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Audacious Idea
Harris Corporation and Lee Technologies, a Schneider Electric Company |
Multi-Zone Water Containment: A Breakthrough in Site Sustainability
Harris Corporation’s new Cyber Integration Center (CIC) features a unique multi-zone water containment system that allows irrigation for the entire landscape property (4.5 acres) without using potable water. The multi-zone system provides the flexibility to prioritize landscape features being irrigated while managing fluctuating seasonal irrigation demands. By implementing this idea the site will conserve 2.6M gallons of water per year and the conserved water will be reused for irrigation. |
Beyond the Data Center
Tieto
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Distributed Heating Using Data Center Waste Heat
Tieto’s new data center solution is focused on energy efficiency. The volume of the heat put back into the district heat network is greater than in any other similar solution. The PUE value of the system’s energy efficiency is 1.2–1.3. The center produces 30 gigawatt hours of heat, which is the equivalent of the annual heat requirement for about 1,500 houses. |
Data Center Design
Capgemini and Red Engineering Design
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Achieving 99% Free Cooling and Tier III Certification in a Modular Enterprise Data Center
Capgemini's brief for this new-build facility, 'Merlin', was challenging and commited to improvements in sustainability, starting with a target of 40% improvement in energy efficiency. Designing 'Merlin' meant making a conscious effort to avoid the mindset of traditional data center design and construction constraints. Red Engineering Design's solution was radical, genuinely innovative and required courage to commit to. The result is the most energy-efficient, flexible data center in the world. |
Facilities Innovation
Kaiser Permanente
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Computer Room Functional Efficiency, a Study in Raised Floor Optimization
With many companies facing unprecedented IT growth and society continuing to heighten its awareness with regard to environmental impact, the desire to “do the right thing” and maximize resources is a sentiment often shared by conscientious individuals/ companies across many industries. With that in mind, Kaiser Permanente is continuously looking for ways to improve efficiency and sustainability; in this case, the focus was on the raised floor air distribution systems at their national data centers. |
Innovation in a Smaller Data Center <1,000 sq ft
University of Hertfordshire
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Reduction and Reuse of Energy in Institutional Data Centers (RARE-IDC)
The RARE-IDC: Reduction and Re-use of Energy in Institutional Data Centers project ran from September 2008 – June 2010. This project achieved the goals for the University of Hertfordshire, but also provided transferable models both for delivering low power alternatives for ICT services, and for efficient sustainable operational arrangements. These were of benefit to most HE/FE communities and contribute to the UK’s JISC Institutional Innovation Programme and more specifically to the JISC-funded Managed Environmentally Sustainable ICT in Further and Higher Education (SusteIT) project. |
Innovation in a Smaller Data Center >1,000 sq ft
CEMEX
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Global Data Center - Smart Energy Management
In 2010 CEMEX executed an energy management project as an effort to align its Global Data Center operation with company sustainable development strategy. The project consisted of an analysis of processes, technologies, IT capabilities and facilities at the data center to improve energy efficiency, reducing electrical consumption and CO2 footprint. As a result, 25 initiatives were concluded on the following areas: computing, facilities and processes. |
IT Innovation
AOL
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You've Got ... AOL Cloud Computing
AOL's changing business model required a more agile and efficient computing infrastructure. The company faced both staff and infrastructure constraints, and needed to provide economies of scale in the data center environment. AOL reviewed the existing overall technology infrastructure, and realized that in every instance systems needed to be changed to meet the new and disruptive forces in the internet space. It was determined that Cloud Computing was required to transform the technology infrastructure. |
Outstanding Facilities Product in a User Deployment
Opengate Data Systems and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
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Intelligent Containment — Beyond Hot and Cold
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's (AAFC’s) Winnipeg Data Center had been under aggressive IT load growth for 20 years and the data center was operating well beyond its designed IT load. A single Opengate “intelligent” active containment hood was introduced and proved significant in not only allowing increased IT load, but also in providing a number of additional benefits including the ability to record and automate reactions to environmental metrics and the threshold alerting capabilities of the system. Thus began the “Intelligent Containment” project, which to date has seen twelve racks retrofitted with six intelligent active hoods capturing the majority of hot aisle heat. This highly effective and easy approach has not only allowed IT load increases beyond what was previously possible, but did so without increasing cooling costs. |
Outstanding IT Product in a User Deployment
Viridity Software and Client (confidential)
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Multi-Billion Dollar Business Deploys Viridity DCIM Software – Saves Over $1M
This case study profiles a Viridity Software customer - a multi-billion-dollar organization’s recent data center consolidation and optimization initiative. Highlights include discussion of the customer’s initial manual approach and the associated expense vs. the results that were enjoyed once a data center infrastructure management (DCIM) solution – i.e., Viridity Software EnergyCenter software – was installed. The results included over $1 million in bottom-line savings. |
