New Centre Bids To Establish Iceland As Data Hub

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (Feb 10 2012) Geothermal

...tre goes live, Colt upgrades its partnership to include a Point of Presence On February 10, 2012 by Peter Judge 0 Verne Global’s data centre in Keflavik, Iceland, has opened with a handful of initial customers a......f management to reduce the number of hops.” Iceland is increasing its bandwidth to both the USA and Europe, with two new fibre cables planned for the near future. GreenQloud, a low-carbon ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

e-waste rules are missing the point - by Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jan 29 2012)

...ctual costs of recycling,” complains Dr Kirstie McIntyre, head of environmental compliance at HP in Europe. “Instead prices are agreed between producers’ compliance schemes and waste management companies ac... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Peter Judge

Thor Icelandic Data Centre Sold To Service Provider

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...very cheap renewable energy from geothermal and hydroelectric sources, is only 30 milliseconds from Europe by fibre and has a climate where servers can be cooled using the outside air temperature, claims Be......es on the Thor containerised data centre and will sell its services worldwide On January 5, 2012 by Peter Judge 0 Icelandic service provider Skyrr has bought the container-based Thor data centre and aims to ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Norway

Flywheel Power Looks For A New Spin

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...nd of cloud does your organisation prefer? Flywheel Power Looks For A New Spin November 30, 2011 by Peter Judge greenpower Tweet Batteries only last a few years and contain noxious chemicals, says Active Power G......e dependent and last about five or six years,” said Graham Evans (pictured), Active Power’s head in Europe. Batteries also face stringent rules for their storage and disposal, he added. UPS systems provide ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Peter Judge

a surge of interest in batteries - by Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Nov 27 2011)

Over at eWEEK Europe, the most-read articles this week have been on batteries - and I think they are becoming central to... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Peter Judge

face book's gone renewable - but not because of greenpeace - by Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Oct 30 2011)

...Greenpeace would agree is a good thing). So we can be pretty sure that when Facebook looked round Europe it wanted low cost computing, Lulea’s power supply was a factor - not just its price, but its relia... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Greenpeace   Europe   Facebook

Datapipe Plugs Into Verne’s Icelandic Data Centre

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...ady “The modules are now in the shipping process,” said Verne’s CEO Jeff Monroe, speaking to eWEEK Europe at the NetEvents press summit in Frascati, Italy. The data centre, apparently the first external or......they arrive and are assembled. Datapipe Plugs Into Verne’s Icelandic Data Centre October 5, 2011 by Peter Judge verneshedtop Tweet Datapipe signs up, as the modules start to ship to build Verne Global’s ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

Virgin Media Launches Business Cloud With Savvis

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Sep 28 2011) Cloud Computing

...d offer more flexible terms. Virgin Media Launches Business Cloud With Savvis September 28, 2011 by Peter Judge virginmediacloudtop Tweet Virgin adds its network to cloud provider Savvis, and offers it with no s......s, said Virgin Media Business managing director Mark Heraghty. However, in a demonstration, eWEEK Europe saw a virtual data centre with six servers (both Linux and windows) priced at £1600 per month. Two ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Peter Judge

Icelandic Data Centre Uses Modules, Not Containers

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...entre space, for customers who buy power by the megaWatt, Verne Global’s CEO Jeff Monroe told eWEEK Europe. Icelandic Data Centre Uses Modules, Not Containers September 27, 2011 by Peter Judge coltmodular2 Tweet Data centre company Verne Global is using modular components to build a data cen... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

Could Servers Replace Household Boilers?

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jul 27 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

The Data Furnace is a tiny data centre that could heat your house. Peter Judge is not immediately convinced What do we make of the proposal, from Microsoft Research, to heat hom......r forms of heating Image:paulinedana Right now, most people, including Forrester Research and eWEEK Europe, argue that moving to cloud computing services can save energy, by centralising servers, and using ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Greenpeace   Forrester Research   Europe

Possible truce For Greenpeace and data centers - by Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jul 5 2011)

...d Snelling of Fujitsu Labs, who is also vice chair for the technical workgroup of the Green Grid in Europe, along with analyst Andy Lawrence of The 451 Group. The encounter started with Bitterlin saying h... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Europe

eWEEK Readers Not Fazed By Amazon Cloud Outage

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (May 18 2011) Cloud Computing

... a major problem for cloud services. eWEEK Readers Not Fazed By Amazon Cloud Outage May 18, 2011 by Peter Judge Cloud top Tweet When Amazon had a cloud outage, it passed you all by. Next: let’s talk about physic......azon is Coke, there is no Pepsi,” said analyst William Fellows of the 451 at the recent Cloud Expo Europe in London. What do you look for in a server ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Europe   Peter Judge

