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Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT

• 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

• April 10, 2014 10 Apr'14

  BT and Microsoft to offer secure fast lane to Azure cloud

  Microsoft’s UK cloud chief hails service as critical step in supporting CEO Satya Nadella’s ambitious plans for global cloud dominance

• April 10, 2014 10 Apr'14

  Mainframe can help businesses meet mobile challenges, says IBM

  A 50th anniversary of mainframe event in New York reveals the future for the technology

• April 08, 2014 08 Apr'14

  UK cloud pioneer scores world first with true utility pricing

  ElasticHosts steals a march on Google, Amazon and Microsoft by billing on the basis of actual consumption of resources

• April 07, 2014 07 Apr'14

  The problem with regional clouds

  The clamour to keep clouds closer to home could lead to internet restrictions, fragmentation and a slowdown in the movement of data

• April 02, 2014 02 Apr'14

  CIO interview: Andrew Marks, Tullow Oil

  How speeding up seismic data transfer between African oil fields and a Dublin datacentre helps the London-based oil exploration company save millions

• March 31, 2014 31 Mar'14

  Case study: Alquist uses Celsius to decrease energy consumption

  Alquist, winner of the Best Technology Innovation in the Computer Weekly European User Awards for Networking, shares its winning case study

• March 28, 2014 28 Mar'14

  Google throws down cloud gauntlet with massive price cuts

  Automatic discounts for sustained use bring true utility computing a step closer and could help Google close the gap on Amazon Web Services

• March 27, 2014 27 Mar'14

  Will Cisco’s $1bn Intercloud bridge the way for enterprise customers?

  The networking giant’s bid to build an open, hybrid cloud ecosystem could be good news for buyers - but analysts say its vision needs more clarity

• March 21, 2014 21 Mar'14

  EU project aims to boost urban datacentre efficiency

  GreenDataNet consortium will develop smart, open-source technologies to stop smart cities grinding to a halt amid rocketing energy demands

• March 19, 2014 19 Mar'14

  Budget 2014 – what it means for UK IT

  Chancellor George Osborne has announced his 2014 Budget. These are the highlights and opportunities spotted by Computer Weekly

• March 18, 2014 18 Mar'14

  Case study: University of St Andrews squeezes green datacentre into squash court

  University of St Andrews CIO Steve Watt tells how the 600-year-old institution squeezed an energy-efficient datacentre into a squash court

• March 18, 2014 18 Mar'14

  Global taskforce agrees on green datacentre metric

  DCeP hopes to win widespread support as a useful and meaningful standard for measuring datacentre efficiency

• March 13, 2014 13 Mar'14

  CIO Interview: Ian Turfrey, City & Guilds

  The IT chief of vocational training body City & Guilds is generally positive about cloud computing – with some key qualifications

• March 11, 2014 11 Mar'14

  London South Bank University: modelling tomorrow's cleaner, greener datacentres

  How London South Bank University (LSBU) meets the IT industry's rising demand for research into building more energy-efficient datacentres

• March 04, 2014 04 Mar'14

  Netflix shows how to get cloud rolling

  Streaming movie giant’s former cloud architect reveals how to dramatically speed up processes and shorten product development cycles

• March 03, 2014 03 Mar'14

  Why cloud's not reigning in the enterprise

  Lack of business-focused offerings from suppliers and misguided private cloud projects are stifling progress, say Cloud Expo speakers

• February 26, 2014 26 Feb'14

  Dragon tells cloud businesses to focus on service

  Outsourcery boss Piers Linney warns cloud providers that collaboration and investment are key to the industry’s future success

• February 25, 2014 25 Feb'14

  Interview: Prepare for the end of the silicon era

  IT breakthroughs are governed by the insights of Intel's Gordon Moore in 1965. IBM fellow Bernie Meyerson believes Moore’s law no longer holds true

• February 24, 2014 24 Feb'14

  Case study: Virtualised storage adds value to Denmark's tunnel vision

  State construction firm Femern selects DataCore system to help speed up Fehmarnbelt undersea odyssey and keep the sharks at bay

• February 21, 2014 21 Feb'14

  Datacentres must tackle local challenges for global growth

  Diverse range of opportunities and obstacles shows there’s no ‘one size fits all’ strategy for the datacentre industry

• February 14, 2014 14 Feb'14

  Interview: The systems supremo helping Sochi run smoothly

  Marta Sanfeliu, chief integration officer for Winter Olympics IT supplier Atos, helps ensure it's all smooth running for the IT at Sochi

• February 14, 2014 14 Feb'14

  Birmingham City University revamps IT backhaul

  The University works with Logicalis to overhaul its IT infrastructure, from designing two new datacentres to rolling out new wired and wireless networks

• February 11, 2014 11 Feb'14

  Schneider accreditation aims to boost green datacentre skills

  Datacentre supplier offers free vendor-neutral courses and certification through its online Energy University

