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    1. Sustainable Data Centres: Energy Efficiency Is No Longer Enough

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      Sustainable Data Centres: Energy Efficiency Is No Longer Enough
      If we are to reach beyond the limits of eco-responsibility and truly embrace the notion of sustainable development, data centres must be designed taking into account their effect on society and therefore should be designed to operate for twice their current lifespan. In 2020, data centres worldwide will consume about 450 billion kWh and their CO2 emissions (at about 330 million tones) will be equal to those of Portugal, Switzerland, Greece and Sweden combined. Their electricity bills will amount to nearly $45 billion (£26bn). Faced with these astronomical figures, together with an unavoidable increase in the cost of electricity and the inevitable consequences of climate change, data centre operators are improving the energy efficiency of their facilities to cut their running costs and reduce damage to the environment.
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    2. Energy Efficiency Gains Horsepower: The State of Green Business 2010

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      Energy Efficiency Gains Horsepower: The State of Green Business 2010
      As managing greenhouse gas emissions continues to rise in priority inside companies, the need to find large, cost-effective energy savings is becoming increasingly important. Some of the biggest opportunities come from basic upgrades — of lighting, air conditioning, equipment, vehicles and other energy-using things. Coca-Cola Enterprises, for example, said it would slash its electricity consumption by 5.6 million kilowatt-hours a year as a result of an energy-efficiency overhaul of just its lighting systems at 24 facilities in the state. But that barely illuminates the opportunity. There are equally large savings to be found from a wide range of energy-management practices. Managing energy use has become increasingly easier, thanks to a new generation of technology.
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    3. Energy Star: Coming in June to a Data Center Near You?

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      Energy Star: Coming in June to a Data Center Near You?
      By this summer, your data centers may be able to earn an Energy Star certification, if the final stages of work underway at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency conclude as planned. At The Green Grid's data center conference in San Jose last week, Energy Star manager Alexandra Sullivan told attendees that the certification could be ready as early as June. Once the certification is launched, companies will be able to take an online test to rank how efficient their facilities are. Companies that score in the top 25 percent will then be eligible for an audit by the EPA in order to earn the Energy Star label.
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    4. Data Centers Can Apply for Energy Star Rating in June

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      Data Centers Can Apply for Energy Star Rating in June
      The EPA hopes to launch its Energy Star program for data centers in June, reports PCWorld. Earlier, the program had been tentatively scheduled to launch in early 2010. Last May, EPA launched Energy Star for servers. EPA said it is working on Energy Star for uninterruptable power supplies, or UPS systems, according to PC World. With the forthcoming rating system, data center operators will be able to assess the energy use of their facilities and receive a metric that allows them to compare how they are performing relative to their peers.
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    5. Companies Not Helping Themselves With Data Centre Efficiency

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      Companies Not Helping Themselves With Data Centre Efficiency
      Green Grid research reports that most companies are not offering incentives to their employees to help increase energy efficiency. Two-thirds of enterprises that deploy data centres currently have no corporate incentives in place for increasing energy efficiency in those IT systems, industry research made public on 4 Feb by The Green Grid reported. This equates with the fact that most companies are not currently offering incentives to their employees to help increase energy efficiency, even though doing so could mean substantial bottom-line and environmental results, the report said. "Incentives do not have to be monetary to be effective; employees often value verbal acknowledgement," the Green Grid's Data Collections and Analysis workgroup wrote in the report. "A company's initiative to boost energy efficiency may meet with greater success if it includes some form of employee incentives."
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    6. Analyzing Energy-Efficiency Metrics Can Reduce Energy Use in Data Centers

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      Analyzing Energy-Efficiency Metrics Can Reduce Energy Use in Data Centers
      Capturing and analyzing energy efficiency-metrics in data centers can improve business management decisions in several areas, particularly as computing and storage requirements grow, coupled with rising electricity costs, according to a report from Info-Tech. These include improving capacity planning for power and cooling infrastructure, avoiding costly brownouts and service interruptions, meeting corporate priorities for “green” initiatives, [...]
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    7. Green Grid to release new data center efficiency tools

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      Green Grid to release new data center efficiency tools
      The Green Grid Consortium will release two free tools in the coming months to help companies measure and improve the energy efficiency of their data centers. The new tools are both Web-based and will be available through the Green Grid's Web site by the end of March. The consortium is presenting them at its third annual conference on Thursday in San Jose, California.
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    8. Top Data Center Groups Meet, Discuss Efficiency

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      Top Data Center Groups Meet, Discuss Efficiency
      Eight groups involved in the data center industry met last month and agreed on “guiding principles” for measuring energy efficiency in data centers using the Power Usage Effectiveness standard popularized by The Green Grid. The Jan. 13 meeting involved representatives of The Green Grid, the 7×24 Exchange, The Uptime Institute, the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star Program, the U.S. Green Building Council, and the HVAC industry group ASHRAE.
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    9. VeriSign On Data Consolidation

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      VeriSign On Data Consolidation
      VeriSign is a billion-dollar company that provides identity and Internet infrastructure services to businesses. Chief technologist Ken Silva spends about half his time working on internal IT projects. One of Silva's main goals is to reduce the overall number of computers and applications it takes to run VeriSign's ( VRSN - news - people ) various services through "data center consolidation," the process of taking many small data center setups and combining them into a larger, more centralized operation. Silva talked with Forbes about winnowing its infrastructure and what that means for employees and customers.
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    10. Will Carbon Reduction Commitments Hurt U.K. Green Data Centers?

