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Don't accept defeat against data center power shortages
Explore Article infoworld.com (Mar 10 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers
The ongoing power crisis is taking its toll on large data center operators. According to a recent survey by Campos Research, most of these operators are expanding their facilities or build new ones -- and they're citing a lack of available power as the No. 1 cause. At the same time, these organizations report that their data centers are operating at an appallingly high average PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) ratio of 2.9. Interestingly, the survey also hints at a growing interest among organizations in containerized data centers, which are essentially modular data centers in a box that are relatively quick ...
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NASA Shifts Data Center Strategy
Explore Article InformationWeek (Mar 9 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers
NASA, which had been planning to build a new enterprise data center estimated to cost $1.5 billion, has done an abrupt about-face, announcing late last month that it was planning major changes to its data center strategy. In an announcement posted on the site of NASA's long-term, multi-billion dollar IT transformation project, the Information Technology Infrastructure Integration Program (I3P), NASA said that it was postponing the release of a long-awaited request for proposal for the new data center in light of new White House policies and leadership changes at NASA. "NASA intends to create a data center consolidation plan to ...
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Data Centre Management Costs Continue To Grow
Explore Article Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Mar 9 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers
A new report out today says IT departments still aren’t implementing optimum data centre practices, as a lack of automation, coupled with the proliferation of virtualisation technologies is leading to management sprawl. IDC’s European Data Centre Management Survey 2010 has found that, despite continued economic pressures, large European organisations still expect their spending on staff working in data centre management to grow by 10 percent over the next year - approximately nine times the expected growth in IT spending in 2010.
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Greenpeace Loses Round Two in Tiff with Facebook
Explore Article greenercomputing.com (Mar 9 2010) Wind , Servers
Glass houses, stones, etc. That's the sort of lesson coming out from the latest round in the Greenpeace vs. Facebook skirmish currently afoot on the internet. To recap, briefly: In January, Facebook told the world it was opening a green data center, one that set a target of a highly energy efficient 1.15 power usage effectiveness ratio. In mid-February, advocacy groups including Change.org as well as Greenpeace called Facebook out for not using renewable energy to power its planned data center. As I wrote back then:
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Computing's Swinging Pendulum
Explore Article Forbes.com (Mar 8 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers
The stampede to outsource computing into the cloud has some interesting consequences. Rather than further distributing computing, it's actually centralizing much of the data, and more importantly, the control of that data. It took almost four decades to fully distribute computing from mainframe computers to PCs and then to a slew of portable devices such as smart phones. The whole argument for the client/server era of computing was that it moved computing closer to the user, distributed the processing and provided universal access to corporate data that used to be regulated by IT departments.
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Data centers tackling cyber terrorism, slowly
Explore Article sfgate.com (Mar 6 2010) Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing , Servers
The data center is receiving more public scrutiny than ever before, with IT managers facing a range of challenges from making systems run more efficiently to protecting computers from cyber terrorism, says AFCOM chief executive Jill Eckhaus The 30-year-old organization for data center managers is holding its twice-yearly Data Center World show from March 7-11 in Nashville, Tenn., where IT folks will learn about the most pressing issues facing data centers today and share their own experiences. Gov't builds secret database to fight cyber-terrorism Cyber terrorism is one of the topics Eckhaus is looking forward to examining further. AFCOM's recent ...
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Greenpeace Admits Using ‘Dirty’ Power
Explore Article Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Mar 4 2010) Fossil Fuel , Servers
There are red faces over at Greenpeace International, after the environmental organisation took Facebook to task last month over a data centre it is building in Oregon that will use mostly coal-based electricity. Greenpeace’s beef with Facebook’s data centre was that it is not using renewable energy, which led the environmental group to reportedly say that “the only truly green data centres are the ones running on renewable energy.”
