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The Importance of Being Green for Data Centers
For data center operators who believe all this palaver about greening their facilities is just a fad, consider this: IT accounted for four percent of all electricity consumption in 2008, but by 2030, 40 percent of the world’s juice... -
Capacity Management Is Key to Keeping Data Centers Running Efficiently
High-density hardware can save space and iron out wrinkles in the refresh cycle in data centers, but it also poses power and cooling challenges. To prevent those challenges from producing costly outages, it’s wise to have a capacity management... -
Using Ice (Yes, Ice) to Cool Your Data Center.
A consortium of utilities in California is launching a program to install in buildings a device that produce ice at night, then use the ice to cool the edifices during the day. -
What Can Be Done about Energy-Hungry Apps in the Data Center?
If anything emerged from the Uptime Symposium last May in New York, it’s that organizations appear to be losing their fight to control their energy consumption. “There is a freight train coming that most people do not see, and it... -
Can Cabling Really Contribute to Greening Your Data Center?
Discussions about greening data centers typically focus on cooling systems and managing the power requirements of servers. Often left out of those planning sessions is the role cabling can play in contributing to making a data center more environmentally... -
How to Run a Leaner, Greener Data Center.
Deadbeat servers can impose needless expenses on a data center. Decommissioning a single dead, or “ghost” server, can save as much $560 a year, although some analysts put that figure upwards of $2,000. For large server farms—farms with 100,000 servers a... -
Five Future Developments for Greener IT
For years many corporations have been content to pick the low-hanging fruit when it comes to green computing. Now the time has come to move the process to the next level. What does that mean? Here are five... -
New Green Data Center Cooled by Wind
When wind and green energy are mentioned these days the first thing that pops to mind are windmills, but Hewlett Packard has found another use for Boreas: data center cooling. In February, the company opened its 360,000-square-foot Wynyard center,... -
Data Centers Go Wireless
Looking for a micro local view of the temperatures around the racks and shelves in your data center? If you’re Microsoft, you’re turning to wireless sensor networks to find out that information in your centers worldwide. The program began... -
Staff Cuts & Talent Shortages Are Plaguing Data Centers
Data center managers are being whipsawed by payroll paring and a dearth of qualified candidates, according to a recent survey conducted by Applied Research for security software maker Symantec. The worldwide poll of data center specialists in 1,780 enterprises...