News and Events

Below you’ll find the latest Carbon3IT news, it’s also worth checking out our Twitter Feed and Blog for more news and articles on a variety of developments taking place in sustainable Information technology.


21st January 2012

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BCS CEEDA

The BCS CEEDA award is to recognise the achievements of Data Centre operators in reducing energy use or by adopting energy saving measures. The award is based on some of the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres "Best Practices document that can be found here EU Code of Conduct for Data Centre Page

We are pleased to announce that Carbon3IT Ltd are a delivery partner for DCD/BCS and are able to conduct CEEDA assessments, if you wish to have a CEEDA assessment conducted on your facility please contact David Carter of DCD on 0207 871 9935 or David Carter on david.carter@datacenterdynamics.com

Limited "Lead Adopters" assessments available at special pricing, please contact David Carter direct on 0207 871 9935.

We also provide a Pre CEEDA assessment directly to clients, please use the contact pages at the bottom of the page. A Pre-CEEDA assessment provides you with the information you need to comply with the CEEDA requirements and will deliver an action plan for you to be assured that a level of award will be granted, We are unable to conduct the CEEDA assessment after this work as the integrity and credibility of the award demands that We are unable to assess a facility where we have recommended improvements. A pre-CEEDA assessment is charged at our standard daily consultancy rates and the lenght of assignments will depend on the size and location of your facility, use the contact pages to request more information. We are also able to advise on your readiness to participate in the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres and can assist in your application.

Cloud Energy Research

We've completed some preliminary work on Cloud Energy use but now want to extend our research. We've made an open offer on our blogspot http://carbon3it.blogspot.com/2011/10/is-cloud-green.html

for companies that are considering moving services into the cloud to get their current IT estate measured for energy use and carbon emissions.

We'll then assist in getting the cloud services measured for comparison

Contact us on info@carbon3it.com with "Cloud Green Test" in the subject line

Next "Green IT Talk

6th February 2012 - BCS Hereford - http://www.bcs.org/content/ConWebDoc/41269"

Next Events

-6th February - BCS London HQ "BCS Green Roundtable on IT and the Green economy"

Last Event Report

16th January 2012 - BCS Nottingham - http://nottmderby.bcs.org/event.php?e_id=70

A very well attended event at the Novotel Junction 25 M1, lots of questions and debate.

Some of the emails we've received:

"great event last night John. Thank you." &

"I really enjoyed your presentation yesterday evening. I do think this is an important topic and I would like to talk more about how it can be moved up the agenda. - I know it’s a hot topic in IT right now"

DCD Leaders Awards 15th December

We had a great time at the DCD Leaders Awards at the Lancaster Hotel in London, we'd been invited to judge some of the categories and as a reward been given a seat on the judges table, A review of these events will be found on our blog, but probably tomorrow.

News

The CEEDA award assessment is now up and running and Carbon3IT Ltd are one of only 3 organisations in the UK that can provide the assessments in partnership with DataCentre Dynamics and the BCS, more information on the award can be found here http://www.ceeda-award.org/

We are pleased to report that Greentrac, our PC power monitoring tool has been installed at the University of Warwick, approximately 200 users are now monitoring their own energy use and we've been advised that almost nobody turned their PC's off during Christmas 2010, whilst over Christmas 2011, almost everbybody did! We have yet to look at the specific cost savings but we estimate that just during a 10 day break the Univeristy saved approximately £300

We also have Greentrac on trial at a Northampton school, we hope to report on this soon.

We have a number of trials available for Data Centre Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software, this product is in beta at the present time and we are looking for a number of first adopters, who will get the software and survey completed free of upfront charges, savings identified to be shared from your next electricity bill. The ROI on this product can be as little as 4 months DCIM provides real time information on your data centre operation, it is the link between facilities information (cooling etc) and the IT, allowing accurate energy saving management, to be applied, DCIM will be installed in all data centres in the future, be one of the first!

Carbon3IT Ltd MD John Booth will be undertaking a tour of the BCS West Midlands branches and other locations over the coming months speaking on the topic of Green IT. The confirmed dates for the tour are listed below, please visit the BCS Branch website for more information and booking

If you would like us to deliver a "Green IT talk" to your organisation please contact us via the info@carbon3it.com link at the bootom of the page

2012

6th February 2012 - BCS Hereford - http://www.bcs.org/content/ConWebDoc/41269"

10th October 2012 - BCS Leicester - http://www.leicester.bcs.org/

Previous Green IT Talks

21st September 2011 - BCS Coventry http://coventry.bcs.org/events.php

13th September 2011 - BCS Birmingham http://birmingham.bcs.org/

11th October 2011 - BCS Gloucester http://www.bcs.org/category/14858

12th October 2011 - BCS Southampton http://www.bcs.org/content/conEvent/6408

18th October 2011 - UKITA CSW Branch http://www.ukita.co.uk/news-events/232.html

19th October 2011 - BCS Shropshire http://www.bcs.org/content/conEvent/6273

10th November 2011 - BCS Wolverhampton, http://www.bcs.org/category/12463

15th November 2011 - BCS North Staffordshire http://www.nstaffs.bcs.org/events.php

15th November 2011 - BCS North Staffordshire http://www.nstaffs.bcs.org/events.php

Cancelled - 17th November 2011 - Techmesh, Sheffield http://techmesh.org/events/view/173/green-it-the-impact-on-business

16th January 2012 - BCS Nottingham - http://nottmderby.bcs.org/event.php?e_id=70

Birmingham Green Leaders Award. John has been nominated for a SWM Green Leaders Award, results will be announced on the 5th October. John hopes that the nomination will kick start the use of technology throughout the West Midlands to reduce Carbon especially in the ICT Sectors.

13th September 2011

Carbon3IT Ltd (John Booth) spoke at the BCS Birmingham branch on the topic of Green IT. The event was well received even though the branch had a talk in March, members said that a lot more information and practical information they can use was given.

30th June - 1st July 2011

Carbon3IT Ltd were invited to participate in the Amsterdam Duurzaam event, this is similar to Sustainability Live but on a much smaller scale We attended the event with our compute technology partner Very PC Ltd. There was a lot of interest in the Broadleaf PC demonstrated at the event, the Broadleaf is one of the worlds most efficient PC's, packing a real punch with the latest technology but fully carbon offset as well as 66% more efficient than its competitors. Carbon Trust and Salix funding is available for selected customers - call for details.