Monthly Archives: February 2010
A fun time to be a datacenter geek
Posted by Jason Schafer It’s ironic to an extent, if you think about it, that equipment and technology that undergoes such a fast refresh and obsolescence cycle resides in and is supported by a facility / platform that has historically … Continue reading
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Filed under Optimization, Scalability, Technologies
UK Datacenter Operators Dig in for Carbon Fight
One of the persistent themes in Green or Eco-efficient datacenters in the past two years has been the threat, real or imagined, of legislation to enforce energy efficiency. Continue reading
Filed under Sustainability, Technologies
Can Facebook’s coal-powered efficient data center still be green?
There’s been a lot of talk in the last week regarding Facebook’s new data center in Oregon. Is the facility green or not? Continue reading
Filed under Sustainability
PUEs of less than 1
Posted by Andy Lawrence As most of us concerned with datacenter energy efficiency know, the Green Grid’s PUE metric for measuring datacenter energy efficiency is widely accepted but frequently criticized. Some say it is too simplistic, some say that it should … Continue reading
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The Line-up for Uptime’s IT Symposium on Data Center Efficiency and Green Enterprise IT
We haven’t by any means completed our work on this, but today we are formally unveiling the core line-up for our annual flagship conference on Data Center Efficiency and Green Enterprise IT. Please look out for more because this event is taking on a life of its own. Continue reading
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Big Data Centers Get All the Attention, but Small Data Centers Use More Energy
Big data centers get all the attention, but only focusing on making the big ones efficient will fail to curb national data center energy consumption. Continue reading
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Welcome to N Plus One
Welcome to this, the first posting in the new 451 Group and Uptime Institute blog, N + 1. This blog will cover topics in which we have deep knowledge and interest, including data centers, eco-efficient IT, corporate energy management, cultural change in enterprise IT, and carbon legislation. These topics and more will be addressed at our upcoming Symposium 2010 (May 17-19, 2010; Hilton New York). Please make plans to join us! Continue reading
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