Green Grow The Data
Sep. 2011
Most people could be excused for knowing little about where their information and data comes from when they surf
the internet, download music and videos or engage in those addictive, multiplayer online games.
A generation is growing up with an insatiable thirst for escapades captured on YouTube, streamed sports highlights
and personal photo libraries, accessed first on 'traditional' desktop PCs but more and more on smart mobile devices,
such as the iPhone.
No less important is the corporate data centre. Nearly all large organisations, from government departments to process manufacturers to high-frequency financial traders, have a 'mission critical' need for always-available, large-scale data processing and huge amounts of online storage. In truth, there has long been a need for such facilities but the sheer volume and scale of information and communications technology (ICT) today has raised
important questions about the energy and other resources they consume…
- ICT holds key to energy challenge
- Our technology-rich lives depend on energy-hungry data centres to sustain them. But as the industry has realised, it's time to curb that appetite
- Why it's cool to be green in IT
- Sophie Curtis explains why Greenpeace's criticism of Facebook's data centre is good for the ICT industry
- A new green tax?
- The regulations governing green IT in the UK have become a bit of a moving target. Tom Jowitt tries to end the confusion
- Losing power
- Data centres use − and lose − a lot of energy. Peter Judge explores where savings can be made
- Smarter ICT
- It should be remembered that overall, ICT and data centres are proving to be vital energy saving technologies for other industries such as transport, construction, power generation and distribution, as these highlights from the influential Smart 2020 report shows
- Boost your memory power
- By introducing the new generation of DRAM technologies, businesses can reduce the energy consumed by their data centres and still meet the demands of virtualisation
- Take the green test
- A new certification process for data centres can help companies to identify savings in both energy and money and reduce their carbon footprint
- Storing up problems
- Bryan Betts looks at how we can make more efficient use of the growing data mountain
- The green case for outsourcing
- With data centre operators vying for the best energy ratings, it makes sense to look at outsourcing IT operations, writes Graham Jarvis
- A checklist for change
- The facts and figures you need before setting up and running a greener data centre, or shifting your business to established energy-efficient operators
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