Data center energy consumption will increase. Are you (not) surprised?

Explore ITworld (Sep 26 2011) Cloud Computing

... growth but only average projected power increase. The study also delves into power monitoring. The United Kingdom – defined as a developed ‘global’ market with a large number of facilities and moderate future grow......YahEZHHDL commented on Unix tip: Inter-host trust on Unix, part 1 AdamsFrida_YahEZHHDL commented on Microsoft: Enterprises will self-host Windows Azure someday AdamsFrida_YahEZHHDL commented on Microsoft loses $106 million patent verdict to VirnetX AdamsFrida_YahEZHHDL commented on Web hosting ... (Read Full Article)

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Capgemini pushes efficiency limits in Swindon data center

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

...crazy by using 20-foot or 40-foot metal shipping containers as the data center's basic module, like Microsoft and NASA Ames (among others) have done. But the Merlin data center does make use of modular units t......T outsourcing and cloud computing business. The French company operates data centers in France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, China, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland. At th... (Read Full Article)

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Enterprises Say Mainframes Essential For Cloud Computing

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

...s would say ‘that’s my machine or that’s my virtual machine in the mainframe,’” said Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive, at the London School of Economics on 5 October. The recent announcement of IBM’s... (Read Full Article)

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A Stroll Around Capgemini's 'Green Data Center of the Future'

Explore GreenBiz.com (Oct 1 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

SWINDON, United Kingdom — There is no longer any need to build data centers from the ground up, they can be manufactured in...... this is impossible. The industry average is 2.6, with the best practice generally regarded as 1.3. Microsoft and Yahoo have achieved 1.2, while the one million square foot Google E facility touts a 1.12 ratin... (Read Full Article)

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CapGemini Opens 'World's Greenest' Data Center

Explore GreenBiz.com (Aug 24 2010) Servers

...iew | Tags: Data Centers, Energy Efficiency CapGemini Opens 'World's Greenest' Data Center SWINDON, United Kingdom — Capgemini next month will open what it calls the "world's greenest" data center in Swindon, and a...... and public agencies alike. In recent weeks, companies ranging from Facebook to Hewlett Packard to Microsoft have unveiled new plans for internal and customer-facing green data centers. And in June, President... (Read Full Article)

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Equinix CTO 10 year perspective, data center changes in highly connected Internet services

Explore greenm3.com (Apr 15 2010) Cloud Computing

...Global Demand From Financial Services Firms and Cloud Service Providers FOSTER CITY, CA and LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – March 30, 2010 – Equinix, Inc. (NASDAQ: EQIX), a provider of global data center services, today a......right path to Green (low carbon) Data Centers. The mass media industry will cover Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple data centers.  But, here is a simple way to understand the future of data centers.  Davi... (Read Full Article)

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New Smart2020 Project Tracks IT Industry's Progress on Climate Goals

Explore greenercomputing.com (Dec 15 2009) Monitoring

...sumer Products, Energy Efficiency, Innovation, Reduce Emissions, Small Business, Smart Grid LONDON, United Kingdom — Following on the release earlier this year of a report outlining how information technology can e......o its end use in offices and homes, the report's authors urge the spread of technologies, like Microsoft's Hohm and Google's Power Meter, to provide real-time energy use to everyone. Policies and pilots a... (Read Full Article)

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A look at the nonstop acceleration of Internet technology

Explore Nieman Watchdog (Sep 20 2009) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing

...needed to set up dedicated IT departments with their own data storage. Not any more. Today, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Amazon and others offer an alternative: They’re building and operating vast Internet data ......ve is stored on Amazon servers somewhere in the United States. • Telegraph Media Group (TMG) in the United Kingdom, publisher of The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph, has gone further and made arrangements ... (Read Full Article)

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Coming Soon to a Data Center near you, Regulation.

Explore LooseBolts (Jul 24 2009) Carbon Reduction Commitment

...not just a cycle redundancy check I have been tracking the energy efficiency work being done in the United Kingdom for quite some time and developments in the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC). My recent trip to... (Read Full Article)

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