tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22231049040558500732024-03-13T20:21:07.476-07:00Sustainable ITThis is NOT the blog of Carbon3IT Ltd as the content is now available on our website, news and events page, as a result we will not be updating this page.
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Our Twitter feed is @Carbon3IT@carbon3ithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10886282248036346688noreply@blogger.comBlogger217125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223104904055850073.post-8051891514083205022020-08-09T09:38:00.001-07:002020-08-09T10:37:01.556-07:00Musings on the Data Centre of the Future - Part 1<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We've been working in the field of Green IT for over 10 years now, and its been an interesting journey.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Some readers will know that I had my "Road to Damascus" in 2003, when I visited the Eden Project in Cornwall, we'd spent the day walking through the tropical and semi arid desert biomes and the external areas and on our depature, we had to exit via the shop. The shop was full of all the sorts of things you'd expect a living laboratory site to have, books about gardening, tools, sustainably sourced knick knacks etc etc etc. However, there was one single item hidden high on a shelfing unit that did make me "double take" it was a recycled circuit board, something that had failed final inspection, and instead of throwing it in a landfill, or indeed sending it with a load more electronic waste and dump it in Africa or China, someone had decided that it would make an excellent plate or mouse mat.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I3VjRIeI4l0/Xy_T97eZlMI/AAAAAAAAFdE/Tb9Krt1kLg81tyAeIsF1H8h75_hHRVBOQCLcBGAsYHQ/s275/RECYCLED%2BPCB.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I3VjRIeI4l0/Xy_T97eZlMI/AAAAAAAAFdE/Tb9Krt1kLg81tyAeIsF1H8h75_hHRVBOQCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/RECYCLED%2BPCB.jpg" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">I remember looking at it, and thinking thats a terrible way for a computer to die, there must be something better we can do with obselete or surplus computing equipment.</span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">That moment, was my conversion, from a systems engineer working for a major UK MSP, I spent the next 6 years making my plans, I would seek to obtain a degree from the Open University, that covered the environmental issues and perhaps add development and climate change aspects to the problem, I graduated in 2010 with a BSc (Hons) Tech with environment and development (Open) degree, and started my own "Sustainable IT consultancy, Carbon3IT Ltd in August 2009 and we officially opened in Jan 2010.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The last 11 years or so have been the most satisfying of my career to date, I've travelled to places (paid by other people) that I'd never thought I ever get to, Sydney, Hong Kong, Sao Paolo, Austin, most of Europe just for starters, I walked around some interesting data centres, some great, some in need of a lot of energy efficiency attention.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Anyway, I digress, the purpose of this post is to muse on the <b>data centre of the future</b>.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Now, many commentators of all things data centre will go on record and state that the data centre of the future looks very much like the data centre of today and to be honest there is a lot of credence that should be paid to those that have this point of view, it is a very practical approach, and given that data centres are designed to last between 15-20 years, a valid one.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">However, this is very 20th Century thinking, and we have to consider the wider aspects of energy security, climate change and to determine exactly what we are doing with our IT systems and question some of the traditional facts.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So, where can we find a "blueprint" that can make us really think about our ICT systems and how we deliver them?</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres (Energy Efficiency) is the best thing I have come across that can assist us in our quest.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Put simply, it forms the basis of a radical strategic and cultural change programme that will yield significant benefits across the entire corporate landscape, reducing cost, reducing energy consumption and thus carbon emissions, and combined with the 5 major ISO Management Systems, making the organisation, leaner, fitter and with the necessary control systems to deal with literally anything that can be thrown at it.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">During the EURECA project, we identified the Magnificent 7, a toolbox of data centre standards, guidelines and ISO management systems that all prudent DC operators should follow that can help them acheive an ICT ECO-SYSTEM that actively reduces energy and carbon, meets business goals and most impending or current regulation and provides a roadmap to the future.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So, what are the Magnificent 7?</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ISO9001 Quality Management Systems</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ISO22301 Buiness Continuity Management Systems</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ISO 27001 Information Security Management Systems</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ISO50001 Energy Management Systems</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">EN Code of Conduct for Data Centres (Energy Efficiency)</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">EN 50600 Series of Data Centre Design, Build and Operate Standards <br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The ISO Management Standards speak for themselves, the correct application of the requirements of each standard (and obviously, the integration of common areas) build a foundation of excellence.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">However, and I believe that this is a major problem, too many organisations pay lip service to the "spirit" of the standard and fail to really understand what the system is for, they often see it as a necessary evil, that they only undertake "certification" to meet other procurement or tender requirements.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But, if they really understand what the Standard is designed to achieve and implemented the requirements correctly, then the organisation will be able to meet the energy and carbon legislation, reduce cost, and meet business goals.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M8iEEUXBDjk/XzAmR5qZ7zI/AAAAAAAAFdQ/hxXGaRVUlxkk1jENwEUPPU_hKAC8_elKQCLcBGAsYHQ/s791/logo%2BCoC%2Bcolor.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="791" data-original-width="561" height="210" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M8iEEUXBDjk/XzAmR5qZ7zI/AAAAAAAAFdQ/hxXGaRVUlxkk1jENwEUPPU_hKAC8_elKQCLcBGAsYHQ/w149-h210/logo%2BCoC%2Bcolor.JPG" width="149" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres (Energy Efficiency), provides for a radical strategic and cultural change, briefly, as the actual implementation actions that can be taken, are our USP and we charge for it! are as follows:</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Management, Section 3 of the EUCOC covers Data Centre Utilisation, Management and Planning, in this section we see that the very 1st best practice is the "enabler" of all the others, it is quite simply "group involvement" in essence, gather a group of people that touch the data centre, you could call them stakeholders and have regular meetings so that everybody knows what everyone else is doing , this helps prevent those Friday night emergencies, when someone in the business has ordered loads of kit and whats it up and running by Monday morning, but didn't tell you. So, in order to fulfill this request you have to run and around and organise, new power, new connectivity and the installation of this kit.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It's in this section where we see the introduction of the "concept" of the management systems, note that I did not say ISO Management systems, merely management systems and this is because the EUCOC is NOT Prescriptive. Indeed, we mention 3 specific management systems, an Environmental, an Energy and an Asset management system, we point to the ISOs but do not specify that they should be an ISO certificated system.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We also introduce the concept of sustainable energy usage, alternative power generation technologies, management of air quality, conscise documentation, and a comprehensive training and development programme for staff.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In section 3.3 we bring into play, the concept of thinking about resilience levels, lean provisioning and part load concepts.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Section 4 is all about the <b>IT</b> with best practices on procurement, temperature and humidity ranges for new equipment (so, you can begin to operate at the higher ASHRAE levels and reap energy savings.)</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Section 4.2 is IT deployment, software efficiency etc.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">4.3 talks about the management of the existing estate, audit the physical and virtual estates, perhaps you've got "server creep" some virtual machines may have been fired up by a dev team and used for a project, that project finished 3 years ago, but you've still got these VMs cluttering up your stack. A comprehensive audit can identify targets for optimisation.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">4.4 is all about the data, essentially, what have we got, where is it, and do we need it anymore? can we reduce our storage energy bill by the prudent management of that data?</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Section 5, the largest section of the EUCOC contains the best practices appertaining to <b>Cooling</b>, and covers, Air Flow Management & Design, Cooling Management, Temp and Humidity Settings, Cooling Plant, CRAC/Hs, Direct Liquid Cooling and the reuse of DC waste heat.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">6, is all about <b>power</b>, specifically UPS.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">7 is <b>other DC equipment</b>, lighting, and having sensors to report back temp/humidity, energy etc to an advanced DCiM.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Section 8 is the <b>building</b> itself, like a feasibility or site location exercise, but not quite, covering some design/build principles, location stuff and water issues, but to be honest the EN 50600, 2-1 Building construction covers them in more detail.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Section 9 is the <b>Monitoring</b> section, and as we all know, you cannot manage what you cannot measure, so this section provides the detail and what, where and how you should be measuring all the data points within the DC.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Section 10 covers the best practices that will be implemented in following editions, so for instance, in the 2020 edition (v11) there is one best practice, 5.7.5 Capture Ready Infrastructure "Consider installing "Capture Ready Infrastructure to take advantage of, and distribute available waste heat during new build and retrofit projects. Section 5.7.x is the Reuse of Data Centre waste heat section.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Section 11 are <b>Items under consideration</b>, what this section is, is essentially a holding area for proposed best practices, pending additional information, sector feedback or the development of a new technology, so for instance, in the 2020 edition (v11) there are 3 best practices, the first is software efficiency development definitions and/or metrics this has been located in this section since the EUCOC began in 2009 and really is a souce of embarassment as the software community really haven't grasped the mettle and come up with any definitions or metrics.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Two new best practices were added to this section in 2019, both by myself, under the remit of the CATALYST Project <a href="http://www.project-catalyst.eu">www.project-catalyst.eu</a> the first is Network Energy use, this is basically a request for organisations to calculate the "hidden" energy when they move to the Cloud or colocation service, if you take your equipment and locate it elsewhere, your users will expend more energy than if it was located on your site, it may not seem much, but there are two aspects to this, one is the energy cost itself (although this is borne by others (your carriers and the telecommunication operators, and secondly, to identify all the possible SPOF points. Although the internet is self-healing there are some SPOF points.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The second is to be aware of, and plan for energy flexibility or energy storage services that may arise from any Smart Grid implementations in your local area, as a large energy user, you will be in the Utilities crosshairs.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So, there we have it, the first musings on the Data Centre of the Future and my belief that we actually already have the foundations already laid, we now need to build on them and that will be the topic for the second part of my musings on the Data Centre of the Future, whcih will probably be published in late September/Early October. </span><br /></p>@carbon3ithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10886282248036346688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223104904055850073.post-29828861479846593802020-05-21T08:19:00.000-07:002020-05-21T08:19:38.923-07:00Lockdown blues...nah, not in Carbon3IT Towers!<br />
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We're very busy at the moment and have a number of time critical tasks that are er, time critical so I really shouldn't be "blogging" but its a nice day, so...<br />
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Its time for a little update, we continue to work with the CATALYST project and you can see the fruits of our labours in the new project website, which you can find <a href="https://project-catalyst.eu/">here</a> this new sharper, quicker site is a coproduction between the project (in the guise of my good self) and Cobra Systems, a Dutch member of Green IT Amsterdam more info <a href="https://cobrasystems.nl/">here</a><br />
I, in my role as project manager for the project on behalf of Green IT Amsterdam, where I am under contract as their "in house" data centre consultant, scoped the brief, provided content and have been the admin webmaster for the past few weeks, i think it looks and feels great and we'd love your feedback.<br />
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We're also using Cobra to design and build a new website for the CATALYST Green Data Centre Roadmap, which you can see below:<br />
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This map has an associated Green Data Centre Handbook, which is the, ahem, time critical task that I'm supposed to be doing instead of writing this article!<br />
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The new GDCR website will feature an "interactive" version of the roadmap and access to the<br />
handbook as well as some other interesting stuff which will remain secret for now.<br />
The Cobra team and myself, finalised most of the design earlier this week and we expect to have a provisional release by mid June, and a public version ready by the end of June, it should be noted that we have been working on this since early January, but the coronavirus and travel restrictions plus work on the main website has sucked out a lot of our planning time, still we're nearly there and I'm very excited about the project, not just for the CATALYST project itself but for the wider datacentre industry.<br />
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We're, that is Green IT Amsterdam, are finalising another datacentre project, funded by Horizon 2020 which will start in September, so in essence, we have another 3 years of work with Green IT Amsterdam on this new project to look forward to, we'll keep you informed via our usual social media feeds.<br />
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On the <a href="http://www.ceedacert.com/">CEEDA</a> front, we finalised and released the last CEEDA conducted before lockdown and it was quite hairy! I'd travelled to Brindisi on the 8th March, conducted the assessment on the 9th and was due to fly back on the 10th, when lockdown hit Italy, not the northern area but the entire country, I found out via text message from a good friend and client on the 9th in the evening, cue much angst from the family, but it turned out alright in the end, I flew back the following morning (10th) and then spent 14 days in self-isolation, missing, much to my annoyance, the Data Centre World event in London.<br />
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So, whats the outlook for Carbon3IT ? Surprisingly good, we have a training session and CEEDA assessment scheduled for October, our partners at DCD have had a lot of enquiries for CEEDA post lockdown, we've been asked to present and host at a number of data centre events scheduled to take place in Q3/4 of course many of which have already been moved from their original dates due to corona, and now rescheduled, all of which are pending lockdown and the suspension of travel restrictions. We'll be working on CATALYST until September, possibly longer and we have our new project, so all good.<br />
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So, until next time, wash those hands and keep safe.@carbon3ithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10886282248036346688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223104904055850073.post-18709041612915930082020-03-25T09:09:00.000-07:002020-03-25T09:09:26.035-07:00International Data Centre Day - 25th March 2020First of all, a massive shout out to all those involved in Data Centres, be it, operations, construction, or consultancy, that are working so hard to keep the internet running globally, the connected world depends on it.<br />
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Not to forget, the millions of healthcare professional globally fighting the coronavirus. <br />
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Data Centres process data, the data that runs banks, logistics, academia, governments and almost every aspect of modern life, use a contactless card to buy groceries?, you will route through a data centre, buy on the web? the web and data centres enable not only the ability to view millions of items, but also to pay for it, conducting research? perhaps on the Coronavirus? Data Centres house the data and do the number crunching. Doing maths homework, the application will be running in a data centre and may route through multiple smaller data centres to get to your home.<br />
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Here, at Carbon3IT Ltd we work in supporting data centres with a number of services including ad-hoc training, consultancy, compliance on the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres (Energy Efficiency) (EUCOC), ISOs including ISO9001 (Quality), ISO14001 (Environmental) ISO22301 (Business Continuity) ISO27001 (Information Security) and finally ISO50001 (Energy) Management Systems.<br />
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We are also ESOS Lead Assessors.<br />
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We can provide guidance on EN50600. We work in standards development, primarily the EUCOC and EN 50600.<br />
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We also conduct data centre audits, for EUCOC, CEEDA (Certified Energy Efficiency Data Centres Award) and for EN 50600 Gap Analysis.<br />
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We wish all data centres, their employees, the supply chain and use the very best International Data Centre Day 2020!<br />
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Keep safe, and wash those hands!<br />
