Raytheon: Boosting data center temperatures cuts energy use by 30%

ITworld (Oct 24 2011) Cloud Computing

1. As the IT sustainability program lead at Raytheon, Brian Moore says he saw a chance to learn from the company's past successes to find ways to deliver even more results. For Moore and his colleagues in IT, that meant taking cues from Raytheon's efforts to improve data center energy efficiency and applying those steps to other areas. Toward that end, the IT team has focused on the company's networking and telecommunications infrastructure for the past year. "The corporate network guys run the wide-area network and the backbone, so they can do it top-down, focusing on the design of the gear," he says. Moore says Raytheon, a defense and aerospace company based in Waltham, Mass., has also spent the past year building up its cloud computing capabilities -- leading to a reduction in hardware requirements and therefore energy needs -- as well as replacing older equipment with new, highly energy-efficient ... (Read Full Article)

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