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Global Politics Meets The Data Center
Bringing Intelligence, Control to the data center beast - By Paula Bernier
Cooling Down By All Means by Doug Mohney
Iceland: Calm, Cool, Collected by Tate Cantrell
Economic Concerns Have One Exception by Carol Wilson
Is NYSE’s NJ Data Center A Game Changer?
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Views and Opinions on Green IT
Could Green Hurt Co-lo? By Peter Judge
Google is going to trade energy - Say What? By Doug Mohney
This week, it's all about the standby - by Peter Judge
The Big Switch- by Paula Bernier
The age of the energy server? by Doug Mohney
Outsourcing to be key trend in data centers going forward - By Paula Bernier
How Green Is your IT? By Peter Judge
The Green Paradox - by Doug Mohney
Virtualization, not bad but could be better - By Paula Bernier
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Solar Industry Learns Lessons in Spanish Sun
Explore Article The New York Times (23 hours, 5 min ago) Solar
Armed with generous incentives from the Spanish government to jump-start a national solar energy industry, the city set out to replace its failing coal economy by attracting solar companies, with a campaign slogan: “The Sun Moves Us.” Soon, Puertollano, home to the Museum of the Mining Industry, had two enormous solar power plants, factories making solar panels and silicon wafers, and clean energy research institutes. Half the solar power installed globally in 2008 was installed in Spain.
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How One Major Telco is Leading the Way to More Environmentally-Friendly Networking - By Paula Bernier
Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (23 hours, 56 min ago)
Verizon took a leadership position in the green data center and general networking sapce when it enacted on Jan. 1, 2009, the requirement that all the products it would buy from then on had to reduce their power needs by 20 percent. As of the end of 2009, that has yielded Verizon nearly $2 million in energy savings, reports Chuck Graff, who is a director in corporate networking technology for the company. “All of the savings we have are cumulative over the first year and the second year and the third year, so as long as we keep it in ...
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Amazon S3 Now Hosts 100 Billion Objects
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Mar 9 2010) Storage
Amazon Web Services has quietly passed an interesting benchmark: the company’s S3 storage service now hosts more than 100 billion objects. This factoid was noted this morning at Data Center World, when keynote speaker Brian Lillie of Equinix said that Amazon now is hosting 102 billion objects in S3 (Simple Storage Service). Over the past year, the number of objects stored on S3 has grown from 54 billion to 100 billion, according to Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, who mentioned this startling growth curve in his recent presentation at the Cebit computer trade show in Germany.
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NASA Shifts Data Center Strategy
Explore Article InformationWeek (Mar 9 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers
NASA, which had been planning to build a new enterprise data center estimated to cost $1.5 billion, has done an abrupt about-face, announcing late last month that it was planning major changes to its data center strategy. In an announcement posted on the site of NASA's long-term, multi-billion dollar IT transformation project, the Information Technology Infrastructure Integration Program (I3P), NASA said that it was postponing the release of a long-awaited request for proposal for the new data center in light of new White House policies and leadership changes at NASA. "NASA intends to create a data center consolidation plan to ...
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Companies Rush For Automatic Metering Before CRC
Explore Article Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Mar 9 2010) Monitoring , Carbon Reduction Commitment
Some of the UK’s 5,000 largest energy users - required to take part in the government’s Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) Energy Efficiency Scheme - may not find sufficient capacity available to meet automatic meter reading (AMR) requirements. That’s according to energy procurement and carbon strategy consultancy, Power Efficiency, which has today warned that companies may not get the measures to improve their CRC league table performance in place before the close of the first year’s reporting on 31 March 2011.
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Data Centre Management Costs Continue To Grow
Explore Article Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Mar 9 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers
A new report out today says IT departments still aren’t implementing optimum data centre practices, as a lack of automation, coupled with the proliferation of virtualisation technologies is leading to management sprawl. IDC’s European Data Centre Management Survey 2010 has found that, despite continued economic pressures, large European organisations still expect their spending on staff working in data centre management to grow by 10 percent over the next year - approximately nine times the expected growth in IT spending in 2010.
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Will Politics Slow the Wind?
Explore Article Science News, Articles and Information (Mar 9 2010) Wind
Not many years ago, there wasn't enough wind power coming from the Great Plains to worry about. Now there is, and lots of people are worrying. A group of mostly East Coast utility companies calling itself the Coalition for Fair Transmission Policy fears that the prime conditions in the Great Plains will make the region's wind power too cheap for its members to compete with, unless developers there are made to pay the costs of moving wind power eastward.
