C4L pushes for “greener” data centres
The recent shift of economic focus towards efficiency and the emergence of
“green” concerns have also influenced the development of data centres. The
latest data centres have environmental concerns at their centre, with features such
as lower power usage of prime concern. Because of these concerns, C4L
(formerly Connexions 4 London) have begun their move towards becoming as
environmentally friendly as possible.
This includes the company pushing itself towards C4L is continuously looking for new ways to become more
virtualisation, meaning that the company’s office operations environmentally friendly, particularly with their forthcoming
will be using considerably less energy as fewer servers will south coast data centre in mind. They are actively looking
need to be powered. These systems will become for lower power servers such as the Dell Green Range in
centralised, benefitting mass-cooling systems, thereby order to reduce their energy consumption, and staff
optimising their power usage. Managing Director, Matt frequently attend the growing number of seminars and
Hawkins explains, “Virtualisation will make expanding our exhibitions which focus upon environmental issues.
business straightforward, and we’ll also benefit from the
obvious factors such as cost savings.” C4L is a leading Internet Service Provider (IT sector), who
boast one of the biggest private networks in the UK, with
Free-air cooling is another factor that C4L is exploring, millions of people using their 10 Gigabit network on a daily
particularly with a new facility they are working on in the basis. They also house companies’ servers in secure data
south. In traditional data centres the heated air created by centres globally and provide internet infrastructure services
the servers is compressed down to cool air, using including data storage, backup and connectivity. They have
considerable amounts of power. Free-air cooling an extensive coverage of co-location and connectivity
takes air from outside the data centre and services across the world with over 40 data centres spread
circulates it, saving the need for larger amounts across the UK and Europe. They provide ultra high
of energy consumption. Technical manager at redundancy (maximum uptime, minimum downtime),
C4L, Phil Wrightson commented, “This is a reliability, security and connectivity ensuring a fast and
major step forward for data centres, and reliable connection to the internet.
whilst it’s unlikely to come in to
existing data centres, it’s an For further information, contact C4L on 08000 470 481 or
extremely positive move via their website at
www.C4L.co.uk
for new builds.”
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