Category Archives: data center

Microsoft making data centres more efficient?

March 12, 2008 – 4:38 pm

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, […]

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Green IT Presentation

March 10, 2008 – 10:28 pm

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 […]

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Intel saving $1.8bn by ‘going green’!

March 10, 2008 – 1:58 pm

While many people tend to see ‘going green’ as a fad, and one which will cost time and money, in fact, the opposite generally holds true. Being green is all about reducing waste and being more efficient. Typically this leads to reduced expenditure and cost savings.
In this video, Brently Davis, Intel IT Data Center Efficiency […]

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