IBM Sees Green in Going Green in Data Centers

Welcome to IT Jungle (Jan 25 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers

1. In New York City today, when the weather was just starting to get a little muggy but the air conditioning was cranking so high in the Helen Mills Theater that you could just about hang sides of beef on the stage, IBM announced a new initiative, dubbed Project Big Green, under which it will sell technology and services to help the world's data centers consume less power as they support expanding IT workloads. While IBM as well as other server and storage array makers have been conscious of power and cooling issues surrounding IT gear since there were data centers, the issue has come to a head in recent years as dense X64 servers and myriad pieces of networking equipment have stormed the data centers of the world and taken over. When blade servers entered the market seven years ago, they were the straw that broke the air conditioner ... (Read Full Article)

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