Category Archives: Technologies
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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Who really benefits from private clouds?
In a recent post I might have come down too heavily on the side of the myth-busters when discussing the eco-efficiency of cloud computing. Clearly cloud is a disruptive technology and will have implications for energy efficiency, just as it … Continue reading
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New report posted on carbon, energy, and sustainability management software
The 451 Group’s Eco-Efficient IT research service has just published a new report (written by yours truly) on carbon, energy, and sustainability management software. The executive overview, which contains some key bullet points and the table of contents for the … Continue reading
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Virtualization eats memory; memory eats power
A recent survey from system management company Kernel came up with the finding that memory capacity, rather then processor performance, is the biggest factor limiting greater virtual machine density in the datacenter. In other words, a server usually runs out … Continue reading
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Some datacenter trends for 2011
The Eco-Efficient IT team at The 451 Group, which I lead, has just published its annual preview, forecasting what we think will happen next year. The report is exclusive to 451 subscribers, but it is worth pointing to a few … Continue reading
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Green Grid proposes road map for server power management feature adoption
–Posted by John Stanley The Green Grid recently released a paper proposing a road map to stimulate the adoption of power management features in servers. These features have the potential to save energy and cut costs, but at present many … Continue reading
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Two reasons that data centers don’t need special treatment under carbon laws
–Posted by John Stanley Although data centers use approximately 3% of US electricity (likely with similar figures around the world), IT is widely recognized as being crucial in decarbonizing “the other 97%” of the economy. IT enables several environmentally beneficial … Continue reading
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Datacenter temperatures, server fans and the effects on power consumption
Posted by Jason Schafer One discussion topic that we continually hear brought up pretty regularly is the subject of raising the cold aisle temperatures in the datacenter and the fine balance between raising this temperature and the overall power consumption … Continue reading
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The SEC ruling and your data center, Part 2
Posted by John Stanley This is Part 2 of a multi-part post on the SEC’s recent ruling on climate change. The first post provided a brief summary of the ruling itself. This post drills down into the possible effects on … Continue reading
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The SEC ruling and your data center, Part 1
Posted by John Stanley This is Part 1 of a multi-part post on the SEC’s recent ruling on climate change. This post provides a brief summary of the ruling itself. One or more subsequent posts will drill down into the possible … Continue reading
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