IIJ to Open New Tokyo Facility

By Anastasia Tubanos, theWHIR.com

November 7, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Internet access and network solutions provider Internet Initiative Japan (www.iij.ad.jp/en) along with network operation outsourcing company Net Care (www.netcare.co.jp) announced on Thursday the opening of a new data center in the Nerima ward of Tokyo.
 
According to the company’s most recent announcement, the new facility will be the 15th data center launched by IIJ and its purpose is “to meet the growing demand for data center services in the Kanto area.” It will begin operation in February 2009.

Billed as an “outsourcing-on-demand data center,” IIJ says the facility will provide system operation and monitoring services, colocation services as well as network solutions like network systems construction and systems outsourcing. The Nerima data center will also be connected to the Shinsaibashi facility that opened in July, enabling it to also be used as a disaster recovery site. (more…)

Tags: data center, Internet Initiative Japan, Net Care

Green IT: More Than Power Efficiency

By David Hamilton, theWHIR.com

November 4, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — With energy efficiency being just the beginning of how data centers can become more environmentally responsible, Gartner (www.gartner.com) suggests data center managers look to nature for direction.
 
“The Concept of the Data center as a Living Organism” is one of the topics the IT research and consulting firm’s researchers discussed at last month’s Data Center Summit 2008 in Amsterdam. “Power and cooling will drive the evolution of data centers into becoming conceptual models of intelligent ‘living organisms’ as organisations need to improve energy efficiency and become ‘greener,’” according to a Gartner research note.

The company notes that if the industry is not made fully aware of the problem, data centers run the risk of doubling their energy costs between 2005 and 2011. Decade-old legacy data centers are obviously environmentally obsolete; however, new, high-density, data centers warrants more advanced power and cooling capabilities for their power-hungry equipment. (more…)

Tags: data center, energy efficiency, Gartner

HP Intros Dynamic Power Capping

By David Hamilton, theWHIR.com

November 3, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Hewlett-Packard’s (www.hp.com) Green Business Technology initiative is upholding its environmentally friendly reputation with additions to its Thermal Logic portfolio, which include power-capping server technologies and energy-efficiency services designed to reduce operating costs and extend the life of data centers.

According to the company’s announcement Monday, HP’s Dynamic Power Capping helps data center customers reallocate power and cooling resources by dynamically setting or “capping” the power drawn by the servers, eliminating inefficientover-provisioning traditionally needed to create a redundant power infrastructure for maximum uptime. As a result, by precisely identifying how much power is actually required to run each server and setting a limit based on that usage, companies reclaim theirover-provisioned energy to improve the capacity of their data center.

“With these new solutions from HP, customers are able to drive down data center costs by reducing energy consumption and, at the same time, minimize environmental impact,” said Peter Gross, chief executive officer of HP subsidiary EYP Mission Critical Facilities. “HP’s Green Business Technology initiative is built on decades of innovation and experience in data center design and deployment, resulting in solutions that empower CIOs to turn energy efficiency into business benefits that impact the bottom line.” (more…)

Tags: data center, energy efficiency, Gartner, hardware, HP, power capping

Fujitsu Siemens Holds Workshop

By David Hamilton, theWHIR.com

October 30, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Taking its “Customer Challenge” programs to the next level, Fujitsu Siemens Computers (www.fujitsu-siemens.com) has announced its new, data center “Efficiency Challenge,” inviting European companies to participate in a free “Discovery Workshop” in which Fujitsu Siemens will work with companies to reduce the time it takes managing their IT infrastructure by 20 percent.

According to Fujitsu Siemens’ Thursday announcement, if it cannot identify company’s greatest IT infrastructure pain points, reducing its IT management time by at least 20 percent, they will receive 10,000? worth of products or services. The Efficiency Challenge is a significant addition to Fujitsu Siemens Computers’ programs because it is the first to incorporate services management to its generally infrastructure-based challenges.

“Over the past few years our portfolio has developed from a pure product offering to a unique combination that fully integrates products, solutions and services,” said Richard Schlauri, Fujtisu Siemens Computers executive vice-president of infrastructure Services. “This has enabled us to reach a wider market and increased benefits for our customers - as reflected in our Efficiency Challenge. By incorporating services management to our analysis of customer data centers, we can extend the cost savings realised from our previous Dynamic Data Center Challenge to include time savings. And of course, time savings translate into significant cost savings.” (more…)

Tags: data center, energy efficiency, Fujitsu Siemens

Tidal-Powered Data Center Planned

By David Hamilton, theWHIR.com

October 21, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — US investment bank Morgan Stanley (www.morganstanley.com) is planning a £250 million to £300 million off-grid data center in northern Scotland directly powered by tidal energy from Atlantis Resource Corporation (www.atlantisresourcescorporation.com) turbines harnessing the power of waves.

According to a Monday announcement from Singapore-based tidal current turbine developer Atlantis, the first series of turbines will be operational by 2011, powering the data center’s 150 MWh power requirement, equivalent to that needed to power a city the size of Bristol with a population of roughly a half million.

According to a statement, Morgan Stanley hopes to attract large customers such as Google (www.google.com), which have quickly growing capacity needs. Google, itself, has already been looking into powering its own data centers with waves, recently filing a patent for a “water-based data center” that uses ocean waves to power and cool the facility. (more…)

Tags: Atlantis, data center, Morgan Stanley, Scotland, Tidal Energy

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