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Data Center Design:
Construction,
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Data Center Outages,
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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
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Elastra Makes Its Cloud Even Greener
GigaOM (Jan 12 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers
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Elastra has incorporated energy efficiency intelligence into its Cloud Server solution, allowing customers to define which efficiency metrics are important to them and then rely on the software to route each application to the optimal resources with their internal cloud environments. Elastra’s efforts are just the latest in a growing trend toward saving data center costs by using the least possible amount of power to accomplish any given task. Especially in the internal cloud space, power management capabilities are becoming a must-have, with vendors from Appistry to VMware offering tools to migrate workloads dynamically and power down unneeded servers.
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