• February 10, 2014 10 Feb'14

  Salford City Council keys into private cloud benefits

  Salford City Council’s award-winning private cloud helps speed up services, boost efficiency and nurture the city’s media startups

• February 10, 2014 10 Feb'14

  AMD and ARM rewrite datacentre computing

  AMD has collaborated with ARM on a chip architecture system to lower the energy envelope of server-based computing

• February 07, 2014 07 Feb'14

  Amazon nets lion’s share of $10bn public cloud market

  AWS continues its unassailable domination of the sector, despite recent moves by Google, IBM and Microsoft

• February 04, 2014 04 Feb'14

  Case study: Putting disaster recovery into action when revellers strike

  How an out-of-hand office party in its building brought Icelandic IT services company Midverk to the brink of collapse

• January 31, 2014 31 Jan'14

  WIll open source save the datacentre industry?

  IT rivals stand cheek-by-jowl to praise Facebook’s Open Compute Project, but is the love-in a Damascene conversion or just damage limitation?

• January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14

  ARM aims at Intel’s stronghold with 64-bit standard

  Intel hopes new baseline standard for ARM v8 chips will help it flex its muscles in the datacentre

• January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14

  Microsoft joins Open Compute Project

  Redmond giant makes server specs public in bid to influence future datacentre design

• January 23, 2014 23 Jan'14

  Can elephants dance in the cloud?

  IBM’s renewed public cloud strategy could succeed in attracting customers old and new, but the company must tread carefully

• January 20, 2014 20 Jan'14

  IBM to open London datacentre as part of $1.2bn global cloud push

  New facility first in UK to be based on IBM SoftLayer cloud architecture

• January 17, 2014 17 Jan'14

  South Eastern Health & Social Care Trust unveils HP datacentre PODs

  NHS Trust implements HP Performance Optimised Datacentres (PODs) for IT services across 120 facilities and five hospitals

• January 16, 2014 16 Jan'14

  Schneider backs British liquid cooling startup

  Support from the datacentre giant could help Iceotope spread its innovative immersion cooling system around the globe

• January 14, 2014 14 Jan'14

  Regional datacentre growth tempers UK price rises

  New datacentre clusters outside London keep average costs down, but firms that need space in the capital face a growing premium

• January 13, 2014 13 Jan'14

  Open arguments stack up as hybrid cloud takes hold

  A lack of cloud standards is causing headaches for IT departments, but the drive for greater interoperability is gaining pace

• January 09, 2014 09 Jan'14

  UK blazes trail for cloud use in Europe

  Survey suggests UK companies are more comfortable with the cloud than their Continental counterparts

• December 31, 2013 31 Dec'13

  Top 10 premium content articles of 2013

  Computer Weekly presents a selection of the most popular premium content reports and articles of 2013

• December 28, 2013 28 Dec'13

  Top 10 datacentre stories of 2013

  The drive for greater efficiency, CO2 reduction and the development of new technologies continued to dominate datacentre developments this year

• December 23, 2013 23 Dec'13

  Top 10 cloud computing stories of 2013

  It was the year big business warmed to the cloud while NSA snooping revelations sent shivers down the industry’s spine...

• December 11, 2013 11 Dec'13

  Can HP Moonshot deliver blue-sky energy management in datacentres?

  New servers that have more in common with laptops than datacentre hardware are being developed to tackle the energy time bomb

• December 06, 2013 06 Dec'13

  Chancellor George Osborne announces datacentre carbon tax break in Autumn Statement

  George Osborne exempts datacentre operators from blanket carbon taxes in exchange for climate change agreements

• December 03, 2013 03 Dec'13

  Microsoft invests in Ireland datacentre

  Microsoft is expanding its Dublin datacentre with a €170m investment

• December 02, 2013 02 Dec'13

  Case study: Sudlows pushes tight-squeeze datacentre to the limits

  Award-winning project turned a would-be office block into a high-capacity, energy-efficient colocation facility in six months

• November 29, 2013 29 Nov'13

  Computer Weekly European User Awards 2014 open for entries

  Computer Weekly is running its European User Awards for a second year in 2014. Find out all the details here

• November 26, 2013 26 Nov'13

  How web giants are making datacentres lean and green

  Facebook and eBay infrastructure chiefs outline their efficiency strategies at DatacenterDynamics Converged conference in London

• November 20, 2013 20 Nov'13

  Nordics push to become European datacentre hub

  Do growing datacentre investments in the Nordic countries by IT giants really signal the region is the best place in Europe to site servers?

