UK Grid Nominated for Green Initiative Award
UK Grid is proud to have been nominated for "Best European Green Initiative" award at the 6th Data Centre Europe event. Nominees for this award and others has attracted the likes of Telecity Group, Equinix Europe, BT, Control Circle, IBM and Interxion.
The Best European Green Initiative award looks at initiatives a data centre has implemented to reduce its environmental impact and how it measures its environmental efficiency. It then goes on to look in percentage terms, what impact your initiative has had on your environmental impact and how this is measured.
The awards ceremony is at the events closing gala dinner in Nice on the 23rd April 2010.
This award highlights the drive for data centres throughout Europe to reduce their carbon footprint and to build and operate carbon balanced data centres to reduce their impact on the environment.
Further information on the awards ceremony can be found here
UK Grid Joins the Green Grid
The Green Grid is a global consortium dedicated to developing and promoting energy efficiency for data centres and business computing ecosystems by:
- Defining meaningful, user-centric models and metrics
- Promoting the adoption of energy efficient standards, processes, measurement
methods and technologies
- Developing standards, measurement methods, processes and new technologies
to improve performance against the defined metrics
The Green Grid has set out to develop a standard set of measurements to make it easier for an end-user to manage their facilities and thus achieve optimal energy efficiency within data centres around the world. The Green Grid, comprising of peers throughout the data centre and computing industries, seek to unite global industry efforts to standardise and agree on a common set of metrics, processes, methods and new technologies to further its common goal.
Two such matrices are the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) and Data centre infrastructure Efficiency (DCiE). The Green Grid is also developing a third matrix, Data Centre Productivity (DCP).
UK Grid made the decision to join the Green Grid to work with some of the industry leaders in developing the ultimate in energy efficient data centres, thus lowering operating costs and also reducing UK Grid's carbon footprint.
The Green Grid's advice to data centres is to constantly measure your PUE and UK Grid have followed this advice to the letter, enabling our PUE to be reduced from 1.5 to 1.35. UK Grid has a target PUE of 1.2 in some of our newer facilities utilising free-cooling technologies which we will see come online towards the end of 2010.
Further information on the Green Grid can be found here
UK Grid expands Manchester fibre network and transit connections
UK Grid has commited to further fibre capacity to expand it’s Manchester fibre ring. This project includes adding a new fibre core to Greenheys DC and additional diverse fibre into IFL2 to provide greater capacity and resilience to UK Grid's IFL network POP.
UK Grid is also turning up a new transit feed in Synergy House this month from Cogent to enable additional IPv4 and IPv6 routes to it's existing transit mix of global tier 1 carriers.
The addition of this feed delivered over fibre gives UK Grid the potential to offer up to 40 Gbit/s of upstream transit capacity to it's growing London and Manchester client base.
Cogent is now ranked as the fifth largest IP network in the world with 520 Gbit/s of implemented capacity.
UK Grid in the press
UK Grid Nominated for Green Initiative Award
UK Grid aims to make capital gains in London
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