Are You Operating A Legal Cloud?

Explore da.feedsportal.com (Nov 14 2011) Cloud Computing

... main barrier to moving your IT to the cloud? Are You Operating A Legal Cloud? November 14, 2011 by Peter Judge JohnRobertsredstone Tweet Cloud computing did not exist when data protection regulation came into f......ct to this priority, affecting some of the world’s largest CSPs – from Microsoft and Salesforce, to Google and Amazon. The EU, UK and other nations are debating the issue. The EU has negotiated a ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   Peter Judge

why Moonshot matters - by peter judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Nov 6 2011)

... delivering web services, social media and simple content delivery applications”. In other words, Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, all the big players where the data center action is. If Moonshot hits i... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Amazon.com   Intel

Green Data Centres Will Be Measured On Money

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Oct 12 2011)

PUE and other efficiency measures are useful, but data centre owners are chasing money now, says Peter Judge Efficient data centres have always made an effort to meet commercial needs – but I think the econo......en” side. The move to the cloud is driving this, I think. “Cloud-based services [like Facebook and Google], have the ability to build efficient data centres in locations where there is cheap power, and to ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Sun Microsystems   Google

Power Will Be Wasted, Until IT Pays Its Bills

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Sep 21 2011)

Even after years of Green IT promotion, only a minority of IT people know how much power they use. Peter Judge is shocked The sustainable IT industry won’t like this. After years of activity, the green IT move......ge organisations are doing better – which agrees with the received wisdom from many sources such as Google. Organisations with over 5,000 people have an average score of 61.7, while ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Fujitsu   Google   Carnegie Mellon University

Does it require a real crisis to produce real change? by peter judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jun 13 2011)

...d the energy mix is shifting, so there will be a move to generating electricity on-site - something Google is doing in its latest Finnish data center. The sea-water cooling is a good idea, but also electric... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

How Green Is Apple’s iCloud?

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jun 8 2011) Cloud Computing

...adoption of cloud computing – but questions remain about the energy efficiency of the project, says Peter Judge For consumers, Apple’s iCloud announcement this week is simply another way to move music and movie......ng while – now it is selling access to content which it stores in a massive data centre. Amazon and Google have similar offerings and argue that cloud offerings just give users a new place to store ... (Read Full Article)

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greenpeace shifts its sights to apple - by Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Apr 25 2011)

... The Greenpeace study looked into the data centers of ten companies altogether - the full roster is Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter, IBM, Microsoft, HP, Akamai and Amazon. I think there are three interes... (Read Full Article)

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facebook and greenpeace, why can't they be friends? by Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Apr 11 2011)

...which might be the thin end of a big wedge.  Facebook also can’t take the “greenwash” route like Google. getting green kudos by making high-profile investments in renewable energy, while still using coal... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Greenpeace   Google   Facebook

Economizers hit the big time - by Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Nov 15 2010)

... 90.1 was announced earlier this year, started a storm of protest from data center owners including Google and Microsoft, who said it was too prescriptive, requiring the use of “economizers”, which reduce t... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Google   ASHRAE

APC Launches Modular Data Centre Cooling

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Nov 10 2010) Servers

...o interact with customers is: (polls) APC Launches Modular Data Centre Cooling November 10, 2010 by Peter Judge ecobreezetop Outside-air cooling for data centres is now available off-the-peg, from APC Power spec...... 90.1 building regulations – a decision which caused controversy amongst data centre owners such as Google, who want the freedome to use whatever cooling technology they like. However, outside air can reduc... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Google   Hewlett Packard

Greenpeace Asks Facebook To ‘Unfriend’ Coal

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Sep 1 2010) Carbon Footprint , Wind

...’ Coal Greenpeace's director, and 500,000 Facebook users, ask the company to use clean energy * By: Peter Judge * September 1, 2010 Tags:Cool IT, data centre, Facebook, Green IT, Greenpeace Add to digg A......ot disclose its carbon footprint, according to Naidoo’s letter, and is doing worse than Yahoo and Google, according to Kessler who praised the environmental credentials of Yahoo’s new data centre in Buffa... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Google

Stop Buying Hardware! - by Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jun 21 2010)

...I’m sitting at a PC that was freed up by a neighbour company downsizing, and writing this blog on a Google server. I replaced my very old home PC this week, when several components wore out - but the old m... (Read Full Article)

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Power From Green Wellies - by Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jun 14 2010)

...and not exactly a practical proposition, according to fellow blogger Doug Mohney.  More seriously, Google and other providers are buying into wind energy, which strikes me as a practical proposition, and o... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Greenpeace   Google   Facebook

ASHRAE versus data center operators - my money is on the operators by Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Apr 19 2010)

...ethod, basically choosing other technology if it gives good results. That's all very well, say the Google-led group, but it seems they fear the ASHRAE standard may not be understood in great depth by the b... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   ASHRAE

Google Leads Criticism Of Green Data Centre Rules

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Apr 16 2010) Servers

... but the operators believe it will push specific technologies, instead of rewarding better results. Google Leads Criticism Of Green Data Centre Rules Vote 0 Moves to require free-air cooling have got data ......tre Rules Vote 0 Moves to require free-air cooling have got data centre operators overheated * By: Peter Judge * April 16, 2010 Add to digg Add to Facebook Add to LinkedIn Add to reddit Add to Slashdot Add to ... (Read Full Article)

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When Copenhagen Ends lets get back to the basics - by Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Dec 13 2009) Carbon Footprint , Emissions

...ng the type of cooling (we talked about liquid cooling recently) and alternative sources of energy (Google is big on this) and also recovering the heat from their cooling systems to use in domestic or offic... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Google   Interactive Data Corporation