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Google's Belgium data center: Hold the chillers

Google's Belgium data center: Hold the chillersBetter solutionIf they would just site the center near the ocean, they could use cool ocean water year round for the minimal cost of pumping. They could use a heat pump to cool their offices in the summer, and use the warm exhaust...

Tags: Data centers, data center, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-07-16

Conversation with John Engates, Rackspace's CTO

Conversation with John Engates, Rackspace's CTOBad CallJohn,This is what I sent Lanham with no replay, So munch has happened to RS and you have no details.Please call my cell so I can give you the whole story.Thanks,Kelly GalbraithData Center Engineer626-676-1287 Mobile Lanham,This is truly a bad situation, I have been...

Tags: Data centers, Shermco, chiller, Neal Parker, DFW data center, Rackspace, breaker

Discussion threads 2008-01-01

Additional Resources

Microsoft opens Chicago and Dublin datacenters; preps for more hosted offerings

Just a week after celebrating the opening its "chiller-free" Dublin datacenter, Microsoft is turning on its $500 million, 700,000-square-foot Chicago one. Microsoft is gearing up to support more customers using its hosted services and its Azure cloud environment. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Data Center, Microsoft Corp., Chicago, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-09-30

Core4 challenges traditional data center cooling technology

Core4 Systems, a start-up that sells an innovative data center cooling system, is targeting businesses who are trying to reduce the footprint of their data centers or find a more modular way to build out a new one. The company offers a range of systems including CRAC,...

Tags: Utility Company, Data Center, Data Centers, Telecom & Utilities, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-09-17

News to know: Apple; Salesforce.com; CRM; Microsoft; PayPal

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Apple's future TV: Can Web-based apps replace "channels," kill cable? DOJ gives blessing to Oracle-Sun, awaiting EC...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., PayPal, CRM, Sales Force Management, Sales

Blog posts 2009-08-21

Watch these metrics. The Planet touts new water-cooled chiller from Turbine Air.

I'm always looking for examples of things that businesses are doing to make their data centers more energy-efficient. This one comes from The Planet, an IT hosting company from Texas. When it built out a new 106,000-square-foot data center in Plano its eighth, The Planet opted for...

Tags: The Planet.com Internet Services Inc., Turbine, Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-08-20

News to know: Google; IBM; Microsoft's edge; Palm SDK; Twitter

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Google: Nice quarter, but... Larry Dignan: IBM delivers strong second quarter, ups 2009 earnings outlook ...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Data Center, Palm Inc., SDK, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Palm Pre, Storage, Desktops, Hardware, Data Management

Blog posts 2009-07-17

Sustainable Operation and Management of Data Center Chillers Using Temporal Data Mining

Data centers are a critical component of modern IT infrastructure but are also among the worst environmental offenders through their increasing energy usage and the resulting large carbon footprints. Efficient management of data centers, including power management, networking, and cooling infrastructure, is hence crucial to sustainability. In the absence of...

Tags: Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2009-07-01

IBM win: University will invest in $12.4M green data center

Get this, someone is actually making a capital investment in a new data center! And, a green one at that. We hear today that Syracuse University and New York State plan to use IBM to build a whopping 6,000-square-foot green data center that will use roughly 50...

Tags: Data Center, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-05-29

Sun squeezes out cost, space and heat with new Colorado data center

Sun Microsystems has flipped the switch on a new data center in Broomfield, Colo., one that represents its largest consolidation project to date. The new facility will represent an estimated $1 million in energy savings plus the elimination of 11,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide annually. Overall, the project will...

Tags: Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Real Estate, Hardware, Data Management, Business Operations, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-01-26

Centrifugal Chiller Model Selection Software

The client is a leading HVAC manufacturer in Korea with presence in the Asian and Middle East markets. The client's Sales department has a manual process for selecting appropriate chiller configurations based on key input parameters. This process had inherent limitations. Due to growth and geographic expansion, the client needed...

Tags: Software, Client, BLUE STAR INFOTECH, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, C#, Sales, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Case studies 2008-11-18

A solar cooled air-conditioning system

Spanish scientists have developed a new eco-friendly air-conditioning system. The researchers are relying on solar energy for cooling their devices. They claim that their technology does not harm the ozone layer and reduces the use of greenhouse gases. The research team has 'designed and built an absorption chiller capable of...

Tags: C, Temperature, Absorption Chiller, Marcelo Izquierdo, AlphaGalileo, C/C++, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-07-17

Wearing of the green: HP stakes claim in energy-efficiency services, software

Hewlett-Packard must be thrilled with Forrester Research's report a couple of weeks ago, showing an enormous opportunity in assessment and design services around making technology infrastructure more energy-efficient and just generally greener. I'll send you to my blog for reference, but to excerpt the data: It estimates the typical assessment...

Tags: Software, Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Data Centers, Virtualization, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-03-17

Water, water everywhere, but every drop for cooling

Water, water everywhere, but every drop for coolingStill going to need power to operate the chiller unitsand if you are relying on cooling towers then outside air will significantly impact performance and efficiency. So again, augmenting with either solar or wind or both can greatly decrease the load on the...

Tags: Data centers, Storage, data center

Discussion threads 2007-09-10

Water, water everywhere, but every drop for cooling

In my dream life, I am a marine biologist. (I attribute this partly to being a water sign horoscope-wise and partly to childhood summers spent living in lakes and pools. ‘Mom, what do you mean I have to get out and dry off?!’) So, I’ve always been...

Tags: Data Center, Fact, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, IBM Corp., Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2007-09-10

Straight Talking - Data Centre in a Box

If one is crippled by data centre energy and space constraints, that 20 per cent efficiency improvement could provide relief. The Sun marketing blurb for the data centre shows a black container they will actually be painted white in production to help with cooling squeezed between pillars in a basement...

Tags: Quocirca, Data, Marketing Research, Marketing

White papers 2007-07-06

IBM IT Facilities Assessment, Design and Construction Services - Data Center Stored Cooling Solution

IBM IT Facilities Assessment, Design and Construction Services - data center stored cooling solution can deliver significant operational savings from the largest user of energy that provides cooling to data center - the chiller plant, representing about one-third of the data center's total energy requirements. This stored cooling solution is...

Tags: Data Center, Information Technology, Construction Service, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Construction, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2007-05-01

More holiday gift ideas

While attending the Churchill Club event, "Making a List: Fourth Annual Whats Hot and Whats Not in Personal Technology," I chatted with Walt Mossberg about the latest cell phones, Microsofts Zune and various gadget accessories. I also interviewed Walts co-host for the event Kara Swisher about some of her favorite...

Tags: General, Entertainment

Blog posts 2006-12-20

What's cool and bright in consumer tech?

A Wall Street Journal technology writer picks her 2006 favoritesKara Swisher, a technology writer for The Wall Street Journal, shows ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber Sharper Image's colorful iPulse iPod stereo speakers, CoolIT Systems' USB beverage chiller, Royal Philips Electronics' LED lighting systems and Celestron's personal planetarium.

Tags: Food & Beverage, technology writer

Whiteboards 2006-12-19

What's cool and bright in consumer tech?

Kara Swisher, a technology writer for The Wall Street Journal, shows ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber Sharper Image's colorful iPulse iPod stereo speakers, CoolIT Systems' USB beverage chiller, Royal Philips Electronics' LED lighting systems and Celestron's personal planetarium.

Tags: Food & Beverage, technology writer, Beverage, Manufacturing

Videos 2006-12-19