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PUE Harmonized



After almost 18 months of international negotiation the world now has an internationally harmonized method of calculating PUE. Really? I hear you say....

DataCenter Dynamics Awards



Another year of overseeing the judging of the annual DCD Leadership Awards complete! What an incredible range of entries this year!

Designing for Demand



The data center and IT is now so complex, interdependent and non-linear, software is the only way to understand what tomorrow might look like!

Data Centres Down Under



As the industry grapples with metrics, which metric can be meaningful across the whole world and tell me about my data centre and IT efficiency? How about cost per delivered kWh?

Cost - The only real yardstick!



If you want to demonstrate the 'Value' of IT to the business there is only one metric that they need or more importantly, will understand....

Where do we go from here?



So we've nailed PUE. What's next? Productivity? Useful work? CUPS, CADE, DPPE? We're right now at the very corner of a turning point in our industry...we're about to be held accountable!

Green Grid Tech Forum



This years Green Grid tech forum in San Jose was quite the turn up compared to last year. It's clear that folks have been working hard.

Innovation in the Data Centre 2009



2009 saw a raft of innovative data centres open and ideas shared with the industry, who says an old dog can't change?

US Carbon Cap & Trade



So will our American cousins take the bold step forward into carbon cap and trade? It's been this year's hot topic at the Data Center Dynamics events I've spoken at.

What's in a number? PUE/DCIE



How much can a single number tell you about how efficient a data centre is? While many argue about the value and benefit of PUE/DCIE, we've developed a tool that takes this simple metric and makes it much more meaningful.

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