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      Will Carbon Reduction Commitments Hurt U.K. Green Data Centers?
      IT industry experts are calling on the UK government to amend the imminent Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) energy efficiency scheme, warning that it will force participants to outsource energy-intensive IT infrastructure to offshore operators, which could drive up overall emissions from the sector. The legislation comes into effect in April and will apply to about 5,000 large UK public and private sector organizations that consume more than 6,000MWh of electricity per year. As a result, many of the UK's larger data centers will be covered by the scheme and will be required to report on their energy use and attempt to improve their efficiency or face financial penalties.
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    11. New at Disney: It's a Data Center World After All

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      New at Disney: It's a Data Center World After All
      Visitors to Disney's Epcot Center in Orlando can walk around the world, stopping at pavilions that aim to give them a taste of other countries. Now, Disney and IBM hope to give visitors a unique look at the information technology that delivers the modern world's everyday necessities as well. Last week, the two companies unveiled the latest revision of their collaboration-the Smarter Planet-an exhibit on how technology can save energy and Earth's resources. Based on concepts espoused in IBM's 14-month-old marketing push of the same name, Smarter Planet allows guests to explore the impact of various technologies, such as using mobile phones for banking.
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    12. Take one step at a time when planning data center energy efficiency agenda

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      Take one step at a time when planning data center energy efficiency agenda
      Riddle me this: What’s the easiest thing you can do to improve energy efficiency in your data center? Answer: Turn up the heat. That’s the opinion of John Bennett, worldwide lead for data center transformation solutions with IT giant Hewlett-Packard. That comes through actions such as rationalizing hot and cold aisle placement, optimizing airflow, investing in thermal zone mapping and simply letting the thermostat run a little higher. “Anyone walking into a data center should break a sweat, not have to wear a jacket,” Bennett says.
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    13. Humana Builds A Twenty-First Century Data Center For Healthcare

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      Humana Builds A Twenty-First Century Data Center For Healthcare
      Healthcare costs face national scrutiny--and healthcare companies are responding with green data centers designed to deliver lower capital and operating expenses (CAPEX and OPEX).They are doing this by systematically reducing energy costs and by virtualizing away hardware and the costly software licensing fees that go with it. A case in point is Louisville, Kentucky-based Humana, Inc., a Fortune 200 corporation that employs 23,500 associates to market its health benefit consumer services in 50 states, Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico. Humana decided in the mid-2000s to proceed with a green data center build that would not only deliver hard dollar savings over the long haul, but also be well-positioned for a business that has nearly tripled to 11.5 million participants over the past few years, making Humana the second largest Medicare prescription drug carrier in the United States and the most rapidly growing U.S. Medicare Advantage ...
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    14. Managing Power in Data Centers

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      Managing Power in Data Centers
      The first thing to start planning for optimizing the power consumption in your datacenter is finding out how much power do your datacenter, racks, servers, equipment, and other devices consume. Next thing is to figure out the pattern of the consumption. For instance, what is the time of the day when the load from a particular rack is maximum or what's the time the overall load of the datacenter gets minimum. If we gather such relevant data, then it becomes very easy for us to plan for better optimization of resources and hence better optimization of power.
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    15. Virtualization Adoption is a Mile Wide, Inch Deep

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      Virtualization Adoption is a Mile Wide, Inch Deep
      Virtualization may have been one of the hottest technological innovations of the last decade, but a combination of concerns are keeping it from planting deep roots in the corporate world. A report released this month by CDW surveyed the virtualization landscape, finding that, although 90 percent of businesses say they've adopted virtualization, but only in small numbers of servers: Even companies that reported they'd "fully deployed" their virtualization plans had done so on 37 percent of their server infrastructure.
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    16. Facebook Status Update: We're Opening a Green Data Center

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      Facebook Status Update: We're Opening a Green Data Center
      If "Facebook's Green Data Center" were a group, I'd become a fan of it.* The social networking giant and cause of huge losses of productivity around the globe announced last week that it had made plans to open its first company-owned data center, and would take steps to make it among the greenest in the industry. In a post on Facebook (where else?), Jonathan Heiliger, the company's director of technical operations, laid out the 147,000-square-foot facility's claims to green, saying in part, "Along with making sure Facebook operates quickly for you, we wanted to minimize the environmental impact of our new facility and its energy costs. To best achieve those goals, we will use several energy-efficiency technologies, including:
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    17. Fans: The new power hogs in the data center