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<br />@carbon3ithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10886282248036346688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223104904055850073.post-54863454698515892302020-03-04T04:11:00.000-08:002020-03-04T11:00:50.709-08:00EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres (Energy Efficiency) v11 Update<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The 2020 version of the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres (Energy Efficiency) was published in January, however due to an oversight the reporting form had not been updated until earlier today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Below is a conscise list of EVERY change made to the reporting form.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">New applicants are advised to download all the guidance documentation before completing the forms, (or seek expert advice from ourselves) existing participants should use the latest 2020 reporting form v11 when published, to advise the EU-JRC of progress against all best practices and any action plans, as well as provide updated energy data.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Given the recent EU announcements that "data centres can and should be climate neutral by 2030" and that they are considering measures, it is highly recommended that all data centres in the EU and UK consider becoming a participant in the EUCOC as soon as possible.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">This recommendation applies to all hyperscale, colocation and enterprise sites.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">All the documents can be downloaded from this <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/energy-efficiency/code-conduct/datacentres">link</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Carbon3IT Ltd has been working with the EU-JRC since 2012, we sit on the best practices committee and provide under contract, the review services for all participants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">However, we also provide pre-EUCOC reviews and can complete the application and reporting forms on your behalf for a set fee (currently<b> £3000+VAT</b> per site, discounts are available for multiple sites) in whch case we will inform the EU-JRC that we have provided this service and an alternate reviewer will be engaged.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">To date we have completed 40 EUCOC applications on behalf of global clients and all have been accepted on initial application.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The best practices for 2020 have been updated as follows:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">3.3.2 Practice Updated</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">3.2.4 Practice Updated</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">3.2.5 Practice Updated</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">3.2.6 Practice Updated</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">3.2.8 Practice Updated</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">3.2.12 Practice Updated </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">3.2.13 Practice Updated</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">3.2.14 Practice has become MANDATORY and Note Updated</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">3.2.15 Practice has become MANDATORY and Note Updated</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">4.1.1 Practice Updated</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">4.1.2 Practice Updated</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">4.1.3 Practice Updated</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">4.1.4 Practice Updated</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">4.1.6 Practice Updated</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">4.1.10 Practice Updated</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">4.1.11 Practice Updated</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">4.1.14 Practice Updated</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">4.1.15 Practice Updated</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">4.2.6 Practice Updated</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">4.2.8 *New Practice* </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">4.3.2 Practice Updated</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">4.3.5 Practice Updated</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">4.3.6 Practice Updated</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">4.4.4 Practice Updated</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">5.1.3 Practice has become MANDATORY and Updated</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">5.2.6 Practice Updated</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">5.6.1 Practice renumbered (previously 5.4.2.9)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">5.7.1 Practice renumbered (previously 5.6.1)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">5.7.2 Practice renumbered (previously 5.6.2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">5.7.3 Practice renumbered (previously 5.6.3)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">5.7.4 Practice renumbered (previously 5.6.4)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">8.3.3 Practice updated</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">9.2.2 Practice has become MANDATORY for new build/retrofit and updated</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Please also note that there are 3 new best practices scheduled for publication next year, these are</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">5.7.5 Capture Read Infrastructure - </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Consider installing ‘Capture Ready’
Infrastructure to take advantage of, and distribute, available waste heat
during new build and retrofit projects.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is scheduled to become a mandatory best practice from 2021</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">11.2 Network Energy Use - </span></span><br />
<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When purchasing new cloud services or assessing a
cloud strategy, assess the impact on network equipment usage and the potential increase
or decrease in energy consumption with the aim of being to inform purchasing
decisions.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The minimum scope should include inside the data
centre only. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
The
ambition is to include overall energy consumption and energy efficiency
including that related to multiple site operation and the network energy use
between those sites.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">11.3 Smart Grid - </span></span><br />
<br />
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<br />@carbon3ithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10886282248036346688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223104904055850073.post-30887093381203124682020-02-26T09:11:00.002-08:002020-02-26T09:42:19.322-08:00The Phoney War is over....Back in 2008, the British Computer Society, Chartered Institute for IT, the Department for Farming and Rural Affairs (DeFRA) and the EU - Joint Research Centre launched the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres (Energy Efficiency) also known as the EUCOC, comprising of 2 parts, the first a series of best practices for data centre operators to use, to really optimise their facilties using a combination of tangible (those that you can touch such as blanking panels, or change, such as temperature settings) and intangible (such as changes to policy, processes and procedures covering procurement, service take on, and management) And the second, a scheme for those using (participants) or promoting (endorsing) the EUCOC.<br />
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To date, there are some 350+ Data Centre "participants" from various organisations, a combination of colocation, hyperscale and enterprise organisations, and 250+ "endorsers" covering consultancies, organisations, trade bodies and suppliers to the industry.<br />
There are annual reporting requirements for both participants and endorsers.<br />
Participants are required to report (by the end of February) energy consumption information, whether any new best practice has been adopted and progress against an action plan which is formulated on intial application.<br />
Endorsers are required to report any "endorsing" actions taken place annually from the anniversary of their initial application.<br />
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From the initial application, data is extracted from the reporting forms and is used as the input into a report from the reviewer (currently ourselves) to the EU-JRC on a regular but not annual basis.<br />
Energy consumption data is tabulated and forms inputs into research conducted by the working group, where it is used to provide support to policy makers with the EC and EP.<br />
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As we are not party to the annual update participants data or the endorser annual reports we cannot report on the frequency or accuracy of any information passed to the EU-JRC.<br />
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However, many of our readers will know that we provide pre-EUCOC reviews and in some cases actually complete the reporting forms and participation applications on behalf of clients as a paid for service, currently <u>£3000+VAT</u> per site, although discounts are available for multiple sites.<br />
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Readers will also know that the EUCOC best practices, but not the scheme, have been adopted by the CEN/CENELEC/ETSI standards body as a technical report under the EN 50600 series of Data Centres, design, build and operator standards and available from national standards bodies as "PD CLC/TR 50600-99-1:2019"<br />
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So, why sign up and provide the energy data etc? Well, it was felt, and in some EU member states actually implemented, that public sector procurement of data centre and data centres services (such as cloud) would require, as a scoring element of the tender process, that the data centre had to be a participant of the EUCOC. This is certainly the case for the UK G-Cloud and other EU national governments, although not actively policed.<br />
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It should also be noted that the scheme is VOLUNTARY! <br />
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From our own work with CEEDA (which is an external (paid for) assessment based upon a subset of the EUCOC and ISO30134/EN50600 KPIs), we have over the last 8 yrs or so visited 60 CEEDA sites, compiled around 20 EUCOC reporting forms on behalf of clients, and reviewed some 200 participant application forms on behalf of the EU-JRC and discussions with colleagues in the industry where we discuss energy efficiency and the implementation of the best practices, especially the intangible elements, it has to be said that, some, but not all of our clients are paying lip service to the EUCOC and it could be argued merely ticking boxes with little or no intention of acting upon the action plan that we create.<br />
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There are many reasons for this, primarily client SLA's or indifference, a lack of skills within the organisation, lack of funding, or indifference from senior managers and this is understandable when there is no external compulsion such as regulation or the need for an operating licence.<br />
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The past 12 years or so, can now be considered the "phoney war" as it is clear, in light of the recent announcement from the EU regarding the Green Deal, especially the following statement... <br />
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<b>"<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="left: 1086.62px; top: 711.645px; transform: scaleX(0.917);">Yet it is also clear that the ICT sector also needs </span><span style="left: 1086.62px; top: 732.645px; transform: scaleX(0.989037);">to undergo its own green transformation. The envi</span><span style="left: 1468.73px; top: 732.645px;"></span><span style="left: 1086.62px; top: 753.645px; transform: scaleX(0.932961);">ronmental footprint of the sector is significant, es</span><span style="left: 1468.73px; top: 753.645px;"></span><span style="left: 1086.62px; top: 774.645px; transform: scaleX(1.02777);">timated at 5-9% of the world’s total electricity use </span><span style="left: 1086.62px; top: 795.645px; transform: scaleX(0.983244);">and more than 2% of all emissions. <span style="font-family: inherit;"><u>Data centres </u></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><u><span style="left: 1086.62px; top: 816.645px; transform: scaleX(0.914685);">and telecommunications will need to become more </span><span style="left: 1086.62px; top: 837.645px; transform: scaleX(0.897379);">energy efficient, reuse waste energy, and use more </span></u></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><u><span style="left: 1086.62px; top: 858.645px; transform: scaleX(0.94996);">renewable energy sources. They can and should be</span><span style="left: 1468.73px; top: 858.645px;"></span><span style="left: 1086.62px; top: 879.645px; transform: scaleX(0.977142);">come climate neutral by 2030.</span></u><span style="left: 1086.62px; top: 879.645px; transform: scaleX(0.977142);"> </span></span></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="left: 1086.62px; top: 879.645px; transform: scaleX(0.977142);">that the phoney war is over and that we can expect measures from the EU to persuade data centres to actively up their game, and that they will be required to become more energy efficient (and there are a couple of methods for this but at the core is the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres (Energy Efficiency) and other EU polices such as EMAS and BEMP, reuse waste heat and use more renewable energy sources.)</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="left: 1086.62px; top: 879.645px; transform: scaleX(0.977142);">All of these 3 elements are contained in the CATALYST project which we are working on, on behalf of Green IT Amsterdam, more information on the website <a href="http://www.project-catalyst.eu/">www.project-catalyst.eu</a></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="left: 1086.62px; top: 879.645px; transform: scaleX(0.977142);">We'll be on the road talking about the project and wider aspects of the potential policy changes at the following events:</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="left: 1086.62px; top: 879.645px; transform: scaleX(0.977142);">Data Centre World London March 11/12th </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="left: 1086.62px; top: 879.645px; transform: scaleX(0.977142);">Data Centre Forum Oslo March 19th</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="left: 1086.62px; top: 879.645px; transform: scaleX(0.977142);">DCD Energy Smart Stockholm April 27/28th</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="left: 1086.62px; top: 879.645px; transform: scaleX(0.977142);">DDI/UN Copenhagen May 15th</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="left: 1086.62px; top: 879.645px; transform: scaleX(0.977142);">Check out the CATALYST project website for more event info <a href="http://project-catalyst.eu/events-and-news/">here</a></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="left: 1086.62px; top: 879.645px; transform: scaleX(0.977142);">We've been working in this area for the past 10 yrs and have built up a wealth of exprience and knowledge in the field, so if you need any practical advice contact us on info@carbon3it.com or send us a message on linked in or twitter feed. </span></span></span></span><br />
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@carbon3ithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10886282248036346688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223104904055850073.post-58126546856293906552019-12-30T09:52:00.001-08:002020-08-02T03:29:08.063-07:00Air V Liquid - Part 4 - EcosystemsFollowing on from the previous articles, and over a year late! we're now going to look at the relative costs of providing an ecosystem for IT equipment, essentially the rationale for data centres.<br />
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I think its important to recognise that back in the past, the delivery of IT systems was a lot different to the way we do it today, but it does have a bearing on data centre ecosytem architectures.<br />
Back in the day, business used a central mainframe and dumb terminals, the main frames were heavy bits of kit and I can remember some installations where floors were strengthened to take the weight, thus rooms in buildings were specifically used for IT equipment, cooling solutions were installed and Bob's your uncle, you had a computer room.<br />
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These were normally over provisioned to allow for expansion and I've personally been asked to build a new room that needed to cover the existing kit plus 100% expansion.<br />
Well, thats all very well, but 100% of what exactly? floor space, power density, network capacity, cooling capacity? Normally, everything was doubled up, just to cover ourselves, but it was never going to be enough. Why? because IT was getting smaller, more equipment was needed, power densities rose, more network was needed. So these rooms soon became not fit for purpose and for a variety of reasons, insufficient cooling capacity, not enough power, in some cases not enough space.<br />
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So, IT managers were in a dilemma, without visibility of IT needs moving forward, it became impossible to provide expansion space without spending a great deal of capital in future proofing (with the risk of getting it completely wrong) or failing to meet the business requirements.<br />
I've seen row upon row of racks, all empty because the business decided to use blade servers, which of course have a high power density that standard servers, and there wasn't sufficient power available so power was taken from other racks, rending them useless, this of course leads to hot spots because you've concentrating your IT (a blade chassis is about 7.5kW) into an area that was designed for a standard 2kW rack.<br />
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Today, business has other options than to keep their IT on premise, they can use colocation facilites or cloud services but they will still need a room on premise to provide networking access to the colocation/cloud services and they may have some on site compute (those services that can't go into the cloud for reasons such as latency or data transfer rates),<br />
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All we've done though, is transfer the problem of the ecosystem to someone else, now its the colocation provider that has to think about capacity, in terms of space, power and cooling and the thing is, is that they are always behind the curve, insofar as they are reactive rather than proactive, they respond to customers requirements in a building that was designed in the past, with the pasts intepretation of power, space and cooling requirements and that leads to the same problems. i.e. a lack of power, problems with cooling, and the risk of having empty racks.<br />
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Its understandable though, if you are a colocation or hosting provider, you dont have crystal balls to see into the future, so you have to deal with what you know or you can take a gamble on what the future looks like.<br />
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The future, to them is very much like the past, insofar that if 99% of systems are designed for air cooling then an air cooling infrastructure is what they will build. <br />
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Hence, the market is dominated by air cooled systems, and so we should build for air.<br />
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Building for air means, a raised floor (perhaps), it means CRAC/H's, it means pipework, it means chillers, or external units, in whatever flavour you desire, but you have to provide an infrastructure for what the market needs, and at the present time that is air.<br />
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But it doesn't have to be that way...<br />
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The data centre of the "future" is, very much like the data centre of today, given that we are building them today (as discussed with my friend and colleague Mark Acton) however, what would the data centre of the future look like if we did adopt some of the more outlandish suggestions coming out of academia and some design consultancies and what if we decided to adopt more liquid cooled options?<br />
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In November I attended the DCD London event, where not one but two immersed liquid cooled solutions were on show, both using the single immersion technique (this is where the server is immersed into a bath full of an engineered (non dielectric) liquid, the heat generated by the servers is carried by the liquid to the top of the bath and transferred via a heat exchanger to an external water circuit, this is then connected to a external dry cooler and the heat vented into the atmosphere, but when compared with an air cooled solution, we see that some of the capital plant items, namely the floor (baths dont need a raised floor), and CRAC/Hs are moot, as a result the capex and opex costs will be lower.<br />
But, we can go one step further and get revenue, thus potentially reducing our costs even further. How?, simple, the heat rejected by the system is warmer and in a medium where it can be captured better than air and thus directed to provide, or offset energy use elesewhere, such as hot water or heating locally (within the building) or passed to a low temperature district heating system for use over a wider area. There are some commercial aspects that need to be ironed out with this approach, such as contractual agreements, cost, and service levels etc.<br />
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This approach, where waste heat is used to offset energy requirements elsewhere, is a fundamental aspect of Green Data Centres and from our research it appears that liquid immersed systems can contribute, and we're not the only ones thinking this..<br />
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The whole concept of data centres as engaged players in the energy transition towards the decarbonisation of society is within the remit of the EU funded Catalyst project <a href="http://project-catalyst.eu/">http://project-catalyst.eu/</a><br />
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So, in terms of capital and operation costs of air v liquid where do we stand ?<br />
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There are in effect 3 types of cooling for data centres, the first is using a chilled (or cold) water loop, this basically transfers the air cycle heat to liquids in the CRAC unit which are then pumped to a chiller where the retained heat is dissapated into the atmosphere.<br />
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The second is to use evaporative cooling, wiki provides good content on how evaporative cooling works and this is the text <br />
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"An <b>evaporative cooler</b> (also <b>swamp cooler</b>, <b>swamp box</b>, <b>desert cooler</b> and <b>wet air cooler</b>) is a device that cools air through the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporation" title="Evaporation">evaporation</a> of water. Evaporative cooling differs from typical <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_conditioning" title="Air conditioning">air conditioning</a> systems, which use <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vapor-compression_refrigeration" title="Vapor-compression refrigeration">vapor-compression</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorption_refrigerator" title="Absorption refrigerator">absorption</a>
refrigeration cycles. Evaporative cooling uses the fact that water will
absorb a relatively large amount of heat in order to evaporate (that
is, it has a large <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthalpy_of_vaporization" title="Enthalpy of vaporization">enthalpy of vaporization</a>). The temperature of dry air can be dropped significantly through the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_transition" title="Phase transition">phase transition</a>
of liquid water to water vapor (evaporation). This can cool air using
much less energy than refrigeration. In extremely dry climates,
evaporative cooling of air has the added benefit of conditioning the air
with more moisture for the comfort of building occupants.
