Tag: data center
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The Internet of Things – trends for the telecoms, data centre, and utility industries
I gave the closing keynote at an event in Orlando last week on the topic of The Impact of the Internet of Things on Telcos, Data Centres, and Utilities. The slides by themselves can be a little hard to grok, so I’ll go through them below. I should note at the outset that while many…
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Equinix rolls out 1MW fuel cell for Silicon Valley data center
Equinix is powering one of its Silicon Valley data centers with a 1MW Bloom Energy fuel cell
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Why are Salesforce hiding the emissions of their cloud?
The lack of transparency from Cloud computing providers is something we have discussed many times on this blog – today we thought we’d highlight an example. Salesforce dedicates a significant portion of its site to Sustainability and on “Using cloud computing to benefit our environment”. They even have nice calculators and graphs of how Green…
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The Switch SuperNAP data centre – one of the most impressive I’ve been in
If you were going to build one of the world’s largest data centre’s you wouldn’t intuitively site it in the middle of the Nevada desert but that’s where Switch sited their SuperNAPs campus. I went on a tour of the data centre recently when in Las Vegas for IBM’s Pulse 2012 event. The data centre…
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Carbon Disclosure Project’s emissions reduction claims for cloud computing are flawed
The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is a not-for-profit organisation which takes in greenhouse gas emissions, water use and climate change strategy data from thousands of organisations globally. This data is voluntarily disclosed by these organisations and is CDP’s lifeblood. Yesterday the CDP launched a new study Cloud Computing – The IT Solution for the 21st…
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FaceBook open sources building an energy efficient data center
Back in 2006 I was the co-founder of a Data Centre in Cork called Cork Internet eXchange. We decided, when building it out, that we would design and build it as a hyper energy-efficient data centre. At the time, I was also heavily involved in social media, so I had the crazy idea, well, […]
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Sentilla thinks of data centers, as data factories!
If you have been following this blog, you’ll know I have been profiling Data Center efficiency companies over the last few weeks. This week I take a look at Sentilla. I talked to Sentilla’s CTO and co-founder, Joe Polastre, the other day and Joe told me that Sentilla came out of Berkeley where they had…
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Power Assure automates the reduction of data center power consumption
If you’ve been following this blog in the last couple of weeks you’ll have noticed that I have profiled a couple of data centre energy management companies – well, today it is the turn of Power Assure. The last time I talked to Power Assure was two years ago and they were still very early…