Views and Opinions on Green IT

1. Looking Towards the Post Green Era - by Doug Moheny

   Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jul 28 2010)

   This week I've seen announcements for everything from a "green" tape server solution to Big Iron mainframes. If nearly everyone is green, then the concept of green has been diluted and is just another item on the checklist. To borrow a line from BB King, "The thrill is gone." Stakeholders in the Green Data Center world need to rapidly evolve and clarify their messaging, otherwise they are going to get lost in the ever-growing pile of green snow being shoveled out by the PR and marketing wonks. You know how this conversation goes. (Read Full Article)
   

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2. Tweaking the near term - by Doug Mohney

   Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jul 21 2010)

   Comment "One good thing that is pushing companies to be more efficient is the fact that their data is growing exponentially ..." - Storagepipe Solutions

   As much as environmentalist advocates want the data center industry to go carbon neutral overnight, all trend lines indicate a boom in data center growth over the next five years. Energy production is not going carbon-neutral -- with a few key exceptions -- overnight. Optimizing existing data center power consumption as much as possible, outsource to the best green we can find, and build new green data centers only when we absolutely need should be the mantra everyone adopts. (Read Full Article)
   

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3. Could Server Sprawl be a problem? by Peter Judge

   Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jul 19 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

   Ever moved house, and packed up junk in boxes, because it’s easier than sorting it out? Or had other people pack that junk up for you? Years later, that junk will still be there in boxes, taking up room in your garage. Apparently the same happens to data centers, when they go on the big trek to (Read Full Article)
   

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4. The instant new-build data center - by Doug Mohney

   Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jul 15 2010)

   This week Colt is crowing about how it is doing pre-builds of data center space as a faster clip and lower cost than a new-build data center. It is also challenging the "current wisdom" of the containerized rapid deployment approach. Colt Modular Data Center (MDC) design uses pre-assembled compone (Read Full Article)
   

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5. The Data center That Came By Truck - by Peter Judge

   Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jul 12 2010)

   I’ve had several weeks of non-stop cloud indoctrination over at eWEEK. So when I heard of a very data center innovation that is the exact opposite, I did a pretty theatrical double-take. In the last month or so I’ve had a cloud forum, a cloud webinar, umpteen virtualisation events, and just (Read Full Article)
   

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6. A Green Data Center Triple Crown - by Doug Mohney

   Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jul 8 2010)

   Are "green" data centers -- however you want to define the color this week -- a stand-alone proposition? The short answer, sadly, is no. Most corporations are building green data centers because they realize that more efficient operations should save significant operational expenses over non-gre (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Greenpeace   Doug Mohney   LEED

7. Carbon Pharisees Or Carbon Sinners? Let’s Be Neither - by Peter Judge

   Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jul 5 2010)

   I’ve just heard the best presentation ever on carbon trading. At one blow, it laid out the bizarre and often stupid complexities of the rules... and the stark simplicity of the underlying need for them. The talk was given at the “Green Enterprise World Forum” in London, but it was all abou (Read Full Article)
   

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8. How do we de-carbonise the economy? - by Peter Judge

   Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jun 28 2010)

   The change of Government over here in Britain has been an interesting one. Last week I got a chance to step inside Westminster and hear a bit about how much of a real change is going on - and how it will affect IT people. Last week’s Emergency Budget was greeted with disappointment by Britain (Read Full Article)
   

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9. Wee Little Chips Promise Better Energy Usage - by Dough Mohney

   Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jun 25 2010)

   Chips normally found in cell phones and netbooks are now getting buzz as a greener server solution due to their (relatively) low-power needs and an architectural move to throw more little CPUs into "The Cloud" for more flexibility in delivering services. Last week, SeaMicro made a big splash by anno (Read Full Article)
   

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10. Stop Buying Hardware! - by Peter Judge

    Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jun 21 2010)

    Sometimes you hear an idea that takes a complex idea and simplifies it nicely, A colleague of mine came up with one the other day. Just stop buying hardware, is the suggestion from eWEEK writer Andrew Donoghue. Andrew decided this month that he won’t upgrade an item of personal tech - his phone, (Read Full Article)
    

