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Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT

• December 01, 2015 01 Dec'15

  Bill Gates spearheads climate change initiatives

  A group of IT entrepreneurs, CEOs, investment gurus and dignitaries have announced an alliance at the Paris 2015 Climate Conference to fund clean energy research

• November 19, 2015 19 Nov'15

  The Green Grid warns datacentre operators not to ignore local effect of their activities

  Given the growing amount of space and resources datacentres are eating up, The Green Grid has urged operators to consider the impact of their actions

• November 16, 2015 16 Nov'15

  Nordic enterprises to enjoy cheaper datacentre costs

  A reduced electricity tax rate for datacentres in Norway will give local enterprises a competitive option close to home

• November 13, 2015 13 Nov'15

  Case study: Eir embarks on datacentre consolidation to support quad-play telco growth

  Irish telco Eir shares details of its datacentre consolidation project and explains why investing in a robust UPS was a must

• November 11, 2015 11 Nov'15

  Atos embarks on datacentre refurbishment project push with ICTroom in Europe

  Atos has formed an alliance with ICTroom to help speed up the time it takes for enterprises to complete datacentre consolidation and refurbishment projects

• November 04, 2015 04 Nov'15

  TechUK issues six-point plan to help the government work better with SMEs

  Technology association applauds government's efforts to engage with SMEs, but says more must be done to make it easier for smaller firms to do business with the public sector

• November 02, 2015 02 Nov'15

  Australia's outsourced datacentre market rising on back of cloud computing

  Datacentre investment in Australia is growing fast as corporates use data-intensive applications delivered via the cloud

• October 23, 2015 23 Oct'15

  Hydro66 opens world’s first 100% hydroelectric datacentre in Sweden

  Hydro66 claims its facility’s location and source of power should help enterprises cut their co-location costs

• October 15, 2015 15 Oct'15

  Intel revises down growth forecast for datacentre business division

  Chipmaker Intel blames the weakening macroeconomic situation – with continued delays in hardware refresh cycles – in its datacentre business forecast revision

• October 06, 2015 06 Oct'15

  Enterprise IT spend on non-cloud infrastructure set to slump in 2015

  IDC research shows enterprises are spending more on cloud-enabling hardware, and are set to for the next five years

• September 28, 2015 28 Sep'15

  NHS hospital hails cost benefits of datacentre consolidation project

  Conquest Hospital claims sever room upgrade has made its operations more cost effective and energy efficient

• September 28, 2015 28 Sep'15

  Apple's Irish datacentre build hit by possible planning permission appeal delay

  A "valid appeal" has reportedly been raised in response to Galway County Council's decision to grant conditional planning permission for Apple's Irish datacentre build

• September 24, 2015 24 Sep'15

  Equinix signs deal to drive up green energy use in US datacentres

  Datacentre giant sets out plans to drive up its green energy use worldwide with new power purchase agreement

• September 24, 2015 24 Sep'15

  Enterprises warned off rushing into software-defined datacentre investments

  Market watcher Gartner has urged users to take a cautious approach to software-defined datacentre investments

• September 24, 2015 24 Sep'15

  Microsoft Azure partners with DataStax

  Microsoft Azure and Cassandra company DataStax announces a partnership that will see the DataStax Enterprise package available on the Azure cloud platform

• September 23, 2015 23 Sep'15

  IT buyers waste money using Tier III datacentres for non-critical workloads, claims IO

  IO's UK managing director claims datacentre users could save money by wising up about how much availability and resiliency their apps and workloads really need

• September 16, 2015 16 Sep'15

  Datacentre consolidation drive saves US federal agencies $2bn

  IT reforms pushed through by White House spending watchdog generate $3.6bn in overall savings

• September 10, 2015 10 Sep'15

  All-flash datacentre makes sense for 80TB+ of mixed workloads says IDC

  IDC white paper author says secondary economic benefits of flash storage – $/IOPS, density, power and cooling and server utilisation – mean all-flash makes sense above 80TB

