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    1. Companies Get the Basics of Green IT, But Lack Maturity

      Explore Article GreenBiz.com (Aug 31 2010)

      Companies Get the Basics of Green IT, But Lack Maturity SYDNEY, Australia — While awareness of green IT and energy used by a company's computing departments are widespread, a new survey sponsored by Fujitsu found that every area of green IT could use improvement ... (Read Full Article)

      Comment on Article Mentions:   United Kingdom   Fujitsu

    2. Climate Corps 2010: A Search for Leaks Lands Savvis $6M in Savings

      Explore Article GreenBiz.com (Aug 31 2010)

      Climate Corps 2010: A Search for Leaks Lands Savvis $6M in Savings Earlier this summer, I began my work as an EDF Climate Corps fellow at Savvis where I was charged with finding energy efficient solutions for the company's data centers. Now I stand here, two months later, still asking myself the same question I had when I first shook my manager's hand: "How is a young guy like me, with no experience in data centers, going to help?" (Read Full Article)

      Comment on Article Mentions:   Europe   Gartner

    3. Virtualization Enables Non-Profit Earth Rangers to Green Its Data Center

      Explore Article SOA World Magazine (Aug 31 2010)

      Virtualization Enables Non-Profit Earth Rangers to Green Its Data Center Earth Rangers is focused on working with children to help protect biodiversity. Our long-term goal is to partner with them to protect enough natural habitats to ensure the lasting survival of all species in Canada, where we are based. We take our mission to "Bring Back the Wild" seriously and run our organization with conservation and "green" values in mind. (Read Full Article)

      Comment on Article Mentions:   LEED

    4. Supercomputer ‘Watson’ Takes On Jeopardy!

      Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Aug 31 2010)

      Supercomputer ‘Watson’ Takes On Jeopardy! “What is a supercomputer, Alex?” In the television game show Jeopardy! – where the answers are phrased as questions – contestants are usually the flesh-and-blood kind. This fall, the show will give a silicon-and-metal challenger a chance to compete against humans. The computer scientists at IBM Blue Gene Research project, which is dedicated to pushing the boundaries in supercomputing, will probably hold their collective breath as a computing system of their design competes on the game show, test-driving several years of intensive work on national television. (Read Full Article)

      Comment on Article Mentions:   IBM   Carnegie Mellon University

    5. Microsoft to Build Giant Data Center in Virginia

      Explore Article The New York Times (Aug 31 2010)

      Microsoft to Build Giant Data Center in Virginia Microsoft is to build another large data center, this time in Virginia, despite scaling back plans for an earlier facility in Iowa. More News From IDG Latest Hardware Systems Stories From the IDG News Service CIO-New IT Drilldowns on Virtualization, Mobile, SOA Visit Infoworld's Green Tech Center Network World's Cisco Subnet-The Independent Voice of Cisco Customers Microsoft will spend US$499 million to build a data center in Mecklenburg County in Southern Virginia, the state's Governor Bob McDonnell announced in a statement Friday. About 50 people will work at the facility. (Read Full Article)

      Comment on Article Mentions:   Cisco   InfoWorld   Microsoft

    6. Researchers test energy saving in data centers

      Explore Article University of California (Aug 30 2010)

      Researchers test energy saving in data centers A consortium of researchers from the public and private sectors have embarked on a real-world experiment to gauge whether large computing facilities can operate on less power if they cut alternating current (AC) out of the equation. At the University of California, San Diego today (Aug. 30), engineers switched a set of servers in a campus data center to operate continuously on 380-volt direct current (DC) as part of a project that allows researchers to track in great detail the energy savings that servers and data centers can hope to achieve through a variety of architectural and procedural efficiencies, including ... (Read Full Article)

      Comment on Article Mentions:   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   Intel

    7. Microsoft Data Center Director Daniel Costello joins Google

      Explore Article greenm3.com (Aug 30 2010)

      Microsoft Data Center Director Daniel Costello joins Google Data Centers are competitive advantages for the Internet companies, and how much you know about your competitors helps plan your future. Microsoft's Daniel Costello has been a heavily recruited data center executive for months (I think I count 8 from when I first heard he was being recruited) He finally made his decision ... to join Google, leaving Microsoft. Who is Daniel Costello? Daniel is the person in the center of this photo. (Read Full Article)

      Comment on Article Mentions:   Microsoft Research   Microsoft   Google

    8. How does a new datacenter benefit the community?

      Explore Article zdnet.com (Aug 30 2010)

      How does a new datacenter benefit the community? There is no question that the datacenter construction business is booming, and that previously unheard of places are getting a serious investment in technology and building, but when I read the stories in the local papers about the investment being made in the communities getting the new structures, it’s almost always clear that there is a serious disconnect between the realities of the datacenter and the understanding of the popular press. (Read Full Article)

