Tag Archives: energy management
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
Filed under Green Enterprise IT Awards, 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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More uncertainty for datacenter operators over CRC
Whoever decided to put the word “commitment” into the title of the UK’s latest piece of environmental legislation must be kicking themselves for not having another noun to hand. Substituting “commitment” for the words “idea”, “proposal” or perhaps “thing-we-thought-up-but-might-not-actually-do” would … Continue reading
Filed under Legislation, Sustainability
Successful GEIT Case Studies: Facilities Innovation
Facilities Innovation case studies document facilities-based projects that significantly and quantifiably improve data center energy efficiency. Because these projects are undertaken in a live data center with availability requirements, judicious planning, detailed monitoring, and careful documentation are fundamental to their … Continue reading
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US Navy fires a broadside at datacenter sprawl
Energy efficiency measures are one way to meet the rising costs from data center infrastructure. A lot of effort goes into analyzing heating and cooling alternatives, and innovative approaches to datacenter design, to make them as cost efficient as possible. … 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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ARM Brings Mobile Chip Expertise to the Datacenter
Right now, ARM Holdings is probably best known as the chip-maker behind Apple’s much vaunted iPad. Indeed there were even rumors circulating earlier this year that Apple might actually buy the UK tech company. But while ARM might be best … 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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Technical scribblings RE Harmonizing Global Metrics for Data Center Energy Efficiency
Posted by John Stanley A couple of weeks ago, several industry and government groups from the US, Europe, and Japan announced that they had come to some basic agreements on “the guiding principles of data center energy efficiency metrics.” There … 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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