http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/news-green-it/sun-to-sign-eu-code-of-conduct-for-data-centres-109 Enhancing business with technology - in association with eweek.com Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:33:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/news-green-it/sun-to-sign-eu-code-of-conduct-for-data-centres-109#comment-15405 Philip Vandenberg Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:13:35 +0000 http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/news-green-it/sun-to-sign-eu-code-of-conduct-for-data-centres-109#comment-15405 It is good to see another vendor sign up to endorse the EU Code of Conduct. What is needed for this programme is for data centre owners to sign up as Participants in order for real energy savings to be made. As a voluntary programme the EU Code of Conduct has attracted the interests of the vendor community but unless we start to get many more data centres qualifying as Participants then the whole programme may be short lived and be limited to a marketing campaign only. In light of the EPA's recent announcement and the new BICSI release data center design standard it will be interesting to see how this all evolves. It is good to see another vendor sign up to endorse the EU Code of Conduct.
What is needed for this programme is for data centre owners to sign up as Participants in order for real energy savings to be made.
As a voluntary programme the EU Code of Conduct has attracted the interests of the vendor community but unless we start to get many more data centres qualifying as Participants then the whole programme may be short lived and be limited to a marketing campaign only.
In light of the EPA’s recent announcement and the new BICSI release data center design standard it will be interesting to see how this all evolves.

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