“Multiple chillers that support the second floor failed, and the standby chiller system did not start in time to absorb the load,” Equinix France general manager Michel Brignano explained in a report posted to the FrNOG Internet community forum. “This impacted temperatures on the second floor and had indirect effect on the ground floor as well.”

Source: The WHIR

The deal still requires approval from antitrust officials of the European Union. But the action by the US Department of Justice, disclosed by Oracle on Thursday, is a major step toward completion of the purchase. European officials have said they will decide by early September whether to approve the deal or launch a more extensive investigation.

Source: iStock Analyst

The MIT researchers worked with Akamai and its internet content distributed server infrastructure to use its traffic routing data to test out their ideas. They tracked over three years of electricity supply costs in 29 cities in the USA. With this data to hand a routing algorithm was developed that calculated energy cost savings if data workloads were moved from high-cost-to low-cost data centres.

Source: The Register

RackForce’s general manager Randall Robinson said that the error was an extremely unusual and unfortunate event. “The issue was caused by a miscommunication between the customer and one of our technical staff, which resulted in a data file being deleted,” Robinson said.

Source: Global Gold

The “Global Data Centre Survey,” found that 32% of all organizations surveyed worldwide are planning or building new data centres, while 83% of existing data centres continue to receive investment for infrastructure and technology projects. Of the 730 IT professionals surveyed, 65% said they were required to demonstrate a specific return on the investment before their data centre projects were approved.

Source: eChannel Line

Over time, however, the data centre anticipates adding more machines, which will require more power.  Baronyx says it will then add 450 additional offshore turbines, which will be located in the Gulf of Mexico, and generate significantly more power.

Source: Fudzilla

In the next months TRE is planning to make further investments in an energy recovery facility that will generate renewable energy for the local area and a new surfing simulator at Bodyflight.

Source: Property Week

Do an onsite audit & modelling: An audit can help identify areas of inefficiency, says Greg Stover, senior vice president of sales at NER.The audit should take into account items such as room layout, rack-by-rack IT equipment densities, CRAC type and location, total equipment power consumption, point temperatures throughout the room, cutouts, and leakage. Stover says, “Next, a modelling process with many iterations and scenarios can help you develop a complete thermal solution for the data centre that prevents excess power use.”

Source: Processor

Despite hostility from opposition MPs and civil liberties groups, government security officials want to be able to monitor every e-mail, phone call and website visit of people in the UK. However, the submission — by the London Internet Exchange, which represents more than 330 firms including BT, Virgin and Carphone Warehouse — said: “We view the description of the government’s proposals as ‘maintaining’ the capability as disingenuous: the volume of data the government now proposes [we] should collect and retain will be unprecedented, as is the overall level of intrusion into the privacy of citizenry.

Source: Times Online

The system was originally designed and implemented by IBM staff in the UK in 2001. The new agreement continues the existing relationship and covers the support for all hardware, software, training, helpdesk and onsite assistance to meet the most demanding requirements specified by the Royal Air Force.

Source: IBM