Category: Monitoring

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Categories:
Data Center Design: Construction, Container, Data Center Outages, Monitoring, Power and Cooling
Policy: Cap and Trade, Carbon Footprint, Carbon Reduction Commitment, Carbon Tax, Emissions
Power: Biomass, Fossil Fuel, Geothermal, Hydro, Nuclear, Solar, Wind
Application: Cloud Computing, Grid Computing
Technology: Microblogging, Networking, Servers, Storage, Supercomputer

  1. VSS Gets $20M to Keep an Eye on Corporate Networks

    Explore Article GigaOM (Aug 24 2010) Monitoring , Cloud Computing , Networking

    VSS Gets $20M to Keep an Eye on Corporate Networks VSS Monitoring, a network traffic monitoring company, has taken $20 million in growth equity from Battery Ventures. The funding was the first for the company — founded in 2003 — and it will be used for R&D and to accelerate the company’s expansion. What’s noteworthy is that until this point, VSS had built network monitoring software and hardware and sold it for five years without taking venture capital.

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  2. Fed Spending on Energy Solutions May Hit $19 Billion

    Explore Article Homepage (Aug 17 2010) Monitoring , Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing

    Fed Spending on Energy Solutions May Hit $19 Billion According to a new report from Virginia-based research firm, Input, federal spending on energy solutions could reach $19 billion by 2015. The report, "Federal Technology Strategies for Energy Efficiency, 2010-2015," discusses the technology solutions that federal agencies are turning to for help in reducing government energy consumption and carbon footprint. The report projects billion-dollar spending on energy-saving approaches that include cloud computing, virtualization, green hardware and building management systems. The report cites the following IT-related strategies the government will deploy to reduce energy consumption:

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  3. Business fears over impending CRC scheme

    Explore Article edie.net (Aug 9 2010) Monitoring , Carbon Reduction Commitment , Emissions

    Business fears over impending CRC scheme Businesses say mapping energy use is their biggest concern when it comes to a new government scheme to tackle carbon emissions. Public and private sector organisations see data management as their main challenge under the New Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme (CRCEES) - a government initiative to boost energy efficiency. David Mole, managing director of environmental data specialists, Landmark Environment, which surveyed organisations about the scheme, said: "Clearly many organisations are still looking for an effective way to manage data in this new area." The legally-binding carbon trading scheme came into force on April 1.

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  4. Europe investing in solar and carbon capture

    Explore Article examiner.com (Aug 9 2010) Construction , Monitoring , Cap and Trade , Carbon Footprint , Carbon Tax , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Nuclear , Solar

    Europe investing in solar and carbon capture The European Union (EU) is investing in solar and carbon capture. The European Union (EU) plans to aggressively cut Greenhouse Gases with new technology. The EU is investing $50 billion Euros into research and development of solar and carbon capture at coal plants. The EU is comprised of 27 members. It already has a carbon limiting cap and trade program but it is viewed as too expensive by business. Some EU countries have a carbon tax also. Solar power is getting $23 billion Euros over the next decade in investment. Carbon capture is receiving $13 billion Euros over the same ...

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  5. Green Data Centre IT Showing Growth

    Explore Article Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Aug 6 2010) Monitoring , Emissions

    Green Data Centre IT Showing Growth Enterprises’ investment in environmentally-friendly data centre systems will grow sharply over the next five years, rising to represent 28 percent of the total data centre market, according to a study released on Thursday by Pike Research. The company found that, in a change from the past, companies are now focused on implementing systems that will reduce their energy expenses and carbon emissions. As a result, global revenues associated with green data centre technologies will grow from $7.5bn (£4.3bn) to $41.4bn by 2015, the report found.

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  6. Data Management Biggest Concern For CRC Registration

    Explore Article edie.net (Aug 4 2010) Monitoring , Carbon Reduction Commitment

    Data Management Biggest Concern For CRC Registration With just two months remaining for companies to register for the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme (CRCEES), an industry poll has revealed that the biggest perceived barrier facing organisations is data management.

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  7. TelecityGroup Achieves Carbon Trust Standard

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jul 29 2010) Monitoring , Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Fossil Fuel

    TelecityGroup Achieves Carbon Trust Standard TelecityGroup, a European data center provider headquartered in the United Kingdom, has become the first provider to achieve the Carbon Trust Standard for its UK operations. The company also earned an ISO 14001 certification for environmental management. The Carbon Trust Standard is a carbon award that requires organizations to measure, manage and reduce carbon emissions across their own operations. By improving its carbon efficiency from January 2007 through to December 2009 across the company’s UK operations and subsidiaries, TelecityGroup achieved the Carbon Trusts Standard. The company has committed to delivering ongoing year-on-year improvements.

