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 […]
Traits of an evolved, efficient data center build
FacilityBlog over at Today’s Facility Manager has some great quotes from Jakob Carnemark, an SVP with construction giant Skanska USA. In essence, he says that in order to keep pace with exploding data center demand, it’s time to break from the past and adopt agile, energy saving and cost effective strategies for getting IT facilities […]
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…