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    9. HP Unveils Cloudstart to Speed Private Cloud Deployment

      Explore Article The New York Times (Aug 30 2010)

      HP Unveils Cloudstart to Speed Private Cloud Deployment Hewlett-Packard has unveiled CloudStart, a package that includes hardware, software and consulting services, and aims to speed up the construction of private clouds, it said on Monday. More News From IDG Latest Internet Stories From the IDG News Service CIO-New IT Drilldowns on Virtualization, Mobile, SOA Visit Infoworld's Green Tech Center Network World's Cisco Subnet-The Independent Voice of Cisco Customers CloudStart is offered by HP Cloud Consulting Services and will use the company's Cloud Service Automation tools, which helps enterprises with their cloud installations and provides automation tools to manage cloud-based applications, according to HP. CloudStart will also use its ... (Read Full Article)

      Comment on Article Mentions:   Amazon.com   Cisco   InfoWorld

    10. Red Hat Outlines Its Cloud Strategy

      Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Aug 30 2010)

      Red Hat Outlines Its Cloud Strategy Open source software specialist Red Hat (RHT) has laid out its vision for a comprehensive Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution as a part of its Cloud Foundations. It's the latest company to unveil solutions aimed at bridging the corporate data center and the cloud. (Read Full Article)

      Comment on Article Mentions:   Amazon.com

    11. Climate Corps 2010: Four Ways to Plug in PC Power Management

      Explore Article GreenBiz.com (Aug 30 2010)

      Climate Corps 2010: Four Ways to Plug in PC Power Management My summer as an EDF Climate Corps Fellow making the business case for energy efficiency and carbon reduction at eBay Inc. has officially come to an end. Despite my uncertainty of finding low-hanging fruit in energy efficiency at an environmental leader like eBay, I found my stride and was able to calculate the energy savings of a number of computer power management solutions. (Read Full Article)

      Comment on Article Mentions:   eBay

    12. Apple Preparing Music-Themed Product Launch

      Explore Article Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Aug 30 2010)

      Apple Preparing Music-Themed Product Launch Apple’s 1 Sept. event in San Francisco will most likely involve a music-related announcement of some sort. The proof? The front of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, where the shindig will be held, now features a giant image of an acoustic guitar with an Apple logo-shaped sound hole. The blog Apple Insider has posted an image of the building’s new decoration. (Read Full Article)

      Comment on Article Mentions:   Apple   Google

    13. Northern Virginia Data Centers

      Explore Article Associated Content (Aug 30 2010)

      Northern Virginia Data Centers Northern Virginia data center providers such as CoreSite and Switch and Data (Equinix) in Reston, Equinix and Dupont Fabros Technology in Ashburn, and other area providers such as Savvis and AT&T; provide companies with well-connected, powerful and secure data centers without having to utilize corporate space, power and human resources to maintain the data center infrastructure. Many times the Ashburn and Reston data centers provide greater security, scalability, power density, and energy efficiency than a corporate in-house data center environment. In choosing one of the aforementioned third party Reston data centers or Ashburn data center, most companies gain access to ... (Read Full Article)

      Comment on Article Mentions:   DuPont Fabros Technology   At&T

    14. With HP Bid at $2B, Dell Mulls Options on 3PAR

      Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Aug 29 2010)

      With HP Bid at $2B, Dell Mulls Options on 3PAR Dell says assessing 3PAR offer after HP trumps bid – Dell Inc said on Sunday it was assessing its bid for 3PAR Inc after the data storage company’s board of directors late on Friday said Hewlett-Packard Co’s $2 billion offer was a “superior proposal.” From Reuters. Investors in 3Par are big winners – Regardless of who triumphs in the high-stakes battle to acquire Fremont tech company 3Par, the immediate winner in the bidding war between Hewlett-Packard and Dell will be 3Par’s investors, including top executives and three Silicon Valley venture firms that helped the data storage supplier get started 11 ... (Read Full Article)

      Comment on Article Mentions:   Forbes   EMC Corp.   Hewlett Packard

    15. From M&A to R&D, Cloud is Driving IT Activity

      Explore Article Structure Blog (Aug 29 2010)

      From M&A to R&D, Cloud is Driving IT Activity Still wondering if cloud computing is the real deal, if it will find its way to a data center near you? I suggest looking back at the last several months (or year) of vendors girding their loins in preparation for an inevitable battle in the cloud. As I posit in my weekly column on GigaOM Pro, whether they’re buying, building or buddying up, vendors are surrounding their core competencies with everything they’ll need to compete in an increasingly integrated IT market. (Read Full Article)

      Comment on Article Mentions:   Cisco   Dell   Microsoft