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Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT

• 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 27, 2013 27 Jun'13

  PSN and G-cloud prove major advantages for UK public sector, says HMRC

  HMRC has benefited by centralising data storage systems on public cloud and adopting public services network (PSN) strategy

• June 25, 2013 25 Jun'13

  Microsoft to invest $700m on datacentre expansion

  Microsoft is planning a $677.6m (£440m) investment to expand its existing datacentre in West Des Moines, Iowa

• June 20, 2013 20 Jun'13

  Moving business apps to the cloud can yield power savings, shows study

  Moving business apps, including email and CRM, from local IT systems to the cloud could cut energy consumption by up to 87%

• June 19, 2013 19 Jun'13

  Cloud providers must step up green IT efforts, says Greenpeace

  Public cloud giants such as AWS and Microsoft must step up efforts in using sustainable energy, says Greenpeace

• June 14, 2013 14 Jun'13

  Facebook's Arctic datacentre in Luleå, Sweden goes live

  Facebook’s newest datacentre in Luleå, Sweden is turned on to handle live traffic and is storing users’ photos, videos, comments and likes

• June 12, 2013 12 Jun'13

  Colt slashes datacentre power use by 43GWh and saves €4m

  Colt has reduced annual datacentre electricity consumption by 43GWh and saved €4m per year since its energy efficiency programme began

• 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

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  Airport authority cuts server deployment time with Dell’s Active Infrastructure

  Indianapolis airport authority cut its server deployment time from three days to less than an hour with Dell’s Active Infrastructure

• May 30, 2013 30 May'13

  Capgemini wins European Commission's datacentre energy efficiency award

  Innovation and energy efficiency at Capgemini's Merlin datacentre in Swindon has won the 2013 EU Code of Conduct for Datacentres award

• 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”

• May 21, 2013 21 May'13

  EC-funded datacentre efficiency project CoolEmAll releases first prototypes

  The European Commission funded project CoolEmAll has released the first prototypes of tools designed to make datacentres more efficient

• May 21, 2013 21 May'13

  UK ranked safest datacentre location in Europe but lags behind US in global ranking

  The UK has been ranked as the lowest-risk destination in Europe for businesses to build datacentres, a Data Centre Risk Index 2013 shows

• May 14, 2013 14 May'13

  Green Grid highlights crucial role of datacentre facility operator

  A datacentre facility operator should be involved throughout IT lifecycle to optimise energy efficiency and minimise complications