HP’s taking its build-a-data-center business seriously. Today the company’s Converged Infrastructure division unveiled what it’s billing as “the world’s most efficient data center,” the HP POD 240a. Or the EcoPOD as the company has taken to calling it (a naming convention I fully support). As has become the norm for modular data center vendors, the [...]
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FacilityBlog over at Today’s Facility Manager has some great quotes from Jakob Carnemark, an SVP with construction giant Skanska USA. In essence, he says that in order to keep pace with exploding data center demand, it’s time to break from the past and adopt agile, energy saving and cost effective strategies for getting IT facilities [...]
The energy management integration train is picking up steam. Today Power Assure announced that its EM/4 software has been certified for use with Universal Electric’s STARLINE Critical Power Monitor meters, which are found in the latter company’s power STARLINE Busway and Raceway power distribution systems distribution equipment for data centers. What does this mean? Essentially, the [...]
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Cloud computing is taking the IT industry by storm but behind the technology are massive data centers that consume a lot of energy. How much? According to some of the opening stats in an infographic cooked up by ABB, a utility and industrial automation firm, the energy requirements of the world’s data centers are large [...]
Last week’s Uptime Institute Symposium 2011 event not only brought together data center experts, it also delivered the goods for stat monkeys in the form of the group’s first-ever industry survey results. After a bout of “excitement” from the techies in attendance (riiiiight), the group let loose with the findings, which include… 74% of respondents [...]
Read more Uptime Institute reveals IT’s energy cost blindness… Can accountants cure it?
I hope your mouse wheel’s up to the task because this one’s a scroll-a-thon. (That up there is a mere sampling.) Peer-1 Hosting, which knows a thing or two about green data centers, has cooked up a spiffy, super-sized infographic of today’s most visited online destinations and the power it takes to keep their IT [...]
Literally, in fact. Today, Facebook took a dramatically different course than its peers and let the world look behind the curtain. Whereas other big Internet firms consider the “nuts and bolts” details of their IT infrastructure a competitive advantage, Facebook open sourced its custom, energy efficient server and data center tech under the Open Compute [...]
How many of your servers have been around for a decade? Not many, it’s safe to assume. (None ideally.) Chances are that the servers you deployed in 2001 were replaced 3-5 years later. And if there are a couple stragglers still around, they’re costing you a bundle in electricity and rack space. Fortunately, longevity is [...]
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Some significant changes this week at The Green Grid. Mark Monroe, a Sun veteran and a Center for ReSource Conservation board member, will be taking over as Executive Director following the departure of Larry Vertal from the post. The appointment also marks a subtle but important shift in the group’s mission. Though energy efficient IT [...]
Read more Mark Monroe heads The Green Grid, expands data center sustainability mission
GE is venturing into the green data center energy space by acquiring Plano, Texas-based Lineage Power for just over a cool half-billion dollars. Citing growth in cloud and mobile computing — thanks, in part, to the 1.1 billion new smartphones the company expects to hop on wireless networks this year — GE’s Energy Services president and [...]
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