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The cooling potential for evaporative cooling is dependent on the wet-bulb depression, the difference between <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry-bulb_temperature" title="Dry-bulb temperature">dry-bulb</a> temperature and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature" title="Wet-bulb temperature">wet-bulb</a> temperature (see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_humidity" title="Relative humidity">relative humidity</a>). In <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arid_climate" title="Arid climate">arid climates</a>,
evaporative cooling can reduce <b>energy consumption</b> and <b>total equipment
for conditioning as an alternative to compressor-based cooling.</b> In
climates not considered arid, indirect evaporative cooling can still
take <b>advantage</b> of the evaporative cooling process without increasing
humidity. Passive evaporative cooling strategies can offer the same
benefits of mechanical evaporative cooling systems without the
complexity of <b>equipment and ductwork</b>."<br />
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Some social media and search engine hyperscalers use this type of cooling technology.<br />
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The third is Emerging liquid technologies and include "liquid to chip", cold plate and immersive.<br />
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Liquid to chip and cold plate in effect are extending the chilled water loops into the rack, and in the case of liquid to chip into the server.<br />
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Immersed technologies however are a very different kettle of fish.<br />
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This is where a server is actually immersed into a non dielectric fluid in either a single mode (direct bath) or dual mode (server is encased in a blade type enclosure filled with the non dielectric fluid and installed into a chassis with the liquid cooling loops).<br />
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The heat transfer is made to the fluid and then via a heat exchanger to water and then to a dry cooler or other mode of use, these are the waste heat reuse scenarios often discussed, heating office areas, resdiential heating, swimming pools and greenhouses.<br />
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An air cooled data centre needs the following:<br />
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Raised Floor (not always)<br />
CRAC/H's<br />
Chiller (or dry cooler, other method of rejecting heat)<br />
Power train (HV/LV boards, PDU's)<br />
UPS<br />
Batteies<br />
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In a immersed liquid data centre, you reduce some of these elements as follows:<br />
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Raised Floor (we dont need to pump air under the floor, but you still might want to run power and network cables under the floor (but we're seeing a lot of overhead cable routes now so maybe not!))<br />
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CRAC/H's are <b>not</b> required<br />
Chillers are <b>not</b> required, although if you dont have a easily available user for your waste heat, you might want to include a dry cooler for summer running<br />
Power train - Most Immersed Units are already equipped with full 2N power, and only need a standard connection.<br />
UPS would still be required but as you're only going to need it for power and not cooling, you can downsize it.<br />
Batteries, again you can reduce the amount of batteries needed.<br />
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All in all, we think that moving to an fully immersed solution could save around <b>50%</b> of a standard data centre build costs, couple that with reduced operating costs and your data centre is already saving lots of money, consider the CATALYST project and you may even begin to make money from selling that waste heat and providing grid services.<br />
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We geniunely believe that in the future ALL data centres will be used immersed technologies and be integrated with smart grids and that the CATALYST project will do EXACTLY what it says on the tin! <br />
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Thats the Air v Liquid skirmish put to bed, and we've been a strong supporter of the technology since 2010 when we saw the first immersed demo unit from ICEOTOPE, since then we've been following and writing about this technology in a number of articles, one of which was an update from the original article, I recall, Martin from Asperitas telling me that I would need to update it sooner rather than 2021 and I think he's right, so look out for that update to an update!!@carbon3ithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10886282248036346688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223104904055850073.post-87962129051323671532019-12-20T04:15:00.001-08:002019-12-20T04:15:16.254-08:00Carbon3IT 2019 Update and 2020 ForecastThis year has ben AMAZING!<br />
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Absolutely, bloody amazing, I said and I quote from last year "I'm not going to gaze into my crystal ball at this time, except to say that 2019 is going to be a VERY interesting year." and so it proved.<br />
It was AMAZING!<br />
Did I say AMAZING!, it was and at the risk of repeating myself, it was AMAZING!<br />
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So, why was it amazing? Well, I'm going to follow our usual format of a month by month commentary so here goes....<br />
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So, <b>January</b> 2019 saw us visiting a new clients premises to begin work on a whitepaper on IST, this was published by them in Q2 and, will feature in a forthcoming edition of a european DC related publication as well as a feature on the CATALYST project, more on that later! We also attended <a href="https://www.kickstartconf.eu/">kickstart.eu</a>
in Amsterdam again followed by a quick visit to Brussels to speak at the ICT Footprint event. At the end of the Month I went to Boden, Lulea, Sweden to visit the DC that was the topic of a recent post. They also WON an award at the DCD Global Awards, the.....<br />
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Nonprofit Industry Initiative of the Year</h1>
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<b>Winner: Boden Type DC</b><br />
<i>In collaboration with EcoCooling, H1 Systems, RISE & Boden Agency</i><br />
This
award is about recognizing the great initiatives to educate and
influence the data center sector that NGOs, professional bodies and
academia put together.<br />
Funded by the European Horizon 2020
project, this prototype 500kW facility in the small town of Boden uses
every trick in the book to lower its environmental impact: it runs on
renewable energy and doesn't have batteries or gensets.<br />
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Well Done!<br />
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We also had a few meetings with a client for ISO50001 certification, more on that later as well!<br />
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<b>February</b> is usually a fairly quiet month but we had a few calls for potential future projects, most of these planned to start in the new financial year and I spoke at the ENTress event in Wolverhampton on climate resilent infrastructure, specifically DCs citing the example of the City of Lancaster after Storm Desmond in 2015. We, as SFL also put in a funding round and we had loads of meetings to decide approach, content and finances, sadly we didn't get through to the next round but we did gain very valuable exprience.<br />
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<b>March </b>saw us visit the DCW event in London, which proved to be a turning point as we met up with Vicki from Green IT Amsterdam to have a handover of the CATALYST project, basically we are now the in-house data centre consultants for Green IT Amsterdam working on the CATALYST project, more info <a href="http://www.project-catalyst.eu/">here</a> <br />
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<b>April </b>saw us visit Oslo at the Data Centre Forum where I spoke about the CATALYST project, the second of what turned out to be numerous trips to the Nordic region in 2019.<br />
We also went to Zurich for a GRIG meeting, this is Green IT Global and consists of a number of organisations based in the UK, Netherlands, France, Switzerland and Finland promoting the use of sustainable ICT. We also had a couple of meetings with a few clients.<br />
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Early <b>May</b>,saw our MD getting excited as his team, Charlton got into a playoff position in League 1, eventually winning against Sunderland at Wembley. Oh, and a visit to Helsinki to speak at the Data Centre Forum on CATALYST and the EUCOC.<br />
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We love <b>June</b>, it might be because we get to go to Monaco for the
DataCloud Europe event, as usual we were invited as the guest of the
EU-JRC and this year partly funded by our friends at Rentaload, well if you call going back to a villa high up in the mountains above Monaco and staying in a dorm! Its always a good event for us and we picked up 3 new clients! A planned visit to the Netherlands was cancelled due to a family illness.<br />
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In <b>July</b>, our MD took his first visit to Poland and his 3rd to India, Bangalore to speak about CATALYST.<br />
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<b>August </b>is usually pretty quiet due to the holiday season and we all went to Amsterdam for a mini break, we did have a meeting with Green IT Amsterdam as well and we did a lot of work on the NHSD GP IT F project. <br />
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In <b>September, </b>which was probably the busiest month this year I visited Lincoln to finalise the coolDC design and build CEEDA award which also saw success at the DCD Global Awards winning the...<br />
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Energy Smart Award</h1>
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<b>Winner: CoolDC</b><br />
<i>In collaboration with Asperitas & Rittal</i><br />
This award recognizes the world’s most energy-aware and innovative approaches to building sustainable digital infrastructure.<br />
Eschewing
traditional air-cooling in favor of liquid-based technologies, LDC
utilizes a combination of the most energy-efficient cooling solutions in
a design that facilitates a *collectively* more efficient output.<br />
<i>Category sponsor: Starline</i></div>
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closely followed by a visit to Valencia to visit another DC for a CEEDA assessment, another GOLD and a visit to another one of their facilities is scheduled for Q1/2 2020..<br />
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Mid month it was off to Manchester for the DCA Data Centre Retransformation event where we held our 2nd CATALYST project Green Data Centre - Stakeholder Group meeting and presented at the Main event on the CATALYST project per se.<br />
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The Ops Director was also on the NEBOSH Health and Safety Course, a pretty intensive health and safety course on behalf on an existing client, she followed this up with a visit to their site for a review (required for the assessment part of the course).<br />
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I also spoke at Solar and Storage Live about ICT energy and DC's with Tim Chambers and Emma Fryer from coolDC and techUK respectively.<br />
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The week after was my epic euro tour where I visited 4 countries in 10 days, first to <b>Amsterdam</b> for a Green IT Amsterdam participants meeting, then an epic railway journey to <b>Copenhagen</b> to speak at DCF, then another train to <b>Stockholm</b> to assist with the Green IT Amsterdam study trip for Dutch Authorities (they guys responsible for DC planning approvals (you may recall that Amsterdam is on a DC construction ban at the present time!) Finally, a quick flight to <b>Brussels</b> for the CATALYST project preparation and EU review meeting (we passed!) my last train journey was back to London for a BSI TCT7/3/1 meeting.<br />
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We always tend to schedule the EUCOC Annual Best Practices meeting
around this time of year, and this year it was scheduled for early <b>October</b>,
this was followed by a visit to London for IP expo <br />
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<b>November</b> is conference season, 3 this year!, the
month started with the DCD Converged event at London's Old Billingsgate, our MD had 2 speaking engagements the first to promote a new modular UPS solution and the 2nd on the first 10 yrs of the CEEDA programme.<br />
Our ISO50001
client decided to amend the process and concentrate on their ESOS qualification due to some internal issues, this was completed in Dec (before the due date). We've completed all the policies, processes and procedures and review where we go from here in the new year.<br />
Our MD had to leave early from DCD London and make his way to Amsterdam to speak at the DC Innovation Day organised by Mercer and Saval, followed by a Green IT Amsterdam team meeting, the following week was all about CATALYST. <br />
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The week after I made my way over to Dublin for Data Centres Ireland where had arranged the "heat" track, part of our CATALYST work followed by the 3rd Green Data Centres - Stakeholder Group meeting.<br />
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The following week we attended Data Center Forum in Stockholm, where our MD both ran a room, and delivered another presentation on CATALYST. <br />
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<b>December</b> is nearly always quite quiet, but I love going to the DCD Awards, and this year was
excellent, I was very pleased 2 projects we've been involved get the recognition they deserve (see above).<br />
This was followed by a visit to the Birmingham City University to begin preparations for a new Data Centre Module to be included in the Computing and Networking degrees, we are very honoured to be part of this project. It starts in January and we do have an option for a limited amount of "industry experts" to join us both as guest lecturers on specific subjects, we'll be in touch but please contact us on the email below if you'd like to join, and for some people who may work in the industry on specific areas and want to get an overall picture, a data centre 101 as it were, as well, again get in touch, but this will be extremely limited.<br />
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We then went to Amsterdam to meet with two clients as part of our work with Green IT Amsterdam and picked up 3 new pieces of work!<br />
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We also had a call with a potential partner on a new H2020 project, more on that in the new year.<br />
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As I stated earlier, we think 2020 is going to be very interesting indeed
and as we have no idea as how its all going to pan out POLITICALLY, we're going to
keep our powder dry for the time being.<br />
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But, that said, we will continue to offer the following services:<br />
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EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres Review and Preparation<br />
CEEDA assessements (with our DCD partners)<br />
ISO Management Systems for ISO9001/14001/22301/27001 and 50001<br />
Data Centre Audits (with our M and E partners)<br />
Data Centre Training (on site, and tailored to your requirements)<br />
Data Centre Support Services - Compliance<br />
Health and Safety Services <br />
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Special Services, if you have a problem that needs solving, let us know,
through our wide network of consultants, supply chains and operators
we've probably come across the problem before and therefore may be able
to help<br />
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So far, we already have a number of assigments scheduled for Q1/2/3 and 4, but we'll always find time and space to add some more.<br />
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Finally, we'd like to wish all our customers, suppliers and industry collegues the very best wishes for 2020<br />
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PS Last year we said that our next blog post will be the 4th in our series "Air v Liquid" this, ahem, was delayed and we hope that this
article will be on the cost side of things scheduled to be published
early in the new year, honest!<br />
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As always, until next time.<br />
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If you need to get in touch with us, please use the following:<br />
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info@carbon3it.com<br />
www.carbon3it.com<br />
@carbon3it (Twitter/Skype)@carbon3ithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10886282248036346688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223104904055850073.post-25135979759983078442019-11-24T08:54:00.000-08:002019-12-08T01:40:48.312-08:00Boden - The Arctic CircleLast Jan/Feb I spent some time in Boden, Lulea, Sweden to visit the Boden One Data Centre, this is an EU funded project and you can find out all about the project <a href="https://bodentypedc.eu/">here</a>, as well as the RI:SE data centre laboratories, you can find out about them <a href="https://ice.sics.se/">here.</a><br />
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I'm giving a presentation at Data Center Forum in Stockholm later this week, more info <a href="https://datacenter-forum.com/">here</a> , so thought it was time I got around to posting this article which has been 10 months in preparation!<br />
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This next section was written upon my return from the coldest place I'd even been to, it was minus 37, yes you read that correctly -37, which is to be expected when you're about 100yds inside the Arctic Circle!<br />
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<b>Boden One DC</b><br />
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Before I write about my impressions of the Boden One DC I have to present some background, essentially, "The ultimate goal for the project Boden Type DC One is to build the prototype of the most energy and cost efficient data centre in the world in Boden, <i>Sweden."</i><br />
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The project seeks to be<i> "</i>Resource efficient throughout its lifecycle" and goes on to state that<br />
<b>"Data
centres consist of two distinct elements; IT-equipment and the
surrounding service envelope. The innovation of Boden Type DC One is a
new, holistic design approach for the latter. The goal is to bring a
novel combination of existing techniques and locations to the market.
This combination does not exist and has never been tested.</b><br />
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<b>The unique solution</b>
offers a sustainable datacentre building which is energy and resource
efficient throughout its lifecycle, cheaper to build and operate and
brings jobs and knowledge to remote places in large parts of Europe. The
cornerstones of the concept Boden Type DC One are:<br />
<ul>
<li>Efficient fresh air cooling.</li>
<li>Modular building design.</li>
<li>Renewable energy.</li>
<li>Favourable location.</li>
</ul>
The
600kW prototype facility will be a living lab and demonstration site,
as it will be tested by providers and end-users in a real operation
environment with all aspects of its operations measured. With the
prototype, the project stakeholders will be able to:<br />
<ul>
<li>Validate
that the datacenter concept meets the energy efficiency, financial
reliability, and other targets in real operational environments.</li>
<li>Validate and improve the design software tools for modeling and simulating the operation of the facility and cooling equipment.</li>
<li>Demonstrate
through accurate simulation that the prototype can be replicated in
other European sites with less favourable conditions.</li>
</ul>
The
name Boden Type Data Centre One is naturally created for the first Type
DC in the location of Boden, in the north of Sweden. Close to the clean
and high quality electricity supply by renewable energy source, ideal
climate and service infrastructure."<br />
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These are laudable aspirations and goals and well in keeping with Carbon3IT's own view on data centres for the future.<br />
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However, and this is not a criticsm, more of an observation, there is no reference to existing data centre design and build standards, nor has any classification in terms of an Uptime Institute Tier or EN50600 Class been applied to the site. In my opinion, and contrary views are welcome, at best this site and current infrastructure would be classed as a Tier 1/Class 1 facility, but it is none the poorer for being classed as such, it is after all a research project.<br />
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So, when I visited, this EU funded project was still a work in progress, the building is 98%
complete, and was undergoing some final AC commissioning during my
visit, and only 1 of the 3 pods has any active IT equipment installed.