• September 08, 2015 08 Sep'15

  Equinix buys Japanese datacentre firm Bit-isle to tap into Asia-Pacific cloud demand

  Datacentre giant Equinix reveals details of its latest acquisition target, Japanese firm Bit-isle, to meet demand for cloud and hosting services in the Asia-Pacific region

• September 04, 2015 04 Sep'15

  VMworld Europe User Awards 2015 open for entries until 18 September

  The VMworld Europe User Awards entry deadline has been extended to 18 September. Find out how to submit your nomination here

• August 28, 2015 28 Aug'15

  Demand for datacentre co-location services rises, as enterprise outsources more IT

  Demand for co-location services is rising, with enterprises preparing to pay more to outsource their IT, 451 Research reveals

• August 25, 2015 25 Aug'15

  Norwegian mountain houses Europe's biggest datacentre

  Lefdal Mine Datacenter sets out plans to build an underground facility spanning six floors in a Norwegian mountain

• August 20, 2015 20 Aug'15

  Tintri dives into all-flash storage with the T5000 series

  Tintri is the second hybrid flash storage startup of the summer to debut an all-flash array series, the T5000, with two capacity variants for transactional and VDI workloads

• August 07, 2015 07 Aug'15

  Emerson Network Power makes case for datacentre PUE calculation overhaul

  Datacentre power expert makes case for the amount of water a facility consumes to be included in PUE calculations from now on

• July 14, 2015 14 Jul'15

  AWS to build wind farm in North Carolina to power its cloud datacentres

  AWS follows up earlier renewable energy pledge by setting out plans to build 208MW wind farm

• July 10, 2015 10 Jul'15

  IBM squeezes more out of chip technology with 7nm breakthrough

  IBM has worked with Samsung and silicon chip researchers in an attempt to push the limits of chip technology

• July 08, 2015 08 Jul'15

  Facebook builds wind-powered datacentre in Texas

  Social networking giant Facebook adds momentum to green datacentre trend with plans to power a datacentre in Texas with a 17,000-acre wind farm

• July 01, 2015 01 Jul'15

  Datacentre upgrades emerge as top priority for medium to large-sized operators

  451 Research suggests operators are looking to consolidate smaller server rooms and move more workloads to larger, centralised datacentres

• June 26, 2015 26 Jun'15

  Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015 winners revealed

  The winners have been announced for the Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015. See who made the top spots

• June 26, 2015 26 Jun'15

  Google builds energy-efficient datacentre in US coal power plant

  Internet giant Google has said it intends to use a decommissioned coal power plant's infrastructure to deliver renewable energy to its next US datacentre

• June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15

  British Gas to power more of its business using public cloud from 2017

  Energy supplier says public cloud move will boost its business agility while cutting costs

• June 22, 2015 22 Jun'15

  Interview: Christina Page explains how Yahoo keeps its datacentres green and clean

  Yahoo's global director for sustainability explains why cloud providers need to get clued up on renewable energy

• June 19, 2015 19 Jun'15

  Goldman Sachs datacentre deal sees IO open first European site in Slough

  US datacentre provider IO has opened its first facility in the UK, with the help of global investment bank Goldman Sachs

• June 16, 2015 16 Jun'15

  Facebook confirms plans to build second European datacentre in Ireland

  Social networking giant Facebook puts paid to weeks of speculation by confirming plans to open new datacentre in Ireland

• June 11, 2015 11 Jun'15

  Greenpeace ranks world's most popular websites on renewable energy use

  Campaign group releases Chrome browser extension that gives web users at-a-glance information on the clean energy habits of internet sites

• June 05, 2015 05 Jun'15

  "Arrogant" datacentre operators blasted by users for poor customer service approach

  Research from MigSolv suggests many customers are unhappy with the service they receive from their datacentre providers

• June 01, 2015 01 Jun'15

  Microsoft seeks planning permission for another Dublin datacentre

  Software giant will have to wait until August to see if the application for its latest Irish facility has been accepted

• May 27, 2015 27 May'15

  Transformation of Sweden's Ericsson showing signs of success

  Recent announcements point to a very different future for one of Sweden’s best-known ICT brands

