Category Archives: cix

Microsoft making data centres more efficient?

Technology Review published an interesting article the other day on some of the innovations Microsoft is rolling out to save energy in its data centres.
Microsoft Research’s Networked Embedded Computing group have developed small sensors sensitive to heat and humidity. The sensors are web-enabled and can be networked and made compatible with Web services.
In Microsoft’s case, […]

Green IT Presentation

I gave a talk the other day for the it@cork Green IT event where I went through some of the innovations we rolled out in the design of the Cork Internet eXchange (CIX) data centre to make it a hyper energy-efficient data center.
This is the slide deck I used - I will go through […]