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Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT

• June 11, 2013 11 Jun'13

  Frimley Park NHS deploys VDI for efficiency and BYOD

  When the NHS trust came under pressure to make its IT budget go further, it opted to deploy VDI in its A&E department

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  AMD launches low-power server processors to rival Intel's Atom

  AMD has launched Opteron X-Series low-power server processors that it claims “beat the top-performing Intel Atom processor”

• March 06, 2013 06 Mar'13

  Iceland prepares to lure Silicon Valley IT giants to build datacentres

  Despite having the facilities to build a green datacentre, big firms such as Apple, Facebook and Google have not opted for a base in Iceland

• March 01, 2013 01 Mar'13

  Verne Global expands green datacentre footprint in Iceland

  Verne Global has selected Colt's UK-made modular datacentres to expand its Icelandic facility

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  Case study: Menzies Aviation upgrades in-house datacentre

  Menzies Aviation has updated its three internal datacentres with new servers, storage and cooling products rather than invest in cloud computing

• January 28, 2013 28 Jan'13

  Travel service provider Concur builds datacentres in Europe to support growth

  Integrated travel and expenses service provider, Concur Technologies, has built colocation datacentres to cater to European customers

• November 21, 2012 21 Nov'12

  Firms must measure overall environmental impact of datacentres

  IT must move beyond just measuring a datacentre’s power consumption to assessing its overall environmental impact to make it truly sustainable

• October 24, 2012 24 Oct'12

  CIO interview: Gerry Pennell, CIO, London 2012 Olympic Games

  As the job of a lifetime nears its end, London 2012 CIO Gerry Pennell talks exclusively to Computer Weekly about his Olympic experience

• 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

• April 10, 2012 10 Apr'12

  Free tool measures how 'green' your data centre is: News roundup

  A free tool to measure data centre energy efficiency; Citrix’s open cloud strategy with its CloudStack platform and Dell’s acquisition of Wyse are this week’s news highlights.

• 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.