National Trust goes virtual to cut data centre power

from CBRonline:

National Trust should be able to slice its data centre energy consumption by 70% after signing a hosting contract for managed virtualised infrastructure services and disaster recovery.

The organisation has signed a deal with eLINIA, a former unit of BT, to migrate physical elements of its existing infrastructure onto a virtual platform run on HP blades in a carbon neutral data centre.

eLINIA’s carbon-neutral hosting service is based out of the Equinix data centre facility in Slough, UK which is powered by Slough Heat and Power Energy.