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Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT

• 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

• February 22, 2013 22 Feb'13

  Facebook to build cold storage facility at Prineville datacentre for old photos

  Facebook is planning a ‘cold storage’ facility at its Prineville datacentre facility in Oregon to archive users’ old photographs

• February 18, 2013 18 Feb'13

  Rackspace creates 300 UK jobs with datacentre expansion

  Rackspace is leasing datacentre space in the UK to serve customers who want to host data in the EU to comply with data sovereignty rules

• February 15, 2013 15 Feb'13

  Siemens intensifies datacentre focus with launch of DCIM tool

  Siemens has launched its first datacentre infrastructure management tool, Datacenter Clarity LC, in a bid to intensify its focus on datacentres

• February 13, 2013 13 Feb'13

  Datacentre managers fail to act on EC energy efficiency targets

  Only 21% of European datacentre managers have acted to address the EC's 20-20-20 Renewable Energy directive

• February 11, 2013 11 Feb'13

  IBM integrates Emerson Trellis platform for DCIM

  IBM has combined its IT service management with Emerson Network Power’s Trellis platform for datacentre infrastructure management (DCIM)

• February 01, 2013 01 Feb'13

  Datacentre boom will push demand for energy-efficient UPSs in Europe

  Datacentre facilities will fuel growth in the European uninterruptible power supply (UPS) market

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  Case study: Menzies Aviation upgrades in-house datacentre

  Menzies Aviation has updated its three internal datacentres with new servers, storage and cooling products rather than invest in cloud computing

• January 28, 2013 28 Jan'13

  Travel service provider Concur builds datacentres in Europe to support growth

  Integrated travel and expenses service provider, Concur Technologies, has built colocation datacentres to cater to European customers

• January 24, 2013 24 Jan'13

  Big data and green IT receive large share of £600m government fund

  Technologies around big data and energy-efficient computing have attracted millions of pounds in funding

• January 15, 2013 15 Jan'13

  Global energy management software market to grow in 2013, say analysts

  Businesses are increasing investment in energy management software to improve IT efficiency, says Verdantix

• December 11, 2012 11 Dec'12

  Microsoft Research lab in Cambridge uses datacentre tools to improve efficiency

  Microsoft Research Cambridge used datacentre planning and management tools to improve efficiency and support the researchers

• December 05, 2012 05 Dec'12

  Computer Weekly European User Awards: Categories

  The Computer Weekly European User Awards honours IT professionals across Europe that have excelled in their approach to using technology, focusing on the key areas of networking and mobile; storage; security; datacentre and virtualisation; and ...

• December 05, 2012 05 Dec'12

  Energy efficiency is top datacentre priority for IT, shows study

  More than half of IT decision-makers have cited power efficiency as their number one priority in the datacentre for the next three to five years

• November 27, 2012 27 Nov'12

  £60m datacentre to be built in Birmingham

  A 10MW modular datacentre worth £60m will be built in Birmingham by March 2013

• November 27, 2012 27 Nov'12

  Top 10 datacentre stories of 2012

  Software-defined datacentres, sustainable and green IT, power and cooling management, DCIM tools and keeping the datacentre running despite hurricane are 2012's datacentre highlights

• November 21, 2012 21 Nov'12

  Firms must measure overall environmental impact of datacentres

  IT must move beyond just measuring a datacentre’s power consumption to assessing its overall environmental impact to make it truly sustainable

• November 21, 2012 21 Nov'12

  Green Grid urges businesses use DCMM tool for datacentre efficiency

  The Datacentre Maturity Model (DCMM) tool helps businesses improve their datacentres' energy efficiency PUE metric, says The Green Grid

• November 21, 2012 21 Nov'12

  Datacentre group collaborates with EC over green measures

  Datacentre consortium The Green Grid is working with the European Commission (EC) to improve efficiency and sustainability in datacentres

• November 20, 2012 20 Nov'12

  Organisations will focus on datacentre efficiency in 2013, says Ovum

  As businesses seek the best value from investments they will try to reduce costs and improve sustainability in their datacentres in 2013

• November 15, 2012 15 Nov'12

  Global taskforce for datacentre energy efficiency pick three new metrics

  In addition to PUE, datacentre operators have three new metrics – Green Energy Coefficient (GEC), Energy Reuse Factor (ERF) and Carbon Usage Effectiveness (CUE)

• October 26, 2012 26 Oct'12

  Data Centre Alliance hits out at government CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme

  The UK government’s CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme does not help datacentres become more efficient, says Data Centre Alliance

