Articles from Tom Jowitt

1. Apple Risks Greenpeace Ire With Oregon Data Centre Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Dec 6 2011) Fossil Fuel Apple is considering a data centre in Prineville Oregon, near to Facebook, a move sure to anger Greenpeace Apple is reportedly considering following in the footsteps of Facebook by building a mammoth data centre in Prineville, Oregon. However if the reports are true, the move will surely incur the wrath of environmental campaigners Greenpeace. According to OregonLive.com, which cited two people with direct knowledge of Apple’s plans, Apple is close to making a decision about whether to build a large data centre in Prineville, which will be located a quarter mile south of the Facebook server farm that opened in 2011. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Facebook

2. HP Touts Low Energy Servers With Project Moonshot Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Nov 1 2011) Servers A new industry program from HP is promising to drive the advancement of low-energy server technology With the rising cost of power an increasing concern for most IT managers, a new industry program promises to help after HP unveiled its ‘Project Moonshot.’ The new industry program is made up of ia new server development platform, a customer discovery lab and partner ecosystem. This, HP promises, will help customers significantly reduce their complexity, energy use and costs. HP’s Project Moonshot (as expected) works with HP Converged Infrastructure technology to allow the sharing of resources, including storage, networking, management, power and cooling, across a wide range of servers. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Intel   Tom Jowitt

3. Microsoft Denies Humidity Changed Its Cloud Design Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Oct 19 2011) Microsoft has gone modular in an Iowa centre, and denies reports that humidity caused the change Microsoft has opted for a more modular design for the second phase of its data centre in West Des Moines (Iowa) in the United States, and denies recent media reports that suggest the change was becuase of humidity. The second phase of the data centre has a different design to the first phase. The Des Moines Register quoted local officials as saying this is because of the steamy summers in the US state. Steamy Summers? “I think they’re finding out that the individual units are not working so well in the Iowa humidity,” West Des Moines city planner Lynne Twedt was quoted as saying in the Des Moines Register. “They’re going to a different plan of attack with this one,” (i.e. phase two). (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Tom Jowitt   Microsoft Corp

4. Waste Heat From Disney Data Centre Warms District Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Oct 12 2011) Fossil Fuel , Cloud Computing , Networking , Servers Disney has provided a peak “behind the magic”, at least in how its data centres will turn heat into energy Disneyland Paris is partnering with French energy provider Dalkia to showcase a green way to turn waste heat from its data centres into heating and hot water at a business park. Dalkia revealed that it will soon open its first district heating network in the Val d’Europe business park in Marne-la-Vallée near Paris. A BBC video of the building of the greenfield business park, which is mostly reportedly owned by Eurodisney, the operator of Disneyland Paris, can be found here. This district-wide heating network will be fuelled by energy recovered from a 8,000 square metre data centre on the site. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Europe   Tom Jowitt   Microsoft Corp

5. Businesses’ Mainframe Commitment Remains Strong Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Sep 14 2011) The majority of big businesses are still deeply committed to their mainframes, and expect to increase spending (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   IBM   Tom Jowitt

6. Interxion Brick Lane Data Centre To Use Green Energy Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Sep 1 2011) Emissions , Servers A data centre in London’s East End has opted for 100 percent renewable energy to meet carbon targets Colocation data centre services provider Interxion has revealed that its data centre, located in London’s Brick Lane, is to be powered using 100 percent renewable energy. Interxion operates 28 data centres in 11 countries across Europe, and the decision to move its Brick Lane facility to 100 percent renewable energy is part of its efforts to provide a clear and transparent audit trail for its customers. The decision will see Interxion source its renewable power from UK provider SmartestEnergy. The renewable energy comes from a combination of wind, hydropower and biomass, as well as Good Quality CHP (combined heat and power). (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Europe   The Green Grid   Uptime Institute

7. Brocade Offers Network As A Service Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Aug 31 2011) Cloud Computing , Networking Brocade is offering a pay-as-you-grow network service, so customers can avoid hefty upfront investment Companies can now purchase their networking infrastructure as and when they need it, according to Brocade – which has started selling networks ‘as a service’. Brocade’s new subscription-based pricing structure for network infrastructure lets companies grow their networks as the company expands, instead of ploughing hefty upfront investments into a complete networking infrastructure, the company says. Network As A Service “Brocade Network Subscription is optimised to address the unique requirements of cloud-based IT environments and represents a viable new procurement alternative that offers customers the most flexible, open-ended network acquisition option available today,” said the company. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Brocade   Interactive Data Corporation   Tom Jowitt