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Smart Grids for Smarter Data Centers
Explore Article ecommercetimes.com (Mar 4 2010) Emissions , Cloud Computing , Servers
Computer hardware gets more powerful every day, and with greater power comes a greater appetite for electricity. That's greatly increased the amount of energy needed in the data center, yet many data centers today weren't designed for modern consumption requirements. Smarter, more comprehensive energy planning tools and processes are being directed at this problem.
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Feds Taking Requests for $100M in Energy Efficiency Stimulus
Explore Article environmentalleader.com (Mar 3 2010) Emissions , Servers , Storage
The U.S. Department of Energy is injecting another $100 million into energy efficiency in buildings, electricity storage and other energy saving technologies. Energy Secretary Steven Chu on March 2 opened up the third round of funding under the Advanced Research Project Agency — Energy (ARPA-E), reports the San Francisco Business Times. Chu said that ARPA-E aims to yield technology jumps, such as those that produced the Internet or lasers, reports CNET.
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Greenpeace’s Hosting: Not ‘Truly Green’
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Mar 3 2010) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Wind , Servers
Finding renewable energy sources for huge data centers is a daunting challenge. It’s a far more complex issue than reflected in recent headlines, in which the environmental group Greenpeace International has bashed Facebook over its power choices for a new data center the social network is building in Oregon. In its stinging critique of Facebook’s power sourcing, Greenpeace asserts that “the only truly green data centers are the ones running on renewable energy.” Given that stance, one might expect Greenpeace’s hosting operations to be housed in a “truly green data center” powered entirely by 100 percent renewable energy.
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Liquid Computing & the Curse of a Computer Hardware Startup
Explore Article GigaOM (Mar 1 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers
It’s hard out there for a systems vendor — that is, if the death of Liquid Computing, an Ottawa, Ontario-based startup that until last week was building a unified computing box to help manage the virtualization of the data center, is any indication. Last week, a round of funding failed to materialize at the last minute and the company was shut down, confirmed Liquid’s now former CEO, Vikram Desai, who subsequently found himself out of a job.
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New federal data center energy-efficiency guidelines on tap
Explore Article Data Center (Feb 26 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers
The federal government and major industry groups are on the cusp of developing widely accepted standards for measuring a data center's energy efficiency. Along with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is working with six data center industry groups: 7x24 Exchange, the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), the Green Grid, the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, the U.S. Green Building Council, and the Uptime Institute. The goals? To standardize data center efficiency metrics, which could help prevent "greenwashing," and to give data center pros tools to reduce energy consumption in their facilities.
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Retiring A Data Center. With an Axe.
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Feb 26 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers
The data center is built around the principle of perpetual uptime. The power must always be on. The data must always be available. Yet what becomes of these facilities when they reach the end of their usefulness? What procedures and rituals are required when a data center is turned off? At eBay, it involves putting an an axe through the final server. That’s the fun part of a great blog post by Dean Nelson, senior director of the data center team at eBay, which last month shut down the company’s oldest data center in Sacramento. The facility was retired as ...
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Energy Savings In The Data Center
Explore Article Processor.com (Feb 25 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers
The ongoing conversation about global warming and green industrial practices is increasing the emphasis on capturing energy savings in the data center. Data centers use a tremendous amount of energy, so no matter what side of the argument over global warming one chooses, the bottom line is that data center energy savings can deliver significant monetary savings. And that is music to the ears of top management, who must control costs in today’s challenging economic environment. Thankfully, experts recommend many strategies—some of them very easy to implement—that data center administrators can use to achieve substantial energy savings.
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Emerson Data Center Earns LEED Gold Rating
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Feb 25 2010) Construction , Solar , Servers
Emerson’s new data center in St. Louis has earned Gold certification under the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) program for energy-efficient buildings, the company said today. The 35,000-square-foot facility sports the state of Missouri’s largest solar power installation – a 7,800-square-foot rooftop array of more than 550 solar panels that can supply up to 100 kilowatts of power. Emerson earned 40 out of a possible 51 points to receive LEED Gold certification.the U.S. Green Building Council. The company invested $50 million in the facility, which also features a high-voltage power distribution system using 240 volt power instead of ...
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