Peter Judge

1. Mentioned In 14 Articles

2. Could Green Hurt Co-lo? By Peter Judge

   Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Mar 8 2010)

   I met up this week with someone who manages data center facilities and power for a large mostly-online business. I came away with a feeling that his drive to reduce his company's carbon footprint could be very bad news for co-location providers. He's a lucky guy, because his company has lined up facilities and IT, so the CTO sees the power bills and has an incentive to reduce them. He ... (Read Full Article)
   

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3. This week, it's all about the standby - by Peter Judge

   Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Mar 3 2010)

   A couple of announcements this week seem designed to help data center people think about backup power - and reducing its environmental demands. Backup power is a significant chunk of the energy used by any data center. It's obviously a minor part compared with the 24x7 load of active servers, but there should be great scope for reducing it - simply because it is backup power. If your backup power ... (Read Full Article)
   

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4. How Green Is your IT? By Peter Judge

   Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Feb 22 2010)

   In the last few days, another level of scrutiny emerged for green data center managers. It's not just how little electricity you use that counts - it is where that energy comes from. And, like many other green issues, this is one where - depending who you are - the PR gains and losses may be out of proportion to the actual measurable environmental effects of your choice. Facebook was ... (Read Full Article)
   

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5. Data Center 100211

   Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Feb 15 2010) Construction , Carbon Footprint

   ... How about data centres in space? Doug Mohney wrote here about climate matching - the practice of building a data center in a cool environment to match the cooling needs of the servers it contains. So far we've heard that data centers in colder countries like Ireland, Finland or Iceland can be run with less expensive cooling. But how far could this be taken? It sounds like a UK ... (Read Full Article)
   

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6. UK Cap and Trade Tirades go on - by Peter Judge

   Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Feb 8 2010) Cap and Trade

   This week has been another turbulent one for the green tech agenda. The backlash against fair UK's CRC carbon trading scheme got underway, and the overall global warming science got another kicking in the press too. . Firstly, the climate researchers whose emails were stolen got told off by the UK's information commissioner for not obeying Freedom of Information legislation. The group, at the University of East Anglia denies the ... (Read Full Article)
   

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7. Cap and Trade - By Peter Judge

   Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Feb 1 2010) Carbon Reduction Commitment

   There is a law of unintended consequences. Pompously, it says "any intervention in a complex system may or may not have the intended result, but will inevitably create unanticipated and often undesirable outcomes". More simply, it just says: things don't always turn out the way you want. Governments who set up regulations mandating green behaviour are going to have to deal with a lot of unintended consequences this year, as ... (Read Full Article)
   

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8. Green It- show me the measurement - by Peter Judge

   Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jan 25 2010) Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Carbon Reduction Commitment

   It won't be a surprise to readers of Green Data Center News that reducing energy use is about making money, but not everyone sees it that way. "Rather than pushing the green agenda down the priority list, a new report [from Frost & Sullivan] has found that the economic downturn may have actually made businesses in the ICT sector pay more attention to the subject, as a way to cut ... (Read Full Article)
   

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9. The Trade off between reliability and efficiency - by Peter Judge

   Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jan 18 2010) Construction , Power and Cooling

   Comment "I'm mot sure Uptime "measures" reliability, as that's scientifically difficult - watch the center for a thousand years and measure ..." - judgecorp

   Sitting in the world of green data centres, it's easy to forget that many people look at data centres in an entirely different way. Before a data centre can be green, it has to be reliable. The move towards green data centres is about using less energy, and measuring that by showing a low PUE - the ratio of power used, to power delivered to the servers - or a ... (Read Full Article)
   

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10. Can Bell Labs really cut network power by 1000 - by Peter Judge

    Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jan 12 2010) Power and Cooling

    It's tempting to think that the Green Touch initiative is more about getting good publicity for Alcatel Lucent, than about reducing greenhouse emissions. But on balance, I think that would be unfair to the project. The consortium, which emerged this week from discussions at Bell Labs, Alcatel Lucent's research arm, and has set itself the goal of creating technology in five years, which can reduce the emissions caused by the ... (Read Full Article)
    

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11. What are you Green Data Resolutions? - By Peter Judge

    Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jan 3 2010) Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing

    If you are a data centre manager who wants to deliver sustainable and efficient services, you might be feeling a bit low right now. Apart from the post-holiday blues, you're entering another year when resources are still scarce - a lot of countries are still in recession, and even those pulling out have a long way to go. So IT budgets will be tight, and you will be asked to ... (Read Full Article)
    

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12. If IT Steps up to the carbon challenge who pays? - By Peter Judge

    Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Dec 18 2009)

    The UN's climate change summit in Copenhagen last week faced one big question - who pays for reducing emissions? The developing or the developed world? The US or China? To my surprise, the Green IT movement faces more or less the same question. Who pays? The issue of payment is a surprise in Green IT. Normally we hear that making IT sustainable is a benefit, not a cost. Reducing energy ... (Read Full Article)
    

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13. When Copenhagen Ends lets get back to the basics - by Peter Judge

    Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Dec 13 2009) Carbon Footprint , Emissions

    At the mid-point of the Copenhagen climate change summit, there's a lot of excitement in the air, and big plans afoot. But afterwards, let's not forget that most of what we need to do is pretty basic stuff. Right now, people are still stoking the controversy supposedly raised by emails hacked from scientists at the Climatic Research Institute, but when it's eccentric creationist Sarah Palin calling for a Copenhagen boycott ... (Read Full Article)
    

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14. "climate gate" won't halt the carbon economy- by Peter Judge

    Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Dec 7 2009) Carbon Footprint , Emissions

    IT people will have two questions over the leak of emails from a leading climate change research institute last week. What does it imply about email security, and does it really blow apart the consensus around global warming - and if so, can we stop worrying about building green data centers? The security question won't be answered for a while. The University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Institute (CRU) is ... (Read Full Article)
    

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15. Time to Dive into Liquid Cooling - by Peter Judge

    Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Nov 30 2009) Servers

    Liquid cooling is bubbling back to the surface of green IT thinking. Last week saw the launch of a new system which claims to cut cooling costs for servers, by around 93 percent - and IBM has predicted that all servers could ultimately be cooled by liquid. Liquid cooling used to be the Roll Royce option. The only way to make super-dense, super-expensive supercomputers work without overheating, while more ordinary ... (Read Full Article)
    

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