Iceland hopes to export energy via datacentres

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...rt. Some utility companies are working on high-voltage undersea powercables to deliver the power to Europe, but it will be years before this happens, ZDNet UK understands.

Iceland has ambitions to becom...... I think WinRT is fantastic. I just wish it was an option for people that didn't want to go through Microsoft's App Store with its attendant... Nine people? £30m? Who's back pocket is that lot ... (Read Full Article)

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New Tenants for Verne’s Modular Colo in Iceland

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 9 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Geothermal

...pin Kerfi has served as the IT partner for leading Icelandic companies, offering solutions from HP, Microsoft and Ciso. Opin Kerfi is also taking space in the data centre for its own hosting requirements to su......ect Colt’s backbone with the Verne’s data center site, providing a gateway connection from mainland Europe into Iceland. The launch of the Verne Global facility opens a new chapter for the company ... (Read Full Article)

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Digital route forward

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...e having our conversation looks out on what is probably one of the most vibrant digital clusters in Europe. In front of us, construction is advancing on Google's €75m data centre. Down the road is Microsoft's €1bn data centre that serves its cloud businesses across Europe and the Middle East, while US data centre empire Digital Reach Group is preparing to build a state-... (Read Full Article)

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DRT to build in Irish data center park

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Feb 8 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...of data center space with 11.5MW of power. Profile Park, 15km outside of Dublin, is already home to Microsoft’s 303,000 mega data center used for cloud computing services which opened in 2009, and Telecity, wh...... in the park which offers data center ready sites with access to multiple telecom routes connecting Europe and the US. DRT’s VP of Sales Adam Levine said like many other companies ... (Read Full Article)

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Europe Weighs a Tough Law on Online Privacy and User Data

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SAN FRANCISCO — Europe is considering a sweeping new law that would force Internet companies like Amazon.com and Facebook ......ulations as a hindrance to innovation. Ronald Zink, chief operating officer for European affairs at Microsoft, pointed to the potential difficulty of obtaining explicit consent. He gave the example of Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect system, which stores body measurements so it can visually recognize repeat players... (Read Full Article)

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2011 – the year Ireland became ‘home of the cloud’

Explore siliconrepublic.com (Dec 22 2011) Cloud Computing

...n meetings, and a crazy thought struck me. Nevermind Ireland’s pitch to be the ‘internet capital of Europe’, it is already the home of cloud computing in many ways. You see, most of the moving parts that......st 22 legacy data centres, not to mention new ones, such as the $1bn data centre built last year by Microsoft in its third investment in Dublin in 18 months and European ... (Read Full Article)

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Renewable Energy May be Edison's Revenge

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...urplus heat to the city's homes. IBM has designed a solar array to power its Bangalore data center. Microsoft has filed a patent application for a wind-powered data center. Direct current may be one way to inc......about 35 percent of demand for green data centers will come from the United States, 30 percent from Europe, and the rest spread globally. Every day, says ABB, we all send more ... (Read Full Article)

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Top 5 places to build a new data center

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...nology workers, and a tech-friendly environment that has been encouraged by technology vendors like Microsoft (headquartered east of Seattle in Redmond). Colorado Although data centers are still found in major......lands plays an important role in the data center world because of its ease of access to the rest of Europe and its friendly environment. The Netherlands provides a strong, clean power infrastructure. For No... (Read Full Article)

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Emerald plans new cloud cable to the US

Explore businessworld.ie (Dec 5 2011) Geothermal , Cloud Computing , Networking

...f power to run and to prevent from overheating. Iceland, located between North America and northern Europe, and recovering from its own economic crisis, hopes the new, larger cable will help it to benefit f......ro and geothermal energy resources for data centres. Google is building a data centre in Dublin and Microsoft already has one in the city. The centres would bring much-needed investments and new jobs for gradu... (Read Full Article)

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Ireland/Iceland Atlantic cable aims for data jobs

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...land are seeking to fuel their hard-hit economies and exploit their position on the western edge of Europe with new data centers to be connected via a new, $300 million transatlantic telecoms cable by 2013.......nd geothermal energy resources for data centers. Google Inc is building a data center in Dublin and Microsoft Corp already has one in the city. The centers would bring much-needed investments and new jobs to ... (Read Full Article)

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Ireland/Iceland to lay Atlantic cable

Explore businessworld.ie (Dec 1 2011) Geothermal , Cloud Computing , Networking

...land are seeking to fuel their hard-hit economies and exploit their position on the western edge of Europe with new data centres to be connected via a new, USD300 million transatlantic telecoms cable by 201......ro and geothermal energy resources for data centres. Google is building a data centre in Dublin and Microsoft already has one in the city. The centres would bring much-needed investments and new jobs to the ... (Read Full Article)

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Cloud Computing Provider Agilisys Wins 15 Million IaaS Contract

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... this service will streamline PDX's IT infrastructure and include hosting, storage, provisoining of Microsoft technologies, backup and desktop support. Agilisys says PDX provides technologies across a wide ra......ologies to a wide variety of markets to make processes more efficient Related Topics: customer win, europe, cloud computing, uk, agilisys, pdx (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Cloud computing provider Agili... (Read Full Article)

