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Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT

• 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

• March 07, 2013 07 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

• 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 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

• March 04, 2013 04 Mar'13

  DCA launches first independent datacentre certification scheme

  An independent multidisciplinary datacentre certification programme has been launched by industry body Data Centre Alliance

• 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

• February 28, 2013 28 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

• February 27, 2013 27 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

• February 26, 2013 26 Feb'13

  Lufthansa Systems modernises its datacentre for higher efficiency

  Lufthansa Systems modernised its datacentres to host applications more robustly for its customers