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- Arctic Cooling Fusion 550R PSU (Payment Saving Unit)
- Arctic Cooling Fusion 550R PSU Payment Saving UnitOr you could just turn your PC off.If you need to save money.. just turn it off when its not being used.Businesses might find this useful, but i highly doubt it.Servers already incorporate this technology, thus making them "green" machines.
- Tags: Operational accounting, Payment Saving Unit, Arctic Cooling, payment
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- Arctic Cooling Fusion 550R PSU (Payment Saving Unit)
- Arctic Cooling has lifted the lid on the Fusion 550R PSU, but in this case PSU stands for Payment Saving Unit. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Payment, KWh, Arctic Cooling, Operational Accounting, Desktops, Finance, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
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- Dell applies its own data center lessons to new green IT services
- As a business society, we've been pretty much used to thinking of information technology as a disposable asset. Even data centers were built with a 10-year lifespan in mind, which means a lot of the work done and systems deployed around the year 2000 is quickly reaching that maturity point....
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Data Center, Green IT, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- News to know: Mumbai attacks, Microhoo, Holiday shopping, HDTVs
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jennifer Leggio: Mumbai attack coverage demonstrates good and bad maturation point of social media Social media marketing opportunism during tragedy = fail Oliver Marks: Mumbai Attacks...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., HDTV, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Attack, Digital Video, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Open Source, Personal Technology, Internet, Security, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Chill-Off project tests various recipes for real-world data center cooling
- It seems appropriate as I hunker down in my rather chilly office that I pen this post about the ongoing data center "Chill-Off" projects being run by the Association For Computer Operations Management AFCOM in Northern California. The intention of the Chill-Off demonstrations/tests is to monitor the effect of modular...
- Tags: Data Center, Blog, Data Centers, Blogging, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Internet, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-27
- Verari signs up partner for Forest data center container line
- I've poked around some during the past two months, trying to get a read on whether or not companies are actually buying the data center containers or "pods" that several of the larger high-tech systems vendors have been piloting this year. So far, the biggest evangelist on the customer side...
- Tags: Data Center, Verari Systems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- Cassatt helps organizations implement in-house clouds
- A crew of folks from Cassatt presented Active Profiling Service, a new service offering, and Active Response 5.2, a product update for the company's orchestration and automation product. I was very interested in learning more because Cassatt has long been helping organizations discover and then make best use of their...
- Tags: Cassatt Corp., Data Center, Cassatt Active Profiling Service, Cassatt Active Response, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- Details of AMD's Phenom II desktop chips keep leaking out
- AMD will announce its second-generation Phenom quad-core chips at the big Consumer Electronics Show in January. But at the current rate at which the company is leaking information about its first 45nm desktop processors, there may not be much left to say by the time they get to Vegas. ...
- Tags: Desktop, AMD Phenom, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Chip, Core, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Processors, Hardware, Networking, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- AMD's Phenom II shows overclocking potential
- After initial overclocking disappointment with the Phenom, AMD has put effort into giving the Phenom II a fair amount of overclocking overhead. At a demo yesterday journalists were shown a 45nm Phenom II processor running at 4GHz air-cooled, 5GHz using dry ice as a coolant, and well over 5GHz...
- Tags: AMD Phenom, Overclocking, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Deneb, Release, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Nielsen Mobile, an Altor Networks Customer
- I recently had the opportunity to speak with Nick Portolese, Senior Manager of Data Center Operations for Nielsen Mobile, an Altor Networks customer. He spent a few moments sharing his experiences with their software. Nick's comments follow. Please tell me who you are and what...
- Tags: Network, Environment, Network Security, Server, Virtual Machine, Tool, VMWare ESX, Nielsen Mobile, Altor Networks, Nielsen, Productivity, Data Centers, Ip storage, Networking, Security, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Wells Fargo team shares green tech tips for the data center
- In my quest to uncover practical information about what real data center managers are doing to decrease their energy consumption, for real, I recently spoke with two executives from Wells Fargo's Technology Information Group TIG. Scott Dillon, executive vice president and CTO for Enterprise Hosting...
