Articles from DatacenterDynamics

1. NetApp’s North Carolina facility earns first Energy Star for data centers

   Explore Article DatacenterDynamics (Jul 15 2010)

   Storage vendor NetApp announced Wednesday that its data center in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park became first to receive the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star label under the agency’s new rating system for energy efficient data centers. The EPA launched Energy Star for data centers in June. The system rates data center energy efficiency on a 0-100 scale and facilities in the top 25 percent receive the Energy Star label, much like the agency’s Energy Star program for other types of buildings and equipment. The EPA rates data center energy efficiency based on the Green Grid’s Power Usage Effectiveness ... (Read Full Article)
   

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2. BREEAM rating now specified for data centers

   Explore Article DatacenterDynamics (Jul 7 2010)

   A private UK organization that performs environmental-impact assessment of buildings has added an assessment method specifically for data centers. The new BRE Environmental Assessment Method, called BREEAM Datacentres, was developed by BRE Global in collaboration with the large US-based wholesale data center provider Digital Realty Trust. The new standard falls under the existing umbrella of BREEAM Other Buildings and only assessors licensed to carry out audits in this family are allowed to issue BREAM certifications to data centers. The standard will evolve based on information collected during future data center audits. In March of 2009, DRT formally committed to design ... (Read Full Article)
   

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3. Carnegie Mellon University data center to host Open Cirrus HPC cluster

   Explore Article DatacenterDynamics (Feb 23 2010) Cloud Computing

   The research data center at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science will host one of the series of computing clusters around the world that comprise Open Cirrus, a test bed for cloud computing research created by HP, Intel and Yahoo! This is the second Open Cirrus cluster the university’s scientists will have had access to. The Carnegie Mellon site, hosted within the university’s Data Center Observatory, will focus on researching ways to make cloud computing infrastructure faster, increase its reliability and energy efficiency, as well as deploying new applications on cloud infrastructure. With the addition of Carnegie Mellon, Open ... (Read Full Article)
   

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4. Facebook data center to use evaporative cooling; server heat will warm offices

   Explore Article DatacenterDynamics (Jan 21 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

   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 ... (Read Full Article)
   

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5. Second Digital Realty Trust data center gets LEED Platinum

   Explore Article DatacenterDynamics (Jan 11 2010) Construction , Cloud Computing

   At Green Rack Systems, we have been saying for a long time how this emphatic shift towards clean energy is inescapable. A November study by AFCOM finds that “greening of the data center is no longer just a concept – it is actually taking place”, and on a large scale, with 71.3% of all survey respondents indicating that they are actively engaged in Greening. Now, thanks to Executive Order 13514 requiring rigid energy efficiency targets, even Federal agencies have to follow what they preach by taking the lead on reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. Further, they will have to ... (Read Full Article)
   

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6. Global Switch to build new data centre in Paris

   Explore Article DatacenterDynamics (Oct 20 2009) Power and Cooling

   Global Switch signed IBM for the pre-letting of technical space in its new data centre development at Clichy in Paris. The firm is about to break ground on the site following the award of the building environmental planning permission in the last month. IBM is expected to take up to half of the six floor facility of 17,000sqm. It has been designed with a base power density of 1.5kW/m2 (with the flexibility to be adapted for high density environments as required). It will be a minimum of Tier III throughout. The build is planned to take 19 months and the ... (Read Full Article)
   

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7. Cloud security and long-term pay-off remain unclear

   Explore Article DatacenterDynamics (Oct 15 2009) Cloud Computing

   In a sobering but optimistic keynote address at the Silicon Valley Leadership Group’s Data Center Energy Efficiency Summit NetApp CEO Tom Georgens called on the industry to put faith into innovative approaches to IT infrastructure as competition becomes fiercer and IT budgets remain tight. While promoting more shared use of all infrastructure components by applications through cloud-based architectures, Georgens said two fundamental questions about cloud computing had not been settled. Jury is still out on whether cloud-based models will really be cheaper in the long run than the traditional approaches. The other big ‘maybe’ is security. “I ask people all ... (Read Full Article)
   