• October 25, 2012 25 Oct'12

  Archaic datacentre practices are causing inefficiency, says the Green Grid

  Today's datacentre energy practices date back to 1950s resulting in energy waste and high carbon emissions, said the Green Grid

• October 24, 2012 24 Oct'12

  CIO interview: Gerry Pennell, CIO, London 2012 Olympic Games

  As the job of a lifetime nears its end, London 2012 CIO Gerry Pennell talks exclusively to Computer Weekly about his Olympic experience

• October 17, 2012 17 Oct'12

  Today’s datacentres run at much lower temperatures than necessary

  Datacentres are wasting electricity by running at sub-20ºC, as the optimum temperature is 25-26ºC

• October 11, 2012 11 Oct'12

  'Big three' datacentre power suppliers hold nearly 50% of the market

  Three datacentre cooling infrastructure providers - Schneider Electric, Emerson and Eaton - held 47% of the datacentre energy market in 2011

• October 11, 2012 11 Oct'12

  Mason IT scales out with Nutanix platform

  Reseller Mason IT explains why it chose Nutanix Complete Cluster for its UK and Icelandic datacentre

• October 08, 2012 08 Oct'12

  Global census shows datacentre power demand grew 63% in 2012

  Datacentre power requirements have grown by 63% globally to 38GW in the past year, datacentre census shows

• September 28, 2012 28 Sep'12

  Google opens €75m energy-efficient datacentre facility in Dublin

  Google’s new €75m Dublin datacentre facility that that uses air-cooling for energy efficency is now operational

• September 26, 2012 26 Sep'12

  Google to use wind energy to power Oklahoma datacentre

  Google has entered into an agreement with the Grand River Dam Authority (GRDA) to use 48MW of wind energy to power its Oklahoma datacentre

• September 26, 2012 26 Sep'12

  Microsoft's datacentre energy waste highlights datacentre bad practices

  Microsoft has wasted millions of watts of energy in its Quincy datacentre to avoid a $210,000 fine for underuse, according to the New York Times

• September 21, 2012 21 Sep'12

  Goldman Sachs adopts modular datacentres to save costs, improve efficiency

  In its bid to reduce carbon footprint and save energy costs, investment bank Goldman Sachs has adopted modular datacentres in US, UK and Singapore

• September 19, 2012 19 Sep'12

  Green datacentre market to grow from £10bn to £28bn by 2016

  Rising energy costs, EU regulations and economic pressure are driving organisations to invest in green datacentres

• April 10, 2012 10 Apr'12

  Free tool measures how 'green' your data centre is: News roundup

  A free tool to measure data centre energy efficiency; Citrix’s open cloud strategy with its CloudStack platform and Dell’s acquisition of Wyse are this week’s news highlights.

• January 05, 2012 05 Jan'12

  Surrey County Council's data centre efficiency project: Case study

  The council will replace its existing primary IT facility this spring with a new energy efficient data centre facility which will help it save around £160,000 every year.

• August 04, 2011 04 Aug'11

  VMware bows to customers, changes vSphere 5 licensing: News in brief

  After facing customer backlash, VMware has raised the virtual RAM limit in its new vSphere 5 licensing model.

• July 29, 2011 29 Jul'11

  Study shows surge in bring-your-own-device policies: News in brief

  A Citrix study finds that a high percentage of IT organisations will formalise bring-your-own-device policies and begin to use desktop virtualisation in the coming years.

• April 13, 2011 13 Apr'11

  Indian data center networking budgets focus on virtualization in 2011

  Growing implementation of server virtualization in India boosts demand for data center networking products in 2011-‘12, as per SearchDataCenter.in survey.

• March 31, 2011 31 Mar'11

  HP oufits new data centre with 10,000 network sensors

  HP’s new data centre includes electricity, air-temperature and water-temperature sensors; plus more news in brief.

• March 04, 2011 04 Mar'11

  IDFC’s green data center sees 16% energy efficiency increase

  IDFC’s green data center is among the first Indian data centers to get TUV Rheinland’s energy efficiency certification. A look at the data center’s specs.

• December 02, 2010 02 Dec'10

  The Green Grid unveils new carbon emissions measurement

  The Green Grid has defined a new carbon emissions measurement , carbon usage effectiveness (CUE), which calculates the carbon emissions that data centres produce; plus more news in brief.

• November 08, 2010 08 Nov'10

  UK IT managers ignore energy efficiency initiative

  UK data centre managers are ignoring the EU's Code of Conduct on Data Centres' Energy Efficiency; plus more daily news.

