Renewable Energy May be Edison's Revenge

Explore moneynews.com (Dec 20 2011) Emissions , Cloud Computing

...i cathedral. It uses Baltic Sea water to cool the plant and feeds surplus heat to the city's homes. IBM has designed a solar array to power its Bangalore data center. Microsoft has filed a patent applica...... 2013. But Europe is also important. HVDC is now used in a power connection between Britain and the Netherlands. The island of Majorca, whose tourists push up power demand every summer, was ... (Read Full Article)

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IT Services Firm CSC Expands UK Team with Multiple Appointments

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Sep 2 2011) Cloud Computing

... appointment of Jon Green as VP of its global business services division in the UK, Nordics and the Netherlands. The series of appointments come a month after CSC named Narendra Nayak the head of its newly-forme......ud Services. Prior to that, he was Fujitsu's UK sales and marketing director. He has also served as IBM's EMEA sales director for business process outsourcing, a division he was responsible for ... (Read Full Article)

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Australia introduces carbon tax

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Jul 11 2011) Cap and Trade , Carbon Tax , Emissions , Fossil Fuel

Australia introduces carbon taxDatacenterDynamicsSingapore Telecom (Optus), Telstra, IBM, Fujitsu and Vodafone are a part of this list but some companies, including Fujitsu, said energy ef......rst government to implement a carbon tax. Finland introduced 20euro-a-tonne tax on CO2 in 2010, the Netherlands has a general fuel tax on fossil fuel use, Sweden brought a carbon tax into play in 1991 along with... (Read Full Article)

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IBM Joins Crowded Market With Virtual Desktop Platform

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jan 26 2011)

...r Smart Business is available now in North America, the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg and Poland, IBM said. The company plans to make the offering available in China, India, Singapore, Australia and Ne... (Read Full Article)

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Is Green IT Dead and Buried?

Explore GreenBiz.com (Jan 18 2011) Wind , Cloud Computing

Deloitte, IBM and Logica lead the global market for sustainable technology services and leave competitors focused......ew of innovative sustainable technology projects including electric vehicle infrastructure in the Netherlands, building energy efficiency for the UK Ministry of Defence, renewable energy management systems in ... (Read Full Article)

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Capgemini pushes efficiency limits in Swindon data center

Explore The Register (Oct 12 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

...data centers in France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, China, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland. At this time, the GIO operation has 26,000 servers, of which 8,000 have be......st like running a kitchen? (17 June 2010) SGI rolls out (more) data center containers (27 May 2010) IBM chills sealed data center with outside air (9 February 2010) US feds kick in funny money ... (Read Full Article)

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Ten Unique Data Center Designs

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jul 29 2010) Power and Cooling , Solar , Cloud Computing , Servers

...ower distribution, and rear-door liquid cooling for each cabinet. Through running this data center, IBM and Syracuse are developing data on the most effective way to use these technologies in tandem in a...... dampers to control the airflow.” Free to Be: Carbon Free! EvoSwitch Climate Neutral Data Center in Amsterdam Being both carrier neutral and carbon neutral is the strategy behind EvoSwitch, located in the Netherlands. EvoSwitch is doubling the ... (Read Full Article)

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IBM And EU Developing Cloud Consortium

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jul 8 2010) Cloud Computing

...p forms to help businesses understand the nature, structure and business purposes of cloud systems. IBM announced on 7 July that it is entering into a collaborative agreement with the European Union and ......aly; Imperial College Of Science, Technology and Medicine, UK; Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands; University of Tartu, Estonia; Indra Software Labs SLU, Spain; Collibra NV, Belgium.” Laser Focus ... (Read Full Article)

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Global Switch to build new data centre in Paris

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Oct 20 2009) Power and Cooling

...e fully operational during 2011. ‘We’re just breaking ground, all the planning is done and with IBM we have an anchor customer in place. This makes IBM our largest customer by revenue in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Paris and Sydney,’ Jason Silver, Global Switch’s EMEA group marketing a... (Read Full Article)

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