Virtualization, dedupe and low-power servers are all hailed as the vanguards of the green data center. Indeed, they are key elements in driving energy efficiency in the data center but there’s one that can have a bigger impact: energy management.It…
Startup Plans Wind-Powered Datacenter
Baryonyx, a Texas startup, is embarking on projects to build green datacenters and the wind farms to power them. Data Center Knowledge reports: Baryonyx plans to build a 28,000 square foot data center in Stratford, which will be powered by…
Follow the Moon Computing Strategy
The notion that computing giants are pursuing ways of reducing the power it takes to cool their datacenters doesn’t come as a surprise. However, this Computerworld story on Google’s chiller-less facility in Belgium makes mention of an intriguing concept that…
Bunker2 – Anatomy of a Secure, Green Datacenter
Need to survive a zombie outbreak and still be able to serve up your e-commerce site? If you’re in the UK, The Bunker Secure Hosting Limited will soon have the datacenter for you. Data Center Knowledge has the details on…
Wyse Launches Virtual Desktop Accelerator
The greenest datacenter is the one you don’t have to build, according to thin computing provider Wyse Technology. The firm today unveiled Wyse Virtual Desktop Accelerator (VDA) software that brings performance gains generally associated with WAN acceleration offerings to virtual…
Containers, Outside Air Drive Efficiency in New Microsoft Datacenters
Dublin, Ireland and Chicago are the sites for two new Microsoft datacenters that employ some green innovations. Both are set to go online in next month and each drives energy efficiency in different ways. The Dublin datacenter, a render…
Core4 to Make Datacenters Efficiently Cool
There’s been a lot of talk about datacenter cooling lately, and for good reason. According to the DoE’s “Data Center Energy Efficiency Program presentation” (PDF) earlier this year, tackling datacenter HVAC can result in substantial savings like it did for…
Green IT News Roundup – Monday, June 22
Dell Calls ‘Green’ MacBook Ads Misleading – The New York Times Several competitors — including Dell, the company argued — had also received “gold” ratings from E.P.E.A.T., and the rating system itself, it said, had some environmental blind spots that…
Dell's Shortcut to Virtualization
Today Dell made of flurry of virtualization related announcements. Among the most intriguing are two, quasi-turnkey virtual infrastructure packages, one for full-fledged datacenters and another for SMBs: Data Center Virtualization Configuration: The unified virtualization platform with pre-configured architectures combines Dell…
Phoenix ONE Datacenter: So Big, So Green
Rich Miller of Data Center Knowledge profiles i/o Data Centers’ massive, 538,000 sq ft Phoenix ONE facility. Here are just two of the eco-innovations: An enormous rooftop array of solar panels, which will eventually generate as much as 4.5 megawatts…