The configuration is 3 pods which will be fitted with an OCP stack (this
is the active pod), a HPC cluster and finally a blockchain
(cryptocurrency) mining operation.<br />
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It does not have a UPS nor a generator, but there is space for a UPS within the power room and the use of a generator is a moot point when you have a hydropower station and biogas plant literally meters away, the connection to the biogas plant is still under discussion, and information on the hydro power station can be found <a href="https://powerplants.vattenfall.com/en/boden">here.</a><br />
It should also be noted that the site is also literally meters away from <a href="https://www.hydro66.com/">https://www.hydro66.com/</a><br />
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The DC used 100% free cooling, there is a cold air corridor which feeds ambient air into the eco-cooling equipmnent which is then (depending on season) tempered with hot return air in winter to provide a range of inlet temperatures for the IT equipment or in summer passed straight through to the IT equipment with the hot air being vented out to a vaulted roof and then outside.<br />
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This next section was written today (24/11/2019) and the site is now fully operational and generating some "sweet" data which you can view <a href="https://bodentypedc.eu/graphs">here, </a>the current PUE is <a href="https://bodentypedc.eu/">here </a>on the top left of the page (the reason why I posted the link is because this is live real time data and I didn't want to "date" this post.<br />
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This is very impressive, however it has be tempered with the fact that this is an unmanned test facility with some of the latest equipment that has been heavily optimised by the research team and as stated earlier would be classed under both the UTI Tier Topology and EN50600 Classification as a Tier/Class 1 site.<br />
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Yes, it is clearly a VERY energy efficient site, in terms of the ratio of total energy consumption against IT energy consumption being around the low <b>1.007</b> PUE mark.<br />
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So, some observations, the cold aisle temperatures in Pod 1 & 3 appear to be <b>below</b> ASHRAE reccommended at around 13.2 degrees in Pod 1, the OCP pod and 13.6 in Pod 3, the ASICs Pod, I'll make a mental note to ask the RI:SE team in Stockholm late this week to find out why this is the case, but it raises an interesting question about supply temperatures.<br />
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It is interesting that there is no UPS or Generator, could, or would a commercial DC operator consider this? I doubt it, although the prudent application of the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres (Energy Efficiency) best practices applied to an organisation in relation to the "actual" mission critical IT functions via BP 4.3.x may yield an interesting view?<br />
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At best, the Boden One is a "hyper-edge" facility and could be deployed to link "edge" sites in a hub/spoke configuration. <br />
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My conclusion is that research has to be done, and the mission parameters are laudable:<br />
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<b>Efficient fresh air cooling. Modular building design. Renewable energy.Favourable location.</b><br />
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However, DCs cannot always take advantage of fresh air cooling, on-site or local renewable energy or favourable locations and I'm sure that many in the community will be dismissive of the project and its results stating that its not real world, that is missing the point.<br />
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<b></b>
If we strip out some of the historical retoric out of DC design and educate users, we could build DCs using this research and build them cheaply, using less energy and save time deploying compute to remote locations, if we have to give up some uptime and resilience, is this necessarily a bad thing?<br />
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I'll be available at the Data Center Forum on the 28th November in Stockholm to defend my corner, I'll look forward to some robust discussions.<br />
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7th December 2019 - Update<br />
FANTASTIC News from the recent DCD Global Awards held in London on the 5th December, Boden won an award the... <br />
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Nonprofit Industry Initiative of the Year</h1>
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<b>Winner: Boden Type DC</b><br />
<i>In collaboration with EcoCooling, H1 Systems, RISE & Boden Agency</i><br />
This
award is about recognizing the great initiatives to educate and
influence the data center sector that NGOs, professional bodies and
academia put together.<br />
Funded by the European Horizon 2020
project, this prototype 500kW facility in the small town of Boden uses
every trick in the book to lower its environmental impact: it runs on
renewable energy and doesn't have batteries or gensets.<br />
<i>Category sponsor: DCD</i></div>
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Well Done!<br />
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<i></i>@carbon3ithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10886282248036346688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223104904055850073.post-13047987004193399192019-11-24T08:00:00.004-08:002019-11-24T08:00:52.599-08:00Energy Efficiency - The 5th FuelSaw this BBC <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46741346">Article </a><br />
ages ago and wrote an article but forgot to post however, I thought IT is was worthy of further discussion as it does have some interesting insights. I decide to post it in full below: Our comments are in italics<br />
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"Installing a single low-energy LED
bulb may make a trivial contribution to cutting the carbon emissions
that are overheating the planet. </div>
But if millions choose LEDs,
then with a twist of the collective wrist, their efforts will make a
small but significant dent in the UK's energy demand.<br />
Studies show
making products more efficient has - along with other factors - already
been slightly more effective than renewable energy in cutting CO2
emissions. <br />
The difference is that glamorous renewables grab the headlines.<br />
<b>The "Cinderella" field of energy efficiency, however, is often ignored or derided. </b><br />
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<b><i>Yes, unfortunately, I've been to many data centres where the basics of energy efficiency are often ignored or derided, hopefully this article may save me some time in the future!</i> </b><br />
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Who says this? </h2>
The new analysis of government figures comes from the environmental analysis website Carbon Brief.<br />
Its
author says EU product standards on light bulbs, fridges, vacuum
cleaners and other appliances have played a substantial part in reducing
energy demand.<br />
Provisional calculations show that electricity
generation in the UK peaked around 2005. But generation per person is
now back down to the level of 1984 (around 5 megawatt hours per capita).<br />
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<b><i>Wow!</i></b> <br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">How much carbon has been reduced?</span></b><br />
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It’s widely known that the great switch from coal power to renewables has helped the UK meet ambitions to cut carbon emissions.<br />
The
report says the use of renewables reduced fossil fuel energy by the
equivalent of 95 terawatt hours (TWh) between 2005 and now. And last
year renewables supplied a record 33% share of UK electricity
generation.<br />
But in the meantime, humble energy efficiency has
contributed to cutting energy demand by 103 TWh. In other words, in the
carbon-cutting contest, <b>efficiency has won – so far. And what’s more,
efficiency is uncontroversial, unlike wind and solar.</b><br />
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<b><i>Yes, efficiency is avoided cost, it also means that new plant doesn't need to be built </i></b><br />
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What role has industry played?</h2>
The
energy efficiency story doesn’t just apply to households. There have
been major strides amongst firms, too. Big supermarkets have worked hard
to improve the performance of their lighting and refrigeration. <br />
And
because firms and individuals are using less energy, that has offset
the rise in energy prices. So whilst the prices have gone up, often
bills have gone down.<br />
The issue is complicated, though. Other
factors have to be taken into account, such as energy imported via
cables from mainland Europe, population growth and shifts from old
energy-intensive industries.<br />
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<i><b>UK Data Centres represent a small amount of the total overall energy consumption, or so they would have us believe, here at Carbon3IT we think the actual amount that can be attributed to the sector is somewhat higher, that said, we include all IT energy and think its around 12% of total consumption. Let us know if you think differently, and we can discuss.</b></i> <br />
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Should 'Cinderella' efficiency be allowed to shine?</h2>
Simon
Evans from Carbon Brief told BBC News: “Although the picture is complex
it’s clear that energy efficiency has played a huge role in help the UK
to decarbonise – and I don’t think it’s got the recognition it should
have. <br />
"Say you change from a B or C-rated fridge to an A++ rated
fridge. That can halve your energy use from the appliance, so it’s
pretty significant.”<br />
The UK government has consistently said it
champions energy efficiency, but campaigners say it could do more. The
UN’s climate body also supports energy efficiency as a major policy
objective, although the issue features little in media coverage. <br />
But
supporters of efficiency argue that ratcheting up efficiency standards
for everything from planes and cars to computer displays and freezers
offers the best-value carbon reductions without the pain of confronting
the public with restrictions on their lifestyle choices.<br />
Joanne
Wade from the Association for Conservation of Energy told BBC News: “I
haven’t seen these figures before but I’m not surprised. <br />
“The
huge improvement in energy efficiency tends to be completely ignored.
People haven’t noticed it because if efficiency improves, they are still
able to have the energy services that they want. I suppose I should
reluctantly agree that the fact that no-one notices it is part of its
appeal.”<br />
Scientists will be keen to point out that
government-imposed energy efficiency is just one of a host of cures
needed to tackle the multi-faceted problem of an overheating planet.<br />
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<i><b>We totally agree! The use of the EUCOC can reduce energy consumption in data centres between 25-50% and possibly more if you adopt some of the latest technologies and optional best practices.</b></i><br />
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<i><b>If you want any assistance in reducing your ICT energy consumption, let us know by emailing "info@carbon3it.com" or by following and then messaging us on our twitter feed @carbon3it </b></i> @carbon3ithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10886282248036346688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223104904055850073.post-68979189369317455402019-10-20T10:09:00.000-07:002019-10-20T10:09:00.533-07:00Wow, so long since our last post!Well, they say that the devil makes work for idle hands so you can assume that we've been very busy, seeing as its over 9 months since we last posted, so we need to give you an update!<br />
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In our last post we spoke a little bit about Brexit, well, as expected its turned out to be a little more complex than most people thought, the current situation is that the UK is being run by the very people that promoted it, and even they cant find a way through. We reserve further comment until the situation becomes a little clearer.<br />
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So, what have we been up to?<br />
<br />
It makes sense to list our current projects (where we are not bound by NDA's!)<br />
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<b>FT NHSD GP IT Futures Project</b><br />
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Towards the end of last year we were asked to review the list of data centre standards applicable to the NHS Hosting for various projects, we consolidated this list down from over 500 individual points to the use of international standards, specifically the EN50600 series of Data Centre Design, Build and Operate standards developed by industry professionals over the last 7 years and a few others.<br />
As a result of this successful project we were asked to assist in the Market Engagement and Assurance element of a new NHSD tender for GP IT Hosting Services, this work continues.<br />
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<b>CATALYST Project</b><br /><b></b><br />
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The EU Funded Catalyst Project <a href="http://www.project-catalyst.eu/">www.project-catalyst.eu</a> aspires to turn data centres into flexible multi-energy hubs,
which can sustain investments in renewable energy sources and energy
efficiency. Leveraging on results of past projects, CATALYST will adapt,
scale up, deploy and validate an innovative technological and business
framework that enables data centres to offer a range of mutualized
energy flexibility services to both electricity and heat grids, while
simultaneously increasing their own resiliency to energy supply.<br />
We have been retained as in-house consultants by <a href="http://www.greenitamsterdam.nl/">www.greenitamsterdam.nl </a>to assist <span style="font-weight: 400;">Green IT Amsterdam to deliver their project elements which are, to play an active
role in defining innovative business models, designing the impact
creation strategy, and lead the establishment of the Green Data
Centres stakeholder Group so as to share information on environmentally
sustainable data centres and foster knowledge and experience exchange.
In addition, we will be responsible for assessing the CATALYST framework
and introducing the CATALYST Green DC Assessment toolkit which will
offer support services to data centre operators and developers,
certification bodies and other stakeholders to identify, measure and
assess relevant KPIs and metrics in a modular, structured and organized
way.</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: 400;">This project continues and is scheduled to end in September 2020.</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: 400;">As part of this project, our MD has been travelling widely across the EU and beyond, and expects to do a lot of travel for the next 11 months, so far this year, he has been to Oslo, Amsterdam, Helsinki, Poznan, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Brussels and Bangalore, India on behalf of the project and has trips to scheduled to Milan, Dublin, Stockholm for the rest of 2019, with occasional trips to Amsterdam for project updates, next years calendar has yet to be scheduled but keep on eye on the @catalyst-dc and @carbon3it twitter feeds for news. We'd like to invite all followers to our next CATALYST Green Data Centres - Stakeholder Group event taking place in Dublin, Ireland on the 20th November full details and registration can be found on the <a href="http://project-catalyst.eu/events-and-news/">http://project-catalyst.eu/events-and-news/</a> page, where other information on the project can be found.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: 400;"><b>CEEDA</b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Its been a relatively quiet year for CEEDA with only 2 assessments taking place, these were the coolDC Lincoln Discovery Centre, which was the "operate" element of a CEEDA design and operate assessment, and one in Spain (which is covered by an NDA) both are in the final stages of reporting and all will be revealed at the DCD London event in early November, you can register for the event here <a href="https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/conferences/london/2019/">https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/conferences/london/2019/</a><b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: 400;">We'll have 2 speaking slots at this years conference, one has yet to be finalised and one on the "10years of CEEDA", Recommendations and Insights from the field" so register to attend!</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: 400;">We have 3 re-assessments taking place in 2020, some held over from 2019 due to operational issues, these are in Germany, Gibraltar, and Scotland, and a new client in Saudi Arabia. We understand from DCD that there will be a greater push on the CEEDA product moving forward, this is largely due to the climate emergency and the dual aspect of ICT globally, the first to mitigate the impact of ICT on the environment itself and the use of ICT system to monitor, predict and mitgate other aspects of the emergency. We are working very closely with DCD on this topic.</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: 400;">We've also been invited to judge this years DCD Awards and we are currently looking through the submissions for our particular category, you'll have to wait until the 5th December to hear the final award winners! </span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: 400;"><b>Training</b></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: 400;">We are delivering some ad-hoc training on "energy and cost management in data centres" which is an old course no longer carried by the original supplier, but our client has specifically asked us to deliver it, based on our industry knowledge and connection in the industry, but also because we'll be visiting their DC and pointing out where potential energy savings can be made, we'll report back once we've delivered the training (late Oct)</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: 400;"><b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: 400;"><b>ISOs</b></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: 400;">We provide assistance in the developement of ISO management systems, specifcially in the data centre field, namely ISO9001, 14001, 22301, 27001, 45001 & 50001,</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Our Operations Director has recently completed the NEBOSH General Certificate in Health and Safety and is awaiting the results.</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: 400;">We have been providing assistance to a local DC for ISO50001/ESOS.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: 400;"><b>Standards</b></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: 400;">We still continue our work with the global standards bodies, and have recently attended the BSI TCT7/3 group, been seconded to the TCT7/3/1 group working on a revamped EN50600-4-X standard and presented at the JCG - GDC TC215 committee on the CATALYST project (as part of our work!)<b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: 400;"><b>Speaking Engagements</b></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: 400;">We've spoken at a number of events this year on behalf of the CATALYST project and the EUCOC, mostly at<b> <a href="https://datacenter-forum.com/">https://datacenter-forum.com/</a></b> </span><br />
<span style="font-weight: 400;">events in Oslo, Helsinki, and Copenhagen, but have also scheduled for Stockholm in late November.</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: 400;">You'll also see us at DCD London, DC Ireland and potentially in Copenhagen and Berlin, but we're in the early stages and nothing is confirmed yet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">So, in summary, we said last year in our last post that we felt that this year was going to be special as so it has proved.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">We still continue to provide the following services and one of our major tasks over the coming months is to undertake a serious revamp of our website, so look out for that!</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: 400;">EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres Review and Preparation<br />
CEEDA assessements (with our DCD partners)<br />
ISO Management Systems for ISO9001/14001/22301/27001/45001 and 50001<br />
Data Centre Audits (with our M&E partners)<br />
Data Centre Training (on site, and tailored to your requirements)<br />
Data Centre Support Services - Compliance<br />
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Special Services, if you have a problem that needs solving, let us know,
through our wide network of consultants, supply chains and operators
we've probably come across the problem before and therefore may be able
to help.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Until next time (and we promise it wont be 10 months!!)</span>@carbon3ithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10886282248036346688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223104904055850073.post-26424066981729592442018-12-28T04:23:00.002-08:002018-12-28T06:49:34.147-08:00Carbon3IT Ltd 2018 UpdateI'll start by stating that this has been a very diverse year in terms of sales, we appear to have broken new ground in various ways and our income streams have essentially quadrupled and financially this year has been marginally better than last year, and we have a number of projects already booked for 2019 but these are essentially restricted to Q1 and we (and it seems the Government and 100% of UK inhabitants) have no real clue as to what will happen after the 29th March 2019 (Brexit Day).<br />
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At the time of writing this article, Parliament is in recess for Christmas, and no real progress has been made at all, the EU Withdrawal Agreement that T May has come back with, has no prospect of making it through the house, so all the talk is "my deal, no deal or no brexit" we'd prefer "no brexit" but there are some who wish to jump out of the UK aeroplane without a parachute, thank you but we'd rather not.<br />
I'm not going to gaze into my crystal ball at this time, except to say that 2019 is going to be a VERY interesting year.<br />
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So, <b>January</b> 2018 saw us preparing for our final EURECA project sessions, attending <a href="https://www.kickstartconf.eu/">kickstart.eu</a> and presenting at the BroadGroup DataCloud event on the topic of energy aand energy efficiency, as you'd expect the EUCOC featured heavily as did some of the UK energy legislation, standards and thoughts for the future. We were quite busy at this time preparing some BRIGHTTALK seminars to support our final EURECA sessions. We also had a conversation with some chaps at Building Research Establishment (BRE) but more on that later.<br />
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<b>February</b> saw the final EURECA session and it was a bumper event, we had a day at the UEL for around 75 delegates, and then attended the Data Centre Summit where we had a number of presentations scheduled, finally rounded off with a series of webinars and an event at the Houses of Parliament. We also manged to fit in a number of client meetings, the first to discuss the use of our services for a large global data centre supply chain supplier, the second to discuss a project in North Africa, the third to review some EUCOC updates for a large global telco/colo provider. We also found the time to visit the HoP for a policy connect launch meeting for sustainable ICT inlcuding data centres for which we and EURECA had provided some content.<br />
