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Compelling line up for Uptime Symposium
By Andy Lawrence. After nearly six months working on our speaker line up for the Uptime Symposium, we made our formal announcement of our main program last week. Our goal was to make this a seminal, milestone event in datacenter … Continue reading
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Videos on DCIM, Modular
As a lead in to my presentation on DCIM (datacenter infrastructure management) software at the Uptime Symposium in May, Matt Stansberry interviewed me and produced a short video here. Matt is very well known in the datacenter world as the … Continue reading
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Japan, nuclear power and datacenters
Following the recent tragedy in Japan, a huge amount of nonsense has appeared in the popular and business press about nuclear power. As I have no great knowledge of nuclear power generation, I am not going to add to it. … Continue reading
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DOE reviews IT efficiency roadmap March 17-18, invites industry stakeholders
On March 17-18, 2011, in San Francisco, CA, the US Department of Energy (DOE) will host a meeting to discuss the progress of 14 research projects it has been sponsoring over the past two years to help improve the energy … Continue reading
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If you sell your RECs, your green energy isn’t green anymore
A Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) is a tradable instrument representing proof that 1 megawatt hour (MWh, equal to 1,000 kilowatt hours) of renewable electricity has been produced. A REC embodies the beneficial environmental characteristics of 1 MWh of renewable electricity … Continue reading
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Individual server behavior does not equal aggregate behavior
I recently had an email discussion with some colleagues regarding an interesting question: If server power use varies with utilization, why does UPS output in most data centers stay flat from hour to hour? Conventional wisdom says that the power … Continue reading
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Server fans increasingly mess up PUE metrics..
The recent post by my colleague John Stanley regarding the Tier1 report PUE pitfalls: Microsoft takes a PUE hit while increasing IT-PAC power efficiency (subscribers only) pipped me by a couple of days and made many of the points I … Continue reading
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State of the Union – Implications for Datacenters
By Jason Schafer (Twitter @mrdatacenter) President Obama addressed the nation on Wednesday, January 25, with his State of the Union address. There were several key points such as education, health care and government reform, but there were two topics that … Continue reading
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Worries about flaws in the UK’s Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC)
Posted by John Stanley The UK’s data center industry has shown great concern regarding its pending regulation under the government’s Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) legislation. Following a March 1 meeting by two major industry groups, the IT industry may instead … Continue reading
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Greening of IT – Closing the Communication Gap Between CIOs and CFO
Guest post by Deborah Grove On February 25, a crowd of 100 real estate executives gathered in Dallas, TX, to hear Ken Brill speak about the true cost of data center operations. The sponsors of the event, Jones Lang LaSalle, … Continue reading
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