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Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT
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May 13, 2013
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May'13
Another datacentre infrastructure management (DCIM) tool hits the market
Digital Realty Trust has become the latest datacentre provider to launch a DCIM service called EnVision
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April 30, 2013
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Apr'13
University of Cumbria to develop a cloud infrastructure
The University of Cumbria is undertaking a multimillion-pound IT project to develop a cloud infrastructure for flexibility and efficiency
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April 08, 2013
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Apr'13
HP targets Moonshot at next generation internet servers
HP CEO Meg Whitman claims Moonshot will be a breakthrough in server computing to power next generation internet applications
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April 02, 2013
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Apr'13
Apple's renewable energy-powered datacentres account for 2% of its carbon footprint
Apple was responsible for 30.9 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions in 2012, but only 2% of that was from its datacentres
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March 18, 2013
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Mar'13
Low energy prices in US attract datacentre investment at Europe’s expense
Low and stable electricity prices are likely to make the US a target for datacentre investment at Europe’s expense
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March 12, 2013
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Mar'13
The Green Grid launches EDE metric to measure datacentre e-waste management
The Green Grid launches Electronics Disposal Efficiency metric to measure how datacentre e-waste is managed
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March 08, 2013
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Mar'13
The Health Lottery picks two datacentres for data security and resilience
The Health Lottery decided to have host its applications on two ideltical datacentres as a disaster recovery good practice and for high resilience
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March 07, 2013
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Mar'13
Case study: How Advania maintains a low PUE in its Icelandic datacentre
Advania's Thor datacentre near Reykjavik uses Iceland's natural energy resources and free air cooling to maintain a low PUE
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March 06, 2013
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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
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March 06, 2013
06
Mar'13
Cheap energy and green credentials lure business to Iceland datacentres
As European businesses are looking to reduce their carbon footprint, many are turning to Iceland to build datacentres
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March 04, 2013
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Mar'13
DCA launches first independent datacentre certification scheme
An independent multidisciplinary datacentre certification programme has been launched by industry body Data Centre Alliance
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March 01, 2013
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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
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February 28, 2013
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Feb'13
European Commission funded project CoolEmAll to develop datacentre toolkit
EC's green IT project CoolEmAll is developing the first prototype of the Simulation, Visualisation and Decision-Support (SVD) toolkit
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February 27, 2013
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Feb'13
Frequent hardware upgrades help optimise datacentre cooling and efficiency
UK organisations must refresh their datatcentre hardware every three years to make systems more power efficient
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February 26, 2013
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Feb'13
Lufthansa Systems modernises its datacentre for higher efficiency
Lufthansa Systems modernised its datacentres to host applications more robustly for its customers