• May 11, 2015 11 May'15

  Fujitsu embarks on 10-year datacentre upgrade project in Australia

  IT services giant embarks on push to improve the reliability and performance of its Australian datacentres by 2025

• April 23, 2015 23 Apr'15

  Rackspace opens Crawley datacentre for European cloud users

  Rackspace talks up economic and environmental benefits of latest addition to its global datacentre portfolio

• April 21, 2015 21 Apr'15

  Fife Council approves £100m green datacentre building plans

  Development of green datacentre campus designed to help Scottish businesses tap into cloud computing trend

• April 17, 2015 17 Apr'15

  Equinix opens new Slough datacentre to answer CIO cloud demands

  Equinix's UK MD explains why its chosen to increase its datacentre footprint once more in Slough

• April 16, 2015 16 Apr'15

  Solihull Council's datacentre plans slammed by G-Cloud champions

  Solihull Council is building a new datacentre with 10-20 years of capacity, much to the chagrin of industry watchers

• March 25, 2015 25 Mar'15

  Atomic Weapons Establishment to build supercomputer for Trident simulations

  The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) builds HPC cluster based on SGI ICE XA system to support Trident programme

• March 19, 2015 19 Mar'15

  Deutsche Telekom and Huawei build a private cloud in a box

  Deutsche Telekom and Huawei are working together to develop IT infrastructure and private cloud products and services.

• March 19, 2015 19 Mar'15

  Government creates Crown Hosting venture with Ark Data Centres

  Cabinet Office signs seven-year joint venture agreement with Ark Data Centres to create Crown Hosting Service

• March 18, 2015 18 Mar'15

  Interview: Building the 'world's greenest datacentre' in Falun, Sweden

  The world’s first datacentre operating to mutual advantage with the district's heating and energy systems is being built in the Swedish town of Falun

• March 16, 2015 16 Mar'15

  IT priorities 2015: What's driving datacentre investments in 2015?

  Datacentre consolidation and infrastructure upgrades are top areas for IT investment in 2015

• March 12, 2015 12 Mar'15

  Greenpeace targets users in renewed clean energy datacentre push

  Environmental campaign group Greenpeace outlines its green technology push at Cloud Expo – but says AWS could do better

• March 06, 2015 06 Mar'15

  Telehouse's £135m datacentre to open in London in 2016

  London datacentre provider reveals further details about the forthcoming opening of its new facility in London Docklands

• March 06, 2015 06 Mar'15

  Mobile World Congress: Huawei proposes green network methodology

  Huawei proposes a new methodology to maximise the energy efficiency of 3G and 4G networks

• March 04, 2015 04 Mar'15

  Strong future for enterprise IT in Nordic countries

  From attracting the world to its ice-cool datacentres to the digitisation of the public sector, there is plenty going on in the Nordic region

• February 23, 2015 23 Feb'15

  Apple invests in European datacentres as EU investigates tax break

  Apple is investing €1.7bn in two European datacentres to support iTunes, the App Store, iMessage, Maps and Siri

• February 20, 2015 20 Feb'15

  Digital adoption helps government to go green

  Implementing more digital systems in government has led to a reduction in cost and carbon emissions

• February 09, 2015 09 Feb'15

  Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015 open for entries

  Find out how to enter Computer Weekly’s third annual European User Awards

• January 02, 2015 02 Jan'15

  Case study: How DER Deutsches Reisebüro GmbH & Co OHG won two VMworld Europe User awards

  Best desktop virtualisation project winner of the VMworld Europe User Awards 2014, DER Deutsches Reisebüro, shares why it won

• December 30, 2014 30 Dec'14

  Case study: How VMware’s vCloud meets customer needs

  Cloud innovation winner of the Computer Weekly European User Awards for datacentre/storage 2014, VMware, shares its story

• December 29, 2014 29 Dec'14

  Case study: Virtus’s second London datacentre delivers innovative efficiency

  Best technology innovation winner in the Computer Weekly European User Awards 2014, Virtus, shares its story

