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    1. Five ways to improve data center power efficiency you might not have thought of

      Explore The Voice of IT Management (May 10 2012) Construction

      Five ways to improve data center power efficiency you might not have thought of LAS VEGAS -- While few doubt the importance of maximizing the energy efficiency of their corporate data centers, executive vice president of data center technology for Las Vegas-based Switch, Mark Thiele's talk at Interop this week showcased just how much companies might still be missing. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Mark Thiele

    2. Top 10 Influential: Australian data centres, Cloud expansion

      Explore The Voice of IT Management (Dec 19 2011) Carbon Tax , Cloud Computing

      While data centres and Cloud computing are not new kinds of technology, they did generate plenty of stories during 2011 as operators began to turn fresh ground for new data centre sites while been faced with the Gillard Government’s incoming carbon tax. Cloud has made the headlines as more Australian companies decide to outsource data and cut costs by putting services such as email into the Cloud. Out of all the local data centre operators, Melbourne-based NextDC (ASX: NXT) seemed to be constantly in the headlines as they announced plans for sites in Sydney (S1), Brisbane (B1), Canberra and Perth. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Juniper Networks   Interactive Data Corporation   Frost

    3. NextDC gets green light for Sydney data centre

      Explore The Voice of IT Management (Nov 14 2011) Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing

      Data centre operator NextDC (ASX: NXT) has been given the go-ahead to kick off construction on its latest data centre in Sydney, S1, which was initially announced back in March. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Fujitsu   Facebook   CSC

    4. Green room: Carbon diem

      Explore The Voice of IT Management (Oct 20 2011) Carbon Footprint , Carbon Tax , Emissions

      Green room: Carbon diem The increasing demand for power and its cost have emerged as primary concerns for Indian IT organizations, driving them to take a closer look at the efficiencies of their data centers and IT infrastructure. With data centers being the primary contributor to energy costs, the need to reduce power consumption within it has been a recurring theme across organizations. When it comes to increasing power efficiencies, one needs to understand the cost of running and managing the data center as well as the environmental costs associated with it in order to deploy appropriate technological solutions. About 50 per cent of the energy costs in data centers go into heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC), power conditioning and distribution. The rest is spent on servers, storage, and network equipment. (Read Full Article)

    5. Opinion: Carbon Tax and the Impact on Data Centres

      Explore The Voice of IT Management (Oct 19 2011) Carbon Tax , Emissions , Cloud Computing

      Opinion: Carbon Tax and the Impact on Data Centres The details of the Carbon Tax have finally been revealed and everyone wants to know how it will affect them. The IT industry is no exception and questions arise as to the likely impact on data centres, Cloud usage and even green IT initiatives in general. Although the government says that there will only be about 500 companies that pay the carbon tax, we will all end up paying it indirectly, as the added costs to these companies gets passed along the supply chain. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to predict with much certainty what the actual pricing impact will be. However, it would be reasonable to assume that some broad based corrections will occur as a result of the new tax, which will include the IT sector. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Gartner

    6. Extending the life of your data center

      Explore The Voice of IT Management (Oct 11 2011) Cloud Computing

      This year marks the 10th anniversary of the 1,200-square-foot data center at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering -- that means the facility has been operating three years longer than CIO and vice president of operations Joanne Kossuth had originally planned. Now, even though the school needs a facility with more capacity and better connectivity, Kossuth has been forced to back-burner the ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Gartner   Oracle

    7. Buyer's guide: The case for modular data centres (Part 2)

      Explore The Voice of IT Management (Jul 13 2011) Power and Cooling , Carbon Tax , Emissions

      Buyer's guide: The case for modular data centres (Part 2) Consistent with the wider data centre sector’s focus on reducing carbon emissions — a trend given yet more impetus by the carbon tax — PMDCs are also being ... such as the use of free cooling. “The way it works is that when the outside air in ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   IBM   Microsoft Corp

    8. Buyer's guide: The case for modular data centres

      Explore The Voice of IT Management (Jul 13 2011) Power and Cooling , Carbon Tax , Emissions

      Buyer's guide: The case for modular data centres One organisation literally banking on the notion that data centre space in CBDs will continue to be at a premium is Verb IT, which has partnered with HP for its version of the PMDC, the Performance-Optimised Datacentre or POD. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   IBM

    9. Romonet brings predictive data center tool to US

      Explore The Voice of IT Management (Jun 28 2011) Monitoring , Carbon Footprint

      Romonet brings predictive data center tool to US Data center engineers looking to maximize energy efficiency can now model design changes using a tool called Prognose from U.K. startup Romonet. The software lets engineers construct a graphical model of their data center, including the power and cooling equipment and how it's all laid out, and then make changes to the model and see what impact those changes would have on overall energy consumption and efficiency. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Europe

    10. New approach to data centres key to green IT: Hitachi Data Systems CTO

      Explore The Voice of IT Management (Feb 8 2011) Cloud Computing

      New approach to data centres key to green IT: Hitachi Data Systems CTO The next stage in data centre development is to understand its associated environmental costs and implement appropriate technological solutions to prevent such costs, according to Hitachi Data Systems’ CTO. Speaking to Computerworld Australia, Hubert Yoshida said environmental costs are top-of-mind for him and other CTOs. “In countries like Thailand, they've told me that [for] every watt that goes into powering the data centre, it takes one and a half watts to cool it because of the humidity,” he said. (Read Full Article)

    11. BCS launches green accreditation for data centres

      Explore The Voice of IT Management (Dec 17 2010) Servers

      BCS launches green accreditation for data centres BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, has today launched an accreditation for energy efficient data centres. The Certified Energy Efficiency Data Centre Award (CEEDA) will be given to data centre operators who ensure that their infrastructure adopts best practice in terms of energy efficiency. The accreditation is based on the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres. DatacentreDynamics (DCD), the data centre market information provider, will carry out the assessments to make sure that data centres adhere to standards developed by the Institute. (Read Full Article)

    12. Group seeks to open source data-center design

      Explore The Voice of IT Management (Mar 7 2010) Cloud Computing

      Group seeks to open source data-center designComputerworld AustraliaThe group was founded by Dave Ohara, a former engineer with Hewlett-Packard, Apple and Microsoft who now runs the Green Data Center Blog. ...and more » (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Nokia   Hewlett Packard