Datacentre

The UK government's top CIO blasts the industry at an important Green IT event. Good read.

Nearly half of IT professionals admit that they had run out of space, power or cooling capacity at their datacentres, according to a recent survey of 150 IT professionals.

Heat from a datacentre built in a bunker is being collected and transferred to the nearby pool as part of an innovative energy efficiency project undertaken by GIB-Services, a Swiss IT co-location company.

Utility companies are increasingly concerned about the power crisis facing large organisations and in the US this week they have met to discuss the actions and incetnives needed to get IT organisations to take the issue seriously.

Despite growing awareness of the need to adopt more environmentally friendly IT practices, a quarter of firms (26%) admit to having done next to nothing to green their IT, according a PMP Research study commissioned by the Evaluation Centre.

Sun and a consortium of other businesses are going to lower Blackbox self-contained computing facilities into a Japanese coalmine to set up an underground datacentre, using up to 50% less power than a ground-level datacentre.

The Green500 List ranks the world's 500 most powerful super computers by their energy efficiency. It is an important riposte to an IT industry which has so far put speed first

Shutting down the majority of datacentre servers at night or when they are typically not used is one of the most effective ways for large businesses to save energy, according to Fujitsu Siemens.

 European businesses are overtaking taking the US in the drive for green datcentres, though both regions have a long way to go, according to new research...

Contradictory results from survey show how much there is to do.
Chief executives and chief information officers are driving the push to green the datacentre, with 48% championing the cause, according to new research but only one in three is doing something rather than just talking about it....

Businesses are on a mission to improve the energy efficiency of datacentres and save money, according to datacentre operator Digital Realty Trust.