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Despite green advances, cloud data centers dogged by dirty diesel

September 23, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

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Cloud services providers are making enormous strides in data center efficiency. Take, for instance, Microsoft. “Today, Microsoft delivers more than 200 online services to 1+ billion customers and 20 million businesses in over 76 markets worldwide,” posts Brian Janous, Utility Architect, Data Center Advanced Development, at the Microsoft Global Foundations Services Blog. And that takes a lot of […]

Filed Under: Data Center, Green IT Tagged With: amazon, Cloud Computing, Data Center, data center cooling, diesel backup generators, Microsoft, PUE, water

HP’s modular EcoPOD data center

June 6, 2011 by Pedro Hernandez 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Data Center, Green IT Tagged With: Data Center, data center cooling, datacenter in a container, energy efficiency, free-cooling, HP, modular data centers, PUE

The Green Grid: Meet the new carbon and water data center metrics

December 2, 2010 by Pedro Hernandez 2 Comments

The Green Grid took the wraps off two new metrics this week, carbon usage effectiveness (CUE) and water usage effectiveness (WUE), that will help data center operators paint a clearer picture of just how sustainable their facilities truly are. And just in time, too. As Facebook has discovered, a green data center is judged by […]

Filed Under: Data Center Tagged With: CUE, Data Center, green data center, PUE, The Green Grid, water management, WUE

Gov’t data center consolidation’s hot, PUE’s not

November 10, 2010 by Pedro Hernandez 1 Comment

For shame! According to CDW’s 2010 Energy Efficient IT Report, just 17 percent of the government IT managers surveyed (federal, state and local) currently track PUE (power usage effectiveness). A pity, but at least the vast majority, 79 percent in fact, are planning or are already in the midst of data center consolidation projects. Washington […]

Filed Under: Data Center, Green IT, Stats & Figures Tagged With: data centers, government, PUE, statistics, stats

Capgemini’s green data center scores a 1.08 PUE rating

October 12, 2010 by Pedro Hernandez 2 Comments

Capgemini, a technology consulting and outsourcing firm, today laid claim to the distinction of having the world’s most energy efficient data center with a PUE of 1.08. Named Merlin and located in Swindon, UK, Capgemini took an existing facility and transformed it into a 30,000 square foot, Tier 3 green data center as part of […]

Filed Under: Data Center, Featured Tagged With: Capgemini, Data Center, green data center, modular data centers, PUE

Gartner: Most big, new data centers to adopt PUE

October 6, 2010 by Pedro Hernandez 1 Comment

By 2015, according to Gartner, 80 percent of new large data centers will be the using the power usage effectiveness (PUE) measurement devised by The Grid Grid to report on the efficiency of their operations. PUE is not perfect, and there are efforts underway to support and develop measurements that provide insight into the useful […]

Filed Under: Data Center, Stats & Figures Tagged With: computer servers, Data Center, Gartner, PUE, servers, statistics, stats, Virtualization

Schneider upgrades APC InfraStruxure, gives green data centers some love

September 30, 2010 by Pedro Hernandez 2 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Data Center Tagged With: APC, Data Center, DCIE, Power Management, PUE, Schneider Electric

Yahoo’s “chicken coop” data center finally opens

September 20, 2010 by Pedro Hernandez 2 Comments

Yahoo’s chicken coop inspired data center in Lockport, NY near Buffalo is finally open for business. A departure from the “big box” look of most corporate data centers, Yahoo’s design allows for free-cooling, or the use of ambient temperatures to keep IT equipment cool for most of the year and save a bundle on energy […]

Filed Under: Data Center Tagged With: Data Center, free-cooling, green data center, PUE, U.S. Department of Energy, Yahoo

eBay’s Project Topaz: Anatomy of a $300 million green data center

August 18, 2010 by Pedro Hernandez 3 Comments

Building, let alone operating, a Tier IV data center to support a business that transacts $2,000 per second — that’s over $172 million per day, $60 billion per year folks —  sounds like the makings of a huge energy guzzler. But that’s not the case for Dean Nelson, eBay’s senior director of Global Data Center […]

Filed Under: Data Center, Green IT Tagged With: Data Center, data center cooling, datacenter, eBay, green datacenter, Project Topaz, PUE, tier VI

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