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Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT

• 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

• May 13, 2013 13 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

• April 30, 2013 30 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

• April 08, 2013 08 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

• April 02, 2013 02 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

• March 18, 2013 18 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

• March 12, 2013 12 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

• March 08, 2013 08 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