- Tags: Team, Data Center, Green Technology, Wells Fargo & Co., Data Centers, Server Virtualization, Virtualization, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Servers, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Help is on the way
- It's getting colder in North America. And the bleak economic news may make it seem like spring has been cancelled. But much of the continent will once again be hitting the on-switch for air conditioning in less than nine months. And there's some good news. Help...
- Tags: Air Conditioner, Java, Leadership, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- ThermaPAK Memory Foam Laptop HeatShift Bag (15.4-inch, navy)
- The $50 ThermaPAK HeatShift bag is a laptop carrying case that also has a built in cooling system. The cooling technology works without using any batteries, plugs, or cords, and can be separated from the accompanying case. The design can benefit from extra straps and a more organized interior, but...
- Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer, ThermaPAK HeatShift, pad
- Product reviews 2008-11-07
- Asus X83VM-X1 - Core 2 Duo P8400 2.26 GHz, 14.1-inch TFT
- Editors' note: This review is part of our Holiday 2008 Retail Laptop Roundup, covering specific new configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.With its brown lid with a woven gold graphics pattern, the Asus X83VM-X1 might be mistaken for some sort of Gucci-branded laptop. (Hey, it...
- Tags: Notebooks, Processors, TFT, Asus X83VM-X1, ASUS, laptop computer, Intel Core 2 Duo
- Product reviews 2008-11-07
- Data center management software adds power management functions
- There's a newly spruced-up version of the nlyte management product out from Global Data Center Management GDCM that boasts integration with power management systems and a floor-planning module that includes considerations such as air-conditioning efficiency ratings. Among the features in nlyte 5.0: - Power management features...
- Tags: Software, Power Management, Data Center, Data Center Management Software, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- Blackbox, SWaP, and the z10
- Blackbox, SWaP, and the z10Over a barrelis where IBM has you if you still use mainframes. Not only is the hardware very expensive, but the labor is too. Universities stopped their mainframes ages ago, so no CS student today has any idea what a mainframe is. This means that you...
- Tags: Mainframes, Servers, Processors, Hardware cost, Shaw, mainframe, Z10, hardware, CPU
- Discussion threads 2008-11-06
- Asus X83VB-X1
- Editors' note: This review is part of our Holiday 2008 Retail Laptop Roundup, covering specific new configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.We have tested and reviewed five retail laptops in the $800 to $1,000 range, and the Asus X83VB-X1 is the cheapest and most powerful...
- Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer, Asus X83VB-X1, ASUS
- Product reviews 2008-11-05
- HP to data center managers: Put a lid on it
- As part of its evolving data center product and services strategy, Hewlett-Packard has introduced a technology called HP Dynamic Power Capping that lets data center managers set provisioning ceilings for how much power a specific server is allowed to use. You can base that cap on how much energy that...
- Tags: Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Server, HP Dynamic Power Capping, HP Dynamic Power Cooling, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
- Avoiding the Economic Cliff By Managing the Data Center Floor
- Enterprise Management Associates' Liam McGlynn provides an insightful look at the maturing Intelligent Data Center Management IDCM market and its impact on stretching the useful life of data centers that are reaching their capacity limits for space, cooling and power. Sponsored by Global DataCenter Management GDCM this whitepaper demonstrates...
- Tags: Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2008-10-30
- Fun with IBM's Z10 numbers
- Fun with IBM's Z10 numbersI just don't believe the IBM numbersin terms of real-world workloads and comparing Linux-to-Linux implementations. Maybe if you are doing some kind of multi-dimensional modeling you might get some advantage from the z10, but for work-a-day web hosting?RE: Fun with IBM's Z10 numbersSo... we're looking at...
- Tags: Linux, Mainframes, Data centers, Servers, Storage, Z10, IBM Corp., Z10 number
- Discussion threads 2008-10-29
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