Articles from doug mohney

1. One stopping shopping for telecommunications and energy by Doug Mohney Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Sep 3 2009) Power and Cooling The chain leading from the phone closet to the utility bill may not seem obvious at first, but PAETEC CEO Arunas Chesonis says energy is the future of telecom. Since the entire IT and communications infrastructure has significant power requirements, there’s a ready relationship between the two. Chesonis, CEO of a national communication services company, predicted a decade ago that CIOs would be making all telecommunications decisions - a prophesy that has come true. (Read Full Article)

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2. A slow green reality by doug mohney Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Aug 14 2009) Power and Cooling Turning your data center green is a great concept, but it's not going to happen overnight for a number of reasons. Unless you are building a new data center from scratch – and most likely being subsidized by a vendor as a demonstration project – implementing energy-efficiency and carbon reduction planning has to be a little like planning for retirement. You have to have a goal, you have to have a plan, you have to contribute to (work on) the plan on a steady, regular basis, and you have to have a date to pull the trigger. (Read Full Article)

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3. Green Ethernet promises to save power, eventually by doug mohney Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Aug 7 2009) Networking Comment "so far there seems no big companies involved in the standardization of the green ethernet technology. Without them, I worry ..." - zipdisk2003 Jumping on the green bandwagon, the IEEE has issued the world’s first Ethernet standard strictly directed at power reduction. “Green” Ethernet is a great idea, but it is going to take years before it shows up in products and may have little usefulness in an optimized data center. More specifically, the IEEE 802.3az Energy-efficiency Ethernet standard has been forwarded to ballot with the goal of getting approval in September 2010 – so about a year before it is an official standard by anyone’s definition. (Read Full Article)

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4. What's on your roof? by doug mohney Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jul 28 2009) Construction , Solar , Wind The space on top of your building is likely to become a lot more interesting over the next couple of years. Depending on geographic location, the roof on a data center can be a valuable piece of real estate for generating revenue. Can green (money) and green (improving the environment) live in harmony? Many data centers that are tenants of large building are already familiar with the concept of "roof rights" – the ability to place devices on open roof space in exchange for some fee per month. Cellular antennas and satellite dishes are typically the most popular pieces of hardware one might find on the roof, followed by different flavors of antennas for high-speed point-to-point wireless technology. (Read Full Article)

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5. Trimming watts with software by Doug Mohney Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jul 20 2009) Monitoring , Grid Computing , Networking , Servers Can a little software go a long way to trimming power consumption?  Packing more customers per server and rack is both cost effective and power efficient, but there are other tricks that larger firms are looking at to cut back on buying hardware and more bandwidth. (Read Full Article)

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6. Can you upgrade to green by upgrading your AC? - by doug mohney Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jul 15 2009) Reducing power consumption in an existing data center might be as easy as – if such a thing is ever easy -- upgrading the air conditioners. Core4 Systems, a Napa start-up, says it can cut cooling costs up to 72 percent with its technology - a number vouched for by Core4's first customer, Sonic.Net. Core4's solutions also cut water usage by up to 28 percent over legacy systems. Unlike a traditional approach, Core4 provides an end-to-end solution starting with a site review of existing power and cooling needs to develop justification for energy rebates and ROI parameters. Key system components are custom designed and manufactured for each data center environment – definitely not a one-size-fits-all approach to cooling. Finally, Core4 manages the entire cooling system deployment process to optimize data center uptime. (Read Full Article)

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7. Iceland debates its energy future by Doug Mohney Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jul 12 2009) Power and Cooling , Emissions , Geothermal For a country with lots of cold and snow, Iceland has plenty of geothermal and hydro power.  How it uses those resources is the subject of debate between politicians and environmentalists recently outlined in a New York Times piece. About 80 percent of Iceland's electricity goes to heavy industry and mainly to the country's three big aluminum plants, says Iceland environment minister Svandis Svavarsdottir. The country embarked upon building up aluminum processing to diversify Iceland's economy away from fishing, but environmentalists are concerned that work has started to add one new plant in the southwest, with Alcoa planning to add a new smelter in north Iceland in the future. (Read Full Article)

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8. Cap and Trade – In chaos, lies opportunity by Doug Mohney Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jul 1 2009) Cap and Trade While the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill last week containing carbon cap-and-trade measures, there's a long way to go before such measures will be passed. The real question is how can data center operators find advantages now? With the ink barely dry, numerous groups are gearing up to fight for modifications and outright killing the legislation in the Senate this year. However, regardless of the outcome of this bill, legislative efforts to curb and reduce greenhouse gases aren't going to go away. It is likely that your utility provider, regardless of how it generates power, is active looking for alternatives to reduce both power consumption and generate more green power. For a utility that has lots of "dirty"/carbon-generating power, reducing power needs means less gases in the air and the potential of swapping out some dirty-but-cheap electricity for greener-but-more-expensive power. (Read Full Article)

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9. The price of carbon and your data center by Doug Mohney Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jun 18 2009) Monitoring , Cap and Trade , Carbon Tax , Emissions , Hydro , Nuclear Recent market trading in Europe and U.S. estimates put the price of carbon at around $20 a ton today. By 2010, the non-profit Investor Responsibility Research Center thinks that the world will see pricing of $28.24 per ton, says Forbes. Regardless of the mechanism – a flat carbon emitter tax, cap-and-trade policies, or carbon offset buys – data center operators have to start factoring in the cost of carbon into their operation. First, let’s be honest: It is hard to predict the future with great certainty, doubly so when we move from lies, damned lies, and statistics into the realm of computer modeling built on assumptions that may or may not have to do anything with the real world. However, having said that, barring a sudden set of breakthroughs in energy generation and/or conservation, your electric bill has a good chance of having a carbon tax built into ... (Read Full Article)

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10. Demo versus Retro by Doug Mohney Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jun 15 2009) Carbon Footprint , Servers Building a showcase energy-efficient data center from the ground up is all the rage these days. Fewer companies want to talk about retrofitting existing data center facilities to be more green. For instance, Holyoke, Massachusetts is the latest city to join the from-the-ground-up energy-efficient showcase list. The University of Massachusetts, MIT, EMC and Cisco are getting together to building a "world-class green research high-performance computing center." Western Mass would seem to be an unlikely place to put a data center, but Holyoke – 90 miles from Boston and 10 miles way from Springfield - has cheap and clean hydroelectric power available from the Connecticut River, a good start for building a green data center. (Read Full Article)

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