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- New power management software targets "unused" servers
- 1E, the self-proclaimed market-share leader in power management software for client PCs with 4 million licenses deployed, is now targeting servers. 1E CEO Sumir Karayi figures, based on another independent study, that approximately 4.7 million of the servers in use today are wasting energy to the tune of about...
- Tags: Software, Power Management, Data Center, 1E Ltd., Data Centers, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- Gartner research suggests data center energy metrics still mystery to many businesses
- The industry can provide more useful toolsWe encourage the IT, electrical & mechanical infrastructure, construction, and data center management industries to continue to work through The Green Grid, the US EPA, and other internationally recognized organizations to develop metrics and reporting standards for data center efficiency and productivity. In addition...
- Tags: Data centers, Storage, Gartner Inc., data center, industry
- Discussion threads 2009-10-08
- Green Grid releases green data center resources
- Looks like The Green Grid is getting deeper into the Green IT tools business. The organization has launched a free online site with maps that data center managers in Japan and 33 European countries can use to figure out the extent to which they can use free cooling (the process...
- Tags: Data Center, Grid, Green Grid, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-10-05
- Fortune Data Centers uses energy efficiency metrics as competitive differentiation
- Fortune Data Centers, which opened a new "green" data center in San Jose, Calif., back in April 2009, is wooing prospective tenants with its high efficiency claims -- power usage effectiveness PUE measures of 1.37 at full load -- and its likely certification as the first operational data center in...
- Tags: Energy Efficiency, Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-08-07
- Lofty aspirations for power efficiency: Power Loft seeks silver certification for new data center
- Colocation data center Power Loft began dreaming about greener data centers several years ago, long before it became vogue to do so. Now, in collaboration with Hewlett-Packard's Critical Facilities Services, the company has designed a 200,000-square-foot facility in Prince William County, Va., that can deliver between 120...
- Tags: Facility, Certification, Data Center, Virginia, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- McKinsey: Saving energy could have huge economic impact
- McKinsey: Saving energy could have huge economic impactPlease, no more added bureaucracyThere will always be savings that can be extracted, but the crux is at what cost. To take a very simple example, electricity here in the Pacific NW is $0.10/KWH. Suppose tomorrow the price was suddenly $10...
- Tags: Saving Energy, McKinsey & Co.
- Discussion threads 2009-07-31
- Take a lead from Yahoo! Focus less on buying carbon credits and more on reducing your carbon emissions
- Internet giant Yahoo!, which obviously relies quite heavily on its data centers for its livelihood, has taken a very bold step: it has said it will stop buying carbon credits to offset the greenhouse gas emissions produced by its data centers. Instead, it will focus on initiatives...
- Tags: Data Center, Yahoo! Inc., Carbon, Carbon Emission, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-07-12
- Some like it cool: HP/EDS fellow shares data center best practices
- I spoke last week with Ed Kettler, a fellow for Hewlett-Packard who comes to the company via HP's acquisition of systems integrator EDS. Kettler has been involved with two major data center overhauls that EDS undertook before it became part of HP, including the retrofit of a facility in Wynyard,...
- Tags: Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Best Practice, Kettler, Tulsa, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- Putting a cloud into a box (container) the HP way
- Putting a cloud into a box container the HP wayPortability cuts both ways!Imagine having somebody back up a rental truck and driving away with your datacenter, that would suck!Very nice. NT.1.25 PUE inst so impressive anymoreand neither is 1.4M for the shell/cooling. I dont think anyone else building containerized datacenters...
- Tags: Data centers, Storage, data center, HP Way, Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-18
- Putting a cloud into a box (container) the HP way
- At the HP Technology Forum in Las Vegas I got to a chance to tour a HP POD Performance Optimized Datacenter. A more suitable acronym would be "Portable Optimized Datacenter" because it is in a specially reinforced and equipped standard sized container and delivered on...
- Tags: Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- Increasing Data Center Efficiency Through Metering and Monitoring Power Usage
- To increase data center energy efficiency at one of older data centers in India, Intel IT's Data Center Services group collaborated on a technology study with the IT compute organization and Intel Facilities Management to develop a comprehensive approach to metering power usage. It developed methods for identifying measurable efficiency...
- Tags: Data Center, Monitoring, Intel Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2009-06-01
- Ratings on the fly: Raritan, EDSA Micro team to provide ongoing energy efficiency ratings
- Power management tech company Raritan, which makes the Power IQ Energy Management software for keeping tabs on data center racks and surrounding conditions, and EDSA Micro, which sells a power system management platform that predicts potential problems, have gotten together to provide energy efficiency ratings based on the Advanced Power...
- Tags: Raritan Computer, Team, Energy Efficiency, Data Center, Power Usage Effectiveness, Raritan-EDSA Micro Solution, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-04-13
- 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
- Holy cow, Batman, it's a Platinum-level green data center!
- Ever heard of Advanced Data Centers out of San Francisco? Well, you're about to, since the corporate hosting services company apparently is the first company to earn a Platinum Pre-Certification for a data center under the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program for rating...
- Tags: data center, bob seese, data centers, storage, hardware, data management, heather clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Microsoft builds out its first containerized datacenter
- James Hamilton, one of the all-star architects on the Microsoft Windows Live Core team, has been a champion of using modular datacenter containers to build out datacenters. On April 1, Microsoft announced publicly its plans to build a completely containerized production data center. The company made the...
- Tags: Data Center, Microsoft Corp., Hamilton, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- The Green Grid Data Center Power Efficiency Metrics: PUE and DCiE
- The Green Grid is an association of IT professionals seeking to dramatically raise the energy efficiency of data centers through a series of short-term and long-term proposals. This is an update to the very first white paper published by the Green Grid in February 2007 called "Green Grid Metrics: Describing...
- Tags: Energy Efficiency, Data Center, Green Grid, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-10-24
- Green Grid Metrics: Describing Datacenter Power Efficiency
- The Green Grid is an association of IT professionals seeking to dramatically raise the energy efficiency of datacenters through a series of short-term and long-term proposals. For the short term, The Green Grid is proposing the use of Power Usage Effectiveness PUE and Datacenter Efficiency DCE metrics, which enable datacenter...
- Tags: Energy Efficiency, Data Center, Green Grid, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-02-20
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