Articles from Andrew Donoghue

1. Green Data Centres: A Quest For PUE-rity Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Aug 26 2010) Servers The Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) metric is the de facto measurement when it comes to the efficiency of data centres, but its days could be numbered. The news earlier this month that the UK Environment Agency will be one of the first customers of Capgemini’s new Merlin data centre, which boasts a PUE of just 1.08, is the most recent evidence of the metric’s preeminence – but moves are still afoot to supersede it. (Read Full Article)

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2. Government Energy Plans Could Prompt Data Centre Exodus Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Aug 5 2010) Cap and Trade , Emissions Data centre operators have become the latest group to threaten to quit the UK over government regulation of their industry. In a statement released this week - reminiscent of the threats made by some financial services firms that they would quit the country over banking taxes and other regulations - data centre specialists have warned that the coalition government’s recently announced energy policies could prompt an exodus of computing facility operators for more favourable climes. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Carbon Reduction Commitment   Facebook   CRC

3. Why Data Centre Owners Want Carbon Laws Terminated Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Aug 5 2010) Emissions , Fossil Fuel In the dog days of summer you might, like me, find yourself with a bit more time on your hands than usual. Given the standard of the average British summer, spending all of it frolicking in the great outdoors isn’t always an option. Sitting down to watch a few sci-fi classics is one alternative - albeit a geeky one. But beware, rather than escapism, some of these films have a way of focusing the mind on real-world issues in an unexpected way. (Read Full Article)

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4. Data Centre Claims European Clean Power First Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jun 15 2010) Carbon Footprint , Wind , Servers A data centre operator based in Wales claims to be the first in Europe to run a facility on 100 percent renewable energy. Next Generation Data (NGD) Europe, based in Newport, says it is the only provider in Europe that can offer customers access to the 750,000 square foot data centre running on purely renewable energy. (Read Full Article)

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5. Green Data Centre To Boost Shetland Broadband Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (May 4 2010) Plans by Scottish authorities to support the building of new data centres in the country have been reinforced by the announcement of a new facility planned for Shetland. Scottish IT services provider Alchemy Plus announced late last week that it plans to make use of Shetland’s bracing climate by building a new 10,000 square foot data centre in Lerwick. The company has signed a memorandum of understanding with the local council and is considering two sites for the new facility - at Black Hill Industrial Estate and Port Business Park. (Read Full Article)

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6. Intel Awarded Green Building Cert For Design Facility Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Apr 23 2010) Chip maker Intel said it has received its first green building certification for a new design facility in Haifa, Israel which incluses a Xeon-based data centre. The design centre, which is set to open in June, has been awarded a Leadership In Energy And Environmental Design (LEED) gold certification and is the first building in Israel to do so. Built on land previously used as a parking lot, the new facility includes a range of energy-saving systems including an automatic system for measuring carbon dioxide levels in the office space. The facility, known as IDC 9, also has a data centre based on Xeon processor servers which the company claims will help it achieve savings of around $200,000 (£130,000). (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Greenpeace   Intel   ASHRAE

7. Green IT Certification To Help Companies Tackle Emissions Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Mar 31 2010) Construction , Carbon Footprint Tech industry body CompTIA has launched a green IT certification, which it believes will help businesses to meet the emission cuts proposed by governments around the world in 2010. Announced this week, the Strata Green IT certificate is aimed at IT professionals charged with helping to cut the carbon footprint of their organisations. The qualification will help develop environmental management skills to tackle issues such as disposal of hazardous materials, energy efficiency and virtualisation. “The certificate launches at the start of 2010 in recognition of an increasing need for organisations to cut emissions across the board,” said Matthew Poyiadgi, CompTIA European Vice President. “The recent Copenhagen Climate Conference highlighted how everyone needs to be doing their bit, and ongoing economic concerns are a constant reminder of the need to cut costs wherever possible.” (Read Full Article)

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8. Gartner Rebuffs Cost Claims For Converged Data Centres Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Mar 16 2010) Cloud Computing , Networking The concept that multiple data centre networks can be made more efficient by converging them into one system using Data Centre Bridging (DCB) technology is flawed, according to analyst Gartner. In a report issued this week, “Myth: A Single FCoE Data Center Network = Fewer Ports, Less Complexity and Lower Costs”, the analyst stated that converged data centre networks actually require more power and cooling and are more complex to manage than two well-designed separate networks. “The industry is abuzz with the promise of a single converged network infrastructure, this time in the data centre core,” said Joe Skorupa, research vice president at Gartner. “Alternatively described as Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), Data Centre Ethernet (DCE), or more precisely, Data Centre Bridging (DCB), this latest set of developments hopes to succeed where InfiniBand failed in its bid to unify computing, networking and storage networks.” (Read Full Article)

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9. Supercomputers More Power Hungry But More Efficient Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jul 15 2009) Servers , Supercomputer Machines are using more energy but using it more efficiently claim computer researchers and makers including IBM The compilers of a list of top 500 most energy efficient supercomputers claim that although the machines are actually consuming more energy than before they are actually doing it in a more efficient way. According to the Green500 list, updated regularly throughout the year, average efficiency has increased by 10 percent between the publication of the 4th edition of the list in November 2008 and the 5th edition in June 2009 (Read Full Article)

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