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    1. US department of energy to cool exascale HPC with local weather

      Explore da.feedsportal.com (Feb 8 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Servers

      US department of energy to cool exascale HPC with local weather In a picturesque spot overlooking San Francisco Bay, the US Department of Energy's Berkeley Lab has begun building a new computing centre that will one day house exascale systems. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Iceland   Verne Global   Department of Energy

    2. Growth In Private Cloud Adoption Continues To Rise

      Explore da.feedsportal.com (Jan 24 2012) Cloud Computing

      Growth In Private Cloud Adoption Continues To Rise The adoption of private cloud technology keeps going and going. In December, Cloud hosting company Softlayer reported that it had record-setting growth for its private cloud deployments, almost doubling revenue in the process. Another example is DynamicOps, a cloud services provider that has seen some 300 percent growth in the private cloud market through 2011. Record growth While Softlayer and DynamicOps are the latest example of rapidly-growing cloud services companies, they are by no means the only one. Many other services vendors are claiming that 2011 has been a banner year for growth. INetU, a managed hosting provider, reported that it added a sixth data centre last summer to support demand for cloud services and expanding its property holdings by 144 percent in 2011 in anticipation of additional growth. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Gartner   Oracle   IBM

    3. The Cloud And The Client: Apple’s Green Dilemma

      Explore da.feedsportal.com (Dec 14 2011) Fossil Fuel

      The Cloud And The Client: Apple’s Green Dilemma Last week’s story that Apple may be planning a data centre in Oregon, near Facebook’s controversial location, may turn out to be a rumour, or may be reality. Either way, it was a timely reminder that consumerisation and the cloud are changing the way tech companies are judged on environmental issues. Apple has had a poor rating from environmental campaigners in recent years, largely because of a lack of transparency about the environmental impact of its consumer products. This has been changing somewhat as it opens up slightly, and Apple sits somewhere in the middle of Greenpeace’s latest consumer IT rankings A cloud hanging over all green IT? However the arrival of the cloud changes things. When Apple first launched its iPad, Greenpeace was quick to respond that more client devices with higher expectations of data and connectivity, use more energy and create more emissions. It is ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Facebook

    4. Telehouse London Totally Switches To Green Power

      Explore da.feedsportal.com (Dec 1 2011) Carbon Footprint , Emissions

      Telehouse London Totally Switches To Green Power Telehouse has sourced 100 percent sustainable electricity for its Docklands data centre hosting site Telehouse, a data centre outsourcing company, has gone completely over to green energy in its London facilities. The 100 percent renewable power has been sourced from SmartestEnergy. The data centre provider currently houses just under 500 major international companies at its London Docklands premises. By purchasing its energy requirements from SmartestEnergy, Telehouse is assured that the electricity is bought from independent generators of hydroelectric, wind, solar and anaerobic-digestion sources. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Europe   Carbon Trust

    5. Are You Operating A Legal Cloud?

      Explore da.feedsportal.com (Nov 14 2011) Cloud Computing

      Are You Operating A Legal Cloud? Cloud computing did not exist when data protection regulation came into force. John Roberts of Redstone explains how to keep within the law The UK Data Protection Act (DPA) is often regarded as the world’s leading law on protecting personal data. But many UK companies now adopting cloud services are not only putting data at risk, but also themselves, by breaching data protection laws. How do you comply with the DPA, whilst maintaining a cloud presence? When the UK government passed the DPA in 1998 it was heralded as the definitive way to guarantee personal data was protected. Over the following decade, refinements to the act ensured that personal data was not just secure, but more specifically, it was secure online. This worked well when data was held on-premise, within a company’s own data centre, but the advent of cloud technology has changed all that. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   Peter Judge

    6. Allstate: Reduces nearly 3,000 servers or devices in 18 months

      Explore da.feedsportal.com (Oct 24 2011) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers

