Colo-X News

Future of the Data Centre – Event Roundup
July 20, 2010

A useful two page summary of the event is now available here.   Other presentations included: 

  • Thomson Reuters discussing how they are reducing power consumption across their 20 company data centres
  • The impact of the CRC, Carbon Reduction Commitment legislation
  • Analysis of data centre efficiency including calculation of the PUE, Power Usage Efficiency, the recognised measure for operational efficiency (and also the various interpretations thereof)!
  • The impact of virtualisation on power use offering great potential but also the risks involved were also reviewed, especially in breaking the link between hardware and application