• December 22, 2014 22 Dec'14

  Procserve partners with CenturyLink to meet government requirements

  Procserve, the public sector winner of the 2014 Datacentre/Storage prize at Computer Weekly's European User Awards, shares its story

• December 19, 2014 19 Dec'14

  Case study: Sky News turns to Red Hat for IT upgrade

  To ensure the resiliency of its operations, Sky News has deployed Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation and Red Hat Satellite in two datacentres

• December 02, 2014 02 Dec'14

  Ministry of Defence consolidates with green datacentre

  The MoD is aiming to reduce its IT carbon footprint with the construction of a new datacentre to replace the existing host site in Bath

• November 20, 2014 20 Nov'14

  IT at Coca-Cola Enterprises attains low-energy accreditation

  The IT department at Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) has completed Stage 3 of the Low Energy Company accreditation

• November 20, 2014 20 Nov'14

  BSkyB turns to DCIM to reduce carbon footprint and maximise service uptime

  BSkyB replaces its legacy datacentre management software with Schneider Electric’s DCIM suite to save time and energy

• November 04, 2014 04 Nov'14

  HDS takes a stab at managed service provider market

  HDS announces Hitachi Cloud Compute-as-a-Service and updates Unified Compute Platform

• November 03, 2014 03 Nov'14

  Citibank embarks on £5.2m project to make London datacentre energy-efficient

  Citi is putting in place new energy efficiency measures to cut power use by 10% at its London datacentre with backing from the Green Investment Bank

• October 28, 2014 28 Oct'14

  Met Office supercomputer to increase weather forecast accuracy

  Met Office buys £97m Cray supercomputer to help predict disruptive weather events with a far greater degree of accuracy

• October 23, 2014 23 Oct'14

  European enterprises can halve colo expenses by moving north, says Gartner

  Favourable environmental conditions in Northern Europe mean enterprises can save on their datacentre expenses

• October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14

  SAP and IBM collaborate to deliver Hana on IBM cloud

  SAP has extended its long-standing partnership with IBM by running SAP Hana Enterprise Cloud on IBM's cloud platform

• September 29, 2014 29 Sep'14

  ARM enters mainstream datacentre with HP’s ProLiant Moonshot servers

  ARM chips have entered mainstream enterprise datacentre with HP's production-ready ARM-powered Moonshot servers

• September 26, 2014 26 Sep'14

  Lenovo releases servers that can run at 45°C

  Lenovo has become the third server manufacturer to update its enterprise server portfolio with latest Intel Xeon chips E5 2600 v3

• September 22, 2014 22 Sep'14

  Digital Realty’s €150m Dublin datacentre goes live

  Digital Realty Trust has opened a €150m datacentre in Dublin as part of plans to develop 15.36MW of datacentre space

• September 17, 2014 17 Sep'14

  Gas company builds datacentre in The Shard

  London’s 87-storey skyscraper, The Shard, which is home to plush restaurants, cafes and bars, also has a datacentre

• September 10, 2014 10 Sep'14

  Salesforce builds green datacentre in France for European users

  Cloud CRM specialist Salesforce is building its second European datacentre in France, powered 100% by renewable energy sources

• September 08, 2014 08 Sep'14

  Intel launches Haswell-EP Xeon E5-2600 v3 processors

  Intel has launched Xeon E5-2600 v3 processors (codenamed Haswell-EP) designed for the software defined infrastructure

• August 25, 2014 25 Aug'14

  Progress on datacentre energy efficiency is slow, study shows

  Small, medium, corporate and multi-tenant datacentres are still squandering huge amounts of energy, a report has revealed

• August 22, 2014 22 Aug'14

  Computer Weekly European User Awards for Datacentre and Storage: 2014 winners

  The winners of the Computer Weekly European User Awards for Datacentre and Storage 2014 have been announced

• August 20, 2014 20 Aug'14

  Datacentres are a ‘soft target’ for environmental lobbyists, says CBRE

  Lack of clear international standards for datacentres is allowing environmental groups to criticise the sector for its energy use

• August 12, 2014 12 Aug'14

  Facebook optimises software infrastructure for datacentre power efficiency

  Facebook has developed a system called Autoscale to optimise its software infrastructure and make its datacentre more energy efficient

• August 04, 2014 04 Aug'14

  US judge rules for Microsoft to release Irish email data

  A judge in the US district court has ruled against Microsoft, in its attempt to stop a US government search warrant over emails stored in Ireland.