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Europe   United Kingdom   Netherlands

  8. Five Benefits of Data Center Energy Management

    Explore Article GreenBiz.com (Jul 20 2010) Monitoring , Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers

    Five Benefits of Data Center Energy Management The amount of money wasted each year on idling servers equals the cost of the Apollo space program. But a number of simple strategies can help get your server load under control and start your company saving energy and money.

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  9. Task Force recommends a metric for measuring data center efficiency

    Explore Article Federal Computer Week (Jul 19 2010) Monitoring , Cloud Computing , Servers

    Task Force recommends a metric for measuring data center efficiency A task force of industry groups and government agencies released recommendations today to help data center managers measure and report on overall data center efficiency by using four categories of Power Usage Effectiveness. As business demands and energy costs for data centers rise, owners and operators in industry and government have put a premium on the energy efficiency of the data center as a whole, frequently using energy efficiency metrics. However, the metrics are not always applied clearly and consistently.

    Comment on Article Mentions:   The Green Grid   Uptime Institute   ASHRAE

  10. Puppet Labs Gets $5M for Data Center Software

    Explore Article GigaOM (Jul 19 2010) Monitoring , Cloud Computing

    Puppet Labs Gets $5M for Data Center Software Puppet Labs has raised a $5 million second round of funding led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, which brings the total funding for open source configuration management software provider to more than $7 million. The company also announced the latest version of the Puppet software.

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  11. U.S. Utilities Need to Deliver Low-Carbon Electricity to Remain Competitive

    Explore Article environmentalleader.com (Jul 12 2010) Monitoring , Emissions , Fossil Fuel

    U.S. Utilities Need to Deliver Low-Carbon Electricity to Remain Competitive U.S. utilities, which are responsible for 40 percent of the nation’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, will need to provide cleaner, low-carbon electricity and enable their customers to better manage and reduce their energy use in order to remain competitive, according to a report from Ceres. A key finding of the report, “The 21st Century Electric Utility: Positioning for a Low-Carbon Future,” authored by Navigant Consulting, indicates that making the transition will require significant changes to the utility industry’s traditional business model. These include implementing energy-efficiency measures and delivering cleaner low-carbon electricity through renewable and smart-grid technologies.

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  12. Capacity Management in VMWare Virtualized Infrastructures

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jul 12 2010) Monitoring , Cloud Computing

    Capacity Management in VMWare Virtualized Infrastructures VMware’s virtualization capabilities have been deployed in an array of organizations around the world, and for good reason: they have helped many organizations significantly optimize the performance of their data centers. Yet for all the benefits virtualization delivers, its also present a range of challenges—most critically when it comes to doing effective capacity management. This white paper from Nimsoft offers a detailed look at the challenges of capacity management in virtualized infrastructures, and it offers a wealth of practical insights into addressing these challenges and setting the stage for successful VMware deployments

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  13. Climate Bill Would Save $19B, CBO Reports

    Explore Article environmentalleader.com (Jul 8 2010) Monitoring , Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Fossil Fuel

    Climate Bill Would Save $19B, CBO Reports The climate bill being discussed in Congress would cut $19 billion off the national debt, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) in a finding that could increase the odds of the bills passage, according to press reports. The Associated Press reported that several senators have told Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), one of the bills co-sponsors, that they would oppose the bill if it added to the national debt. The CBO report could convince many of those senators to support the bill. The bill, which would tax carbon emissions from large emitters like coal-fired power plants, would bring in an ...

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  14. CloudSwitch Launches Enterprise Edition

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jul 1 2010) Monitoring , Cloud Computing

    CloudSwitch Launches Enterprise Edition CloudSwitch recently announced the launch of the commercial version of its CloudSwitch Enterprise software. CloudSwitch Enterprise is a downloadable software appliance that installs easily into VMware and Xen environments. Customers can move Windows and Linux virtual machines to the Amazon EC2 and Terremark clouds, and run their applications in the cloud using existing management and monitoring tools. At the Structure 2010 conference we spoke with Ellen Rubin, the co-founder of CloudSwitch, who discussed the product launch and the adoption of cloud computing by enterprise customers.

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  15. UCSD Saves $900,000 with Energy Dashboard

    Explore Article environmentalleader.com (Jun 30 2010) Monitoring , Emissions , Servers

    UCSD Saves $900,000 with Energy Dashboard The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) has installed an energy dashboard to help the school improve the efficiency of their operations, reduce energy use, and combat climate change, according to a press release. The dashboard provides updated energy information for the university’s facilities and equipment, helping the them to save $900,000 a year, reducing energy consumption by 19 million kilowatt hours, and reducing 9,600 metric tons of greenhouse gases.

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