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      Fans: The new power hogs in the data center
      IBM fellow Roger Schmidt thinks that the energy efficiency benefits of using water based cooling could win over data center managers as increasing energy densities in server racks push the room-based cooling systems to the limit. While energy efficiency gains in processors have slowed the growth in energy density, the trend is still moving upwards. As energy densities rise, so does the volume of chilled air required to keep the equipment cool. More fans may be added and the fans may need to run faster to get sufficient air flow to keep equipment cool.
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    18. Facebook data center to use evaporative cooling; server heat will warm offices

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      Facebook data center to use evaporative cooling; server heat will warm offices
      Construction has commenced on the popular social networking company Facebook’s first enterprise data center in Prineville, Ore., on Thursday. The facility will use airside economization; its data center floor will be cooled by an evaporative cooling system and some heat from the servers will be recaptured to warm air in the offices. “We have come a long way from our roots in a Harvard dorm room, when Facebook was only available at some colleges and run on a single server,” the company’s VP of Technical Operations Jonathan Heiliger wrote in a blog post. “Now with more than 350 million people worldwide and our service and business continuing to grow, we must constantly scale our technical infrastructure to meet the demand… An important step along the way is to build a custom data center so that we can design it to meet our unique needs.” Until the decision to ...
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    19. Data center density hits the wall

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      Data center density hits the wall
      Industrial Light & Magic, which creates digital film special effects, has been replacing its servers with the hottest new IBM BladeCenters -- literally, the hottest. For every new rack ILM brings in, it cuts overall power use in the data center by a whopping 140 kW -- a staggering 84 per cent drop in overall energy use. But power density in the new racks is much higher: Each consumes 28 kW of electricity, versus 24 kW for the previous generation. Every watt of power consumed is transformed into heat that must be removed from each rack -- and from the data center. The new racks are equipped with 84 server blades, each with two quad-core processors and 32GB of RAM. They are powerful enough to displace seven racks of older BladeCenter servers that the San Francisco company purchased about three years ago for its image-processing farm.
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    20. Facebook to Build Its Own Data Centers

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      Facebook to Build Its Own Data Centers
      Facebook has decided to begin building its own data centers, and may announce its first facility as soon as tomorrow. The fast-growing social network has previously leased server space from wholesale data center providers, but has grown to the point where the economics favor a shift to a custom-built infrastructure. “Facebook is always looking at ways to scale our infrastructure and better serve our users,” said Facebook spokesperson Kathleen Loughlin said last week. “It should come as no surprise that, at some point, building a customized data center will be the most efficient and cost effective way to to do this. However, we have nothing further to announce at this time.”
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    21. DOE to IT industry: We'll help you get more energy-efficient, if it costs us

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      DOE to IT industry: We'll help you get more energy-efficient, if it costs us
      Together, enterprise computing giant Hewlett-Packard and power efficiency specialist Eaton have snagged a $7.4 million grant from the Department of Energy to help fund research focused on improving energy efficiency in IT products. The pair’s joint proposal actually received the third-largest grant out of the $47 million in total being focused on companies in the IT and communications sectors. The projects are focused on three areas: Equipment and Software - Changing core components of a data or telecommunications center in order to optimize energy use Power Supply Chain - Developing technologies to minimize energy waste as power moves from one system to another Cooling - More effective methods for reducing heat
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    22. IT Directors Cite Energy Savings As No. 6 Data Center Concern

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      IT Directors Cite Energy Savings As No. 6 Data Center Concern
      About 42 percent of IT directors globally said they expect to make significant changes to their data centers in 2010, including energy efficiency upgrades and server virtualization, according to the “2010 State of the Data Center” report from Symantec. Another 48 percent say they will make minor changes. Security was listed as a top area of concern in data centers by about 83 percent of respondents. Server virtualization, an energy saving measure, was the fourth-leading area of concern, at about 72 percent. Energy savings came in No. 6 at 70 percent.
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    23. Mid-Size Data Centers More Likely to Use Virtualization, Other New Technologies

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      Mid-Size Data Centers More Likely to Use Virtualization, Other New Technologies
      Mid-sized enterprises are more likely than smaller and larger enterprises to adopt data center technologies like virtualization and cloud computing, but other issues are taking precedence in companies as they deal with tight budgets and staffs, according to Symantec Corp. The company has released its 2010 State of the Data Center Report, finding that mid-sized data centers (those with 2,000-9,999 employees) are adopting cloud computing, deduplication, replication, storage virtualization and continuous data protection at 11-17 percent higher rates that other data centers.
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    24. Power Problems at Rackspace London Facility

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      Power Problems at Rackspace London Facility
      A UPS failure caused a power outage today at a Rackspace data center in London, leaving several hundred servers offline for hours as technicians needed to help restarting equipment. The incident occurred at the LON03 data center, one of several facilities in the company’s growing London operation. The power interruption started at 9:19 a.m. local time when a module failed on an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) and the unit failed to transfer the load properly, Rackspace said in its status update. Power was restored for most customers by 11:30 a.m., but a subset of servers failed to restart properly.
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