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 […]
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…
Phoenix ONE Datacenter: So Big, So Green
Rich Miller of Data Center Knowledge profiles i/o Data Centers’ massive, 538,000 sq ft Phoenix ONE facility. Here are just two of the eco-innovations: An enormous rooftop array of solar panels, which will eventually generate as much as 4.5 megawatts…
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…
Green IT News Roundup – Monday, April 27
Lowering data center cooling costs with airflow modeling and perforated raised-floor tiles – SearchDataCenter.com An Uptime Institute study of 19 computer rooms with a total of 204,000 square feet determined that most facilities are ill prepared to remove current heat…
