Doug Mohney

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2. 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 ... (Read Full Article)
   

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3. 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 ... (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. 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)
   

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6. 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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7. 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

8. Power From Green Wellies - by Peter Judge

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

   ...out to be a theoretical paper, and not exactly a practical proposition, according to fellow blogger Doug Mohney. Energy comes in many forms, and the main choice between them can be made on the basis of public i... (Read Full Article)
   

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9. 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 ... (Read Full Article)
   

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10. 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 ... (Read Full Article)
    

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11. 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 ... (Read Full Article)
    

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12. 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, ... (Read Full Article)
    

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13. 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 ... (Read Full Article)
    

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14. TANSTAAF vs. Win-Win by Doug Mohney

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

    Originally coined by Robert Heinlein and embraced by the economics crowd, TANSTAAFL --"There ain't no such thing as a free lunch -- is too often the winner in the battle to be green. Very few times are we finding green energy choices where there is a true win-win situation. I bring this up because out this week is Power Hungry: The Myths of 'Green Energy' and the Real Fuels of ... (Read Full Article)
    

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15. reading the tea leaves of bloom energy - by Doug Mohney

    Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Apr 23 2010)

    Comment "Or, is it possible that the whole thing simply doesn't work as well as they claim? Rupert Goodwins at ZDNet ..." - judgecorp

    Having introduced its concept of the "energy server,” Bloom Energy now seems to be content to shut the doors and live off the press clippings generated by its February launch event. Why does a company so intent on making the world a better place through cleaner and cheaper energy have such a control-freak streak when it comes to communications? Take my experiences. An email request to visit Bloom's facilities in ... (Read Full Article)
    

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16. Dude, Natural Disasters happen to everyone! - By Doug Mohney

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

    At least one blogger wants to call Iceland out as a Bad Place for a data center because they had some volcanic activity this week. Dude, seriously, are you writing from the safety of the moon? The blog, awkwardly titled "With recent volcanic activity how long will it take before anyone considers Iceland for a data center?," accurately notes Iceland's push to get more data center business before ripping into ... (Read Full Article)
    

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