DealBook: Spotify Deal Would Value Company at $4 Billion

Explore dealbook.nytimes.com (May 17 2012)

... Green Program. QTS chief technology officer Brian Johnston announced the developments Wednesday at Uptime Institute Symposium in Santa Clara, California in an Environmental Defense Fund panel discussion alongside ex......to the United States only last year underscores how fast the online music start-up, built on top of Facebook’s social network, has grown. Founded in Sweden in 2006, Spotify operated for years in Europe, but i... (Read Full Article)

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Happy Earth Day? No, Let's Get Angry! by Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Apr 22 2012)

...green awards and initiatives, and always some anger from Greenpeace. This year is no different. The Uptime Institute announced a set of Green Enterprise IT awards honouring, some very different Green IT approaches in......ed a set of Green Enterprise IT awards honouring, some very different Green IT approaches including Facebook for its Open Compute project (sharing custom-built server designs) and Bell Canada for achieving a ... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook, eBay Among Uptime Green IT Winners

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 18 2012) Construction

eBay, Facebook and Verizon Wireless are among the winners in the The Uptime Institute’s 2012 Green Enterprise IT (GEIT) Awards, which recognize pioneering advancements for significantly... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook, eBay win awards for data center efficiency

Explore GigaOM (Apr 17 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

Facebook and eBay are among the winners of this year’s Green Enterprise IT Awards, which the Uptime Institute doles out for advancements in the world of energy-efficient data centers. Dell and eBay took home t... (Read Full Article)

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Top secret Visa data center banks on security, even has moat

Explore usatoday.com (Mar 26 2012)

...nd the network up. OCE is a "Tier 4" center, a certification from data center research organization Uptime Institute that requires that every mainframe, air conditioner and battery have a backup. To meet such lofty s...... for digital data explodes with the popularity of cloud computing, tablets and smartphones. Google, Facebook and Apple are among the large tech companies that built their data centers in rural areas to save o... (Read Full Article)

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eBay Containers Push Frontiers of Efficiency

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 27 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers

...igning ourselves with The Green Grid’s DCMM from the beginning.” Large users such as Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Microsoft have reported industry-leading ratings in the 1.07 to 1.2 range. These numbers demo......plications and workloads. The average PUE for data center facilities is about 1.8, according to the Uptime Institute. Another criticism was that PUE reports sometimes were reported using different methodology, result... (Read Full Article)

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10 questions to ask your next data center

Explore edgeblog (Jan 23 2012) Cloud Computing

...esents a critical asset for your company, and unless you are an uber-dot com company like Google or Facebook (which spread their gear around the country in tens of locations), you probably only have one or tw......components. Often times, they will refer to themselves as “tier III” or “tier IV,” referring to the Uptime Institute’s definitions of the four tiers of data centers. Tier III is defined as ... (Read Full Article)

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2011: The Year Data Centers Turned Green

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...ficiency — and no two data centers are alike. Out of necessity, the huge Internet players — Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Yahoo, and Apple — are finding ways to use greener energy and get more out of the......oration: Harrisonburg, Virginia This highly redundant, highly secure trusted cloud facility won the Uptime Institute 2011 Green Enterprise IT Audacious Idea award for recycling cooling water to irrigate the data cen... (Read Full Article)

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Building Cost-Effective Data Centers

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 31 2011) Cloud Computing

...lara project, we used many of the same energy saving and efficiency enhancing features innovated by Facebook, Yahoo! and Apple. As a wholesaler, we can offer these best-of-breed technologies in an optim......Open Compute Project in Oregon and Vantage Data Centers’ campus in Santa Clara achieve many of the Uptime Institute’s demanding Tier 4 level redundancy requirements (cooling, fault tolerance, distribution and co... (Read Full Article)

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Report: Data Center Energy Use is Moderating

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 1 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...on estimates of the average PUE reported in recent samplings by the EPA Energy Star Program and the Uptime Institute. While some cloud computing data centers have PUEs in the 1.1 to 1.3 range, Koomey noted that less ......ey tracks a time of dynamic growth for the data center industry, in which Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook and Apple all built enormous cloud data centers, while service providers filled ... (Read Full Article)

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Disrupting the Data Center, Uptime Institute focuses on Cloud, Cost, Capacity, and Carbon

Explore greenm3.com (May 11 2011) Cloud Computing

Watching the initial keynotes for Uptime Institute it is great to see the Green Data Center idea manifest in the tag line of Cloud, Cost, Capacity and......t, then I ask the question is disruption of the data center come from the above list of companies.  Facebook is presenting part of its Open Compute project. Open sourcing designs disruptive.  As I spe... (Read Full Article)

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Uptime Institute: The Average PUE is 1.8

Explore Data Center Knowledge (May 10 2011)

...ating for data centers is 1.8, according to a survey of more than 500 data centers conducted by The Uptime Institute. PUE has become the leading metric for tracking the energy efficiency of data centers. The ave......ment, revealing how much is lost in distribution and conversion. Large users such as Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Microsoft have reported industry-leading ratings in the 1.07 to 1.2 range. These ... (Read Full Article)

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A Data Vault With a Green Complexion

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 26 2011) Solar , Cloud Computing , Servers

Its located just 30 miles from a huge, extremely efficient Facebook data center whose debut triggered an avalanche of media coverage. But the BendBroadband Vault, whic......nd has also shown an unusual commitment to industry certifications, gaining validation from The Uptime Institute as a Tier III data center, while pursuing a Gold-level certification under the LEED ( Leadership in... (Read Full Article)

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Uptime Institute Announces Green IT Awards

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 19 2011)

The Uptime Institute has announced winners of the 2011 Green Enterprise IT (GEIT) Awards, which recognize outstanding pr......ng awards at the Symposium event is just one of many reasons to attend this year. Presenters from Facebook, Google, HP, Vantage and i/o will discuss their innovations in data center design. A May 9th even... (Read Full Article)

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What is a green data center?

