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Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT

• June 06, 2014 06 Jun'14

  Cloud impact can be as big as the advent of computing itself: EIU report

  Cloud is not just a replacement for older computing platforms, but a change as revolutionary as the advent of computing itself, says EIU report

• May 29, 2014 29 May'14

  BSkyB retunes IT to ready-for-anything datacentre quad

  British broadcaster BSkyB has based its IT on four core datacentres that are resilient, interconnected, energy-efficient and cloud-ready

• May 09, 2014 09 May'14

  Facebook debuts ‘Rapid Deployment Data Centre’ design in Swedish facility

  Facebook is expanding its Luleå datacentre in Sweden by deploying Rapid Deployment Data Centre (RDDC) design developed in collaboration with Emerson Power Network

• April 15, 2014 15 Apr'14

  Greenpeace singles out datacentre firms for lack of energy efficiency

  Greenpeace's new report on datacentre energy efficiency lauds efforts of some tech giants while singles out others for their lack of commitment to green energy

• April 10, 2014 10 Apr'14

  BT and Microsoft to offer secure fast lane to Azure cloud

  Microsoft’s UK cloud chief hails service as critical step in supporting CEO Satya Nadella’s ambitious plans for global cloud dominance

• March 18, 2014 18 Mar'14

  Global taskforce agrees on green datacentre metric

  DCeP hopes to win widespread support as a useful and meaningful standard for measuring datacentre efficiency

• February 25, 2014 25 Feb'14

  Interview: Prepare for the end of the silicon era

  IT breakthroughs are governed by the insights of Intel's Gordon Moore in 1965. IBM fellow Bernie Meyerson believes Moore’s law no longer holds true

• February 24, 2014 24 Feb'14

  Case study: Virtualised storage adds value to Denmark's tunnel vision

  State construction firm Femern selects DataCore system to help speed up Fehmarnbelt undersea odyssey and keep the sharks at bay

• February 11, 2014 11 Feb'14

  Schneider accreditation aims to boost green datacentre skills

  Datacentre supplier offers free vendor-neutral courses and certification through its online Energy University

• February 07, 2014 07 Feb'14

  Amazon nets lion’s share of $10bn public cloud market

  AWS continues its unassailable domination of the sector, despite recent moves by Google, IBM and Microsoft

• January 31, 2014 31 Jan'14

  WIll open source save the datacentre industry?

  IT rivals stand cheek-by-jowl to praise Facebook’s Open Compute Project, but is the love-in a Damascene conversion or just damage limitation?

• January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14

  Microsoft joins Open Compute Project

  Redmond giant makes server specs public in bid to influence future datacentre design

• January 20, 2014 20 Jan'14

  IBM to open London datacentre as part of $1.2bn global cloud push

  New facility first in UK to be based on IBM SoftLayer cloud architecture

• December 06, 2013 06 Dec'13

  Chancellor George Osborne announces datacentre carbon tax break in Autumn Statement

  George Osborne exempts datacentre operators from blanket carbon taxes in exchange for climate change agreements

• December 03, 2013 03 Dec'13

  Microsoft invests in Ireland datacentre

  Microsoft is expanding its Dublin datacentre with a €170m investment

• November 26, 2013 26 Nov'13

  How web giants are making datacentres lean and green

  Facebook and eBay infrastructure chiefs outline their efficiency strategies at DatacenterDynamics Converged conference in London

• October 28, 2013 28 Oct'13

  Six tips to help you negotiate the best deal with your datacentre provider

  Your willingness to negotiate can make a big difference to the deal you get, says Anthony Day, associate at law firm DLA Piper

• October 22, 2013 22 Oct'13

  Interview: Professor Ian Bitterlin, the Green Grid

  Green Grid's Chair Ian Bitterlin discusses datacentre energy efficiency, role of DCIM tools and whether UK and EU CIOs are doing enough for datacentre efficiency

• October 09, 2013 09 Oct'13

  Modular datacentre cheaper than ‘bricks and mortar’ datacentre

  A modular datacentre may cost an enterprise 14% less than a traditional datacentre, according to a research by DCD Intelligence

• October 08, 2013 08 Oct'13

  Case study: Coca-Cola embarks on green IT strategy

  Coca-Cola is aiming to reduce the carbon footprint of its IT. Kevin Sirjuesingh, director of IT strategic initiatives, discusses the plan

• August 06, 2013 06 Aug'13

  Datacentres are a key focus for government’s Green ICT Delivery Unit

  With the growing use of online services for government transactions, datacentres are a key focus of the government’s green IT strategy

• July 29, 2013 29 Jul'13

  Google datacentres awarded ISO 50001 certification

  Google has obtained ISO 50001 certification for its energy management systems in six datacentre facilities across the US

• July 16, 2013 16 Jul'13

  IT energy consumption lower than previously claimed

  Research has debunked the myth that consuming IT and media services on mobile devices is hurting the environment

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  Power supply is top consideration when choosing datacentres, shows study

  Power supply is most important to managers choosing a new datacentre, says UK and European Data Centre Barometer study

• 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.