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…
Greening a Legacy Data Center? Ask a Pro
Unless you’re Microsoft, Google or Facebook, chances are that you can’t simply build a new data center when yours starts getting a little long in the tooth. So how do you cope with an older computing facility that wasn’t exactly…
Facebook Breaks Ground on Green Data Center
In a departure from signing leases with data center companies like Fortune and Digital Realty trust, Facebook broke ground on its own $180 million facility in Prineville, Oregon. Why Prineville? According to the Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal,…
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…
2009: Year of the Green Data Center
Photo Credit: Flickr user SunGardAvailabilitySvcs – Creative Commons I’ve been covering Green IT for a while now, but this is the first year I that recall not being able to keep track of all the new green data center…
Students Banking on Green IT
An interesting story out of Yonkers, N.Y. Students from Polytechnic Institute of New York University performed a little before-and-after analysis of Hudson Valley Bank’s efforts at improving energy efficiency at its data center. All told, the bank was able to…
'Tri-generation' takes Syracuse University's Data Center Off-grid
It seems that every new data center that opens its doors these days is billed as green, doesn’t it? The $12.4 million, 12,000-square-foot building from IBM and Syracuse University is no different. However, this is one green data center with…