      Allstate: Reduces nearly 3,000 servers or devices in 18 months Allstate Insurance has been pursuing energy-saving initiatives for several years, and it has seen a cumulative energy reduction of about 40% through more efficient data center operations and the use of virtualization, according to Anthony Abbattista, senior vice president of technology solutions. RELATED ARTICLES Dell launches energy-efficient servers New Energy Star specs for monitors Online shoppers demand greener websites Energy Star 5.0 boosts energy efficiency for PCs Web servers produce 632kg of CO2 per year The Northbrook, Ill.-based insurance provider uses a business-case approach to deploying various energy-saving projects concurrently, Abbattista says. "If an idea made sense and had the right fiscal savings model, we implemented it," he says. Promoters of greener data center operations use business cases to persuade Allstate's real estate group and the rest of the company "to get behind our actions," Abbattista says. "We are a collection of socially conscious engineers and business ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   LEED   Dell

    7. Colt Launches Private Cloud Services In Europe

      Explore da.feedsportal.com (Oct 21 2011) Cloud Computing

      Colt Launches Private Cloud Services In Europe Companies in Europe will be able to access private cloud services from local data centres by the end of 2012 British telecoms company Colt is extending its enterprise cloud services into mainland Europe, to help companies on the continent store and access data securely, in accordance with their local data protection requirements. Colt already offers private dedicated clouds for its customers in Europe, as well as enterprise public cloud services built on VMware’s vCloud data centre technology. However, the expansion will enable customers to access local enterprise private cloud services from local data centres by the end of 2012. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Europe   United Kingdom

    8. GreenQloud Carbon-Neutral Data Centre Moves Into Beta

      Explore da.feedsportal.com (Oct 2 2010) Fossil Fuel , Geothermal , Storage

      GreenQloud Carbon-Neutral Data Centre Moves Into Beta GreenQloud has laid plans to open what it claims to be the world’s first carbon-neutral cloud service. The service is entering beta testing at the moment and will go live at the end of the first quarter 2011. The data centre only uses renewable energy provided by the geothermal springs and hydropower available at the centre’s location in Iceland. Eirkur Hrafnsson, GreenQloud’s CEO and co-founder, claimed that this location also makes it possible for companies based in Europe and America to have a common data centre. This would avoid moving data across frontiers and would be cheaper than having to source facilities in two or more countries. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Iceland   GreenQloud

    9. Intel Ponders Atom-Based Computing Clusters

      Explore da.feedsportal.com (Oct 1 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

      Intel Ponders Atom-Based Computing Clusters Intel has confirmed that while it is not looking to position Atom in the mainstream server market, it is considering compute clusters of smaller, Atom-based devices. An Intel executive has reportedly confirmed that the chip giant is not interested in pushing its energy-efficient Atom processor for the server space. Kirk Skaugen, vice president and general manager of Intel’s Data Centre Group, said in an interview with IDG News that while there are some vendors that are using Atom chips in server designs, and chip designer ARM is looking to push its processor designs into the data centre, most businesses are looking for systems with the power and energy efficiency of the latest Xeon chips. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Intel   Carnegie Mellon University   Intel Labs

    10. Modular data centres form Capgemini’s green alternative

      Explore da.feedsportal.com (Sep 29 2010) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers

      Modular data centres form Capgemini’s green alternative Capgemini has magically turned its Merlin green data centre technology into a marketable package. The modules used to build Capgemini’s Merlin data centre in Swindon can be used to create a low-cost, scalable centre in any available space, the company claims. It is now hoping to create a new generation of mini data centres, according to Paul Anderson, programme director of Outsourcing Services at Capgemini UK. The modules are mobile, self-contained units that are 95 percent recyclable. The ones used in Merlin were built off-site and transported to the warehouse that Capgemini acquired in Swindon. (Read Full Article)