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8. The top ten best countries to locate a data center- Top Location Iceland

   Explore Article DatacenterDynamics (Oct 9 2009) Power and Cooling

   Consultant Ron Bowman has compiled a list of the top ten countries and their cities in which to locate a data center, based on his own criteria of power, cooling, telecom, labour and ‘favourable acts of God.’ The Criteria: Access to reliable and scalable power inclusive of the generating cost of CO2 emissions. Access to cooling solutions, including potable and grey water with free cooling options. Confluence of last-mile, long-haul, and submersible cable connectivity. Scalable and burstable optics of Central Offices (CO's) and Network Access Points. Relevant government, as well as civilian stability and security. Possible composite Acts of God ... (Read Full Article)
   

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9. VMware's new data center powered solely by hydroelectric power

   Explore Article DatacenterDynamics (Oct 6 2009) Construction , Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing

   Virtualization technology provider VMware decided to practice what they preach by designing and building a data center that uses best design practices from energy efficiency standpoint and leverages extensively the vendor’s own virtualization offerings. The company is targeting an ambitions PUE figure and has entered the facility for a LEED Platinum certification by the US Green Building Council. The vendor announced the new data center’s launch on Tuesday. If the LEED application is successful, the facility will become the third data center in the US to achieve the highest-level award for sustainable desing and building practices. Digital Realty Trust announced ... (Read Full Article)
   

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10. CA moves into power monitoring in the data center

    Explore Article DatacenterDynamics (Sep 29 2009) Monitoring , Carbon Footprint , Emissions

    Software giant CA is moving beyond its traditional sphere of enterprise systems management software and moving into using its existing platforms to move into PDU, CRAC, grid and generator power measurement. Speaking at a briefing in London where the company unveiled retail giant Tesco as a user of its ecoSoftware, CA said its ecoMeter module ‘Captures detailed real-time information about energy use across your data centers and facilities, enabling measurements, trends, and alerts.’ (Read Full Article)
    

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11. HP changes energy use/carbon emission reduction goals

    Explore Article DatacenterDynamics (Sep 21 2009) Emissions , Fossil Fuel

    Technology giant HP announced on Monday that it had set new targets for reduction of energy usage and greenhouse gas emissions by its products and as a result of company operations. It also reported on the progress of its environmental initiatives to date. The company had to overhaul its reduction goals for two reasons, said Pierre Delforge, HP’s corporate climate and energy strategies manager. One reason was that it was on the trajectory to meet the goals it had set earlier prematurely. The other was acquisition of the IT outsourcing firm EDS in 2008 – a deal that increased HP’s ... (Read Full Article)
    

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12. Interxion officially announces Eur12 million Dublin data center ...

    Explore Article DatacenterDynamics (Sep 15 2009) Power and Cooling

    Interxion officially announces Eur12 million Dublin data center ...DatacenterDynamics... systems and has been designed using Interxion's energy-efficient modular architecture, with free cooling and maximum-efficiency components as standard. ...and more » (Read Full Article)
    

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13. Emerson to release new data center rack Pdu's

    Explore Article DatacenterDynamics (Sep 8 2009) Monitoring

    DatacenterDynamicsEmerson to release new data center rack PDU'sDatacenterDynamics... with remote monitoring and control capabilities has been spurred by the recent emphasis on increasing energy efficiency in data centers, Munafo wrote. ... (Read Full Article)
    

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14. UMass Medical School embarks on green data center construction project

    Explore Article DatacenterDynamics (Aug 18 2009) Construction , Power and Cooling

    University of Massachusetts Medical School is building a new data center on its property in Shrewsbury, Mass., to replace two of its existing IT facilities. The school has retained Tishman Construction as construction manager for the $16 million project. Conforming to the institution’s Growing Green program, the data center will utilize a number of technologies to increase its energy efficiency. According to university spokesman James Fessenden, the 20,000-square-foot facility will initially house about 7,000 square feet of raised data center floor, with capacity to expand by another 4,000 square feet in the future. One of the school’s existing data centers ... (Read Full Article)
    

