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• HP envisions the holistic data center

  Hewlett-Packard has launched a set of services designed to help organizations manage their data centers more efficiently, using the principles of DCIM (data center infrastructure management).

• Data centers play fast and loose with reliability credentials

  How reliable is your data center service provider? Perhaps not as reliable as you think.

• Greenpeace tips hat to Facebook, Google for renewable energy use

  Greenpeace has often been critical of big data-center operators like Facebook for their impact on the environment, but on Wednesday it said some online firms are improving their practices and may even be the vanguard for renewable energy use.

• Microsoft: Fuel-cell powered datacentres cost less, improve reliability

  Data centers powered by fuel cells, not the public power grid, could cut both capital and operational costs, improve reliability, pollute less and take up less space, according to Microsoft researchers.

• Intel partners to expand app-level energy management

  Intel has partnered with startup TSO Logic in a move that should give more companies tools to track how much power their server applications consume.

• Data center innovator Ken Brill dies at 68

  Ken Brill, founder of the Uptime Institute and a forward thinker in data center design and operations, died this week at the age of 68, the Institute said on Thursday. The cause was cancer, a spokesman said.

• Intel will offer 'Broadwell' SOC to battle Calxeda, AMD

  Intel has updated its road map with a new, low-power server chip to help it ward off competition from Calxeda and other makers of low-power chips.

• Virtual reality and non-conductive liquids: data centers get innovative

  Google I/O is getting most of the attention this week, but a conference at the other end of Silicon Valley showed there's plenty of innovation happening in the word of data centers, too.

• Swedish data center saves $1 million a year using seawater for cooling

  A data center in Sweden has cut its energy bills by a million dollars a year using seawater to cool its servers, though jellyfish are an occasional hazard.

• EBay develops 'miles per gallon' metric for data centers

  There's a maxim in the data center business that you can't manage what you can't measure, and eBay has come up with the mother of all measurement systems for calculating data center efficiency.

• New SPEC tool to ID most energy-efficient servers

  SPEC, the standards body for performance benchmarks, has released a new toolkit that should help customers choose the most energy-efficient server for the workloads they need to run.

• Microsoft joins Open Data Center Alliance

  Microsoft has joined the Open Data Center Alliance, a user-led organization that aims to simplify the purchasing of data center and cloud services by promoting interoperability and common standards.

• Iceotope plumbs in immersively cooled servers for first customer

  Iceotope's immersively cooled server racks are now in production, and the company has named its first customer. The University of Leeds, in the north of England, has been using an Iceotope server since December to run computational fluid dynamics models -- and to warm the radiators in one of its laboratories.

• HP's first 'Project Moonshot' server due next quarter

  Hewlett-Packard's first low-power server for hyperscale computing environments, developed under a project it calls Moonshot, will go on sale next quarter, CEO Meg Whitman said on Thursday.

• Facebook pushes a new model for buying servers

  Facebook has proposed a new model for designing servers that it says will give businesses more choice in selecting components and a smarter way to upgrade systems when needs change, though it remains to be seen how widely its method will be adopted.