EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres

• What is it? • Who does it apply to? ( me? )

• Only new DCs? • I’m planning to refurbish?

• Who else has signed up? • Does it cost anything? • Why should I?

• What are the benefits? • Any risk?

• How do I sign up? ( Practical steps )

EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres

Morrisons, RBS, Tesco, Visa Europe, Bank of England, HSBC, Barclays, BT Engage, BT Plc , BUPA, Transport for London, University of the Arts London, Cap Gemini, Claranet Ltd, Colocentric Limited, Colt Technology Services, CSC, Defra, Dell Corp Ltd, Department of Energy & Climate Change, Digiplex, Equinix UK, Fidelity International, Future-Tech, Hewlett Packard, Hitachi Data Systems, hurleypalmerflatt, Imperial College, Johnson Controls, Libra Investment Services, Morgan Stanley, NextiraOne UK Ltd, Novartis, NTTE, Optimum Group Services, Red Engineering Design, Research In Motion, TalkTalk Technology, Telecity Group, Thomson Reuters, Virtus Data Centres, Visa Europe, Yahoo!, Zen Internet, Barclays Global Work Place Solutions, Colt, Digital Realty (UK) Limited , Equinix, Fujitsu, Goldman Sachs, GCPD, HM Land Registry, London South Bank University, Arup, Mace Group, MOD, Morgan Stanley, NYSE Technologies, Star

Dec 6th    2012 Theme = Cooling

Mar 7th 2013 Theme =  Monitoring

June 6th 2013 Theme = The Ideal Metric

Sept 5th 2013 Theme = DCIM

“Meaningful Data Centre Performance and Efficiency Metrics for the Financial Sector” 7th February

Canary Wharf

EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres

EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres UK 2011 2.70GW 2012 2.85GW 2016 3.15GW 3rd biggest consumer of DC related energy www.datacenterdynamiocs.com/intelligence-report-2012

Greenpeace estimates that data centres will use 1,963 billion kilowatt hours of electricity by 2020. That is more than the power currently consumed by France, Germany, Canada and Brazil combined http://news.bbc.co.uk

EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres

London

03:00 Introduction Simon Allen Concurrent Thinking

03:10Welcome –The EU Code of

Conduct - BackgroundMike Walker DEFRA

03:20An Overview of the EU

Code of ConductSophia Flucker Operational Intelligence

03:40 Monitoring and Metrics Michael Rudgyard Concurrent Thinking

04:10Sharing Experiences from

EU Code of Conduct

Kevin Cope & Alex

Yakimov Imperial College

04:25Data Centres: The backbone

of the UK economy’James Harbridge Intellect UK

Hotel Russell – Library Suite

1898, Charles Fitzroy Doll. The hotel's restaurant, which is named after the architect, is said to be almost identical to the RMS Titanic's dining room which he also designed

Development of the CoC

• A holistic approach is needed to reduce these figures • Ecodesign goes some way in reducing energy consumption:

Regulations currently in force for air conditioning products;

Regulations planned for computers & displays; and

Servers being assessed under 2012-2014 Ecodesign work plan.

• Lack of steer from EU level resulted in development of CoC, led by EU Commission JRC, with support from Defra and BCS – The Chartered Institute for IT

What is it and why should you sign up?

• EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres launched in London in

November 2008

• Voluntary Initiative to reduce energy consumption of data

centres through adoption of best practices

• Benefits:

Greener and more efficient data centres original estimates indicated

savings of up to 4.7MtCO2 in UK alone following successful

implementation of the CoC

Large cost savings possible thanks to reduced energy bills, more efficient

running of the data centre

CoC Logo makes you stand out from your competitors!

The CoC and the UK Government

• Defra signed up as an Endorser in 2010

• Our IT providers are a Participant to the CoC

• Other Government Departments also requesting that their IT providers become signatories to the CoC

• Looking to include CoC Best Practices within the upcoming Government Buying Standards for Data Centres