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New Deadline Set for GEIT Awards

Explore Mission Critical Magazine (Feb 2 2012)

The deadline for submitting applications to Uptime Institute’s Green Enterprise IT (GEIT) Awards has been extended to midnight PST on February 15, 2012.

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Colt receives Uptime certification for M&O

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Feb 2 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...cs Print Colt's Guy Ruddock Colt has become the first data center operator in Europe to receive the Uptime Institute’s Management & Operations certification for a data center, which covers third-party assurance for s... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Uptime Institute

Colt Group Sa : The Uptime Institute awards Colt with Management & Operations (M&O) Stamp of Approval for data centre operations

Explore Stock Market Quotes and Financial News (Feb 2 2012) Construction , Emissions

Colt, Europe's leading information delivery platform, has been awarded the Uptime Institute's Management & Operations (M&O) Stamp of Approval for its London 3 site. Colt is the first data cen... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Uptime Institute

10 questions to ask your next data center

Explore edgeblog (Jan 23 2012) Cloud Computing

...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 being concurrently maintain... (Read Full Article)

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Five Cloud Computing Services Experts to Watch, Jan. 20

Explore TalkinCloud (Jan 20 2012) Cloud Computing

...dures, as well as expansion projects and future data center builds. Leonard is also a Fellow at the Uptime Institute, the leading educational and standards organization in the data center industry, and is a judge for... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Uptime Institute   CA

The Case for Policy-based Power Management

Explore ITBusinessNet.com (Jan 11 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers

...e racks, into your data center to make better use of your existing infrastructure. According to the Uptime Institute, each PDU kilowatt represents about $10,000 of CapEx, so it makes sense to try to make the best use... (Read Full Article)

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UK Data Center Operator Infinity Names Non-Executive Director

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Jan 9 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...e Council, ODCA and Power Assure and has achieved awards for data center operators such as the 2009 Uptime Institute Top 100 Green Companies. "Ashley is passionate about the data center industry and he's one of those... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Uptime Institute   Deutsche Bank

IBM Earns Kudos for 27 Green Data Centers in Europe

Explore GreenBiz.com (Jan 6 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers

...effectiveness of facilities -- a measure of how efficiently a data center uses power. Last May, the Uptime Institute said IBM data centers have an average rating of 1.65 for power usage compared to the industry avera... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Uptime Institute   IBM

27 of 35 IBM's European Data Centers receive Energy Efficiency European Commission Award

Explore greenm3.com (Jan 5 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing

...veness (PUE) is an indicator for how efficiently a computer data center uses its power. In May, the Uptime Institute gave IBM data centers a rating of 1.65 for average power usage compared to the industry average of ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Uptime Institute   IBM

2011: The Year Data Centers Turned Green

Explore Wired News (Dec 30 2011)

...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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Bringing Global HFT Data Centers Up to Speed

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Dec 21 2011)

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CloudSigma Investing to Expand U.S. Infrastructure

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Dec 12 2011) Cloud Computing

...also a director of CloudSigmar, is the former head of operations at Interxion and consultant to the Uptime Institute. “The investment made by Foy and Collerton has validated our approach, setting the stage for the ne... (Read Full Article)

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IT Minds Quest for 'Holy Grail' of Data Center Metrics

Explore Wired News (Dec 9 2011) Servers

...zed are: * Corporate Average Datacenter Efficiency (CADE) is a set of four metrics developed by the Uptime Institute and McKinsey & Company that measure facility asset utilization, facility energy efficiency, IT as... (Read Full Article)

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Is Maintenance Making Your Facility Less Reliable?

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Nov 17 2011)

...come this preventive maintenance threat, we must attack false learning. More is not always better.” Uptime Institute Executive Director Pitt Turner said he was in “violent agreement” with Fairfax on the risks of ... (Read Full Article)

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PUE is DEAD: The Case for Performance Per Watt

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Nov 15 2011) Servers

Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) has been called “The Holy Grail” of data center energy metrics so often that we actually found it impossible to find out who coined the term. As time, technology and sustainability efforts evolve, the PUE metric is no longer the stopping point for energy efficiency measurement, but it has become just one more piece in the larger picture. What does PUE do? It measures how much ... (Read Full Article)

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