8. AST Modular Opens Container Data Centre In Denmark Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Aug 26 2011) Construction , Container , Power and Cooling AST Modular has opened a data centre in Denmark, built using 21 modular shipping containers Modular data centre specialist, AST Modular, last week completed the delivery of a multiple data centre container park in Denmark. The container-based data centre is designed for the Nordic financial services industry. It consists of 21 containers spread over two sites, and the new containerised modules will complement the existing brick & mortar data centres. The containers are interconnected to the existing facilities by redundant dark fibre trunks, which according to AST Modular, allows the whole campus to work as one highly resilient virtual data centre of about 9,000 m2 raised floor space. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   AST   AST Modular

9. Dell Beefs Up Networking Play With Force10 Acquisition Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jul 20 2011) Networking Dell has equipped itself with serious networking capabilities thanks to its acquisition of Force10 Networks Dell is making a highly strategic move to bolster its networking credentials with the acquisition of privately-owned Force10 Networks. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. That said, the purchase price is likely to have been significant, as Force10 has annual revenues of $200m (£124m), and it operates in 60 countries around the world. It also has a blue chip customer base, including the likes of NYSE Euronext, Yahoo!, and CERN. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Yahoo   Cisco   Tom Jowitt

10. New Data Centre To Save Yorkshire Water £90k Per Year Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jul 15 2011) Carbon Footprint , Solar Yorkshire Water is set to save itself £90,000 a year thanks to a new data centre incorporating green tech Yorkshire Water is to save 31 tonnes of carbon per year, which will help save it approximately £90,000 per annum when a new energy efficient data centre comes online next year. So said Tim Williams, IT project manager at Yorkshire Water, speaking to eWEEK Europe UK. Yorkshire Water signed a deal with data centre solutions company 2bm back in April, and according to Williams construction on the new data centre will start next month. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Europe   Tom Jowitt

11. European Data Centres Set For Impressive Growth Spurt Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jul 13 2011) The data centre sector will grow another 28 percent according to a report from Tariff Consultancy Over the next five years the data centre sector will grow dramatically, after a new report from Tariff Consultancy Ltd (TCL) found that raised floor space will increase by 28 percent on average. And the report also predicted that data centre revenue across Europe will increase by 53 percent over the 5 year period to the end of 2016. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Europe   Netherlands   Tom Jowitt

12. FBI Seizes Web Servers In Data Centre Raid Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jun 22 2011) Servers The FBI has seized web servers during a data centre raid as part of its efforts to tackle Lulzsec hacktivists The FBI launched a raid on a data centre in Virginia and seized a number of web servers, at the same time as British police arrested a 19-year-old man allegedly connected with the Lulzsec hacktivist group. The FBI raid reportedly happened on Tuesday at 1:15 am local time (6.15am UK time), and the servers snatched by the FBI belonged to Swiss-based web hosting company DigitalOne. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   New York Times   Europe   Tom Jowitt

13. Virgin Media Launches Co-Location Service Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (May 23 2011) Cloud Computing , Networking Local data centres and fast fibre networks back a co-location service from Virgin Virgin Media Business has launched a co-location service with eleven regional data centres provided by data centre firm ICM, linked by the Virgin Media Business nationwide fibre-optic network. This company launched a tailored service for data centre connectivity in February, and now has its own co-location service, promising 99.95 percent availability and high-speed access to their data, with high security – Virgin Media Business’ recently received the NGN 2-2-4 security accreditation. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com

14. Libyan Rebels Create Their Own Mobile Network Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Apr 14 2011) Networking Rebels improve communications by taking a mobile phone network from Colonel Gaddafi Libyan fighters taking on the might of Colonel Gaddafi’s armed forces had to communicate with flags, until rebel engineers hijacked a mobile phone network run by Gaddafi’s son. In a remarkable feat of engineering, a team of engineers – led by a 31 year old Libyan national Ousama Abushagur – separated out part of the mobile network belonging to the state controlled operator Libyana. (Read Full Article)

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15. IBM Offers ‘Five Golden’ Rules For Green IT Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Apr 4 2011) Carbon Footprint Companies are missing a trick by not realising how much energy is being used by dormant office equipment, says IBM’s Richard Lanyon-Hogg Many companies are blissfully unaware of the power consumption of background equipment and infrastructure within the office. So warns IBM which has published a whitepaper about the cost of wasted energy use by IT equipment. Indeed, IBM’s studies into this subject revealed that 42 percent of IT and office equipment energy consumption is wasted. And this is not a trival issue, as electricity is likely to be the second highest cost after labour, for any business. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Europe   IBM

16. Virgin Media Business Touts Data Centre Connectivity Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Feb 2 2011) Networking Virgin Media Business has recognised the increasing demand for carrier grade data centre connectivity with the launch of a tailored service for that sector, which it claims can dramatically reduce power and space consumption. Its data centre proposition is designed to connect customers to a range of services at speeds up to 10Gbps, coupled with network resilience. Each interconnect can connect up to 8,000 users. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Europe

