Things are getting exciting on the computer server front. For a couple of years, an Austin, Texas-based startup called Calxeda (formerly Smooth-Stone) has been making the case for energy efficient servers using ARM processors — that currently dominate the smartphone and tablet markets — as it prepared to commercialize its tech. Now it looks like […]
Infographic of the Day: Peer-1’s top sites online
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 […]
Green IT “gelled” for CIOs in 2010, spells trouble for raised floors
CIOs are finally getting a handle on this Green IT thing, according to Gartner Research vice president John Phelps. SearchCIO.com reports that eco-consciousness and good ol’ cost savings initiatives have begun to align in earnest this year, resulting in IT strategies that are decidedly green. These include, according to Phelps,the steadily decline of raised floor […]
Gov’t data center consolidation’s hot, PUE’s not
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 […]
APC dives into power management software with InfraStruXure
West Kingston, RI-based American Power Conversion (APC) is well known as a maker of power distribution and UPS equipment, but now the company is leveraging that expertise into energy management software for data centers. The company has established its own software business operating under the InfraStruXure brand. The suite runs the gamut of energy monitoring, […]