Things get fluid- both servers and leadership- By Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (May 9 2011)

... involved with Open Compute. Meanwhile, Hardcore Computer showed off its liquid cooled servers in Europe, at the Datacentres 2011 event in Nice, France. Hardcore Computer has a server system which encas... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Europe   Kevin Timmons

e-waste - Let's see some action! - Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Apr 19 2011)

...valuable elements reclaimed, in toxic facilities where children and adults risk their health. Now Europe and the US have plenty of rules to limit the amount of e-waste which ends up in the deadly shipment... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Peter Judge

How To Use The Green Grid Maturity Model

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...o help users measure how sustainable their data centre is. Despite a briefing on the model, eWEEK Europe was a bit sceptical. So we decided to look again, with the creator of the model, Harkeeret “Harqs”......ustainable technology at Thomson Reuters. How To Use The Green Grid Maturity Model April 6, 2011 by Peter Judge harkereetsingh Tweet eWEEK wasn’t sure how useful the Green Grid Maturity Model was. The ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   The Green Grid   LEED

back to the future with micro servers - by peter judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Mar 28 2011)

... of hosting decisions - but I think I may have to pay more attention. My day job is editing eWEEK Europe in the UK, and we have a  site which covers, among other things, efficient data centres, servers, h... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Peter Judge   Dell

Why Does Your Data Centre Depend On Diesel?

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...usually a diesel generator or genset. Why Does Your Data Centre Depend On Diesel? March 23, 2011 by Peter Judge judgesquare Tweet Data centres could benefit in many ways from renewable power, but government......w of many self-sufficient data centres, but Next Generation Data in Wales claims to be the first in Europe to use all-renewable energy. (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Peter Judge

why re-using kit is better than dumping it - By Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Mar 21 2011)

...he market by dumping - selling new equipment for less than the price of the re-cycled machines. In Europe, the WEEE legislation is designed to keep waste out of landfill, but it doesn’t deal with re-use ef... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Hewlett Packard   Peter Judge

WEEE Shall Not Be Moved

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...coming year, my company's IT budget will beonline surveys WEEE Shall Not Be Moved March 16, 2011 by Peter Judge judge2 Tweet Action on e-waste will be driven by those that care, in spite of the watering down o......d unenforceable The EU Parliament approved a target of recycling 85 percent of the WEEE produced in Europe, but the new draft directive only sets a target of 45 percent ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Peter Judge   Microsoft Corp

Radio Tags Keep Data Centre Bills Down

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Mar 9 2011) Monitoring

... provide this, according to RF Code, an asset-tagging company which brought server-room products to Europe, at the Data Centre World event in London last week. You are here: Home » News » Radio Tags Keep Da......the biggest IT price pain issurvey software Radio Tags Keep Data Centre Bills Down March 9, 2011 by Peter Judge rfcodetagracktop Tweet Despite all the wires in a data centre, environmental monitoring tags use wi... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Peter Judge

Micro-Modular Data Centres Roll Into Britain

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Mar 2 2011) Container , Servers

... be parked in any warehouse building. Micro-Modular Data Centres Roll Into Britain March 2, 2011 by Peter Judge ellipticalmodular Tweet Fully-enclosed racks could roll in to take the place of data centres, says ......illion (£25m),” Don Kennedy, senior vice president of international sales at Elliptical, told eWEEK Europe at the Data Centre World event in London. By contrast, the Raser unit (on the left in the picture) ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Peter Judge

It's time we stopped talking rubbish about e-waste - by peter judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Feb 21 2011)

-Last week over at eWEEK Europe UK, I said we are pissed off with WEEE. The line doesn’t really work in an international blog, but ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Greenpeace   Europe   Peter Judge

Well, Is The Cloud Really Green?

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jan 26 2011) Carbon Tax , Cloud Computing , Servers

...ould scarcely impact the energy use of a shared data centre. Is that really true? Hear eWEEK Editor Peter Judge at Cloud Expo Europe I can see the basic principle there, and it is part of explicit moves to the cloud such as that end... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Peter Judge   CRC

Green Data Center Resolutions for 2011 - Peter Judge

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...atory pressure they experience is usually through building codes, which use the BREEAM standards in Europe and the LEED standards in the US.   Behind these, the US heating and cooling industry’s ASHRAE ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   The Green Grid   ASHRAE