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AOL: 60,000 Servers, Retooling for the Future

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... 60,000 servers, Manos said, which are spread across five primary data centers in North America and Europe. “We’re talking about dramatically reforming what was one of the world’s largest Internet companies......nd modular design to rapidly deploy and manage server capacity. Manos, who previously held posts at Microsoft, Digital Realty Trust and Nokia, said the effort is coming amid growing awareness of the import... (Read Full Article)

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Web Host Savvis Hires Away Microsoft Amazon Cloud Executives

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...f enterprise software sales, service and development experience, according to the press release. At Microsoft, Parker was most recently the general manager of the enterprise and partner group, Central Eastern Europe. In this position he was responsible for more than $1 billion in sales and software related to serv... (Read Full Article)

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Red Hat: The Integrated Stack Is Critical

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...he small and medium business market. However, there are plenty of reasons not to choose VMware. As Microsoft points out, the recent changes made by VMware to its licensing model with the release of vSphere 5 ...... to have a layer of software that sits below the operating system,” said Thadani, speaking to eWEEK Europe. “The way the industry has done virtualisation for decades now is the way IBM came up ... (Read Full Article)

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The cloud and your firm's carbon footprint

Explore siliconrepublic.com (Oct 15 2011) Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Wind , Cloud Computing , Servers

...cluster of data centres are not only fuelling the country's reputation as the 'Internet Capital' of Europe, but many are citing their operations here as examples of green efficiency. Microsoft, for example, has constructed a US$1bn data centre in west Dublin that uses Ireland's prevailing wi... (Read Full Article)

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Waste Heat From Disney Data Centre Warms District

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Oct 12 2011) Fossil Fuel , Cloud Computing , Networking , Servers

...iness park. Dalkia revealed that it will soon open its first district heating network in the Val d’Europe business park in Marne-la-Vallée near Paris. A BBC video of the building of the greenfield business......ement of this new private network. Data Furnaces The Dalkia heating network is very similar to what Microsoft researchers proposed back in July, when they published a paper suggesting that cloud computing serv... (Read Full Article)

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World's first zero-carbon data centre to be built in Iceland

Explore guardian.co.uk (Sep 27 2011) Construction , Power and Cooling , Geothermal

...oling by using the cold Icelandic air to regulate temperatures. The site is connected to the US and Europe by multiple high-speed cables. Verne plans to expand the site's capacity as demand grows, and says ......us with the opportunity to quickly scale capacity to address customer demand in a rapid timeframe." Microsoft predicts the data centre construction market will grow from $50bn (£32bn) to $78bn globally by 2020... (Read Full Article)

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Report: Microsoft Expanding Dublin Data Center

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Sep 6 2011) Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing

... in Dublin, Ireland, which serves as the central hub supporting its cloud computing services across Europe. The Sunday Business Post reported that Microsoft “is planning a multi-million Euro investment in an expansion of its $500 million data center in Dub... (Read Full Article)

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Six ways to cool your data centre efficiently and cheaply

Explore features.techworld.com (Sep 5 2011) Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Servers

...says Rich Fichera, VP and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research. Companies like Apple, Google and Microsoft, along with hosting companies, have been sussing out sites that meet affordable power and cooling c......sibly another network device or two. For example, one way transit from the data centre to London or Europe adds 18 milliseconds, and to the United States about 40 milliseconds. ISAAC KATO IS INSPIRED BY ICE... (Read Full Article)

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Microsoft’s Office 365 Outage Hits US Customers

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...5 email service restored at 2:30PM PDT. Network issues resolved in North American Data Center. APAC/Europe not impacted,” the company tweeted. Microsoft launched the final version of Office 365, its cloud-based productivity software, with a June eve... (Read Full Article)

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Lightning Takes Down Amazon And Microsoft Clouds

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Aug 8 2011) Data Center Outages

...hours later it was still grappling to restore 100 percent access. Customers Left With Nowhere To Go Microsoft told eWEEK Europe UK in a statement that at around the same time a widespread power outage caused connectivity issu... (Read Full Article)

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Dell Builds Efficient ‘Microsite’ Data Centre For Microsoft

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jul 30 2011)

Dell’s ‘microsite’ housing Microsoft’s Bing Maps uses evaporative cooling and fresh-air for greater efficiency Dell officials are touti......to create one-foot aerial blanket coverage – initially of the continental United States and Western Europe – for the Bing Maps platform and consumer website. The microsite, in Boulder, Colorado, also suppor... (Read Full Article)

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Dell, Microsoft Tout Data Center 'Microsite' for Bing Maps

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Dell built a high-performance data center "microsite" for Microsoft’s Bing Maps business that uses fresh-air and evaporative-cooling technology to drive up the facilit......y to create one-foot aerial blanket coverage—initially of the continental United States and Western Europe—for the Bing Maps platform and consumer Website. Other image-intensive The microsite, in Boulder, C... (Read Full Article)

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