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<b>March</b> was an intersting month, we met up with our good friends at Ekkosense to discuss items of mutual interest (air flow in data centres mainly), we attended the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell show at the NEC, mainly to ascertain whether the technology could be used for data centre (yes, they can but it requires a major rethink and redesign of the data centre!) The month was rounded off by our annual visit to Data Centre World, my thoughts on this are that I remember it being very very cold! We also went to Amsterdam for an ICTFootprint event were we spoke on the topic of Green IT and also Sustainable Data Centres, we also undertook a datacentre audit for a midlands university<br />
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<b>April</b> was a fairly quiet month due to Easter but we did have some EUCOC work and some work via our Dutch partners Green IT Amsterdam.<br />
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Early <b>May</b>, was the Data Centres North event, and we managed to fit 2 trips into the Netherlands (the 3rd and 4th this year"), the first, to provide some basic data centre foundation training to another Dutch partner Asperitas, and the second to meet up with a Green IT Amsterdam client to develop their Green Data Centre Campus Sustainability Framework, we also attended the Data Centre Solutions Awards and a couple of webinars on the emerging Data Centre EMAS criteria where we provided some content and discussion.<br />
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We love <b>June</b>, it might be because we get to go to Monaco for the DataCloud Europe event, as usual we were invited as the guest of the EU-JRC and partly funded by our friends at the DCA. We love it because the weather improves and it tends to get hot, this year was no exception it got really hot and for a long time. We also presented to a selected audience for ABB on the topic of "The EUCOC and other animals (I may have been watching too much "The Durells" in the previous couple of weeks whilst building the presentation), we also attended the BICSI and MIXingIT event as well as England first WC game (thank you Keysource!)<br />
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In <b>July</b>, we made our way to Manchester for the Data Centre Transformation conference (and another England WC game), attended the datacentre.me networking event and the launch of Interxion's London 3 facility at the London Assembly/Mayors Office, that was a very good night, the view is magnificent, the Tower of London, Tower Bridge, and all the city laid out in front of you, the weather was so good that you could see for miles!. The next week saw me in Brussels to visit a new client to prepare 3 EUCOC applications, Later that week it was also a family event, a christening that co-incided with the school holidays so we went up to Manchester, stayed the night, and met up with 2 clients the following day. We also managed a trip to Cambridge to visit another potential partner/client and the girls enjoyed the city (again it was very hot!)<br />
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<b>August</b> is always very quiet, but not this year! We had a meeting with a Landlord for a very interesting data centre site very close to us, in fact it is the closest and I've been dying to get in there and mooch around, it appeared that my wish was about to come true! We also visited a client in London at their Class 2 facility (sadly no business from them!) We rounded the month off by providing some training to BRE personnel (the result of that phone call in January and a meeting with them at DCW in March (thats how long our sales cycle can be!)) that itself was topped off by a visit to a Data Centre (We went to Interxion's London site). I've always felt that data centre training is too one sided but thats not a topic for discussion now, but rest assured that plans are afoot!<br />
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In <b>September</b> I was back in Amsterdam for a brief visit to attend the launch of the Catalyst project with our partner Green IT Amsterdam, this project is seeking to promote the reuse of data centre waste heat for other purposes, such as district heat systems and the like, its going to be a very interesting project and we are assisting them. We then flew to Helsinki for a CEEDA assessment, this assessment was a "Design Operate CEEDA" and we were reviewing the operational elements, I can state that this was an exceptional facility and well worth its Gold accreditation.<br />
We also found the time to attend the DCA golf day where once again we managed to just miss the "worst golfer" prize.<br />
Later, in the month we visited Leeds with a client and their client and then attended the DCA Annual Members meeting coupled with a couple of steering group meetings namely the "energy efficiency" and new "liquid alliance"<br />
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We always tend to schedule the EUCOC Annual Best Practices meeting around this time of year, and this year it was scheduled for early <b>October</b>, this was follwed by a visit to London for IP expo and then a trip to Bristol to meet up with the Council to discuss their "Energy Leap" project. We also visited the data centre closest to me to conduct the audit on behalf of the landlord, my dream had come true! Its always good to visit data centres and check out the technology and management systems in use, but this was a joy to behold, the site was built when I was 11 years old, (I'm 54 now, but feel 24!) and I have to say that for its age, it was in exceptional condition, true it did look a bit tired but hey, this girl had been working her socks off 24/7/365 for over 40 years, hopefully she'll get a make over soon (watch this space!)<br />
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<b>November</b> is conference season, but we managed to fit in a CEEDA assessment and an EUCOC preparation meeting with a new client as well as attend a few non standard (i.e. non data centre events) as well, the month started with the DCD Converged event at London's Old Billingsgate, and then I attended the Low Carbon Britain event. We then met up with a client with regard to assisting them with their proposed ISO50001 certification (we got the job, and are currently preparing draft documents for them to review and amend to suit their needs, later we'll check the policies, processes and procedures and review the evidence prior to the certification process, which we'll attend.<br />
Later that week I travelled to Lincoln to visit an old client who has finally managed to get a site and is starting to build a very interesting data centre, more on that project next year!<br />
The week after I made my way over to Dublin for Data Centres Ireland and then London for a CBRE briefing on Standards (a subject I know a little about!). We spent the rest of the month preparing and writing our report on the data centre audit we'd completed for our client in Warwick. We also managed to get tickets for the Networking Event of the Year, which is the DataCentre.ME Christmas Party, held on the Tattershall Castle, a boat moored between the House of Parliament and Hungerford Bridge, with excellent views of the London Eye and of course the River.<br />
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<b>December</b> is nearly always quite quiet, but not this year, we were invited to the Man Utd v Arsenal match at Old Trafford at the Captains Table, this is corporate hospitality at its finest, 3 course meal, drinks, programme, gift and a very good evenings entertainment (not on the football side of things unfortunately, although it was a 2-2 draw, the game wasn't that great!) followed by a quick trip to London to attend the DCD Awards. I love going to the DCD Awards, and this year was excellent, the EURECA project WON! the Initative of the Year award, so many thanks to the entire EURECA team for winning this very prestigious award, which has made and will continue to make data centres in the EU energy efficient and sustainable.<br />
The next week I met with a potential new partner who is interested in heat recovery and reuse in the DC sector, this was followed by a small networking event run by the excellent Caroline Hitchens and her DataCentre.Me team. The day after I attended the BSI TCT7/3 standards committee meeting which of course develops the EN50600 series of data centre design, build and operate standards.<br />
We had an update meeting with our ISO50001 client and then a couple of meetings in London to sort out some new work (potentially) for next year.<br />
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As I stated earlier, next year is going to be very interesting indeed and as we have no idea as how its all going to pan out, we're going to keep our powder dry for the time being.<br />
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But, that said, we will continue to offer the following services:<br />
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EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres Review and Preparation<br />
CEEDA assessements (with our DCD partners)<br />
ISO Management Systems for ISO9001/14001/22301/27001 and 50001<br />
Data Centre Audits (with our M&E partners)<br />
Data Centre Training (on site, and tailored to your requirements)<br />
Data Centre Support Services - Compliance<br />
<br />
Special Services, if you have a problem that needs solving, let us know, through our wide network of consultants, supply chains and operators we've probably come across the problem before and therefore may be able to help<br />
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Finally, we'd like to wish all our customers, suppliers and industry collegues the very best wishes for 2019<br />
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The next blog post will be the 4th in our series "Air v Liquid" and this article will be on the cost side of things scheduled to be published early in the new year.<br />
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As always, until next time.<br />
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If you need to get in touch with us, please use the following:<br />
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info@carbon3it.com<br />
www.carbon3it.com<br />
@carbon3it (Twitter/Skype)<br />
<br />@carbon3ithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10886282248036346688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223104904055850073.post-15710920643073854312018-09-02T09:10:00.000-07:002018-09-02T09:10:40.538-07:00Air v Liquid - Part 3 - Cooling v Heat rejectionFollowing on from the previous 2 articles, I'm now going to look at cooling v heat rejection in the data centre environment.<br />
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I stated with some authority that cooling per se is a misnomer, to date I've not had any comments refuting my assertion so I'll continue.<br />
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Cooling (by the strict technical term is "is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_transfer" title="Heat transfer">transfer</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_energy" title="Internal energy">thermal energy</a> via <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_radiation" title="Thermal radiation">thermal radiation</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conduction_(heat)" title="Conduction (heat)">heat conduction</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convection" title="Convection">convection</a>.<br />
Heat rejection is a component part of these processes.<br />
So, when we cool something we effectively remove heat and thats precisely what we do in a data centre.<br />
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The question, and the topic of these articles is....<br />
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Air v Liquid<br />
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If we were to look at the data centre ecosystems in almost every continent on this planet we will find that in 99.99% of cases, the medium for heat transfer is air, good old air.<br />
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And the principle reason for this is that most computer equipment, servers, storage and networking equipment is designed around the use of air as a cooling medium.<br />
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Lets look at air.<br />
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So, the main concept here is the "air cycle", for the purposes of this article we're going to start the cycle at the exit of the CRAC/H unit, but we could easily start anywhere in the cycle.<br />
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Air is pushed via a fan into a floor void at positive pressure, the air escapes into the room by the prudent placement of floor tiles (in front of the rack, please refer to the EUCOC for futher guidance!) but could easily escape from a whole host of gaps, holes and other routes (hence why the best practice recommend the stopping of all potential sources of leaks), from the tile, air is forced upwards and hopefully into the main inlet of the server, air then passes over the "heat" producing components and is exhausted through the rear of the server and moves upwards (hot air tends to rise, recall your physics lesssons from school) the air then rises to the ceiling level and may, if coerced, find its way back to the top of the CRAC/H unit. What happens inside the CRAC/H unit is a mystery to me!<br />
Nah, its not, just jesting, the air is passed over a cooling coil and heat is transferred to the coil, inside the coil is a liquid, this is pumped to the outside unit, and disappears into the ether by a host of different methods dry coolers, evaporative, cooling towers or through a chiller, what is key is that the liquid transfers its heat to the outside source and thus becomes cooler, this liquid is then returned back to the internal unit and at the bottom of the coil is considerably cooler than the air at the top. Thus the heat generated by the IT equipment is removed and cooler air is supplied.<br />
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[NOTE: Some systems will differ in the approach and method of heat rejection but the principle is the same] <br />
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The temperatures of the air will differ depending on the desired temperature, but if you recall, average room temperatures from my students are between 18-21℃.<br />
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Lets introduce the concept of supply and return temperatures, and the control of them, so supply is the temperature of the air from the bottom of the CRAC/Hs being pushed into the room, the return is the temperature as it enters the top of the CRAC/Hs, so when my students speak of a range of 18-21℃ this may be controlled either by a supply temperature of 18-21℃ or a return temperature of between 30-35℃ which equates to a supply temperature of 18-21℃, the key being somthing called the delta t, or the difference between the cold air and the hot air.<br />
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The optimum delta is 15℃ so 33℃ return will provide 19℃ supply.<br />
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Understanding this key concept is an important point, many facilities unfortunately have AC systems that have no user controls, and the control points are set by factory to be a standard range. Some facilities operate on return temperatures and sometimes these are set quite low, which in turn means that the delta t forces the supply temperature lower, in some cases (anecdotally from colleagues, temperatures where meat could be stored, so around 5-8℃ causing a considerable amount of energy to be consumed and potentially causing problems for IT kit at the lower end of the operational range (5℃)<br />
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Got it ? Good, now to liquid..<br />
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There are 4 main liquid cooled solutions in use today, listed as follows:<br />
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1. Rear door cooling, this is where the cooling loop for CRAC/H's is extended to the rack where it meets with heat exchangers in the door frames, thus the hot air from the servers is cooled immediately before it leaves the rack footprint, normally the room itself is not cooled.<br />
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2. Cold plate, this is where the heat producing components have copper piping to remove the heat at source, this is them treated similarily to rear door cooling and the heat taken away using conventional methods, again the room is not cooled<br />
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3. Immersion (1), - this is where server motherboards are actually immersed in baths filled with a non conductive fluid and there is a heat exchanger situated near the bath to remove the heat, natural convection methods move the heated liquid to the heat exchanger. Power and connectivity are provided by a common bar. In this and the following senarios, the rooms are not cooled.<br />
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4. Immersion (2) - this is where individual motherboards are encased in a cartridge which contained the non conductive fluid and they slot into a rack with a cooling loop integrated within, valves and other connections provide power and connectivity to the board.<br />
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The key thing here is that the liquid in 2, 3, and 4 above is hotter than the air that leaves the rear of the server, around 50℃ and is potentialy more useful and can be used for other processes, such as heat for office areas, or transferred to adjacent buildings for heating swimming pools or greenhouses.<br />
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There is a current EU funded project that is looking into heat re-use from data centres (both air and liquid) called Catalyst, more information on this <a href="http://project-catalyst.eu/">link</a><br />
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In the next article, I'm going to look at the relative costs of both ecosystems, the air cooled ecosystem, the non immersed systems and the immersed ecosystems.<br />
<br />@carbon3ithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10886282248036346688noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223104904055850073.post-12299249154157603992018-06-01T04:21:00.000-07:002018-06-01T05:27:58.309-07:00Air v Liquid - Part 2 Data Centre BasicsSo, continuing on from the previous post, we're going to look at the basics of a data centre, and for this I'm going to cover all types for all sorts of organisations.<br />
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As a user of digital services (as covered in the previous post) I don't really care about how my digital services get to me, as long as they do. But, just because I don't care doesn't mean that someone else doesn't.<br />
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Lets go back to basics. In order for me to access a digital service someone needs to provide 3 things, the first a network, a physical or wireless network that transmits my outbound and any inbound signals to a server somewhere, the second, that destination server or servers to process and deal with my request, be it, a financial transaction, a look at my bank balance or to view the latest news updates, and thirdly some power so both the server and the network can run.<br />
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At a most basic level, I could use domestic power points in my gargage to power my server and connect it to the internet via my wireless connection or broadband. Is that a data centre? Well, actually technically it isn't, although some organisations back in the early days did precisely that!<br />
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The official defination of a data centre (for me) is that contained within the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres (Energy Efficiency) aka EUCOC guidance document, that can be downloaded from this <a href="https://e3p.jrc.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/publications/participant_guidelines_v3.0.0.pdf" target="_blank">link</a><br />
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It states "<b><i>For the purposes of the Code of Conduct, the term “data centres” includes all buildings, facilities and rooms which contain enterprise servers, server communication equipment, cooling equipment and power equipment, and provide some form of data service (e.g. large scale mission critical facilities all the way down to small server rooms located in office buildings)</i></b><br />
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Very clear, insofar, that the building, facility or room must contain,<b> servers</b>, <b>server communication equipment (network)</b>, <b>power equipment and lastly cooling equipment </b>and provide some sort of data service and that those buildings, facilities or rooms can range from large scale mission critical facilities all the way down to small server rooms located in office buildings.<br />
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Thus the EUCOC covers all types of communication cupboards, server rooms, machine rooms, mini data centres, medium data centres, telco switch locations, hyperscale data centres etc and those belonging to all types of organisations, in fact any organisation that operates in this increasingly digital world. The only thing I didn't discuss was the cooling element.<br />
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Cooling is actually a bit of a misnomer, what we're actually doing when we "cool" is to reject heat, that is to carry away the heat away from the servers and then cool it (the air) down and reinject that cooled air back into the loop. There is plenty of stuff available online if you really want to know about the airflow cycle BUT...<br />
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And, it is a BIG BUT...<br />
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What are we actually rejecting the heat from?<br />
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In essence, servers generate a lot of waste heat, and if we
dont manage the air flow we can get thermal problems, but where is this heat coming from? </div>
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In a server, there are 2 heat sources, the first is the processor itself (more on that later) and the power supply unit, this device converts the 220-240AC power into the micro DC voltages found on the motherboard and other components.</div>
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Server chipsets (the processors) undergo Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modelling to
channel the heat away from the core to the heatsinks, the surface of a chip can
reach temperatures in excess of 140°C, by the time the heat gets to the end of
the fins it can be around 50-60°C.</div>
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Most servers themselves undergo CFD modelling to determine
the air flow across the heat producing components, listed above within the chassis of the server, so the air flow is optimised as it enters through the front of the device, passes over the processor/power supply and then is exhausted through the rear of the unit. The fans in the device actually pulls the air through the unit, assisted by any positive pressure provided by the AC units. </div>
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Most servers are actually designed to operate quite happily
in ambient air, and as such can operate between 5° - 40°C, Thermal monitoring controls the
fan speed. It is only when we cluster a great many servers togther for instance
in a rack that heat problems can appear.</div>
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When I teach the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres (Energy Efficiency) I ask the students 3 questions, as follows:</div>
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1. What is the target temperature in your facility (server room etc) ?</div>
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2. What is the target humidity range in your facility?</div>
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3. Why these numbers specifically? </div>
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The answers (with some exceptions) are:</div>
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1. 18-21℃</div>
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2. 50%RH +/-5%</div>
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3. Er, we dont know!</div>
