Well, regular readers of this blog will know that I spent 6 weeks on the Island of Mauritius conducting training on Green IT and Energy Efficient Data Centres, this work is ongoing and I'll be back for the INFOTECH 2013 trade show in November where we're organising a "Data Centre Energy Efficiency & Green IT Quarter" we'll keep everybody posted about this on our social media feeds, this blog and via email if you've already registered your interest in attending.
We are in discussions with the Mauritius Board of Investment and the UKTI Accredited Trade Organisation Tradefair about grants to attend, so if your company can offer products that can reduce energy consumption in the ICT field, please get in touch with us on info@carbon3it.com about the programme.
On a similar note, if you're based in the West Midlands, UK you may be interested in seeking a grant from the Green Bridge Supply Chain Programme more information www.birmingham.gov.uk/greenbridge
You can use this programme to procure energy efficient products and consultancy for the following activities:
Purchase of Capital Equipment
Relocation and expansion in new premises
Market Development
New Product Development
Improvements in Systems and Processes
Development of Management and Staff capability to support the project.
So essentially, you could decide to implement a Green IT programme and get your new energy efficient PC's and servers, install PC Power Management and Data Centre Infrastructure Management Tools, Optimise your data centre, and get training to support the project and use Carbon3IT Ltd to provide everything.
So, download the forms, and contact us to arrange a no obligation discussion, where we will provide you with all the costings so you can prepare your application.
What else? Oh yes, we assisting the CoolEmAll project, http://www.coolemall.eu/ with various activities, including technical assistance with the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres (Energy Efficiency) and commercial advice.
On that note, the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres (Energy Efficiency) has been revised and updated, the new 2013 best practices are now available on the http://iet.jrc.ec.europa.eu/energyefficiency/ict-codes-conduct/data-centres-energy-efficiency if you are in the process of applying for participation, please use the latest forms, the reporting form v4 is the one you should be using and this has been completely updated to reflect the past 3 revisions.
Events
We attended the Cloud Forum in London last week and this week we attended the Intel IT Centre update and an SDG Cloud MSP update events, thanks for lunch, beers and the rooftop BBQ.
Next week, we'll be in Leeds for the Data Centre Alliance's Data Centre Transformation Conference to be held at agl Leeds, more details can be found http://dtconference.com/ and in London on Wednesday to meet with the BCS Green Team and to attend a cocktail and discussion event at the Guardian (we do get around don't we?). On Thursday we'll be in Birmingham for the British Energy Challenge at IET Austin Court.
Projects
We are continuing our projects with the Government of Mauritius and will of course keep you updated.
We are also looking at a large data centre consolidation project but we are bound by confidentiality agreements, the same applies with another large Data Centre consolidation project that is in the very early stages, again once we're able to advise we'll let you know via our usual feeds.
We have a few speaking engagements in the pipeline and you've guessed it, we'll keep you up to date via our social media feeds
We have also been successful in renewing our G-Cloud entry so all public sector bodies can now access our services via the G-Cloud, we'll also be revamping some of our products for the next reiteration of G-Cloud v4 in the Autumn.
We'll have some exciting news soon but for now its a secret.
Until next time...
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