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11. Energy Star for Data Centers - Does it really matter? - by Doug Mohney

    Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jun 17 2010)

    Last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it would have a program for large stand-alone data centers and buildings that house large data centers to earn the Energy Star label. It'll be Yet Another Ticket that data center operators can choose to lure customers in, but (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Doug Mohney   U.S. Environmental Protection Agency   Verizon Business

12. Power From Green Wellies - by Peter Judge

    Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jun 14 2010)

    Energy comes in many forms, and the main choice between them can be made on the basis of public image, rather than the best result. A few months back we had the brouhaha over Facebook's use of coal-generated electricity in its data centers, which turned out to be the same source of energy that its critic, Greenpeace uses. Since then we've had data centers powered by cow manure - which turned out to be a theoretical paper, and not exactly a practical proposition, according to fellow blogger Doug Mohney. (Read Full Article)
    

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13. Green and Secure - Hand in hand for data centers By Doug Mohney

    Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jun 10 2010)

    If you want to have a successful data center business, you might want to focus your efforts on being secure as well as being green. Sure, it's nice to have a LEED certification and being the cleanest on the block, but there's a new scam, er scheme every week for energy efficiency. But individuals, corporations, and government entities are going to start looking harder at security, especially if they want to move resources from in-house to the cloud -- whatever "cloud" means this week. (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Doug Mohney   LEED   Google

14. Royalty weighs in on green tech - by peter judge

    Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jun 7 2010)

    The picture says it all really. Prince Charles is holding a garden party to promote green technology. And IBM is going to be there. So here we see the heir to the British throne, standing in the long grass, in the sunshine, flanked by men (and a woman) in suits. Approaching retirement age, Prince Charles has yet to take up his eventual job as King, but has kept himself busy to greater or lesser effect in causes such as architecture, youth unemployment, alternative medicine and sustainability. To be more precise about the garden party, September 8th this year sees the ... (Read Full Article)
    

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15. Death to standards! Well, maybe not. - by doug mohney

    Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jun 3 2010)

    LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification gets whacked on weekly, but some of the basic thinking for LEED is flawed. As an editorial in the Guelph Mercury points out, a high-LEED building score takes nothing into account about the trade-off between taking a virgin site and erecting the highest-scoring building possible vs. taking an existing building and renovating it, thereby using less energy and creating less waste. Total lifecycle cost is not considered and now many organizations appear to be more concerned with getting a Green ticket punched for public consumption than taking a more holistic approach to ... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Doug Mohney   LEED   New York Times

16. Making Networks more efficient - by Peter Judge

    Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jun 1 2010)

    In January this year, Alcatel Lucent announced its Green Touch initiative with the ambitious aim of cutting the energy used by communications a thousand-fold To anyone working in the data center world, that sounds ambitious. Data Centers are fairly well evolved structures and while it may be possible to slash large chunks of their energy use - say as much as fifty percent if you could reduce the energy needed for cooling - data centers aren't currently poised for that sort of energy reduction. What is it that makes the company think that sort of saving can be made in ... (Read Full Article)
    

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17. Cooling - Less has to be more - By Doug Mohney

    Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (May 28 2010)

    Hanging out at The Cable Show 2010, I came across Alcatel-Lucent's modular cooling solution for data centers; a cable head-end is a data center. It's a great idea in certain situations, but I couldn't help but think that for most of the time, less has to be more. I don't mean to pick on Alcatel-Lucent; let's throw in IBM and all the other cooling rack retro-fit solutions that replace a cabinet door with fans and a cooling solution to move away from the racks into a centralized heat dump (i.e. the existing HVAC/CVAC). Alcatel-Lucent's solution first went into the company's ... (Read Full Article)
    

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18. Doing The Math (or "HUE, PUE, Barney McGrew...") - by Peter Judge

    Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (May 24 2010)

    Comment "I love your reference to the fireman's roll call . . . adds some levity to fairly heavy math. You've ..." - Jamie