Explore Environmental Information, Green News (Mar 22 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...se 30 to 100 percent more electricity per square foot than office buildings. (iStock) Updating your Facebook status, uploading vacation photographs onto Flickr, streaming an old episode of “The Office” on Hul......tricity used by the computing equipment. The typical data center has a PUE of 2.5, according to the Uptime Institute. A green data center opened in March 2011 in Colorado Springs, Colorado by shipping giant FedEx has... (Read Full Article)

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Industry Trends: Part 2 - Business Efficiencies, Regulation, and Security Risk Management

Explore Data Center Post (Feb 23 2011)

... generate electricity and is now caught up in a battle to “Unfriend Coal” and embrace clean energy. Facebook’s rationale has been that they have a very low PUE and because of it, boasted that they were one of......, power generation, distribution and consumption are definitely on government check lists. The 2010 Uptime Institute Symposium highlighted this issue in numerous discussions on the affect of pending carbon legislatio... (Read Full Article)

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Wipro Confirms North Carolina Data Center

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Nov 16 2010)

...nter cluster in western North Carolina continues to grow. Just days after unveiling plans for a new Facebook data center in Rutherford County, state officials today confirmed that managed hosting provider Wip......f-the art data center,” continued Mr. Kishore. Wipro plans to construct the data center to meet the Uptime Institute’s requirements for a Tier III facility and says it will pursue LEED (Leadership in Energy & Envi... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook Shows How to Save $230K in Your Data Center

Explore ITworld (Oct 18 2010) Servers

Want to hear something amazing? In one 56,000-foot data center, Facebook was able to save $230,000 per year in cooling costs just by changing the way the air flowed across ......spots and under-cooled hardware, according to studies from data-center-optimization consultancy the Uptime Institute. Of course, there were traditional, formalized ways of laying out a data center to take maximimum a... (Read Full Article)

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How A Good PUE Can Save 10 Megawatts

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Sep 13 2010)

...er power usage at its data center campus in Santa Clara that houses servers for companies including Facebook, Twitter and Yahoo. Digital Realty found that the customer data center space at the campus was o......utilization.” What’s an ‘Average’ PUE? There is some debate about the industry average for PUE. The Uptime Institute, which tracks the operations of a group of enterprise data centers, says the average PUE is ... (Read Full Article)

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Environment Agency Plants Itself In Green Data Centre

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Aug 17 2010) Microblogging

...rlin, it will also be one of just a handful of data centres in the UK to be certified Tier 3 by the Uptime Institute, for being highly resilient, extremely green and ultimately secure. Environment Agency Plants Itsel......s * August 17, 2010 Tags:Capgemini, data centre, Environment agency, merlin, PUE Add to digg Add to Facebook Add to LinkedIn Add to reddit Add to Slashdot Add to Stumble Upon Add ... (Read Full Article)

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IT gets greener when CIOs must pay IT's energy bills

Explore Computerworld (Jun 8 2010) Cloud Computing

...nds the impact of the decisions being made," Nelson told an audience of data center managers at the Uptime Institute Symposium 2010 in New York last month. Most CIOs don't see utility bills, but eBay lumps its pow... (Read Full Article)

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Greenpeace: Cloud Contributes to Climate Change

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 30 2010) Emissions , Cloud Computing , Servers

...e Apple iPad. The report, part of Greenpeace’s Cool It Campaign, builds on the group’s criticism of Facebook for building its new Oregon data center in an area where utility power comes primarily from coal. W......azil combined.” The Smart 2020 report uses data from McKinsey, which prepared a 2008 report for the Uptime Institute that projected that data centers would produce more carbon than the airline industry ... (Read Full Article)

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The 451 Group Acquires Uptime Institute

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Oct 22 2009)

...w.451group.com), announced on Thursday it has acquired IT think tank and professional services firm Uptime Institute (www.uptimeinstitute.org). The terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Uptime is perhaps best k......ctober 22, 2009 * Digg Delicious submit to reddit Reddit Newsvine Stumbleupon Twitter Facebook (close) From: ________________________________________ To: ________________________________________... (Read Full Article)

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NY Times Magazine Spotlights Data Centers

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jun 11 2009) Cloud Computing

...ves including Mike Manos (Microsoft/Digital Realty), Debra Chrapaty (Microsoft), Jonathan Heiliger (Facebook), Chris Crosby (Digital Realty Trust), Ken Brill (Uptime Institute), Bryan Doerr and Varghese Thomas (both of Savvis), Jonathan Koomey (Lawrence Berkeley Labs) and al... (Read Full Article)

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