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Company has completed Tier III certifications for five of 20 new data center projects SAN FRANCISCO, May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: DLR), a leading global provider of data center solutions, today announced that it has contracted with Uptime Institute to achieve Tier III certification for 20 of its new data center projects worldwide. To date, five newly completed Turn-Key Flex(SM) data centers have received Tier III certification, including two...
AOL and Barclays to be honored as winners, and TD Bank, McKesson and Sun Life Financial to be recognized as finalists in the Uptime Institute Server Roundup for their efforts to improve data center efficiency around the globe at upcoming Uptime Institute Symposium. Number of participants in the roundup and servers removed doubled for 2012-13. NEW YORK, April 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- One of the consistent challenges facing the data center industry is the corporate disconnect between...
Honorees to Showcase Award-Winning Energy-Efficiency Innovations at Uptime Institute Symposium 2013 NEW YORK, April 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Uptime Institute, a division of The 451 Group, today announced the winners of the 2013 Green Enterprise IT Awards, which recognize pioneering advancements that significantly improve energy productivity and resource use in IT. The 2013 GEIT Awards winners are: Audacious Idea: TeraCool LLC Facility Design Implementation: National Center for...
Acquisition of Advisory and Research Firm Strengthens The 451 Group's Thought Leadership Around Digital Infrastructure NEW YORK, Feb. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The 451 Group, the corporate parent of 451 Research, Uptime Institute and Yankee Group, today announced the acquisition of Applied Velocity Labs, LLC, a Charlotte, NC-based strategy, advisory and research firm and the developer of a proprietary digital infrastructure strategy framework adopted by multiple Fortune 500 companies...
NEW YORK, Feb. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The 451 Group, the corporate parent of 451 Research, Uptime Institute and Yankee Group, today announced the acquisition of Tech:Touchstone, a UK-based events company cofounded in 2007 by ex-Gartner executive Simeon Turner. Tech:Touchstone events facilitate in-person sharing of insight between senior IT executives and create an environment where they have an opportunity to learn directly from their most trusted sources of information - peers and...
WELWYN GARDEN CITY, England, Jan. 31, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Capitoline is pleased to introduce a support service to assist data centre operators with achieving Uptime certification of design, facility and operations of their Datacentres. The Uptime Institute offers the following data centre related services; Design documents Tier standard rating Constructed facility Tier standard rating Operational sustainability rating (gold, silver or bronze) for data centres with an...
NEW YORK, Jan. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The 451 Group, the corporate parent of 451 Research and Uptime Institute, today announced the acquisition of Yankee Group, the preeminent research, data and advisory firm equipping enterprises to profit in a mobile world, from Alta Communications, a Boston-based private equity firm. Founded in 1970 by Howard Anderson, Yankee Group emerged as the first independent information technology market research and advisory firm focused on the...
NEW YORK, Dec. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Uptime Institute, a division of The 451 Group, today announced the eighth annual Uptime Institute Symposium will be held May 13-16 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California, with a theme of The Global Digital Infrastructure Evolution. Senior data center industry thought leaders, innovators and practitioners from over 30 countries will come together at Symposium 2013 to discuss strategies and best practices for enhancing...
DALLAS, Nov. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Compass Datacenters has attained the Uptime Institute Tier III Certification of Design Documents for the first two wholesale standalone data centers based on its Truly Modular(TM) Architecture. After a comprehensive review of Compass Datacenters' data center design, Uptime Institute has certified the design for Durham, North Carolina and Franklin, Tennessee as having all of the elements required to deliver Tier III Concurrently Maintainable...
NEW YORK, Oct. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- 451 Research has published 'Highly Energy-Efficient Datacenters in Practice,' a wide-reaching report that examines how datacenters are capitalizing on developments in design, energy management, cooling, and new deployment approaches to improve their energy efficiency. The report from 451 Research's Datacenter Technologies and Eco-Efficient IT practice includes case studies on 24 of the world's most highly energy-efficient datacenters - some...