    A few weeks ago, I praised PUE, the leading metric for data centre efficiency, but said it was a "blunt instrument". As readers of this blog will already know, there is plenty of work going on to sharpen it up. There's some specially clear thinking coming from Deutsche Bank, form the look of this interview in News@Cisco, with Andrew Stokes, chief infrastructure architect at the bank, Stokes believes like anyone involved in green data centers, that it is all about measurement. "You don't realize how much room you have for improvement- how much capacity you actually have in your data ... (Read Full Article)
    

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19. debunking the power of cow manure- by Doug Mohney

    Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (May 20 2010)

    Disposing of excess animal waste has been a seriously ugly problem in the farm industry, so it is a bit amusing -- and promising -- to see HP Labs put some serious thought into using cow manure and data centers together to generate power. Hopefully, we'll see some realism in version 2.0 of their humble proposal, but the first cut is long on engineering theories, short on real-world. HP's research, presented at the ASME International Conference on Energy Sustainability this week in Phoenix, AZ, explains how the back-end product of 10,000 dairy cows could fulfill the power requirements of a ... (Read Full Article)
    

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20. when random events aren't random - by Peter Judge

    Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (May 17 2010) Data Center Outages

    Comment "It's all about balancing risk and cost, isn't it? I just wrote a blog post about putting datacenters in Iceland ..." - wingels

    "It's just another random event", a colleague said to me when I sent him a link to the story that a car crash had triggered a power outage on Amazon's EC2 cloud service. But was it really? In this instance, a car hit an electricity pole, near an Amazon data center, and cut off its electricity supply. Most of the site went over to generator power, but one of the transfer switches didn't work properly, and some customers lost service for about an hour. Data Center Knowledge links this to a story about three other Amzon EC2 power outages. but ... (Read Full Article)
    

    1 Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Peter Judge   Data Center Knowledge

21. Goodbye ballot box - the green side of e-voting by Peter Judge

    Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (May 10 2010)

    Happily, I was able to vote in last week's General Election in Britain. Some people weren't. And because of that, our next election might see some changes - which could have a positive effect on the environment, as well as on enfranchisement. There are millions eligible to vote in Britain, so the hundreds who were unable to vote made no difference to the result. But, they turned up in good time, ready to do their civic duty and make their opinions felt, but in some cities, the polling stations were simply unable to process the queues that built up, before ... (Read Full Article)
    

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22. Google buys into wind - what next? by doug mohney

    Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (May 7 2010) Wind

    This week, Google (www.google.com) announced it put $38.8 million into two North Dakota wind firms. It's the company's first direct investment into large scale renewable energy -- and likely not to be the last. From a "green" perspective, Google's investment rings most of the good bells. There's already existing transmission capability to deliver the 169.5 megawatts of power from the NextEra Energy Resources plants. It's a minority investment for the company, it is expected to make a profit (well, tax offsets, so reduction of expense) and it has lots of good shiny-shiny press for both The Goog and for wind ... (Read Full Article)
    

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23. google offers tips on lowering your pue - by Paula Bernier

    Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (May 4 2010)

    Comment "Google presentation did not mention any new modes of design or operation. These topics are yesterday's news. However, GE Digital ..." - szalkus

    Google is obviously a major data center operator, so when the company talks, people listen. Well, Bill Weihl, green energy czar at Google, was talking recently about the company’s green data center initiatives early this week at Green: Net 2010 in San Francisco. Of course, he mentioned how and why the search giant requested permission from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to buy and sell power. (It got the green light from the FERC, by the way.) The reason, he said, was just to give the company more flexibility in procuring energy for its data centers. (Read Full Article)
    

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24. Smart meters should learn from voter apathy - by Peter Judge

    Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (May 3 2010)

    Over in the UK, we currently have a presidential (sorry, General) Election going on, and we've hit on a splendid new way to use modern technology. We're having debates between the party leaders, using smart new technology. It's jolly exciting, and, do you know what? I think you could try it in your elections in the US. It's called television. Seriously, as candidates' debates hit the TV screens here, about fifty years after they started in the US, there's been quite a lot of thinking over here about how best to use technology to engage people. Launched now, the debates ... (Read Full Article)
    

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