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 Uptime Institute Now Accepting Applications for 2012 Green Enterprise IT Awards Uptime Institute’s Green Enterprise IT (GEIT) Awards recognize projects, ideas and products that significantly improve energy productivity and resource use in IT, data centers and beyond. The GEIT Awards are open to applicants in all countries and are judged by a committee of independent experts. In 2012, the Institute invites applications in 8 categories. Application deadline is February 15, 2012. Award winners for 2012 will be honored at the Uptime Institute Symposium in Santa Clara, CA, May 14-17, 2012. Click here to learn more |
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 The theme of Uptime Institute Symposium 2012 is Digital Infrastructure Convergence. This is a call to action for business, IT and data center managers to come together to develop a common language, common goals, and the cross-disciplinary skills necessary to meet the rapidly changing and evolving computing demands of business. Successful IT organizations of the future will run highly optimized operations in which all IT and facilities assets, third-party services, and decision makers are aligned toward achieving common business goals and contributing measurably and meaningfully to the enterprise bottom line. Uptime Institute Symposium 2012 will provide enterprise IT and data center decision-makers and their business and technical teams from around the world a comprehensive overview of the state of the converged Digital Infrastructure and the confidence to apply that knowledge within their own organizations. Click here to learn more. |
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Uptime Institute Server Roundup! We’re pleased to announce the first Uptime Institute Server Roundup. According to our field experience 10% of your organization’s servers are likely sitting idle on the raised floor, wasting power and cooling resources. Decommissioning a single 1U rack server can result in $500 per year in energy savings, an additional $500 in operating system licenses, and $1,500 in hardware maintenance costs. Instead of piddling around shaving a point off your PUE, it’s time to get focused on what will make a real difference. It takes hard work to get in there and look for duplicated or unused applications, out-of-date, obsolete servers. Uptime Institute is offering a bounty on your comatose hardware. Go to our blog to find out more about contest prizes and rules. |
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The inaugural data center survey results are in! Uptime Institute conducted its first annual data center industry survey collecting data from mission critical data center owners and operators worldwide. Participants were contacted by email from March-April 2011, and over 1,000 industry representatives responded. The Institute filtered vendor and consultant responses, focusing on the results from 525 data center executives. Respondents were primarily North America-based, and largely represented by the financial industry, colocation providers, and government agencies. Approximately one-half of the respondents manage over 2,000 servers. Institute Network Members or Individual Subscribers, you can log in and obtain your copy of the results any time from the Uptime Institute Publications page. If you are not a Subscriber and would like to be one, select Join Now.
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Tour the first Tier III Gold Certified data center in EMEA Uptime Institute recently awarded Operational Sustainability Gold Certification to Fujitsu's London North Data Center. Fujitsu's London North Data Center provides managed data center services to major corporations in Financial Services, Utilities, Service Companies, and Government. Gold Certification signifies that Fujitsu operates this facility to a world-class level. This video outlines Fujitsu's achievements and provides a video tour of its facility. |
 Is your organization at risk of running out of data center capacity? Are you considering moving compute loads to the cloud, increasing virtualization investments, evaluating co-location options, or planning a new data center? Are you responsible to deliver this message and formulate a strategic plan? Today’s high IT costs and higher consequences for downtime warrant a review of the strategic plan by vendor-neutral industry experts to validate assumptions and ensure best practices. A strategic plan must incorporate both Facilities and IT infrastructure perspectives and requirements. This will ensure that the strategic solution addresses the enterprise-wide constraints—thereby facilitating executive approval. Uptime Institute’s Digital Infrastructure Roadmap is a robust evaluation that works to ensure the long-term performance of investment in enterprise computing. The first step is to capture the drivers in terms of business strategy, data center facilities, and IT technology. Then, validate capacity assumptions and map to optimized scenarios. The report will include actionable recommendations for capacity planning for the next 3-5 years. For more information on the unbiased Digital Infrastructure Roadmap, please click HERE . |
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Tier Standard: Operational Sustainability
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 The Tier Program continues to expand its offerings to support multiple industry perspectives on the Tiers. Tier Program resources include:
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