• November 05, 2010 05 Nov'10

  Welsh council goes green with data centre redesign

  A council in Wales has a newly tailored green data centre to reduce its energy costs and carbon footprint; plus more daily news.

• October 28, 2010 28 Oct'10

  Businesses form Open Data Centre Alliance to push for unified cloud standards

  In an effort to spread the adoption of cloud computing, over 70 companies have come together to demand that vendors change the way they make their kit; plus more daily news.

• October 22, 2010 22 Oct'10

  Virtualised apps help protect a hospital's data

  The University Hospital of Leipzig needed a better disaster recovery strategy to protect critical patient data for the long term, so it turned to virtualisation. This Best of VMworld Europe 2010 User Awards winner shares how moving critical apps ...

• October 22, 2010 22 Oct'10

  Carbon Reduction Commitment "reformed" so Treasury keeps revenue

  The UK's Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) is due to be "reformed" so the Treasury keeps the revenue raised through the carbon pricing scheme; plus more daily news.

• October 05, 2010 05 Oct'10

  Energy budgets continue to inflate, says Gartner

  Energy costs contribute one-eighth of the total expenditure needed to run a data centre, according to analyst Gartner; plus more daily news.

• October 01, 2010 01 Oct'10

  HP puts former SAP CEO at the helm

  HP has announced Leo Apotheker, the former head honcho at SAP, as its new CEO; plus more daily news.

• September 30, 2010 30 Sep'10

  Businesses shrug shoulders at today's CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme deadline

  Businesses need to pick up the pace on environmental monitoring or face severe penalties as a result of the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme, reports IFS; plus more daily news.

• September 29, 2010 29 Sep'10

  Novell adds creation of EC2 images to SUSE Appliance Toolkit

  Novell has announced new features, including support for Amazon EC2 image creation, that will be added to its SUSE Appliance Toolkit; plus more daily news.

• September 24, 2010 24 Sep'10

  London data centre space most attractive in Europe

  The well-connected, high-density data centre space of London remains very attractive to Europe; plus more daily news.

• September 23, 2010 23 Sep'10

  Viglen achieves certification for green computing

  Viglen has achieved Environmental Management Systems ISO-140001 certification for its efforts in improving environmental performance; plus more daily news.

• September 06, 2010 06 Sep'10

  Reach Internet moves in with UKSolutions

  UKSolutions has announced that online training provider Reach Internet has moved its in-house data provision to the company's Studley data centre; plus more daily news.

• August 19, 2010 19 Aug'10

  UK businesses failing on EU data centre energy rules

  Consultancy on365 warns that UK businesses are vulnerable to financial penalties and rising energy costs based on an EU directive; plus more daily news.

• August 04, 2010 04 Aug'10

  Energy statement to Parliament may drive UK data centres offshore

  A recent statement by Energy Secretary Chris Huhne to Parliament may drive data centres away from UK shores, according to a data centre company; plus more daily news.

• July 21, 2010 21 Jul'10

  Uptime Institute unveils Accredited Tier Specialist course for IT managers

  Uptime's new offer follows on from the Institute's Accredited Tier Designer (ATD) course; plus more daily news.

• July 02, 2010 02 Jul'10

  Blue Chip cuts ribbons on UK 'Eco' data centre

  Blue Chip has unveiled its UK 'Eco' data centre, designed to use half the energy of data centre facilities of a similar size; plus more daily news.

• June 28, 2010 28 Jun'10

  Red Hat and Cisco integrate Enterprise Virtualisation and VN-Link

  Looking to simplify data centre deployments, Red Hat and Cisco will integrate virtual technologies; plus more daily news.

• January 29, 2010 29 Jan'10

  Data centre cooling management on a budget

  Vinyl sheeting and a trip to the local blacksmith are two of the ways data centre managers are thinking outside the box when it comes to hot and cold air aisle containment methods.

• January 29, 2010 29 Jan'10

  VMware earnings strong, but profit takes a hit: News Roundup

  VMware profits fall 49% from Q4 of 2008; Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust to save big with desktop virtualisation; and other news of the week.

• January 15, 2010 15 Jan'10

  VMware launches GO service aimed at SMEs: News Roundup

  HP and Microsoft join forces on cloud computing; IBM swoops in for Panasonic cloud collaboration; and other news of the week.

• December 21, 2009 21 Dec'09

  Green IT: How far is the Indian corporate ready to go?

  A survey by the SearchDataCenter.in team discloses that CIOs may display enthusiasm about going green, but do not necessarily dip into their pockets.

