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Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT

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
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