• July 31, 2014 31 Jul'14

  £700m government hosting deal limits bidders to North-East England datacentre

  Want to win the £700m Crown Hosting Service contract? You'll need a major datacentre near Newcastle to stand any chance

• July 18, 2014 18 Jul'14

  Government tenders for £700m Crown Hosting Service deal

  The government has put out a tender to procure infrastructure for a Crown Hosting Service, which will consolidate hosting services across Whitehall departments.

• July 17, 2014 17 Jul'14

  Facebook carbon footprint grows but energy-efficiency metric glows

  Facebook’s carbon footprint report shows energy-efficiency metric for all-important datacentres comfortably outperforms gold-standard figure and set to get better

• July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14

  Microsoft signs 20-year wind energy deal to power datacentres

  Microsoft has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for wind energy with EDF Renewable Energy – its “largest wind investment to date”

• July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

  Airbus deploys modular datacentre strategy to boost HPC capacity

  The aircraft manufacturer has deployed HP's performance optimised datacentres (PODs) to increase its high performance compute capabilities for its engineers

• July 02, 2014 02 Jul'14

  UK government recognises datacentre sector as a key economic contributor

  UK datacentre industry has been officially recognised as a legitimate industry and a significant contributor to the economy, growth and jobs

• July 01, 2014 01 Jul'14

  Arctic University warms classrooms with waste datacentre heat

  Tromso-based university uses liquid-cooled HPC systems to keep students warm by recycling excess datacentre heat, saving €1.7m

• 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

• June 06, 2014 06 Jun'14

  Green Mountain builds tier III datacentre in Norway to lure financial services firms

  Green Mountain has built a tier III, hydro-powered facility in Norway to attract enterprise customers, including financial services firms

• 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 28, 2014 28 May'14

  Google AI improves datacentre energy efficiency

  Artificial intelligence helps Google improve datacentre energy efficiency

• May 15, 2014 15 May'14

  Microsoft funds datacentre and cloud energy efficiency research projects

  Microsoft has awarded $160,000 to four university projects focusing on cloud and datacentre energy efficiency

• 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

• May 08, 2014 08 May'14

  Industry needs to do more to benefit from utility incentives for datacentres

  Potential energy efficiencies from utility incentives cannot be realised without more efforts from datacentre operators and utility firms

• May 06, 2014 06 May'14

  Our datacentres are energy efficient and green too, says AWS

  Amazon Web Services says it runs its facilities with energy efficiency in mind despite Greenpeace criticisms

• May 01, 2014 01 May'14

  Datacentres to evolve in next dacade, says research

  Use of solar power, increased cloud adoption, higher utilisation rate and increased density will characterise the datacentre by the year 2025

• April 24, 2014 24 Apr'14

  Modular datacentres yield 30% more savings than traditional datacentres

  A comparison of the total cost of ownership of two datacentre architectures – traditional facility and the modular datacentre reveals which one is cheaper

• April 23, 2014 23 Apr'14

  Google’s renewable energy purchase for datacentres soars over 1GW

  Google's latest agreement with MidAmerican Energy to power its Iowa datacentre with 407MW of wind energy takes its renewable energy deals to 1GW

• April 22, 2014 22 Apr'14

  Microsoft invests in next-gen energy technologies to power datacentres

  Microsoft is investing in next-generation energy technologies such as microturbines and distributed generation for datacentre power

• April 16, 2014 16 Apr'14

  Scotland will be home to UK’s first fully green datacentre

  Come summer and work will start on a £40m green datacentre covering 75,000 sq ft at Queensway Business Park in Glenrothes, Fife

• 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