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The DCA library is desesigned as a centralised repository for data centre guidelines, reports, industry documents and educational white papers that all members can contribute to and benefit from.
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Brunel helped build the Ark?
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ARK Continuity Limited
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03/05/2012
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Dr Ian Bitterlins first white paper for Ark Continuity which provides an historical snapshot of Spring Park and the local achievements of one of the worlds greatest engineers – Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
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include items that advises on data centre investment strategies, tax issues, insurance and law
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Minimising Data Centre Total Cost of Ownership Thr
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R. Tozer, Operational Intelligence Limited
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09/10/2012
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Data centres carry significant investment and operating costs, including energy costs. The industry grows with our increasing demand for IT services and operators face increasing pressure to reduce their environmental impact and deliver competitively priced services to support users. However, many existing data centres were designed without a ‘green’ design brief; priorities were focussed around infrastructure redundancy. There are significant opportunities to implement modifications to design and operation and reduce operating costs, particularly to cooling systems. These include managing data hall air, operating at higher temperatures, using free cooling and optimising for part load operation. By analysing where energy is used in the facility, improvements can be targeted, most of which have short payback periods. This results in massive reductions in energy (and sometimes capital) costs, whilst still delivering a reliable service.
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Data Centre Cooling Air Performance Metrics
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R. Tozer, Operational Intelligence Limited
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09/10/2012
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Data centre energy consumption has grown significantly in recent years; cooling energy forms a substantial part of this and presents a significant opportunity for efficiency improvements. Air management performance describes how effectively conditioned air is employed to cool IT equipment in the data centre. By understanding this, inefficient operation can be identified, quantified and targeted. A set of metrics is described in the paper which characterise the air flows within the data centre and how well these serve the cooling demand. These may be determined by making a series of temperature measurements in various locations within the space. Measured performance can be compared with optimal / ideal performance and action taken, such as installation of air containment, to improve the effectiveness of cooling delivery. These measures usually have a quick payback and can enable the realisation of energy savings from fan speed reduction and an increase in cooling set points, which
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Zero refrigeration for data centres in the US
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R. Tozer, Operational Intelligence Limited
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09/10/2012
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Data centre energy consumption has grown significantly in recent years; cooling energy forms a substantial part of this and presents a significant opportunity for efficiency improvements. With best practice air management in place, it is possible to reduce airflow and increase supply air temperatures. This can be achieved through separation of hot and cold air streams by cold aisle, hot aisle or rack exhaust containment systems. Once server air inlet temperatures are within a narrow range, close to the supply temperature from cooling units, it is possible to increase temperature set points with the confidence that IT equipment receives air at an acceptable temperature. This allows energy savings to be realised through more efficient refrigeration cycle operation and increased opportunities to benefit from free cooling; in many cases it may be possible to remove refrigeration altogether.
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ISO50001 Energy Framework
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S. Campbell-Whyte
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06/09/2012
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Yet to be deployed to the data centre specifically – but may provide an important framework going forward.
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Recommendations for measuring PUE
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S. Campbell-Whyte
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15/08/2012
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Recommendations for Measuring And Reporting Overall Data Center Efficiency
Version 2 – Measuring PUE for data centers
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Greenpeace report “How clean is your Cloud Link
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S. Campbell-Whyte
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30/04/2012
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Report by Greenpeace on cloud/ICT/datacentres, interesting views on data centre PUE etc.- and it advises industry to take responsibility for PUE.
Shows energy use of digital services and data centres is now beginning to awaken in public conciousness.
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Digital Agenda EU
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F. Verhagen
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11/04/2012
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The overall aim of the Digital Agenda is to deliver sustainable economic and social
benefits from a digital single market based on fast and ultra fast internet and
interoperable applications.
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EU Code of Conduct 2012 best practices
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S. Campbell-Whyte
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28/03/2012
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Include indiustry trends, growth, political anaylisis etc
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Digital copies of the DCA official Journal
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DCS Europe Winter issue Link
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Datacentre Solutions
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09/01/2013
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DCS Magazine
DataCentre Solutions (DCS) is a print magazine covering all aspects of datacentre technology across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Available as a free subscription to qualifying IT professionals within EMEA.
The latest datacentre technology and management news and resources including cloud computing, virtualisation, applications, design & facilities management, green technologies, hosting & colocation, networks, telco, power & cooling, security, servers & OS, storage, data backup, business continuity and disaster recovery for CIOs, CTOs, IT Directors, Datacentre Managers and IT decision makers.
Datacentre Solutions is also the official journal to the Datacentre Alliance (DCA) and the only publication to be endorsed by SNIA Europe.
