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Datacentre cooling infrastructure
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October 26, 2012
26
Oct'12
Data Centre Alliance hits out at government CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme
The UK government’s CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme does not help datacentres become more efficient, says Data Centre Alliance
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October 25, 2012
25
Oct'12
Archaic datacentre practices are causing inefficiency, says the Green Grid
Today's datacentre energy practices date back to 1950s resulting in energy waste and high carbon emissions, said the Green Grid
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October 17, 2012
17
Oct'12
Today’s datacentres run at much lower temperatures than necessary
Datacentres are wasting electricity by running at sub-20ºC, as the optimum temperature is 25-26ºC
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October 11, 2012
11
Oct'12
'Big three' datacentre power suppliers hold nearly 50% of the market
Three datacentre cooling infrastructure providers - Schneider Electric, Emerson and Eaton - held 47% of the datacentre energy market in 2011
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October 11, 2012
11
Oct'12
Mason IT scales out with Nutanix platform
Reseller Mason IT explains why it chose Nutanix Complete Cluster for its UK and Icelandic datacentre
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October 08, 2012
08
Oct'12
Global census shows datacentre power demand grew 63% in 2012
Datacentre power requirements have grown by 63% globally to 38GW in the past year, datacentre census shows
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September 28, 2012
28
Sep'12
Google opens €75m energy-efficient datacentre facility in Dublin
Google’s new €75m Dublin datacentre facility that that uses air-cooling for energy efficency is now operational
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September 26, 2012
26
Sep'12
Google to use wind energy to power Oklahoma datacentre
Google has entered into an agreement with the Grand River Dam Authority (GRDA) to use 48MW of wind energy to power its Oklahoma datacentre
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September 26, 2012
26
Sep'12
Microsoft's datacentre energy waste highlights datacentre bad practices
Microsoft has wasted millions of watts of energy in its Quincy datacentre to avoid a $210,000 fine for underuse, according to the New York Times
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September 21, 2012
21
Sep'12
Goldman Sachs adopts modular datacentres to save costs, improve efficiency
In its bid to reduce carbon footprint and save energy costs, investment bank Goldman Sachs has adopted modular datacentres in US, UK and Singapore
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September 19, 2012
19
Sep'12
Green datacentre market to grow from £10bn to £28bn by 2016
Rising energy costs, EU regulations and economic pressure are driving organisations to invest in green datacentres
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February 03, 2012
03
Feb'12
Palmer's College scores on virtualisation, data centre consolidation
Palmer's College's virtualisation and data centre consolidation project did not just improve IT efficiency and scalability, but also saves on data centre cooling costs.
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January 05, 2012
05
Jan'12
Surrey County Council's data centre efficiency project: Case study
The council will replace its existing primary IT facility this spring with a new energy efficient data centre facility which will help it save around £160,000 every year.
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August 04, 2011
04
Aug'11
VMware bows to customers, changes vSphere 5 licensing: News in brief
After facing customer backlash, VMware has raised the virtual RAM limit in its new vSphere 5 licensing model.
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December 10, 2010
10
Dec'10
A quarter of servers shipped in 2014 to support VM technology, says IDC
Almost a quarter of all servers shipped in 2014 will support virtual machine technology, according to report from analyst IDC; and other news in brief.