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    1. IEEE Ethernet Study Group To Discuss 400Gbps Standard

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      IEEE Ethernet Study Group To Discuss 400Gbps Standard

      The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) standards body has announced the formation of a new study group that will explore the possibility of developing a new 400GBps Ethernet standard to support the ever increasing amount of traffic on networks. The IEEE 802.3 standard for Ethernet study group will meet between 14 and 17 May in Victoria, British Columbia in Canada and is the first step towards collaboration on a proposal for development of the standard.

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    7. Amsterdam Data Centre Cooled By Groundwater

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      Amsterdam Data Centre Cooled By Groundwater

      A new data centre in Amsterdam is using naturally stored groundwater to cool its servers, greatly improving energy efficiency. Telecity Group has installed an Aquifier Thermal Energy Storage (ATES) system at its Southeastern AMS5 data centre, which the company says takes advantage of Amsterdam’s “unique natural geograghy”. ATES works by storing water in underground wells, where it is warmed by heat from the data centre and then cooled by the lower external temperature in winter. This is then used in the summer as part of the cooling process. Telecity claims that the technology has never been used in such a large scale project before.

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    8. HP Installs First EcoPOD

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      HP Installs First EcoPOD

      The Alpharetta NGDC is one of six that HP originally planned to consolidate and replace 85 internal data centres. The installation of an EcoPOD at another Georgia-based data centre is almost complete. Construction of another two at data centres in Texas is also underway.

      The 40 foot EcoPOD will host 2,000 ProLiant and Integrity servers, expanding compute space at the facility by the equivalent of 20,000 square feet of its existing NGDC space.

      HP, which was named in November as the top ranked company in theGreenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics, claims that the EcoPODs are the “world’s most energy efficient data centres”. It says that they are more efficient than most similarly tiered data centres and are significantly more energy efficient. According to the company, the EcoPODs have a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) rating of just 1.05 compared to a traditional data centre’s 2 ...

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    9. Maude Says G-Cloud Costs £4.93m

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      Maude Says G-Cloud Costs £4.93m

      Cabinet Minister Francis Maude has confirmed that the estimated cost for the G-Cloud programme is around £4.93 million. The information was revealed when Michael Dugher, Labour MP for Barnsley East asked Maude how much the project cost. “The estimated cost for the G-Cloud programme (including the CloudStore) is £4.93 million,” replied Maude. “This is being met from the Cabinet Office SR10 settlement and is subject to the ERG spend and controls process. The savings it is expected the programme will deliver are estimated at £340 million.” “The G-Cloud programme is making good progress,” he added.

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    10. UK And Scandinavia Make Gains In Data Centre Rankings

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      UK And Scandinavia Make Gains In Data Centre Rankings

      The UK has risen to second place in a table of the best locations to build a data centre in the world, while Nordic countries have also rissn in the rankings. The Data Centre Risk Index 2012 showed that companies are looking towards the Nordic countries and nations with a cool climate that have good networks and abundant renewable energy supplies. The Index, which helps companies identify where to build their data centres, ranked 30 countries according to a set of criteria, including energy costs, connectivity, likelihood of natural disasters, political stability, energy security and energy. The US retained its status as the best place – the lowest risk location – with a score of 100, but the UK moved up from fifth to second, owing to its high international bandwidth capacity and ease of doing businesses.

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    11. EC Announces New Data Centre Efficiency Programme

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      EC Announces New Data Centre Efficiency Programme

      The European Commission has announced a project designed to tackle energy efficiency in data centres and will release a set of open source hardware designs for a high-density server. The CoolEmAll project, which has enlisted the support of universities and vendors, will also deliver monitoring software as part of a wider goal to reduce data centre energy consumption. “A whole sub-industry has emerged in recent years around lowering data centre energy and carbon costs,” said analyst Andrew Donoghue of the451, a participant in the project, in a statement. “Some commercial suppliers (most notably Datacenter Infrastructure Management suppliers) and consultants have recently begun to take a more all-encompassing approach to the problem by straddling both IT and facilities equipment. However, few suppliers or researchers up to now have attempted to include the crucial role of workloads and applications.”

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    12. Olympic Media Centre Could Become “Innovation City”

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      Olympic Media Centre Could Become “Innovation City”
      Data Center operator Infinity will turn the Olympic park press and broadcast centres into an “innovation city” if it wins the race to lease the facilities after this summer’s Olympic Games in London have concluded. Two other bids have been shortlisted, including one from Oxylane Group for a sports-focused retail, office, leisure and education village and another which would turn the site into a UK fashion hub.
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    13. WindData Plans Wind-Powered Data Centre In Texas

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      WindData Plans Wind-Powered Data Centre In Texas
      WinData is a subsidiary of Baryonyx, an energy company formed by alumni of British wind power company Eclipse Energy, which sees the operation as one which builds wind farms to generate power for its data centres. The approach is an example of a renewable energy company looking to expand into the data centre industry and WindData believes that its ability to offer long-term deals on power pricing will be a key advantage for its service. “We can offer tenants in our data center fixed-price power for the term of the lease. It removes uncertainty about price spikes in the market, and also removes uncertainty from any carbon legislation,” commented Ian Hatton, CEO of Baryonyx. The company has plans for up to five data centres at the site in Texas, the first of which will be a 123 square foot building, which will also be able to use other energy sources ...
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    14. Multiple Device Uptake Makes Cloud Attractive

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      Multiple Device Uptake Makes Cloud Attractive
      Survey reveals use of multiple devices, acceleration of business and cost are main incentives of cloud Research commissioned by CSC has revealed that the main incentive for organisations to adopt cloud technology is the desire to connect its employees to a multitude of devices. The research, conducted by market researchers TNS, surveyed 3,645 IT decision makers from private and public sector organisations from eight countries on cloud computing usage trends. Flexibility and cost The ability to access information across a variety of devices was given by 33 percent as their reason for moving to the cloud, a figure which increased to 46 percent among small businesses in the US. Other popular reasons included the acceleration of business, with 21 percent, while 17 percent said it was a cost cutting measure.
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    15. Vendors Are Blocking Data Centres Energy Cuts

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      Vendors Are Blocking Data Centres Energy Cuts
      Data centres could run hotter and save energy, if vendors published accurate product information, a report says Data centre operators need more help from equipment manufacturers to save energy by running equipment at higher temperatures, according to a 451 Group report. Increasing the operating temperature in server racks helps cut cooling costs, which currently account for up to 70 percent of expenditure in data centres, but equipment makers are not giving data centre owners all the information they need, says the report .
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    16. Duqu Server Shut Down In India

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      Duqu Server Shut Down In India
      Indian authorities have seized hard drives from a server linked with the Duqu worm Indian authorities have seized equipment from a data centre in Mumbai as part of the global investigation into the Duqu worm, which first appeared earlier this month. Symantec researchers who discovered the malware said that its current primary purpose appeared to be to gather intelligence from industrial control systems and had no clear targets. Important clues According to Symantec, Duqu only creates a backdoor on infected systems and connects to a command and control server somewhere in India before self-destructing after 36 days.
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