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Greenpeace Loses Round Two in Tiff with Facebook
Explore Article greenercomputing.com (Mar 9 2010) Wind , Servers
Glass houses, stones, etc. That's the sort of lesson coming out from the latest round in the Greenpeace vs. Facebook skirmish currently afoot on the internet. To recap, briefly: In January, Facebook told the world it was opening a green data center, one that set a target of a highly energy efficient 1.15 power usage effectiveness ratio. In mid-February, advocacy groups including Change.org as well as Greenpeace called Facebook out for not using renewable energy to power its planned data center. As I wrote back then:
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OpenGate Targets Hot Spots for Switches
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Mar 9 2010) Networking
Data center cooling specialist Opengate Data Systems today introduced a new cooling product focused on addressing “hot spots” associated with networking equipment. SwitchAir Network Switch Cooling Solutions was developed to provide in-rack cooling support for high-density network switches, which can present cooling challenges as data center operators run their facilities at warmer temperatures to improve energy efficiency. High switch port density has led many data center operators to position network switches facing the rear of rack to simplify network cabling. Due to the high switch port density, intake air typically enters at the sides of the switch chassis and heat ...
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Intel's single chip cloud computer
Explore Article GigaOM (Mar 9 2010) Cloud Computing
Tilera, a startup building chips that contain anywhere from 16 to 100 cores, said today it’s raised $25 million in a third round of funding from investors including Broadcom. Chips made by Tilera, which we named as one of five multicore statups to watch two years ago, are aimed at boosting performance and energy efficiency for networking and cloud computing, which is likely why Broadcom invested. But as Tilera spends more time emphasizing the cloud and big players like Intel do the same, we have to ask: Do cloud computing and web-scale computing need their own chips?
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Tuning the energy innovation engine at MIT
Explore Article Technology News (Mar 8 2010) Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Nuclear , Solar , Wind
"China speed," climate change, financing gaps, government policy, nuclear and natural gas, and, of course, science experiments. The MIT Energy Conference on Saturday had a little bit of everything, as entrepreneurs, business people, and academics tried to get their arms around big-picture energy challenges. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has become a hotbed for clean-energy innovation over the past four years, attracting students and faculty to the energy field, some of whom have spun out promising companies. At a showcase, local companies and researchers working in wind, solar, biofuels, storage, and efficiency displayed some of their ongoing work. But at ...
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Generators Installed at Yahoo NY Site
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Mar 8 2010) Construction
There’s just something about generators. They’re the huge engines providing the last line of defense for the data center and the thousands of web sites inside. They’re big, loud and powerful, and attract lots of attention during tours and installations. And sometimes, they serve as a sign of bigger things to come. Last Friday the backup generators arrived at the new Yahoo data center in Lockport, New York. Three 2-megawatt gensets were installed, generating coverage in The Buffalo News.
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Could Green Hurt Co-lo? By Peter Judge
Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Mar 8 2010)
I met up this week with someone who manages data center facilities and power for a large mostly-online business. I came away with a feeling that his drive to reduce his company's carbon footprint could be very bad news for co-location providers. He's a lucky guy, because his company has lined up facilities and IT, so the CTO sees the power bills and has an incentive to reduce them. He also gets to compare the relative efficiency of the data centre services the company guilds in its own data centres, with what it buys in from co-lo services.
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Europe 'supergrid' hopefuls cast fate to wind
Explore Article Technology News (Mar 8 2010) Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Wind
Ten companies pushing to build a pan-European offshore power network that could help cut carbon emissions and cost customers over 20 billion euros got together in London on Monday. The Friends of the Supergrid (FOSG) brings together companies that want to build the High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) infrastructure together with those that hope to develop, install, own, and operate it. Building interconnectors to link offshore wind farms across the North Sea from Sweden and Denmark to Britain could cost 15 billion to 20 billion euros, according to a report commissioned by Greenpeace, in addition to the tens of billions ...
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Washington Tax Break Proposal Nears Decision
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Mar 8 2010) Cloud Computing
The push to restore a key tax break for data center projects in some areas of eastern Washington state is coming down to the wire, and the measure is encountering some challenges as it nears the finish line. The sales tax exemption for data centers is included in a house revenue bill being debated in Olympia, and has gained support from key lawmakers and editorial boards. But the nature of the tax break, which only includes rural counties, has raised late objections from data center projects in other parts of Washington State. Seattle developer Benaroya Companies is building a $100 ...
