Category Archives: Sustainability
N Plus One is on hiatus
The N Plus One blog is currently on hiatus. We encourage you to visit other Uptime Institute and The 451 Group offerings at the following sites: Uptime Institute Blog – interviews, videos, news and commentary on issues of concern to … Continue reading
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Filed under Availability, Green Enterprise IT Awards, Optimization, Scalability, Sustainability, Symposium 2011, Technologies
Green IT Gets Real As The Hype Disperses
When it comes to hyped areas of IT, you’d be hard pressed to come up with two more impressive examples of technology marketing department excess than ‘cloud computing’ and ‘Green IT’. True, some of the momentum behind the whole green … Continue reading
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Want an EPA ENERGY STAR rating? Better get your meter in place ASAP
In early March at the Green Grid Technical Forum, Mike Zatz of the EPA pointed out that data centers will need IT energy meters in place by June 2011 (about three months from now) in order to receive an ENERGY … Continue reading
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Disconnect your datacenter for Earth Hour
It’s Earth Hour time again. Tomorrow night (Saturday 8.30 to 9.30 pm, March 26th) we are all being encouraged to switch off our lights, and other household appliances, for an hour to help save energy, and the planet to boot. … Continue reading
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Green IT standards: EPEAT and UL SPC
About a month ago, I read a blog post about Lenovo’s ThinkPad T420 earning recognition under a new green IT certification scheme from Underwriters Laboratories, the UL Environment Sustainable Production Certification (SPC). “Wait a minute,” I said to myself. “I … Continue reading
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Explaining The Green Grid’s Data Center Maturity Model
In this Q&A, Uptime Institute Director of Content and Publications Matt Stansberry interviews Harkeeret Singh, Global Head of Energy for Technology Operations at Thomson Reuters and Advisory Board member of The Green Grid, about the organization’s new Data Center Maturity … Continue reading
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Does cloud really have a green lining?
At a recent client meeting, a couple of colleagues and I were asked our opinion on the best data models to prove that cloud computing is an inherently greener approach to IT provision. That question obviously comes pre-loaded with the … Continue reading
Filed under Availability, Sustainability
Is the datacenter just another department in energy terms?
Atlanta-based start-up JouleX seems to think so. I have just finished a report on the company which is trying to establish a lead in the field of Enterprise Energy Management (EEM). This emerging area of eco-efficient IT is characterized by … Continue reading
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Water and data centers
In December 2010, the Green Grid introduced the concept of Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE). Last week, the organization delved into greater depth via a WUE webcast. It was presented by Will Sarni of Deloitte Consulting, and it stayed high-level without … Continue reading
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Tougher green rules will encourage datacenter carbon laundering
Carbon is a tricky thing to manage and measure. The UK government is finding this out right now with the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme which is currently going through its third overhaul since being officially introduced in April 2010. I … Continue reading
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