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Well, those specific numbers relate to the use of paper tapes and cards back in the 50's and 60's and then when some old magnetic tapes needed cool and dry environments back in the 80's and 90's. (I could do a whole blog post on this!)</div>
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The thing is that these temperature and humidity ranges belong in the 20th Century, IT equipment can run at higher temperatures today so the question is, do we need cooling or just simply heat rejection?</div>
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Well, we'll cover that in the next blog post. </div>
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Before we do though, we'll just go through the absolute basics for a server room and by definition the rest of the data centre ecosystem types as the only real difference is scale and risk profile/appetite.<br />
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Scale is clearly, the amount of IT equipment you are using, for smaller organisations, it may not be too big an IT estate, whilst for the hyperscale search engines or social media platforms it may number tens of thousands, if not millions of servers, storage units and network switches. This amount will create a great deal of heat which needs to be managed.<br />
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The risk profile is essentially, your own appetite to the risk of the IT going down, if it is absolutely mission critical that your IT systems stays up all the time, or as we say in the sector 24hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year or 24/7/365 then you will require some duplicate systems to deal with any failure, and not just in the IT but your power, network and cooling solutions as well, this will add cost, complexity and an increased maintainance regime to your calculations. There are certain classifications that can be applied, such as the EN50600 (ISO22237) Classes, the Uptime Institute Tiers as well as others, I dont want to go into much detail on these at the present time, but will cover them later in this series.<br />
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Lets take a quick look at the minimums: <br />
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Power, we'll need electricity to power the servers, networking equipment and storage solutions.<br />
The power train is, at its most basic a standard 13Amp socket on the wall, but if we have more than one server and you're using a rack it may be prudent to consider other options.<br />
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Space, computer racks come in a number of different sizes and configurations, most prevalent today are 800mm x 800mm and approximately 1.8 high for a 42U rack and you'll need to access the front and rear of the rack with the doors open so allow at least 1m around the rack for access. You could just use a table, and I've seen that in a number of locations!<br />
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Technically, thats it, but it may be prudent to allow the hot air to escape the room and a standard extract ventilator fan can do the job (bear in mind thought that outside air can also come in through this fan unit so some filtration equipment may be useful.)</div>
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If you want cooling, then you may want a false floor to allow the cool air to surround your rack and some tiles to direct it to where it needs to be (please refer to the EUCOC section 5 cooling for the myriad of best practices about air flow direction and the containment of that air to the right place). You can get away with not having any air flow management (indeed up until very recently (circa 2008) and in some places even today, but this will come at the risk of hotspots, thermal overload failures and increased energy bills.<br />
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You'll also need some sort of cooling unit (if so you dont really need the extract fan), the most basic of this is a standard domestic DX cooler, this unit provides cold air (it should have control to specify the exact temperature) and rejects the air via pipework and an external unit to the outside, again there are a multitude of cooling options available on the market today and some even optimised for data centres!<br />
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In the next post, I'll be looking at the cooling v heat rejection.</div>
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@carbon3ithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10886282248036346688noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223104904055850073.post-13020618478389538972018-05-31T08:03:00.002-07:002018-06-01T05:27:13.014-07:00Air v Liquid - Part 1 The direction of travel!<div class="MsoNormal">
This is going to be the first in a series of articles on
liquid cooling in the data centre environment, with a view to sparking some
debate.</div>
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The use of liquid cooled technologies in the data centre has
been akin to debates about nuclear fusion, insofar that its always 5-10 years
from adoption.</div>
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We've been tracking the use of liquid cooled technologies
for some time now and we are party to some developments that have been taking
place recently, and it is my belief that we are going to see some serious
disruption taking place in the sector sooner rather than later.</div>
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We'll be looking at a unique way of looking at how to implement liquid cooled solutions in the next few posts, but before that we need to understand the direction of
travel outside of the DC Space.</div>
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Customers are increasingly using cloud services
and it appears that organisations that are buying physical equipment are only
doing so because of either "thats the way we've always done IT" or
that they are using specialist applications that cannot be provide via cloud
services or they are wedded to some out of date procurement process. This is
supported by the fact that conventional off the shelf server sales are in
decline, whilst specialist cloud enabled servers on on the up but being
purchased by Cloud Vendors and the Hyperscalers (albeit that they are designing
and building their own servers which by and large are not suitable for
conventional on premise deployements) There is also the Open Compute Project
that is mostly being used for pilots via development teams.</div>
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So, with cloud servers, the customer, in fact any customer
has no say in the type of physical hardware deployed to provide that SaaS, PaaS
or IaaS solution and that is the right approach. IT is increasingly becoming a Utility,
just like Electricity, Water and Gas. As a customer of these utilities I have
no desire to know how my electricity reaches my house, all I want is that when
I flick the light switch or turn on the TV, that the light comes on and that I
can watch the "Game of Thrones" I certainly do not care which power
station generated the electricity, how many pylons, how many transformers, how
many different cables etc that the "juice" passed through to get to
my plug/switch.</div>
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For digital services, I access a "service" on my
smartphone, tablet, desktop etc and via a broadband or wifi connection, access the "internet" and then route through various buildings
containing network transmission equipment to the server (which can be located
anywhere on the planet), the physical server(s) that the "service"
resides upon. Everything, apart from my own access device is not my asset, I
merely "pay" for the use of it. And I dont pay directly, I pay my ISP or Internet Service Provider a monthly fee for access and the supplier directly for the service that I am accessing and somehow they pay everybody else.</div>
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So, in essence, digital services are (to me) an app I select on my digital device, information is then sent and received over digital infrastructure, either fixed such as a broadband connection or via a wifi network. I have no knowledge or, nor do I care how the information is sent or received, merely that it is. </div>
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What does this have to do with the use of air or liquid in a data centre?</div>
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Well, its actually quite important, but before we cover that, we'll be covering the basics of data centres and we'll be doing that in the next post.</div>
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<![endif]-->@carbon3ithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10886282248036346688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223104904055850073.post-45655064823670783222018-03-25T03:09:00.003-07:002018-04-01T01:39:16.549-07:00A very late 2017 Annual Review2017 was an interesting year, we managed to keep going which is always a result as most SME's fail after the first 18 months of being in business. I'll make no bones about it 2017 was very tough.<br />
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The EURECA project continued all through 2017, although it should have been finished in September. The reason for a 6 month extension was to include 2 late pilot projects, the first was a UK government departments IT consolidation project and the second a EU Member state government ICT consolidation project which is ongoing at the time of writing.<br />
Overall, the project has exceeded its intended target by almost triple in terms of GW/y energy saved.<br />
The information relating to the project can be found on our website <a href="http://www.dceureca.eu/" target="_blank">here</a><br />
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Many of you will remember the National Data Centre Academy (NDCA) project, which continues albeit after a radical rethink, we hope to have more information on that shortly.<br />
We spent a considerable amount of time and treasure on 2 events and received some great feedback, we need to find some funding and continue discussions with various parties but prospects are good. We will report back on this, hopefully before the end of Q2 with an update. <br />
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SFL continues to be a challenge, we are now part of a EU wide initative Green IT Global which brings together 4 EU organisations, namely Green IT Amsterdam, Swiss Infomatics Group (Green IT SG), AGIT and ourselves and we have signed MOU's and hold regular meetings, you should begin to see more activity over the coming months.<br />
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Travel wise, 2017 was a very busy year, we attended events in Stockholm, Barcelona, & Dublin for EURECA and Stockholm, Sao Paolo, Dublin, Gibraltar and Frankfurt for CEEDA assessments.<br />
We also travelled to Monaco on behalf of the EU-JRC and Milan for the annual EUCOC meeting and Seville for a GPP meeting.<br />
We also attended events in Manchester (DC North/Data Centre Transformation) and London (DCD/DCD Awards as well as some local and regional events.<br />
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So, what are our plans for 2018?, EURECA formally closed at the end of February, so we've been looking for new Horizon2020/FP9 projects and Innovate UK projects to get our teeth into and continuing our commerical propositions. To that end, we have signed NDA's with one large global corporation to provide white label energy efficiency and consultancy services to their UK/Ireland operations, and hope to extend this acoss the EU and one smaller organisation to use their software products in our overall service wrap.<br />
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Over the next few weeks, we hope to wrap up CEEDAs in Brazil and Saudi Arabia for Q2 but have one external Data Centre Assessment for a University to complete next week.<br />
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We're looking at a project in North Africa with a view to providing energy efficiency and environmental support services.<br />
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Our work with the Data Centre Alliance continues with the development of "validation" services and we're very close to launching this product line. We'll keep you informed via our usual social media outlets and in conjunction with them.<br />
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Thats about it, we hope to provide a more regular update service in the future, but keep a lookout for articles published in Inside Networks, and Data Centre Solutions magazine and we'll let you know via twitter about any other published article.<br />
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Until next time<br />
<br />@carbon3ithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10886282248036346688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223104904055850073.post-46318782085796802622017-12-13T01:51:00.000-08:002017-12-13T01:51:56.517-08:00December 2017 UpdateJust a brief update today.<br />
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There is a great amount of confusion about the energy consumption of ICT globally with estimates ranging from 2.5% (on a par with the aviation industry) to 10%. The aviation industry comparison is quite old now but still used by some organisations to highlight the potential environmental impact. The higher figure of 10% was published in 2013 in this <a href="https://www.tech-pundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Cloud_Begins_With_Coal.pdf?c761ac" target="_blank">report</a><br />
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The thing is this, the growth of ICT services (Cloud, IoT) MITIGATES energy consumption elsewhere, the move from on-site ICT (where the management/legacy may be suspect and quite inefficient) to hyperscale cloud datacentres (AWS/Google/Salesforce) and colocation sites where the management and designs are efficient is a good thing. The use of IoT for monitoring and better management can reduce energy consumption used for maintenance and support services, changing from regular servicing to just in time servicing which reduces overall costs.<br />
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The GESi smarter2030 report identifed the opportunities that can arise from the use of ICT systems, this guidance can be found <a href="http://smarter2030.gesi.org/" target="_blank">here</a> <br />
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However, us consultants and those involved in policy are somewhat behind the curve and dont always know everything (although we would have you believe that we are on the bleeding edge) a case in point is quantifying the actual and projected energy use in this sector, we are always behind the curve on this as we do not have current and accurate data to work with.<br />
The two figures above are estimates, and unfortunately with ICT it is always a moving target because the ICT ecosystem is very dynamic, new ICT systems are installed everyday, and not much is ever removed, hence a drive to eliminate "zombie" servers, reputed to be at least 30% in of installed IT in the US, these "zombie servers" consume vast quantities of power and network and do nothing, except cost money.<br />
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I had two articles published in the trade press yesterday, the first was this article for "inside networks, which can be found <a href="http://insidenetworks.clikpages.co.uk/jan18/" target="_blank">here</a><br />
This was my view on the most significant for data centres in the UK this year, and I presented the 2nd target findings report from the Climate Change Agreement for Data Centres where those in the scheme posted an average PUE of 1.8, 1.8 ! Think about that for the moment, essentially it means that for every 1w of IT power, we are using .8w to support it, mostly cooling but also lights, management, security and building management etc. To put this into perspective, the most advanced data centres designs will now operate at sub 1.2 and the real cutting edge data centres operate at sub 1.1 This is simply not acceptable, operators are burning money and passing that costs onto consumers.<br />
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The second article was published in the Data Centre Solutions Magazine and can be found <a href="http://www.publishing.ninja/V4/page/4635/246/19/1" target="_blank">here </a><br />
In this report I made an estimate of how much energy was being used by UK PLC, essentially all the data centres, server rooms, mobile phone towers, railway/motorway traffic controls systems that create, process or transmit data for use in and by government, academia and the commercial sector.<br />
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My first attempt was very alarming, the figures revealed were quite staggering, the energy consumption was TWh's and the cost was anywhere between £7-9 Billion, time to sharpen the pencil! My estimates were based on the amount of businesses that employed over 50 people, which in the UK are 40,000, and that an organisation employing over 50 people would have an IT estate/server room, with approximately 50 devices (servers, storage and network) and be operating at a PUE of 2. We add to that total Government, including blue light, schools, universities etc to reach 80,000 server rooms with an average electricity of cost of just under £60,000 a year and depending on tariff costing UK PLC some £4-7Billion and using just over 38.5TWh or about 12.5% of UK generated capacity (2016)<br />
Although some commenters are wary of the figures, including one that said that turkey processors employ over 50 people and none of them use a computer! which is a fair comment, all in all I think that my estimates are valid and probably a fair reflection of UK PLC IC cost and consumption.<br />
In summary, as I stated in the 2nd article, we simply do not know the actual amount and probably never will, for that we will have to undertake a deep study and survey and make some assumptions.<br />
If you fancy helping out, a) by assisting with the project, or b) funding the project, contact me directly via the website, social media feeds or email.<br />
Over the Christmas break I'll be writing our 2017 Annual Review so until then, enjoy the holiday preparations and mull over the size of the energy efficiency opportunity.<br />
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Until next time......<br />
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<br />@carbon3ithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10886282248036346688noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223104904055850073.post-40353271472804384112017-11-10T01:49:00.001-08:002017-11-10T01:49:44.854-08:00Green IT Week (Month)SFL, Sustainability for London is proud to be part of the Green IT Global network, this is a collaboration between Green IT Amsterdam, AGIT, Swiss Informatics Green IT SG and SFL.<br />
Green IT Amsterdam are organising a Green IT week, although that is a very loose term as the event will run from the 7th November to the 30th.<br />
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More information can be found on this <a href="http://www.greenitamsterdam.nl/news/1282-green-it-week-2017-is-coming" target="_blank">link</a>@carbon3ithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10886282248036346688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223104904055850073.post-22687970417326938362017-10-20T01:16:00.000-07:002017-10-20T01:16:06.301-07:00The EU Code of conduct for Data Centres (Energy Efficiency) and BREXIT!As a committee member on the EUCOC best practice committee and the principle reviewer of applications to be part of the scheme, I have since July 2016 been asked "what will happen with the EUCOC with regard to Brexit?".<br />
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The answer is very simple, for the present, nothing.<br />
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The EUCOC, whilst an EU-JRC scheme, was orginally created by DEFRA, the British Computer Society and the EU-Joint Research Centre and it is the intention to continue as such, until circumstances change.<br />
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The participation scheme will still be run from the EU-JRC in Ispra, Milan, Italy and the latest 2018 verision of the best practices and associated reporting form will be published shortly.<br />
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The last best practice committee took place in Ispra, Milan at the end of September between approximately 20 organsations.<br />
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As to the future, well, as some will know, the EUCOC is now included as a technical report in the emerging EN50600 series of Data Centre, Design, Build and Operations standards and this will continue, the full title is CLC/TR EN50600-99-1.<br />
However, the information contained within this document and more importantly the content is delivered by the EUCOC best practices committee. There are no plans (as yet) to change this.<br />
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We can all speculate about what will happen after Brexit, but as the EUCOC is a voluntary scheme there is no compulsion to be be involved at all. That said, we do hear that many tenders include a requirement to be a participant in the EUCOC which is normally not marked but clearly there is an intention to use the EUCOC as a indicator of a committment to adopt energy efficiency best practices .<br />
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The <a href="http://www.dceureca.eu/" target="_blank">EURECA</a> project uses a number of standards and guidelines as potential inclusions in public sector tender documents and it is no surprise that the EUCOC is included, as well as ISO's 9001/14001/22301/27001 and 50001, being Quality, Environmental, Business Continuity, Information Security and Energy Management Systems respectively.<br />
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Clearly, if the UK ever actually leaves the EU, then procurement processes and procedures will undergo a significant amount of change within public sector organisations.<br />
This would be a significant opportunity to tighten up on data centre procurement to include mandatory energy efficiency criteria in equipment and potentially operations.<br />
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If, and it is only an if, the UK does leave the EU then clearly there are a number of options, one is to continue with the EUCOC as is, and for endorser and participant organisations to update the EU-JRC on an annual basis as they do now.<br />
Two, is that the UK rebrand the scheme to be the UKCOC, garner support for a local best practice committeee/community and for an adminstrative group to be created and things continue as before except that the management of participants/endorsers is run by a UK based organisation.<br />
And thus, there is a question to answer, who is or could be that UK organisation?<br />
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I have my own thoughts on this, some may disagree, but one thing that is pressing is the planning of such an entity and a dialogue around the options.<br />
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The EUCOC has sought and been granted a slot at the forthcoming <a href="http://dcd.events/conferences/zettastructure" target="_blank">DCD Zettastructure</a> event in London on the 7/8th November at Old Billingsgate Fish Market in the City of London, this event will cover the scheme, the reporting forms, the view from the field and a Q/A session. Its going to be a great opportunity to ask "What happens after BREXIT?"<br />
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I'll be there and will be talking about the EUCOC reporting form and will be on the panel, it could be a lively event so well worth taking time out for!<br />
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We have quite a busy November so next update will probably be just before Christmas.<br />
@carbon3ithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10886282248036346688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223104904055850073.post-9125683183530581612017-09-30T05:36:00.000-07:002017-09-30T05:37:59.864-07:00October UpdateIts been a busy few months since our last update but exciting times as well.
