2. Categories

      Data Center Design: Construction, Container, Data Center Outages, Monitoring, Power and Cooling
      Policy: Cap and Trade, Carbon Footprint, Carbon Reduction Commitment, Carbon Tax, Emissions
      Power: Biomass, Fossil Fuel, Fuel Cell, Geothermal, Hydro, Nuclear, Solar, Wind
      Application: Cloud Computing, Grid Computing
      Technology: Microblogging, Networking, Servers, Storage, Supercomputer

  3. Quotes

    1. “ VMware was running out of datacenter capacity to support the rapid expansion of our research and development facilities. ”
      By Mark Egan

  4. Topics Mentioned


  1. VMware's new data center powered solely by hydroelectric power

    DatacenterDynamics (Oct 6 2009) Construction , Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing

    1. VMware's new data center powered solely by hydroelectric power Virtualization technology provider VMware decided to practice what they preach by designing and building a data center that uses best design practices from energy efficiency standpoint and leverages extensively the vendor’s own virtualization offerings. The company is targeting an ambitions PUE figure and has entered the facility for a LEED Platinum certification by the US Green Building Council. The vendor announced the new data center’s launch on Tuesday. If the LEED application is successful, the facility will become the third data center in the US to achieve the highest-level award for sustainable desing and building practices. Digital Realty Trust announced on Monday that a facility it built in California's Silicon Valley became the second data center in the nation to achieve LEED Platinum certification. “VMware was running out of datacenter capacity to support the rapid expansion of our research and development facilities,” VMware CIO Mark Egan said ... (Read Full Article)

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