    11. Schmidt Outlines Google’s Search For Artificial Intelligence

      Explore da.feedsportal.com (Sep 29 2010) Cloud Computing

      Schmidt Outlines Google’s Search For Artificial Intelligence Autonomous search is Google's next step in bringing information to the users, instead of making them seek it, said Google CEO Eric Schmidt at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference. Google CEO Eric Schmidt said the symbiotic relationship between humans and computers is driving the search engine to work on autonomous search, where users receive search suggestions on their mobile phone without having to type any queries. Schmidt, speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, said that while the Google Instant predictive search technology helps shave an average of two seconds off users’ queries, the next step is autonomous search. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Google   Facebook

    12. HP Ousts Cisco Kit From Its Data Centres

      Explore da.feedsportal.com (Sep 27 2010) Networking

      HP Ousts Cisco Kit From Its Data Centres HP's data centres are now 'Cisco Free' as Hewlett Packard continues to highlight the increasing bad blood between the two companies. HP has announced that it has purged Cisco networking gear from all six of its data centers and is operating with only HP products. The announcement that HP has eliminated Cisco core routers and switches from its six data centres highlights the disintegrating relationship between Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Oracle   Cisco   Hewlett Packard

    13. London Remains Largest European Data Centre Market

      Explore da.feedsportal.com (Sep 23 2010)

      London Remains Largest European Data Centre Market 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)

      Mentions:   Europe   Gartner

    14. Cost-cutting Power7 Express Servers From IBM

      Explore da.feedsportal.com (Sep 23 2010) Servers

      Cost-cutting Power7 Express Servers From IBM IBM is rolling out four entry-level servers based on Power7 processors designed for small enterprises and businesses with IT budget constraints. The Power Systems Express server models 710, 720, 730 and 740 are based on the Power7 chip architecture the company announced in August. High Capacity, Low Price Power7 wafer Available through IBM Business partners, the servers promise high computing capacities at an affordable price. They start under $6,500 and, depending on actual financing rates, a 36-month lease of the Power Systems Express server model 710 can come to a mere $188 a month, according to IBM. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Intel   Oracle   Hewlett Packard

    15. Up To 5,000 Firms Could Face CRC Fines Next Week

      Explore da.feedsportal.com (Sep 22 2010) Carbon Reduction Commitment

      Up To 5,000 Firms Could Face CRC Fines Next Week Around 5,000 businesses and public sector organisations have yet to register for the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) Energy Efficiency Scheme, according to on365, an infrastructure and utility specialist. With the deadline looming at the end of next week, fines of up to £45,000 on each organisation could be levied. A further hazard is that the Environment Agency’s application process and checks take up to four weeks. That means that companies applying today could still miss the cut-off date. Companies failing to submit in time face an immediate £5,000 fee and an additional charge of £500 per day, capped at £45,000. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Europe   Carbon Reduction Commitment   CRC

    16. Major Upgrade As Yahoo Refreshes Its Services

      Explore da.feedsportal.com (Sep 17 2010)

      Major Upgrade As Yahoo Refreshes Its Services Yahoo is investing heavily in updating its entire platform, including redesigning its home page, strengthening the overall site engine, and building more data centres. Yahoo announced upgrades in its web products that it hopes will help it to regain some lustre. The company wants to boost its user base because numbers have been either flat or slowly slipping, depending on which researcher is to be believed. Despite its intentions, the venerable web-services provider, still one of the most relied-upon web sites in the world, didn’t show analysts and media all that much at its Product Runway event at its corporate headquarters. Mainly, the message was that the company is spending heavily to improve its platform and services. Within the next few weeks, Yahoo’s home page will add update access to Twitter, Facebook, and Zynga (social gaming), so that users can file updates to any of those sites without ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Google   Yahoo   Facebook

    17. IBM Buys BigFix For Data Centre Management

      Explore da.feedsportal.com (Jul 2 2010)

      IBM Buys BigFix For Data Centre Management Microsoft's management products are in IBM's sights with the BigFix technology it is buying. IBM has agreed to buy system management firm BigFix, to help control devices and make data centres smarter. The two companies are already partners, and BigFix’s management technology adds to IBM’s existing configuration management abilities, and automates and simplifies endpoint management for large environments, said Al Zollar, general manager of IBM Tivoli Software. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   IBM   Microsoft Corp