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Jonathan Koomey has recently updated his study on data centre energy consumption and the good news is that consumption has only seen half the predicted growth between 2005 and 2010. With everyone from Greenpeace to governments picking on data centre energy consumption this update makes some...
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There is an underlying problem in measuring IT work or data centre productivity. Until a general solution is found any further attempts at IT efficiency or data centre productivity metrics will be as subjective and user dependent as agreeing on the single set of ingredients and assembly method for...
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A business's place in the carbon reduction league table bears little relation to how sustainable it really is.
This article was originally published in The Guardian 'Sustainable Business' blog on 11th March 2011.
The carbon reduction commitment (CRC) league table should be scrapped...
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After almost 18 months of international negotiation the world now has an internationally harmonized method of calculating PUE. Really? I hear you say....
Okay so PUE may just be one number divided by another, about as simple a mathematical...
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Another year of overseeing the judging of the annual DCD Leadership Awards complete! What an incredible range of entries this year!
One of the privileges I have that I value highly is once a year overseeing the judging for the DataCenter Dynamics Leadership Awards. I carry out this role...
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The data center and IT is now so complex, interdependent and non-linear, software is the only way to understand what tomorrow might look like!
The days of a nice flat line static load in the data center are over!
It really wasn't that long ago at all that everything we did in the data...
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The CRC has now grown up into a real tax. The previous plan to give back most of the money for carbon allowances as an incentive to improve efficiency has been scrapped, what are the impacts of this to the data centre industry and does this make the CRC better or worse?
CRC is now a real...
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There seems to be an endless comparison of the size of different data centres’ PUE. Whilst on the one hand this is encouraging as it demonstrates that the industry is facing up to the energy cost or environmental issues facing data centres, it is also a little depressing as the numbers are, in many...
As the industry grapples with metrics, which metric can be meaningful across the whole world and tell me about my data centre and IT efficiency? How about cost per delivered kWh?
I recently attended the 2010 DataCenterDynamics event in Sydney as the keynote speaker on behalf of...
So, is cloud is really green and should you move all your IT into the cloud because it is much more efficient than running it yourself? If I am procuring IT services and one of my objectives is to manage the environmental impact of our IT then what can I do? I can’t use the CRC, I can’t use PUE and I definitely can’t rely on...