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15. Data center power and cooling solutions and Gartner's “Hype Cycle”

    Explore Article DatacenterDynamics (Aug 11 2009) Monitoring , Power and Cooling , Geothermal , Wind , Cloud Computing , Servers

    Data center DC distribution and cooling management software have reached the peak of “inflated expectations” by the industry, while free cooling and power monitoring and management software are sliding into the trough between second or third rounds of venture-capital funding and sobering industry adoption statistics. Other solutions sliding along into the aforementioned trough are combined heat and power, flywheel UPS systems and in-rack cooling, according to Gartner’s newly released annual Hype Cycle Special Report on data center power and cooling technologies. (Read Full Article)
    

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16. Interactive Data Corporation completes major data center upgrade

    Explore Article DatacenterDynamics (Jun 20 2009) Cloud Computing , Servers

    Financial analytics and data provider Interactive Data Corporation completed the upgrade of its five year old Boxborough Massachusetts 50,000 sq ft data center doubling its capacity and improving energy efficiency. The company said it focused on in row cooling and chillers located outside the building which operate when the temperature drops below 50 degrees Fahrenheit. The data hall can accommodate up to 4,000 servers. “Interactive Data’s mission-critical products and services are powered by our state-of-the-art data center, and our continued investment in this facility can help us to further scale our global business and meet the mission-critical needs of financial ... (Read Full Article)
    

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17. Survey: rack density will keep creeping up and complexity is growing

    Explore Article DatacenterDynamics (Jun 18 2009) Monitoring , Cloud Computing , Networking , Servers

    Facilities and network energy efficiency ranks among the top concerns of almost half of data center, facility and IT managers surveyed recently. Fifty per cent reported that adequate monitoring was one of top three concerns. The survey revealed that about 60 percent of respondents had to cut their budgets because of the poor economy and 35 percent delayed new build or expansion projects. More than half of respondents said future facilities would be designed to support densities of 10KW and 20KW per rack, while current facilities support an average of 7.4 KW per rack. Reasons behind higher density were pressure ... (Read Full Article)
    

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18. The Planet to open new data center in Dallas area

    Explore Article DatacenterDynamics (Jun 12 2009) Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing

    The Planet [http://www.theplanet.com/], a collocation and managed hosting provider, will open a new data center in Plano, Texas – a suburb of Dallas –next week. While the company will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new facility June 16, it will be up and running within the next two weeks, Vice President of Facilities Jeff Lowenberg said. It will provide some managed hosting services in the data center, it will primarily be used for colocation offering 45-unit cabinets to customers in the 106,000 sq. ft. facility, Lowenberg said. “I can cool up to about 12 kW in a cabinet,” he ... (Read Full Article)
    

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19. Microsoft signs EU Code of Conduct for data centers and targets ...

    Explore Article DatacenterDynamics (May 7 2009) Cloud Computing

    To date the company is one of the largest data center operators to sign as a participant in the Code. The Code of Conduct offers two levels of engagement, participants are generally data center operators who must commit to monitoring and reporting of data center energy use and endorsers, generally suppliers, who promote the code. Mark Taylor, Director of Developer and Platform Evangelism, Microsoft said “We need to do three things: Address the issues in our own industry, work to find technological answers to the environmental problems we are all facing today and tomorrow and help individuals and organisations change ... (Read Full Article)
    

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20. Price per rack rises 8.5 per cent in European colo space

    Explore Article DatacenterDynamics (May 5 2009)

    The latest Data Centre Price Tracker survey of 14 European countries reveals that average per rack pricing rose by 8.5% during 2008. Countries that saw the highest per Rack price rises in 2008 include Portugal (30%), Denmark (24%) and France (17%). In all countries data center operators are raising prices as newly furbished space is introduced to the market and are introducing new types of Rack product which reflect the costs of providing enhanced power which increases the average price per rack. "Although there is an economic downturn taking place, there is no immediate sign of a slowdown in demand ... (Read Full Article)
    

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