Alex Rabbetts
Articles by Alex Rabbetts
Watching the inauguration online...or not
President Obama’s inauguration was certainly an historic occasion, and not only on a political level. It exemplified the way attitudes to online media...
Green prospects in 2009
The EU Code of Conduct for data centres was formally launched at the end of last year amidst much fanfare, but not without grumblings about its voluntary...
There’s just too much data!
Recently HP has been making noise about how European data centres are in a real danger of running out of capacity, with many already operating at 82 per cent...
Doing your b(IT) in a financial crisis
We are in a financial crisis. The signs can no longer be ignored, with politicians finally confessing that recession is imminent and that the situation is...
Looking beyond the EU Code of Conduct
This EU proposed Code of Practice undoubtedly has a key role to play in providing a common currency for measuring and comparing data centres’ power...
Regulation for regulation’s sake?
When it comes to environmental impact, data centres are of course already highly regulated facilities, attracting scrutiny for a number of different areas of...
Tackling data centre efficiency through regulation
Across the IT industry there is a strong consensus that the issue of power consumption in data centres needs to be tackled. Where the debate continues,...
Thoughts About Protecting valuable data in an environment beyond your control
So will Google’s greatly debated floating data centres come to fruition, or is their attempt to file a patent nothing more than a pipe dream? Well, if it...
Google's Data Centres at sea could benefit the environment
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...
Google's Floating Data Centres! Now that's a Patent To Drool About
It was reported on the 16th September that Google, the massive internet search engine provider, has filed for a patent on floating data centres. Now,...
The big green elephant in the room
With growing concerns about the environmental impact of data centres, our industry’s freedom to operate will depend increasingly on public support and...
Is it only the data centres industry that cares about data centres?
You’d be forgiven for thinking that may well be the case, after all, ask anyone on the high street what they know and think about data centres, you would...
The credit crunch is good for the environment
Is installing new, more efficient equipment good for the environment? Well, actually no! Installing new plant and IT is good for the environment when it...
The Credit Crunch: Is new technology the answer to saving the environment?
The credit crunch may be a bad thing in many, many ways and we may all be suffering in one way or another, but in one fairly significant way, it is actually...
Efficient IT is better for the environment
Rising power costs are going to squeeze data centre operators, whether commercial or corporate, in a very painful way. Some, just in order to survive,...