• November 19, 2013 19 Nov'13

  Case study: Leeds University warms to liquid cooling

  Award-winning Iceotope technology proves energy-saving credentials and powers Leeds University’s HPC project

• November 08, 2013 08 Nov'13

  University of Aberdeen - North East of Scotland Shared Data Centre

  North East of Scotland Shared Data Centre has won the public sector project prize in Computer Weekly's European Datacentre Awards

• October 29, 2013 29 Oct'13

  Uncertain energy policies crippling UK datacentre industry’s future

  Uncertainty on energy policies could cause potential investors in the UK’s datacentre industry to look abroad instead, experts warn

• October 28, 2013 28 Oct'13

  Six tips to help you negotiate the best deal with your datacentre provider

  Your willingness to negotiate can make a big difference to the deal you get, says Anthony Day, associate at law firm DLA Piper

• October 23, 2013 23 Oct'13

  Plan for the 'infinite datacentre' in advance, says Gartner

  Enterprises that plan datacentre capacity well can adjust to rapid growth in computing demand with maximum efficiency, says Gartner

• October 22, 2013 22 Oct'13

  Interview: Professor Ian Bitterlin, the Green Grid

  Green Grid's Chair Ian Bitterlin discusses datacentre energy efficiency, role of DCIM tools and whether UK and EU CIOs are doing enough for datacentre efficiency

• October 17, 2013 17 Oct'13

  Best of VMworld Europe 2013 User Awards: Winners

  The Best of VMworld Europe 2013 User Awards have been announced at a ceremony VMworld Europe in Barcelona. See who made the top spots

• October 11, 2013 11 Oct'13

  Orange builds datacentre in Normandy to boost cloud services

  Telecoms operator Orange, has built a 16,000m² datacentre facility in Val-de-Reuil, Normandy

• October 09, 2013 09 Oct'13

  Computer Weekly European User Awards for Data Centre: Winners

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

• October 09, 2013 09 Oct'13

  Modular datacentre cheaper than ‘bricks and mortar’ datacentre

  A modular datacentre may cost an enterprise 14% less than a traditional datacentre, according to a research by DCD Intelligence

• October 08, 2013 08 Oct'13

  Best of VMworld Europe User Awards 2013 Shortlist

  See who made it on to the shortlist for the Best of VMworld Europe User Awards 2013.

• October 08, 2013 08 Oct'13

  Case study: Coca-Cola embarks on green IT strategy

  Coca-Cola is aiming to reduce the carbon footprint of its IT. Kevin Sirjuesingh, director of IT strategic initiatives, discusses the plan

• October 03, 2013 03 Oct'13

  Now is the time for IT to tackle rising energy costs

  The energy used by IT equipment is one area CIOs can target to help their organisations curb energy price hikes

• October 02, 2013 02 Oct'13

  Staffordshire County Council picks ANS cloud to improve public services

  Staffordshire County Council has implemented private cloud computing services as it aims to offer more public services online

• September 30, 2013 30 Sep'13

  How Barnsley Council became a tier three datacentre

  Spending cuts, the need to deliver high-quality IT at lower costs and efficiency needs saw Barnsley Council pick a robust tier 3 datacentre facility

• September 24, 2013 24 Sep'13

  Portugal Telecom opens modular datacentre to boost cloud offering

  Telecoms operator Portugal Telecom has opened a modular datacentre in Covilhã, Portugal, claiming the 75,500m2 facility is the “largest in the world”

• September 19, 2013 19 Sep'13

  Open source datacentre hardware helps Facebook save costs, energy

  Facebook has reduced costs and IT energy consumption since it started using open source hardware systems in its datacentres

• September 06, 2013 06 Sep'13

  Siemon opens datacentre training and demonstration suite in the UK

  Network infrastructure specialist Siemon has launched a datacentre training and demonstration suite for its customers in Chertsey

• September 05, 2013 05 Sep'13

  Intel launches micro-server, network, storage technologies to power cloud datacentres

  Intel has launched Atom C2000 for micro-servers, a silicon for software-defined networking, and a rack to help providers build cloud datacentres

• September 04, 2013 04 Sep'13

  Microsoft to build $250m datacentre in Finland for European customers

  Microsoft has chosen to design and build its next new datacentre in Finland to serve Microsoft customers in Europe

• September 02, 2013 02 Sep'13

  Ericsson to build three modular datacentres to power its cloud services

  Ericsson is investing £682m in the next five years to build three modular datacentres to help the company provide cloud-powered services

• August 06, 2013 06 Aug'13

  Datacentres are a key focus for government’s Green ICT Delivery Unit

  With the growing use of online services for government transactions, datacentres are a key focus of the government’s green IT strategy

• August 02, 2013 02 Aug'13

  Ken Brill, datacentre visionary and founder of Uptime Institute passes away

  Kenneth Brill, the datacentre innovator and founder of Uptime Institute has passed away at the age of 68

• August 02, 2013 02 Aug'13

  Facebook's datacentre carbon footprint and greenhouse gas emissions rise

  Despite its focus on energy efficiency and use of renewable energy resources, Facebook’s datacentre carbon footprint increased 52% in 2012

• July 31, 2013 31 Jul'13

  Pinewood Studios slashes backup and recovery times

  Pinewood Studios Group has slashed its backup and recovery times and achieved robust data protection through server virtualisation

• July 29, 2013 29 Jul'13

  Google datacentres awarded ISO 50001 certification

  Google has obtained ISO 50001 certification for its energy management systems in six datacentre facilities across the US