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Greenpeace slams Amazon over green datacentre efforts

Explore ZDNet UK (Apr 18 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Fuel Cell , Solar , Cloud Computing

...ccurs when datacentres don't operate near their capacity," an Amazon Web Services spokesperson told ZDNet UK. "The cloud enables a combined smaller carbon footprint that significantly reduces overall consumpt... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

Inside an Icelandic datacentre

Explore ZDNet UK (Mar 18 2012) Geothermal

ZDNet UK visited Iceland in February to see how Colt's modular datacentre design fared after being shipped t... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Verne Global   ZDNet UK

Best of the Data Center Blogs: March 13th

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 13 2012)

...d stop sending traffic its way.” Fujitsu hints at scale-out storage technology – From Jack Clark at ZDNet UK: “Fujitsu aims to develop a platform for scale-out massive storage based on standard servers with P... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Fujitsu   David Cappuccio   ZDNet UK

Amazon cloud moves spook partners and customers

Explore GigaOM (Feb 29 2012) Cloud Computing

...k to become a full-fledged platform-as-a-service, a contention that AWS CTO Werner Vogels denied to ZDNet UK recently. Since many PaaS offerings, including Heroku run on AWS, that would be quite a conflict o... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   ZDNet UK   Microsoft Corp

Iceland promotes clean-energy data centers

Explore Space News From SpaceDaily.Com (Feb 13 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Geothermal

...reen energy beyond the borders of Iceland," Skarpheoinsson told another technology publication, ZDNet UK. "My vision is that during this century we will move away from this basic production of aluminum sm... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

Iceland promotes clean-energy data centers

Explore Outcome Magazine (Feb 13 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Geothermal

...reen energy beyond the borders of Iceland,” Skarpheoinsson told another technology publication, ZDNet UK. “My vision is that during this century we will move away from this basic production of aluminum sm... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

Iceland hopes to export energy via datacentres

Explore ZDNet UK (Feb 10 2012)

...be one of the major ways to export green energy beyond the borders of Iceland," Skarpheoinsson told ZDNet UK. "My vision is that during this century we will move away from this basic production of aluminum sm... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Iceland   Europe

AMD's big new number: 16 cores for your server

Explore Technology News (Nov 14 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...emory per CPU. The new Opterons hit the market with good support from HP, Cray, AMAX, IBM and Dell. ZDNet UK reviewed the Dell server based on the 16-core AMD Opteron. AMD also outlined a new platform, the Op... (Read Full Article)

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All change?

Explore ZDNet UK (Oct 4 2011) Cloud Computing

All change?ZDNet UK (blog)OCP is a Facebook-based initiative that aims to transform the energy efficiency of global dat... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Facebook   ZDNet UK

Skype Adding More Servers, Bandwidth

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jul 11 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...en Skype clients and creating local clusters typically of several hundred peer nodes. Jack Clark at ZDNet UK provides additional details on the steps Skype is taking to boost its infrastructure to support add... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Facebook   Skype   ZDNet UK

HP unveils EcoPOD miniature datacentre

Explore ZDNet UK (Jun 7 2011) Power and Cooling

...said. "I would say what's broadly achievable is a PUE of 1.1 to 1.15, even in Houston," Vinson told ZDNet UK. He explained that this is possible if companies push the IT equipment to the limits of their desig... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Google   Facebook

Data center ecosystems - beyond a joke? - By Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Apr 4 2011)

...e could play with the ideas a bit further. “It seems as if datacentres are the ideal cover,” said ZDNet UK’s fictitious police spokesman. “They use lots of power, generate lots of heat, are highly secure, h... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   ZDNet UK   Peter Judge

Aboard an Alcatel-Lucent undersea cable ship (photos)

Explore Technology News (Sep 7 2010)

... up components from Alcatel-Lucent's factory. The telecommunications infrastructure company invited ZDNet UK to see the factory and the ship, and have a look at a vital part of the global Internet that's norm... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Google   Toshiba

Bt moves infrastructure into the cloud

Explore Top stories (Jun 19 2009) Cloud Computing

...s the basis of our cloud-computing offering," Neil Sutton, BT Global Services's product chief, told ZDNet UK on Thursday. "We've begun to deliver communications-as-a-service and hosted services for voice, uni... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Europe   Gartner