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When The Power Goes Out at Google
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Mar 8 2010) Cloud Computing
What happens when the power goes out at a Google data center? We found out on Feb. 24, when a power outage at a Google facility caused more than two hours of downtime for Google App Engine, the company’s cloud computing platform for developers. Last week the company released a detailed incident report on the outage, which underscored the critical importance of good documentation, even in huge data center networks with failover capacity. Most of Google’s recent high-profile outages have been caused by routing or network capacity problems, including outages in May and September of last year (see How Google ...
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Computing's Swinging Pendulum
Explore Article Forbes.com (Mar 8 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers
The stampede to outsource computing into the cloud has some interesting consequences. Rather than further distributing computing, it's actually centralizing much of the data, and more importantly, the control of that data. It took almost four decades to fully distribute computing from mainframe computers to PCs and then to a slew of portable devices such as smart phones. The whole argument for the client/server era of computing was that it moved computing closer to the user, distributed the processing and provided universal access to corporate data that used to be regulated by IT departments.
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Data centers tackling cyber terrorism, slowly
Explore Article sfgate.com (Mar 6 2010) Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing , Servers
The data center is receiving more public scrutiny than ever before, with IT managers facing a range of challenges from making systems run more efficiently to protecting computers from cyber terrorism, says AFCOM chief executive Jill Eckhaus The 30-year-old organization for data center managers is holding its twice-yearly Data Center World show from March 7-11 in Nashville, Tenn., where IT folks will learn about the most pressing issues facing data centers today and share their own experiences. Gov't builds secret database to fight cyber-terrorism Cyber terrorism is one of the topics Eckhaus is looking forward to examining further. AFCOM's recent ...
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Google is going to trade energy - Say What? By Doug Mohney
Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Mar 5 2010)
Not satisfied with dominating the search engine world, dabbling in wireless services, pledging to install gigabit broadband services in neighborhoods across America, threatening to pull out of China because it's been cyberattacked (and cooperating with the NSA on the side) and upsetting copyright experts over its digital library plans, Google is now going to buy and sell electricity. Is it just me, or do you hear some "Danger, Danger Will Robinson!" in the background? The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has authorized Google Energy to buy and sell electricity in bulk like any other utility, reports CNet. The subsidiary of ...
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Google Steps Up Data Protection With Synchronous Replication
Explore Article Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Mar 5 2010)
Google on said on 4 March that it has added a storage disaster-recovery feature that’s growing in demand - synchronous data replication - to its Google Apps lineup, which includes Google Docs, Gmail, Google Sites, Calendar and several others. The search and web services giant told eWEEK that it, in fact, has been using replication for Gmail for a few years, but that it is has now extended the feature to all of its online tools and services.
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Microsoft ‘All In’ on Container-Powered Cloud
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Mar 4 2010) Cloud Computing
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today emphasized that “when it comes to the cloud, we are all in.” He shared that message first in a speech at the University of Washington, later in an all-staff email, and also in a major ad campaign the company is launching today. Most of Ballmer’s talk focused on the end-user experience of cloud computing services. But he brought a data center with him: one of the next-generation containers that Microsoft data center GM Kevin Timmons described yesterday in a presentation in New York. The prototype (seen above) is the latest in a series of evolving ...
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ACS Opens $3M Green Data Center in UK
Explore Article Web Host Industry Review (Mar 4 2010) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing
- Business process outsourcing firm Affiliated Computer Services (www.acs-inc.com) announced on Thursday it has opened its new flagship green data center in Telford, UK. The company invested $3 million (£2 million) in the 4,500 square feet facility combines "best-of-breed technology with the highest calibre green credentials," says ACS. The data center will help save up to 70 percent in energy costs, resulting in a carbon footprint reduction of about 4,200 tonnes annually. (Read Full Article)
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Greenpeace Admits Using ‘Dirty’ Power
Explore Article Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Mar 4 2010) Fossil Fuel , Servers
There are red faces over at Greenpeace International, after the environmental organisation took Facebook to task last month over a data centre it is building in Oregon that will use mostly coal-based electricity. Greenpeace’s beef with Facebook’s data centre was that it is not using renewable energy, which led the environmental group to reportedly say that “the only truly green data centres are the ones running on renewable energy.”
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Smart Grids for Smarter Data Centers
Explore Article ecommercetimes.com (Mar 4 2010) Emissions , Cloud Computing , Servers
Computer hardware gets more powerful every day, and with greater power comes a greater appetite for electricity. That's greatly increased the amount of energy needed in the data center, yet many data centers today weren't designed for modern consumption requirements. Smarter, more comprehensive energy planning tools and processes are being directed at this problem.
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