IBM data center gets deep energy retrofit

Technology News (Sep 17 2009) Fossil Fuel , Cloud Computing , Servers

1. -IBM's "green" data center here is kind of like a techie version of the "This Old House" television show. But in this case, the project was to build a showcase for energy-efficiency computing, rather than construct a new addition for a suburban home. IBM's main problem was data center sprawl. Five years ago, internal IT staff could barely keep up with growing demand for computing resources from employees, causing an expansion from one data center location to four--a situation that was costly and inefficient. (Read Full Article)

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