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The EURECA project continues at pace, more information can be found on the project website <a href="https://www.dceureca.eu/" target="_blank">www.dceureca.eu</a><br />
As many will be aware the project has been extended due to two new public sector data centre project that the project is working with, data has been collated on both and the findings are due to be presented to the clients in the next few weeks<br />
Our next workshop will take place in conjunction with Data Centres Ireland, more information and registration can be found on this link<a href="http://www.datacentres-ireland.com/" target="_blank"> http://www.datacentres-ireland.com/</a><br />
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Its always great to go back to Ireland, and I'm sure that a great time will be had by delegates and exhibitors alike. <br />
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As a result of this extension we are still available for work on EURECA pilot
projects, please let us know if you would like some free consultancy
(terms and conditions apply).
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Our midlands datacentre standards project has been cancelled due to
various issues, but we have been in discussions with the principles about a new data centre project in Manchester.<br />
This site will also incorporate the "National Data
Centre Academy" Manchester facility, this will be somewhat smaller than we have envisaged but will provide a great location to prove our proof of concept which will hopefully lead onto the main facility, which we hope will still be located in the Birmingham area.<br />
On that note, if you are interested in learning more about the NDCA and its facilities please drop me a line at john.booth@nationaldcacademy.com<br />
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The NDCA exhibited with our partners (Data Centre Alliance and IDC Achill Rock) at edie.live on the 23/24th
May 2017 at the NEC in Birmingham, we had a number of visitors and I presented on the topic of sustainability for data centres, all in all the event was moderately suscessful in terms of potential new clients but more so on the awareness side of things.<br />
Many enterprises still consider the data centre as a necessary evil and of course IT departments still have trouble with Shadow IT (The use of unauthorised cloud and colocation services) but in my opinion them only have themselves to blame (catch up with my at an industry event to find out more!)<br />
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The NDCA project is essentially a step change in the delivery of data
centre training, we'll have the usual classroom environment, but we're
adding special rooms to deliver practical skills including something
very special.<br />
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I completed 3 CEEDA assessments, one, one in Ireland and 2
in Gibraltar, one is a new assessment of a legacy facility, one, a reassessment and one, a new
facility. We also have a number in the pipe for later this year, I'll
keep you posted.<br />
If you would like a Certified Energy Efficiency for Data Centres Award (CEEDA), please visit <a href="http://www.ceedacert.com/" target="_blank">CEEDA.</a><br />
We provide a number of pre-ceeda and EUCOC services, please contact us directly on info@carbon3it.com for pricing and availability. <br />
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Our work with the DCA continues and we have been very busy with 2 exciting
new projects, of which more will be revealed by the DCA themselves, we
wouldn't want to steal their thunder.<br />
We attended the Datacentre Transformation Conference in Manchester on
the 11th July, and the DCA industry Update (approximately 40 delegates turned up and a very good networking session in a local hostelry, followed by a ather excellent curry ensued.<br />
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The latest DCA Golf Day was an eventful affair, I was unable to attend the morning session due to other commitments (more on that below) and in the afternoon it was literally 4 seasons in one day, we had rain, hail, mist, and finally sun, conditions were challenging but as usual the drinks buggy provided some much needed liquid refreshments (hic). The John Booth Wooden Spoon Award (named after my goodself and indicating a really rubbish golfer, usually me!) in fact was awarded to someone else, so I'm not sure that it is an indication of improvement, or that this year even worse golfers were in attendance.<br />
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The reason I was unable to attend the morning session was that we (NDCA) applied for some assistance from the Climate Launchpad programme and we had undertaken some 10 sessions with mentors to sharpen up a pitch deck in order to obtain finance. This was a very useful exprience and whilst we were ultimately unsuccessful (we came 4th!) it provided some strategic focus to the NDCA, which is always good.<br />
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Last week I was in Milan for the 2018 EUCOC best practices review, together with 20 or so colleagues from data centres owners, operators and supply chain organisations across the EU, as usual we reviewed S10/11 with a view to moving and enhancing the best practices, reviewed some external comments for new or revisions to current best practices and introduced some new bets practices at the event. The latest versions (2018) for the best practices document and the reporting forms are now in preparation and will be published when they are finalised. <br />
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In early June we were at the Data Cloud Congress, Monaco, this is the premier event in the data centre annual event season, and I am lucky enough to obtain free tickets through my work reviewing the EUCOC participant applications, thank you to Broad Group and the EU-JRC.<br />
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Its always a pleasure to meet up with colleagues from across the EU, but to quote a famous film, what happens in Monaco, stays in Monaco.<br />
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We ahve a busy few months ahead but we will attempt to attend the following events<br />
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5th October IP Expo - London<br />
2nd November IM Meeting London AM<br />
2nd November UKDCIG London PM<br />
6th November BCS DCIG London Committee Meeting/AGM<br />
7-8th November DCD Zettastructure<br />
16th November EU GPP Seville, Spain<br />
22 - 23rd November, Data Centres Ireland<br />
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Until next time...@carbon3ithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10886282248036346688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223104904055850073.post-71266820187756626522017-05-20T03:10:00.002-07:002017-05-20T03:13:35.764-07:00May 2017 UpdateIts been a busy few months since our last update but exciting and sometimes quite stressful times as well. I did promise an update in April but circumstances and travel conspired to make a lot of demands on my time, anyway heres the May update.<br />
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The EURECA project continues at pace, more information can be found on the project website <a href="https://www.dceureca.eu/" target="_blank">www.dceureca.eu</a><br />
We've had 3 events since the last update, namely Stockholm, Berlin and Barcelona, all the events were fairly well attended and we've had some impressive speakers from public sector organisations detailing some of their own projects and ones where the EURECA project can help out. We have a meeting scheduled next week with an EU Government developing a full cloud services suite and planning to build their own new data centre, this will be "state of the art" and hopefully will adopt many of the EURECA project standards and specifications, we'll keep you posted on that project.<br />
Due to this project and the fact that it is just at the start up and specification stage, we have applied for and been granted an extension to the project, so wheras the original project was 30 month duration and due to end in September 2017, it has now been extended to February 2018.<br />
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As a result of this extension we are still available for work on pilot projects, please let us know if you would like some free consultancy (terms and conditioins apply). On that note, we are still discussing a possible pilot with another EU government but they are currently in purdah (which should provide a clue as to who it is!) Again we'll keep you updated.<br />
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Our midlands datacentre standards project has been delayed due to various issues, but we have meetings with the principles next week and hope to be able to start our work before the end of May.<br />
The delay has in fact been fairly productive as we have been given the opportunity to design the second phase of the proposed "National Data Centre Academy" and we've been hard at work talking to various organsiations about what they need for specific training courses and inviting them to view site (if you'd like to visit, please drop us an email on info@nationaldcacademy.com and we'll ping you back some dates)<br />
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On NDCA matters, we will be exhibting at edie.live next week (23/24th May 2017) at the NEC in Birmingham with our partners the Data Centre Alliance and IDC Achill Rock (our landlord) we'll be on stand N36 and you can use the following link to get your free tickets <a href="https://l.feathr.co/edie-live-ndca---national-data-centre-academy-y" target="_blank">edie.live tickets</a><br />
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The NDCA project is essentially a step change in the delivery of data centre training, we'll have the usual classroom environment, but we're adding special rooms to deliver practical skills including something very special, I'm going to keep that under my hat for now as we have our partner coming to see the site and demostrate some kit next week, I can guarantee that this is a world first and potentially another real change to the way that we deliver certain types of training.<br />
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I completed 2 CEEDA assessments, one in Stockholm, Sweden and one in Sao Paolo, Brazil, and we have 3 scheduled for June, one in Ireland and 2 in Gibraltar, one of these is a reassessment and one is their new facility. We also have a number in the pipe for later this year, I'll keep you posted.<br />
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Our work with the DCA continues and we have been very busy 2 exciting new projects, of which more will be revealed by the DCA themselves, we wouldn't want to steal their thunder.<br />
We'll be at the Datacentre Transformation Conference in Manchester on the 11th July, more information and registration can be found on this <a href="http://www.dtmanchester.com/" target="_blank">link</a> I'll no doubt be speaking at the event and as always the DCA will be holding a mini event the day before in the afternoon, followed by networking drinks in a local hostelry. Once the details for the event are finalised I'll let you all know.<br />
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We attended the DCS awards last week, congratulations to all the organisations and people that won awards. Its always good to go to these events to catch up with colleagues in the industry, its a shame that sometimes its the only time you see them but thats life!<br />
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So, our main events over the next few months are as follows:<br />
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23/24th May edie.live<br />
6-8th June Data Cloud Congress, Monaco<br />
19-23rd June European Sustainable Energy Week, Brussels TBC<br />
10th July DCA Update, UoM, Manchester<br />
11th July Data Centre Transformation Conference, UoM, Manchester<br />
17th - 21st EURECA Training Week, NDCA Birmingham <br />
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Advanced Warning, a date for your diaries, the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres best practices committee has been provisionally scheduled for the 27th September in Ispra [more details once the meeting has been scheduled]<br />
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Until next time...<br />
<br />@carbon3ithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10886282248036346688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223104904055850073.post-58080587908176799552017-02-27T06:59:00.003-08:002017-02-27T06:59:41.420-08:00February UpdateWe did promise a 2016 review in January but we've been so busy we haven't had the chance to put pen to paper, so heres our February Update and where possible we'll include references back to the 2016 stuff. <br />
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The EURECA project <a href="http://www.eureca-project.eu/" target="_blank">www.eureca-project.eu</a>
continues and has reached a number of milestones, the first was the
release of the beta version of the tool, and a complete suite of changes to the traininig programme, both of these can be found on this <a href="https://tool.dceureca.eu/" target="_blank">link</a>,
registration is required.<br />
We were all in Paris for Data Centre World where we provided some content and conducted some of the training. <br />
The project is due to be completed by September 2017 and we'll be
organising a number of workshops in, Stockholm, Barcelona and
Brussels. Please visit the project <a href="http://dceureca.eu/" target="_blank">website</a> for more information.<br />
<br />We're working with a data centre owner in the West Midlands on a complete suite of ISO standards as specified by the EURECA project, this includes 9001/14001/22301/27001 & 50001, which are Quality, Environmental, Business Continuity, Information Security and Energy Management Systems as well as an EUCOC application.<br />
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Our work with the Data Centre Alliance <a href="http://www.datacentrealliance.org/" target="_blank">http://www.datacentrealliance.org/</a> continues with our chairing of the DCA energy efficiency steering group and providing support to the executive team.<br />The next DCA event is the day before Data Centre World and will take place at the same venue, London's Excel arena. More information and registration can be found on this <a href="http://data-central.site-ym.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=935323&group=" target="_blank">DCA Industry Update - 14th March 2017</a> <br />
This meeting takes place the day before the DCW event so
that delegates can attend both events without incurring additional
costs.<br /><br />
I'll be attending DCW and will be on or around the DCA stand.<br />
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Our Sustainability for London (SFL) project, <a href="https://sfl.london/" target="_blank">more info</a> launched on the 25th October 2016.<br />
The launch event took place as a part of the BCS Green IT SG AGM, <br />
SFL was developed to meet the Mayor of London's energy and carbon
targets and provides specific asistance to London based organisations
and more importantly the use of ICT systems, datacentres, networks and
user devices, based upon 5 pillars, for more information please visit
the SFL website <a href="https://sfl.london/" target="_blank">here</a><br />
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On that note, it had been a relatively quiet year for the BCS Green IT SG
but we have been working on our SFL project, but now that SFL is launched our focus will return to BAU after the AGM and we look
forward to developing a full programme of events with the committee for
the rest of 2016 and 2017.<br />
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We will be visiting Amsterdam in early April to meet up with our EU GREEN IT Consortium, Green IT Amsterdam, Swiss Informatics Society and AGIT (France), we'll report back on this initative in our next update.<br />
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We attended the EU-JRC Ispra
complex in Italy in mid November as part of an expert panel created to
evaluate and discuss the impending EMAS for the ICT sector.<br />
<br />We have a number of irons in the fire for future projects, the first was launched at DC North event in Manchester on the 15th February.<br />
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The National Data Centre Academy (NDCA) is a practical training centre, available for commercial training companies for the delivery of their curent and perhaps future courses, data centre supply chain companies to use for product launches, technical updates and in house training and for research projects. Information on the NDCA can be found on our linked in page <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/17938185/" target="_blank">NDCA Linked In page</a> and on our website <a href="http://www.nationaldcacademy.com/" target="_blank">here</a><br />
Please get in touch for more information, booking, and pricing. <br />
<br />We're also involved with the DCA in a new EU project that will commence
in Jan 2017, this project will be using the NDCA as a test bed for a new innovative cooling system.<br />
<br />Our project in partnership with the DCA with Central Government has been put on hold pending further discussions and clarity from BREXIT negotations.<br />
<br /><br />BREXIT Update: Still too early to tell, but the signs are not good, we've seen increased activity in Europe on data centre activity, with new cables by-passing the UK and an increase in announced new data centre projects across the EU. UK Government seems intent on pushing through with the BREXIT legislation with minimal input from the 16 Million that voted to stay and saner voices across the House of Lords and other respected institutions, which in our opinion does not provide any clarity as to future plans or proposals, the recent green paper on Industrial Strategy negated to provide any details on the future of data centres in the UK.<br />
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We'll be in attendance at the following events in the next 2 months:<br />
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DCW London Excel 15th/16th March<br />
EURECA Stockholm 20-24th March<br />
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Next Update - April 17 <br />
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@carbon3ithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10886282248036346688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223104904055850073.post-67134702995492352152016-10-11T03:08:00.001-07:002016-10-11T03:08:12.158-07:00Update - October 2016Hmmm, where do I start?<br />
