA) programme.

Sherlock said the funding would enable SFI-funded research groups to focus on the first steps of an applied research project that may have a commercial impact down the line.

Obama tax proposals could damage American investment in Ireland

The Irish government is worried about President Barack Obama’s proposed changes to his country’s corporation tax regime and fear it may impact on direct foreign investment in Ireland.
Some 600 American companies currently take advantage of the low corporation tax in Ireland but business leaders fear the Obama proposals could damage that.
Irish corporation tax currently stands at 12.5 per cent, considerably less than the 35 per cent rate in the United States.
The Irish Times newspaper reports that President Obama has proposed the imposition of a minimum tax on US companies’ foreign earnings as part of an effort to reduce incentives in the international tax system for US companies to shift income and investment overseas.
The proposals, released on Wednesday, did not state what the minimum tax rate should be when the changes are introduced late next year at the earliest.
The paper states that, at present, US subsidiaries based in Ireland do not have to pay the difference between Irish corporation tax rate and the US rate so long as they don’t repatriate their after-tax profits.
US treasury secretary Timothy Geithner outlined the proposed reforms.
He said: “The president believes we should strengthen the international tax system.

Dell 'won't cut jobs' despite warning of 7pc plunge in sales

COMPUTER giant Dell has no plans to slow down recruitment or cut Irish jobs, despite a warning by the company that global sales will plunge by 7pc in the first quarter of the year.

Sources at the company said a recruitment drive in Ireland would continue, despite the trading warning.

"Recruitment is on-going across a number of business divisions within Dell's operations in Limerick and Dublin at this time," a spokeswoman told the Irish Independent last night.

Dell employs 2,400 staff in Ireland at two large centres in Dublin and Limerick and last year announced plans for further hires as it ramps up research and development (R&D) and specialist customer care in new dedicated business units.

PayPal to create 1,000 Irish jobs

Global online payments firm PayPal has today confirmed plans to create 1,000 new jobs in Ireland over the next four years.

The company is to establish a new operations centre in Dundalk, Co Louth. Recruitment starts in July, with 300 people expected to be recruited by the end of the year.

The company, which is a subsidiary of Ebay, arrived in Ireland in 2003 and currently employs about 1,400 people at its European headquarters in Blanchardstown in west Dublin.

The jobs are supported by the Government through IDA Ireland.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny joined senior company executives and IDA Ireland officials in Dublin to make the jobs announcement this afternoon.

“Today's announcement by PayPal of 1,000 new jobs is great news for Ireland and for the northeast. This is a great signal of confidence in Ireland and in our talented workforce," said Mr Kenny.

The new operations centre will be responsible for customer service, risk prevention, financial operations, merchant services and sales across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

The company is seeking to fill roles across a range of activities including customer support, operations, finance, sales and compliance. PayPal’s operations in Ireland will deal with customers using 14 languages and half of the positions will require individuals with a second language.

“Our new employees will be joining PayPal at an exciting time. Our vision is to help people pay for things anytime, anywhere and on any type of electronic device. We’re reimagining money to work better for consumers and businesses at a time when the line between the online world and the high street is breaking down," said Louise Phelan, vice president of global operations for PayPal in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Plans to expand in Ireland were first mooted in November when The Irish Times  reported that the company was assessing available office buildings in both Dundalk and Limerick. The buildings that were being considered in Limerick included the former Dell plant at Raheen which once housed 1,900 workers.

In addition to premises in Dundalk and Limerick, PayPal also considered...