17. EU Code Of Conduct For Data Centres ‘Failing’ Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Nov 29 2010) The EU code of conduct for data centres is failing to engage the industry, say critics. The EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres, intended to help data centre owners become more efficient, is not getting any significant level of support in the UK, according to a data centre specialist The Code of Conduct was launched in late 2008, as a practical set of guidelines designed to improve energy efficiency within the data centre industry, bringing vendors and data centre operators together, to develop good practices for reducing the energy consumption of data centres, which Gartner analysts have warned warned now made up 12 percent of data centre expenditure. (Read Full Article)

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18. Research Calls For End To Green IT Apathy Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Nov 24 2010) Monitoring , Carbon Footprint , Emissions New research from nlyte Software is calling for an end to apathy towards Green IT among businesses and consumers Data centre performance specialist nlyte Software is calling for an end to the apathy that both consumers and businesses display towards Green IT. The company has just published new research that reveals a startling lack of awareness across both businesses and consumers as to the data centre’s growing carbon footprint – particularly in relation to consumers’ regular use of online services, such as Facebook and Amazon. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Europe   Facebook

19. Fujitsu Points To Uptake Of Shared Community Clouds Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Nov 17 2010) Cloud Computing New research from Fujitsu has highlighted the high success rates for cloud projects, and it pointed to the increasing uptake of shared community clouds as a means of offsetting ongoing security concerns about public clouds. Fujitsu found that, on average, CIOs and IT managers have experienced 24 percent cost savings in their cloud computing projects with some achieving as much as 40 percent. Indeed, 71 percent of those that achieved savings said it met or exceeded their expectations. Just 3 percent stated that they found no cost saving when moving to the cloud. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Fujitsu   Europe

20. Computer Aid Solar Cyber Café Goes Live In Kenya Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Oct 15 2010) Solar Some of the poorest nations will soon have the ability to get online, even without electricity, thanks to solar powered Internet cafés from Computer Aid International. The idea for a portable cyber café in a standard 20 foot shipping container, which has built-in solar panels on the roof, was first revealed by the charity back in March this year. The thinking behind the concept is that it can be shipped to Africa and installed at any remote location, offering a connection to the Internet via cellular data connection, Wi-Fi or VSAT. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Europe   Facebook

21. London Remains Largest European Data Centre Market Explore da.feedsportal.com (Sep 23 2010) London continues to boast of having the largest single data centre market in Europe, with total raised floor space in London forecast to increase to 300,000 square metres by 2015. So says Tariff Consultancy Ltd (TCL) in its new report, “The London Data Centre Market - 2010 to 2015”. It points to London’s ‘interconnected ecosystem’ as one of the main drivers, despite the high cost of real estate within the M25. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Europe   Gartner

22. EcoCooling Touts Cleaner Data Centre Cooling Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (May 17 2010) Emissions , Servers Data centres are notoriously power hungry, due in part to the need for energy-sapping cooling systems. However a British-based company, EcoCooling Ltd, is touting the advantages of its evaporative coolers, as companies look for a more natural way of producing cool air. Conventional server rooms and data centres use what is commonly referred to as CRAC (computer room air conditioning) units for cooling. This normally makes use of a refrigeration-based air conditioning system. EcoCooling thinks that data centres could usefully look at an alternative based on evaporative cooling. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Europe   Facebook

23. Gartner: Data Centres Set For Fresh Headaches Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (May 13 2010) Servers Comment "Red Vista have found that companies are now keen to look at outsourcing and hosting where they can secure a ..." - 1173carld Analyst company Gartner has warned that owners and operators of data centres will face more and more problems associated with power, cooling and space, thanks to the prediction of a significant increase in server sales during the next two years. Server Influx Gartner, in a new report “Data Center Power, Cooling and Space: A Worrisome Outlook for the Next Two Years”, believes that this influx of fresh equipment into the data centre is going to trigger a fresh bout of headaches for IT managers. (Read Full Article)

    2 Comments Mentions:   Gartner   Facebook

24. UK Data Centre Undergoes Tech Refresh While Still Live Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Mar 24 2010) A data centre belonging to Hounslow Borough Council has been refurbished with next generation technology and infrastructure, but interestingly the rebuild was carried out in a live environment, i.e. the data centre was still operational. The in-situ refurbishment of Hounslow Borough Council’s data centre was carried out by Comms Room Services, a British company that specialises in the design and build, refurbishment and relocation of data centres, server rooms and computer rooms. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Europe

25. Greenpeace Admits Using ‘Dirty’ Power Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Mar 4 2010) Fossil Fuel , Servers There are red faces over at Greenpeace International, after the environmental organisation took Facebook to task last month over a data centre it is building in Oregon that will use mostly coal-based electricity. Greenpeace’s beef with Facebook’s data centre was that it is not using renewable energy, which led the environmental group to reportedly say that “the only truly green data centres are the ones running on renewable energy.” (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Greenpeace   Data Center Knowledge   Netherlands

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