Its been a great summer for us and we have a number of irons in the fire that I need to tell you all about.<br />
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Lets start with current projects.<br />
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The EURECA project <a href="http://www.eureca-project.eu/" target="_blank">www.eureca-project.eu</a> continues and has reached a number of milestones, the first was the release of the beta version of the tool, this can be found on this <a href="https://tool.dceureca.eu/" target="_blank">link</a>, registration is required. The training portfolio has also been released, although recent updates from beyond the project has required a review and possible amendments to the course content. The content is online but may be subject to change. The EURECA project will provide updates as required.<br />
The project is due to be completed by September 2017 and we'll be organising a number of workshops in Paris, Stockholm, Barcelona and Brussels. Please visit the project website for more information.<br />
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We've completed a number of EU Code of Conduct for Data Centre (Energy Efficiency) applications for 2 customers, one based in the Nordic region and a global telecommunications company for their EU sites. This brings up the total of Carbon3IT Ltd assisted EUCoC applications in 2016 to 17 and we have another 6 in the pipeline to be fulfilled by Q1 2017.<br />
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We continue to work on an ISO standards project for a Nordic client, providing ISO22301/27001 Management Systems.<br />
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Our work with the Data Centre Alliance <a href="http://www.datacentrealliance.org/" target="_blank">http://www.datacentrealliance.org/</a> continues with our chairing of the DCA energy efficiency steering group and providing support to the executive team.<br />
The next DCA EE steering group will have its next meeting on the 31st October at the UEL in East London, registration is required and you can do that <a href="http://data-central.site-ym.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=760824&group=" target="_blank">here</a><br />
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This meeting takes place the day before the DCD Zettastructure event so that delegates can attend both events without incurring additional costs.<br />
Information on DCD Zettastructure can be found <a href="http://www.dcdconverged.com/conferences/zettastructure" target="_blank">here</a><br />
I'll be attending DCD Zettastructure working on behalf of the CEEDA team, more information on CEEDA can be found <a href="http://www.ceedacert.com/" target="_blank">here</a><br />
We've completed a number of CEEDA assessments this year and more are in the pipeline.<br />
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Our Sustainability for London (SFL) project, <a href="https://sfl.london/" target="_blank">more info</a> will launch on the 25th October 2016.<br />
The launch event will take place as a part of the BCS Green IT SG AGM, registration is required and places are extremely limited and you are urged to register asap, the registration link can be found <a href="http://www.bcs.org/content/conEvent/10608" target="_blank">here</a> <br />
SFL was developed to meet the Mayor of London's energy and carbon targets and provides specific asistance to London based organisations and more importantly the use of ICT systems, datacentres, networks and user devices, based upon 5 pillars, for more information please visit the SFL website.<br />
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On that note, is been a relatively quiet year for the BCS Green IT SG but we have been working on our SFL project, but now that SFL is ready to be launched our focus will return to BAU after the AGM and we look forward to developing a full programme of events with the committee for the rest of 2016 and 2017<br />
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We have a number of irons in the fire for future projects, the first is a new ISO management systems client, this will be the implementation of 7 ISO standards for a data centre group based in the UK but with regional ambitions.<br />
This client has also requested EUCOC applications for up to 7 sites in the UK.<br />
We're also doing something else with this client that for the moment wil remain secret, save that if everything goes to plan, we are going to change the way a certain part of the datacentre industry works, more details when the plans have been finalised.<br />
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We've also been approached by another consortium to assist in the development of a new data centre site in the NW of the UK.<br />
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We're also involved with the DCA in a new EU project that will commence in Jan 2017 and whilst we've been writing this blog we've also be on a conference call for another project.<br />
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A note on BREXIT, whilst the mechanism of BREXIT is still being worked on by the UK government it is still very much business as usual here at Carbon3IT Ltd, we've not seen any direct impact from the referendum, but it is too early to tell.<br />
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We are working with the DCA on a project for Central Government and we have meetings scheduled this week to progress our thoughts, we will of course let our readers know the outcome.<br />
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One final event to tell you about, we'll be visiting the EU-JRC Ispra complex in Italy in mid November as part of an expert panel created to evaluate and discuss the impending EMAS for the ICT sector.<br />
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We're also meeting with fellow industry members for TCT 7/3 work next week.<br />
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All in all its been a busy period, but as we all know the devil makes work for idle hands.<br />
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We've not been idle...until next time.<br />
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<br />@carbon3ithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10886282248036346688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223104904055850073.post-89278002799037865072016-08-22T01:21:00.003-07:002016-08-22T01:21:51.570-07:00Next EURECA Workshop & EUCOCThe next EURECA Workshop <a href="http://www.eureca-project.eu/" target="_blank">www.eureca-project.eu</a> will take place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on the 29th September 2016. We will be launching the tool and the training programme at this event.<br />
We are also pleased to be supporting the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres (Energy Efficiency) best practices committee meeting the day before on the 28th September.<br />
If you are an endorser or participant to the EUCOC and would like to go to this meeting, please contact Paolo directly.<br />
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All EUCOC delegates are invited to register for the EURECA event and registration for this will be posted shortly on the above link.<br />
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We'll be syndicating this link once its been published.<br />
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See you in Amsterdam@carbon3ithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10886282248036346688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223104904055850073.post-39496215162063379592016-06-25T07:53:00.001-07:002016-06-25T07:53:36.179-07:00EU IN or Out?What follows may annoy some, infuriate others whilst some may just sigh and say thats John all over but it is my personal opinion on the last 7 weeks or so of EU debate, resulting as we all know in the people stating that they want to leave the EU.<br />
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OK, for starters let me state that in my opinion both the leave and remain campaigns have been next to useless, neither has managed to get over the real reasons for staying or leaving the EU. It is, to be plain, an indication of how much the electrorate is treated with contempt by the ruling elite. I've seen posters that echo a nasty past, I've heard statements from both sides that are completely and utterly untrue, lies, lies and even more lies all designed to confused and infuriate the voter which has sadly resulted in 37% of the population holding sway over the rest and voting to leave.<br />
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I was geniunely shocked early Friday morning (watching the coverage) to see that Leave was coming first in so many towns and cities all over England, with the notable exception of my own area, an island of Remain yellow in a sea of Leave blue, London, Scotland and Northern Ireland.<br />
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I was all at sea yesterday, moribund, depressed, questions running through my head "what will happen next?, can the business survive?, is it worth continuing, seeing as we've been given about €200,000 in EU funding since 2013!<br />
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Last Leg In, Last Leg Out and Glastonbury last night lifted my mood and I've realised that what I had been saying to our EU partners was essentially correct.<br />
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I had said that the vote would be close and probably be to leave, armed with this mandate from the people the PM would go to Brussels and demand radical and wholesale change to the mechanisms that make up the EU and then he would hold a referendum 2 based upon a package of measures designed to persaude the British people to remain, and to counter the rising far right parties across the EU complaining about creeping federalism, immigration etc.<br />
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Once Referendum 2 was complete and the people had spoken then and only then (if the vote was to leave) would article 50 be invoked.<br />
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So in essence this referendum has NO legal status, it is not yet passed, the decision to leave the EU will not happen (if ever) for some time and this is why...<br />
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Cameron has stood down, his successor is likely to be Johnson or May, they will wish to hold a General Election to obtain a mandate to rule, the manifesto for this election will be fought over by leavers and remainers in the Conservative Party, the conclusion that the party will fight for a leave vote within Parliament is NOT assured.<br />
Labour, whilst remaining unelectable under its current leadership would do well to campaign actively to remain in those areas where the "leave" vote was strongest and it has to be said in traditionally labour strongholds.<br />
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The result of the General Election will depend on who commits to remaining or leaving the EU.<br />
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Both parties should up their game when it comes to campaigning and this should be overseen by an independent watchdog with more teeth to endure that false and misleading claims cannot be published.<br />
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The people of the UK, have voted based upon lies, falsehoods, bigotry and racism to leave, a sensible parliament would heed the obvious discontent within the country and take steps to eradicate the problems, first off the bankers that caused the 2009 crisis should have all their assets sequested by the state and they themselves should be jailed, people smugglers should be given life sentences and have all their assets returned to the state, people in postions of power who misuse the power for personal gain should have all their assets removed and jailed (expenses scandal anyone?). No one should be in any doubt that the law is the law and it will be upheld.<br />
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All companies, big or small, local or international will pay the taxes that are due, the HMRC will not provide "sweatheart" deals that are opaque and secret, everybody who pays will be required to publish the details.<br />
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These are just two areas we should seek for redress, we should understand that taxes pay for infrastructure, health, safety, education and all those things that make a society, a community worth living in.<br />
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And the EU for all its bluster, the UK needs to start the exit proceedings now etc, can bloody well wait, this is too important a decision to act hastily, too important a decision to base upon the campaign lies, they would do well to begin the process of reform themselves, so that when the UK does make a binding decision is to remain in a club that is worth belonging to.<br />
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These are the PERSONAL views of Carbon3IT's MD and not of the company.<br />
<br />@carbon3ithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10886282248036346688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223104904055850073.post-5523891371487143852016-05-14T05:00:00.000-07:002016-05-14T05:01:37.709-07:00May 16 UpdatePhew, what a couple of weeks, as previously reported we've been quite busy over the last few weeks so a brief update is in order.<br />
On the 28th April, I travelled to Austin Texas to conduct a CEEDA assessment for our first North American client, well I say American but in fact it is a UK client that has a facility within a DRT colocation site. The assessment went well and we'll be providing an update soon.<br />
Austin, really is a busy bustling city, the vibe is infectious and I always enjoy going there, taking advantage of the cheap prices in the stores as well, I managed to procure a high end laptop that was priced in $ as it would have been in £, saving £300, and I got the tax back at the airport.<br />
I also had a tickle on the way back with a complimentary upgrade to business class on the plane so thank you British Airways, ahem, I'm flying to Oslo in a few weeks btw!<br />
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I travelled back on the 2nd May and enjoyed a day with the family for my birthday, then flew to Scotland for a review meeting with our EURECA client, another tickle virtue of our use of booking.com was an upgrade and free breakfast at the Old Course Hotel (Golfers will recognise that this is the hotel on the right hand side of the 17th fairway on the Old Course at St Andrews, it sometimes gets hit by wayward shots!)<br />
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I do some much travel these days that I've invested in a Priority Pass, this gets me free acccess to Airport lounges and is very useful as I get free wifi, coffee, food etc so its well worth the relatively small price. I've used it on 4 occasions so far, outbound to Austin at Heathrow, (Inbound was via the client), Outbound in Birmingham for Scotland, Outbound at Edinburgh upon my return and Outbound from Birmingham to Dublin.<br />
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The Dublin trip was for EURECA meetings and the 4th EURECA workshop, we have made great progress on both the tools and the training packages and we will launch both in Amsterdam in late September, more details closer to the time.<br />
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We returned from Dublin late on Wednesday 11th in order to attend the DCS Awards on the 12th May, this event took place at the Grange St Pauls hotel, whilst the venue was central, the event tookplace in the basement and it was quite hot and humid down there.<br />
The less said about the entertainment the better, I've never seen anyone "lose" the room quite so quickly and I'm sure that next year we'll see something a little different.<br />
However, the event was very well attended and our congratulations to all the award winners.<br />
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So, whats in store over the next few weeks, well we have a DCA workshop on the 17th in Banbury (quite close to us, so very pleased), I have quite a bit of work to catch up on this week so will be looking forward to the family holiday in Kefalonia the week after.<br />
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Upon my return I will be going to Oslo for a meeting with our Norwegian client to discuss their standards implementaiton for ISO22301/27001 and the preparation of DR/BC plans, as well as reviewing their EUCOC applications.<br />
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The week after I shall be going to the Data Cloud Congress in Monaco to attend the EUCOC awards ceremony as well as meet up with clients past, present and future.<br />
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In July, we'll be chairing a workshop at the DataCentre Transformation Conference in Manchester, more details and registration can be found <a href="http://dtmanchester.com/" target="_blank">here.</a><br />
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Throughout the summer, we;ll be working on two standards implementation projects, continuing our involvement in the EURECA project and getting ready for the 5th Workshop in Amsterdam in late September, more information on the EURECA project can be found <a href="http://www.eureca-project.eu/" target="_blank">here.</a><br />
Further details on the 5th EURECA workshop, which will include the launch of the EURECA tool and training programme will be available on that link, but we'll update you all via this site and our social media when further information is available.<br />
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A note on our SFL project, we've decide not to have a big flashy launch event in favour of a soft launch in late June and a pounding on our all the members social media channels leading up to the official launch, watch this space and dont forget to follow @carbon3it and @sustyforlondon for regular updates and further information.<a class="g-profile" href="https://plus.google.com/113519680427342926824" target="_blank"></a><br />
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So, all in all, quite a busy season ahead of us, we'll be posting again after all our trips (sometime in mid June), until then keep safe and think about making your data centre energy efficient...until next time.... @carbon3ithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10886282248036346688noreply@blogger.com0