Survey reveals Green IT challenges for UK businesses

The largest personal computer maker in the world Hewlett-Packard has bagged one hefty business deal from LeaseWeb, a leading internet hosting service provider in Europe, the company announced.With this move, HP is believed to...

Enterprise storage technology maker NetApp has partnered with Cisco to offer FlexPod for VMware data centre architecture.FlexPod is set to allow customers to transform their IT infrastructure into a virtualised and shared IT...

A lot has been written in the last few years about how virtualisation makes data centres `greener,' but how much is hype and how much is tangible benefit that IT managers can prove - as far as it is reasonable to do so - to their...

The global economy has gone to the dogs, the environment is in dire straits and there is a very real possibility the data centre industry will run out of capacity in the next few years. Ah the festive season, a time to be...

Since Google filed for a patent on floating data centres, tongues have been wagging as to the potential environmental impact of such a concept. What is interesting about this is quite how a patent could or would be granted. ...

New research commissioned by data centre infrastructure firm RichardsoNEyres shows that on average, top UK retailers are overspending by £1.25 million a year on the power needed to run their data centres which can equate to...

£200million have been invested by Next Generation Data to create one of Europe's largest and most technically advanced data centres. Known as NGD 1, the 70,000 sq metre facility, which has been leased from the Welsh...

IT Hosting provider Rackspace Hosting announced it has begun installing equipment in its new 'green' data centre, which will be powered by renewable energy sources. The data centre, in Slough, Berkshire, will draw power from a...

How refreshing it is to find a survey that recognises that improving data centre energy efficiency is not just about virtualisation or installing the latest, greatest 'green' plant. Data centre efficiency is about much more than...

In the data centre industry we already have the ability to start sourcing and increasing the use of energy from ‘green’ suppliers. Wind, wave or solar power does not need to be generated onsite - it can be fed into...

The seven hundred page Stern Report spells out the consequences of carbon emissions upon the ailing environment: floods from rising sea levels are set to potentially displace up to 100 million people as 1 in 6 people will become...

As Planet Earth slides gloomily towards a deepening environmental catastrophe, it seems as though we cannot move without our social consciences being stabbed from messages like Recycle! Regenerate! Cut waste! Kyoto! Go green!...

The demand for data centres (and specifically data storage space) is growing at an exponential rate. As the world moves even more towards an electronic environment, the demands for the management and storage of data increase with...

AT&T announced the expansion of its data centres in Europe, highlighted by the addition of over one-third more space to its London facility. The company also added to its centre in Amsterdam. This expansion is part of a...

In the sobering wake of the Stern report, the rallying cry came from the very top. The Prime Minister himself went public with his fears, labelling the findings both ‘overwhelming’ and ‘disastrous.’ The...