Schneider Electric, via its APC subsidiary, is making it easier for data center operators to get a handle on their energy consumption. The company’s InfraStruxure line of energy monitoring and management products just got some pretty significant upgrades. PUE! PUE! Foremost among them, at least for businesses trying to benchmark for IT efficiency, is InfraStruxure […]
Archives for September 2010
Intel on server chips: Atom out, McAfee in
SeaMicro, you’re on your own. (And it could be a good thing.) According to Intel’s vice president and general manager of its Data Center Group, Kirk Skaugen, the chipmaker won’t be making a push into the server space with its low-power Atom processor. The market for servers comprised of several Atom processors, like the ones […]
OCZ Ibis won’t sacrifice SSD performance to SATA and SAS
Solid-state drives are energy efficient and speedy, too speedy in fact for today’s storage interfaces. That’s why OCZ is taking a different approach to its Ibis line of high-performance SSDs with a High Speed Data Link (HSDL) connector and PCIe adapter card. What are the results? According to this review at PC Perspective, the results […]
IBM data center achieves LEED Gold
You may already be occupying the greenest data center you’ll ever build, if IBM’s example is anything to go by. The IT behemoth’s newly-refreshed Research Triangle Park facility in North Carolina makes use of cutting-edge efficiency features like sensors, modular IT building blocks and free-cooling to reduce energy consumption by 15 percent and cutting CO2 […]
Smart Energy: Stuxnet and the smart grid security opportunity
If you’ve been following IT security lately, you’ve undoubtedly heard of Stuxnet. The worm is currently sparking some cybersecurity drama with a sprinkling of geopolitical intrigue. (Iran thinks the presence of the worm in its nuclear plant is an assault from foreign powers.) What sets this episode apart is that the worm targets industrial control […]
Intel: No 25nm SSDs until early 2011
Here’s some disappointing news in the green storage world. G3 solid-state drives featuring 25-nanometer (nm) flash chips developed by Intel and Micron under a joint venture called IM Flash Technologies, won’t ship until February 2011, according to this post at Tom’s Hardware. The company originally planned to ship the more energy efficient and cheaper-to-manufacture SSDs […]
Heat wheels for cool data centers
Targeted cooling, free-cooling, liquid-cooled servers… There are many ways to reduce the cost of cooling data centers, but Montana state’s computing facility takes a different approach that’s long been used in industrial plants. Government Computer News reports that the state contracted with Kyoto Cooling International, a Dutch maker of cooling systems, to outfit its data […]
Stuxnet attracts mainstream attention
Stuxnet is no stranger to folks interested in computer security, more specifically smart grid security. Long story short: this nasty little piece of malware is very targeted, affecting a suite of software called Siemens Simatic WinCC that manages control systems in industrial facilities and critical infrastructure like power plants. It’s flown under the radar, by […]
Geothermal’s Potential
Podcast: Scientific American has a great new 60-Second Earth podcast on the topic of Geothermal called “Tapping the Power in Hot Rocks.” It’s enlightening in the sense of geothermal’s potential. Here’s a renewable energy source that “could supply 2,000 times the amount of energy used by the U.S. annually.” One success story is the The […]
Will new SSD standards help fuel wide-spread adoption?
Solid-state drives (SSDs) face two significant barriers to wide-scale adoption. Price and reliability. Prices continue to drop, thankfully, but longevity continues to be a concern. JEDEC to the rescue! You see, the flash memory in SSDs have a limited number of re-writes, and even with wear-leveling technology, eventually, the drive will give out. And while […]
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