Here’s a great quote of the day from HP’s John Bennett, head of data center transformation solutions: “Anyone walking into a data center should break a sweat, not have to wear a jacket.” The idea of a toasty data center…
No More Raised Floor
Photo credit: Flickr user information services@bond – Creative Commons It may soon become a signature of green data centers, according to Matthew D. Sarrel of the Sarrel Group. Over at eWeek, he writes that it may come time to say…
Green IT News Roundup – Thursday, July 30
Tips for an effective data deduplication implementation – SearchStorage.comFor example, one significant argument is whether inline deduplication is more efficient than post-processing dedupe. While dedupe requires processing, which takes time and resources, the issue is where to spend the time:…
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…
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…
Green IT News Roundup – Tuesday, June 16
Apple’s 2009 MacBook Pro: Battery Life to Die For – AnandTech The biggest winner is the 15″ MacBook Pro, it gains a 46% increase in battery capacity with zero increase in size or weight. The new 15″ MacBook Pro is…
About that EDS Datacenter…
Remember yesterday when I mentioned the swank HP/EDS datacenter in the UK that’s being atypically cooled? Good, because more information about it is coming to light. Rich Miller of Data Center Knowledge did some digging and came upon one of…
Datacenter Operators Planning for Economy, Energy Efficiency
IT managers are feeling the economic pinch and they’re planning accordingly. Thirty-five percent of the 120 data center, facility and IT managers polled in Emerson Network Power’s Data Center Users Group (DCUG) survey have delayed plans to expand or build…
Green IT News Roundup – Wednesday, April 29
Swine flu threat raises telework questions – Network World Research firm Gartner said the recent outbreaks of swine flu highlight the need for companies to have in place pandemic plans that address workforce absenteeism rates of 40% or higher. The…
