#EU Code of Conduct on Data Centre Energy Efficiency

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Data centres need to become more energy efficient, reuse waste energy such as heat, and use more renewable energy sources, with a view to becoming carbon-neutral by 2030, the EC policy states. The Commission aims to rely a mix of existing instruments, reviews of existing legislation and new initiatives to achieve that goal, including the Ecodesign Regulation on servers and data storage products, the EU Code of Conduct on Data Centre Energy Efficiency and the EU Green Public Procurement criteria for data centres, server rooms and cloud services. There are other relevant policies and funding initiatives that data centres fall under, including the Energy Efficiency Directive and the Taxonomy Regulation, a framework and classification system for when something can be qualified as sustainable. Lanza adds the Commission's amendment to energy statistics regulations, adopted in February 2022, which includes new data reporting requirements for data centres. Some countries have already published country-level data centre energy consumption estimates in recent years, including Ireland and the Netherlands.

Aoife Ryan-Christensen, ‘Data centres: a view from Europe’, RTE

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Microsoft Azure Storage

Microsoft Azure Enterprise cloud hosting services includes Virtual Machines, Storage (Blob, Files, Tables, nosql, unstructured, media files), Database, Networking, Disaster Recovery, Backup, Site Recovery, and Application Services. It can manage highly scalable durable petabytes of data. It can keep 3 copies within a single region. A geo-redundancy option creates 3 additional copies. It is a cloud computing application and very user friendly. Azure is a platform for cloud storage.

Reasons to buy Microsoft Azure storage online:

EU specific data redundancy options

Relational Database Services , blobs, tables, files

No SQL Services

Optional Back up features, geo-replication

Hybrid backup services

Recovery Services

Financially backed Service Level Agreement

Accessible via console of API

Pay per GB per month

High availability and scalability. Scale to petabytes on demand

Benefits of Microsoft Azure storage:

Improved agility with storage as a service

Reduce Time to Market

Reduce Capital Expenditure

Extend Datacenter Footprint

Agile Development and Testing

Remove operational overhead of managing infrastructure

Improve availability and uptime for servi

Leverage Microsoft’s security and compliance controls

Improve disaster recovery

Pay for the services that you consume.

Supports of Azure storage

Support service type: There are three types of azure storage are Service desk, email, Phone. Support is accessible to any third-party suppliers.

Support availability: Various levels of support are available for business hours all the time.

Standard support response time:  Depending upon the support option and severity level of issue the response times range from <15 minutes to <8 hours.

 Access of Microsoft azure

Supported web browsers: internet Explorer 10+, Firefox , chrome, safari.

Supported devices are: PC, Mac, Smart phone, tablets

 Microsoft Azure’s Certifications

Microsoft Azure storage online Vendor certification(s): ISO 27001 , EU model clauses, US-EU Safe Harbor , SSAE 16, HIPAA BAA, FISMA, Currently holds UK PGA accreditation to OFFICIA.

 Data storage in Microsoft Azure 

Data  centre adhere to the EU code of conduct for energy-efficient data   centre

User-defined  data location

Data  centre tier

Backup,  disaster recovery and resilience plan in place

Data  extraction/removal plan in place