• December 04, 2009 04 Dec'09

  Free cooling: Is it a viable option for Indian enterprises?

  Free cooling leverages ambient temperatures to reduce data center power consumption. How practical is a free cooling setup in an Indian data center?

• December 04, 2009 04 Dec'09

  EU Code of Conduct adoption slow in U.K: News roundup

  A survey shows 12% of U.K. companies have adopted EU Code of Conduct on Data Centre Energy Efficiency; Sun releases VirtualBox 3.1; and other news.

• November 13, 2009 13 Nov'09

  VMware unveils VMware View 4: News roundup

  VMware unveils VMware View 4; Citrix verifies 10,000 products for XenDesktop 4; and more news of the week.

• November 13, 2009 13 Nov'09

  Royal London saves with IBM mainframe server replacement

  Royal London Group replaced its outdated IBM mainframe system with a new z10 mainframe environment and cut three double-decker buses worth of CO2 a year from its IT footprint.

• November 11, 2009 11 Nov'09

  Top questions to ask when considering a data centre relocation

  When relocating a data centre to a larger facility, IT managers should keep these top questions in mind, according to Philip Lydford, Chief Executive of e-shelter U.K.

• November 06, 2009 06 Nov'09

  Financial firm pumps up VM density, lowers power consumption

  Finance firm Demica increased its number of VMs per unit without increasing its space and energy consumption, with the help of virtualisation consultancy 360IS.

• October 20, 2009 20 Oct'09

  Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2 released and more news of the week

  Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2 released; University of Arts selects A10 Networks for Web services; tailored carbon footprint tool available through nlyte Software; and more.

• October 20, 2009 20 Oct'09

  Will Digital Britain and CRC objectives slow U.K. data centre growth?

  Objectives for IT energy-efficiency in the Digital Britain report and the Carbon Reduction Commitment have raised questions about future data centre growth in the U.K. In this Q&A, Digital Realty Trust CTO Jim Smith talks about how the new ...

• October 14, 2009 14 Oct'09

  VMware server consolidation saves London borough thousands

  By consolidating servers with VMware, the London Borough of Hillingdon has saved thousands in power, hardware and IT personnel costs.

• October 09, 2009 09 Oct'09

  New Dell UPS system measures in watts

  Dell recently launched uninterruptible power supply systems rated in watts for IT managers who struggle with UPS systems rated in volt/amps. But will Dell's approach cause confusion in the market?

• September 17, 2009 17 Sep'09

  Economic pressure driving move to server virtualisation

  Server virtualisation and cloud computing are among the cost-cutting strategies that large organisations are considering, according to a survey by Coleman-Parkes Research.

• September 11, 2009 11 Sep'09

  Hosting company employs CFD models to improve power and cooling

  Data centre hosting company Star found that computational fluid dynamics models improved its power and cooling design, translating into savings for customers.

• September 04, 2009 04 Sep'09

  Bunker2 data centre addresses growth, green needs

  The Bunker2 is designed for growing data centre needs as well as environmental demands.

• August 04, 2009 04 Aug'09

  2020Media offers 'green' hosting-- including servers

  Hosting provider 2020Media promises customers green data centre options -- low-power servers, Hyper-V virtual servers and colocation -- at low cost.

• July 31, 2009 31 Jul'09

  Power-saving innovations could spread from desktop to data centres

  In many companies, users leave their PCs on overnight, consuming data centre electricity unnecessarily. But new products aim to flick the switch on this problem.

• July 22, 2009 22 Jul'09

  Green data center design at Wipro Infotech

  A tier 3 data center can run on green technologies, as Wipro Infotech demonstrates effectively with its Greater Noida enterprise data center.

• July 21, 2009 21 Jul'09

  Free air cooling helps Telco with green data centre

  After running out of power in London, Kingston Communications converted an old site in Bristol into a green data centre.

• July 21, 2009 21 Jul'09

  E-shelter builds secure data centre in green belt

  Hosting company e-shelter got planning permission to build a data centre in a green belt area by meeting stringent environmental standards and educating the local council on data centre construction.

• July 20, 2009 20 Jul'09

  Telehouse data centre to heat Docklands neighbourhood

  Telehouse Europe is building a large data centre in energy-constrained Docklands, receiving the planning permission on the condition that it help heat the neighbourhood.

• July 20, 2009 20 Jul'09

  Study says recession should spur green IT initiatives

  Green IT and other energy-saving projects with a hard ROI should be easier to push through in the recession, according to Datamonitor study.