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DCS Europe November issue Link
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Datacentre Solutions
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21/11/2012
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DCS Magazine
DataCentre Solutions (DCS) is a print magazine covering all aspects of datacentre technology across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Available as a free subscription to qualifying IT professionals within EMEA.
The latest datacentre technology and management news and resources including cloud computing, virtualisation, applications, design & facilities management, green technologies, hosting & colocation, networks, telco, power & cooling, security, servers & OS, storage, data backup, business continuity and disaster recovery for CIOs, CTOs, IT Directors, Datacentre Managers and IT decision makers.
Datacentre Solutions is also the official journal to the Datacentre Alliance (DCA) and the only publication to be endorsed by SNIA Europe.
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DCS DACH Link
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Datacentre Solutions
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21/11/2012
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German language version of Datacentre Solutions magazine.
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DCS Europe October issue Link
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Datacentre Solutions
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21/11/2012
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DCS Magazine
DataCentre Solutions (DCS) is a print magazine covering all aspects of datacentre technology across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Available as a free subscription to qualifying IT professionals within EMEA.
The latest datacentre technology and management news and resources including cloud computing, virtualisation, applications, design & facilities management, green technologies, hosting & colocation, networks, telco, power & cooling, security, servers & OS, storage, data backup, business continuity and disaster recovery for CIOs, CTOs, IT Directors, Datacentre Managers and IT decision makers.
Datacentre Solutions is also the official journal to the Datacentre Alliance (DCA) and the only publication to be endorsed by SNIA Europe.
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DCS Europe September issue Link
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Datacentre Solutions
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21/11/2012
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DCS Magazine
DataCentre Solutions (DCS) is a print magazine covering all aspects of datacentre technology across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Available as a free subscription to qualifying IT professionals within EMEA.
The latest datacentre technology and management news and resources including cloud computing, virtualisation, applications, design & facilities management, green technologies, hosting & colocation, networks, telco, power & cooling, security, servers & OS, storage, data backup, business continuity and disaster recovery for CIOs, CTOs, IT Directors, Datacentre Managers and IT decision makers.
Datacentre Solutions is also the official journal to the Datacentre Alliance (DCA) and the only publication to be endorsed by SNIA Europe.
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DCS Europe July issue Link
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Datacentre Solutions
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14/08/2012
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July issue:
– The ideal cloud environment
– An ‘un-storage’ success story
– Mowing lawns and data protection
– The irrelevance of IAAS
DCS Magazine
DataCentre Solutions (DCS) is a print magazine covering all aspects of datacentre technology across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Available as a free subscription to qualifying IT professionals within EMEA.
The latest datacentre technology and management news and resources including cloud computing, virtualisation, applications, design & facilities management, green technologies, hosting & colocation, networks, telco, power & cooling, security, servers & OS, storage, data backup, business continuity and disaster recovery for CIOs, CTOs, IT Directors, Datacentre Managers and IT decision makers.
Datacentre Solutions is also the official journal to the Datacentre Alliance (DCA) and the only publication to be endorsed by SNIA Europe.
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DCS DACH June issue Link
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Datacentre Solutions
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06/07/2012
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German language version of Datacentre Solutions magazine.
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DCS Europe June issue Link
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Datacentre Solutions
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25/06/2012
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DCS Magazine
DataCentre Solutions (DCS) is a print magazine covering all aspects of datacentre technology across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Available as a free subscription to qualifying IT professionals within EMEA.
The latest datacentre technology and management news and resources including cloud computing, virtualisation, applications, design & facilities management, green technologies, hosting & colocation, networks, telco, power & cooling, security, servers & OS, storage, data backup, business continuity and disaster recovery for CIOs, CTOs, IT Directors, Datacentre Managers and IT decision makers.
Datacentre Solutions is also the official journal to the Datacentre Alliance (DCA) and the only publication to be endorsed by SNIA Europe.
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DCS Europe May issue Link
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Datacentre Solutions
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01/06/2012
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DCS Magazine
DataCentre Solutions (DCS) is a print magazine covering all aspects of datacentre technology across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Available as a free subscription to qualifying IT professionals within EMEA.
The latest datacentre technology and management news and resources including cloud computing, virtualisation, applications, design & facilities management, green technologies, hosting & colocation, networks, telco, power & cooling, security, servers & OS, storage, data backup, business continuity and disaster recovery for CIOs, CTOs, IT Directors, Datacentre Managers and IT decision makers.
Datacentre Solutions is also the official journal to the Datacentre Alliance (DCA) and the only publication to be endorsed by SNIA Europe.
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