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    1. Five Recipes for a Slimmer, Trimmer Data Center

      Explore Information Management (Apr 2 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

      Five Recipes for a Slimmer, Trimmer Data Center

      The data center is typically where organizations spend the bulk of their technology and resource investments, so quite naturally, operating one efficiently is a top concern for chief information officers and their staffs. The management complexities range from integration, availability and reliability issues to information management best practices, security concerns, risk management and data protection. Employees are putting more pressure on information technology to deliver new and different services ranging from device flexibility to new applications. There are five important practices to make data centers more efficient.

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    2. Data Center Efficiency: What’s Your PUE?

      Explore Information Management (Aug 11 2011) Power and Cooling , Servers

      Data Center Efficiency: What’s Your PUE? Data centers are under attack. There are concerns with the energy they use and the cost of that energy both in dollars and the effect on the environment. Data center operators are required to efficiently use resources and are being held responsible for how those resources are generated. For a new data center, issues such as the source and cost of electricity, renewable energy and the availability of proper environmental conditions to allow increased use of water or air-side economization (free cooling) are factors that can be evaluated during site selection. Building and data center design can be optimized for air flow with adequate paths for air and building orientation for minimal heat gain and to maximize natural air flow. Before you implement data center changes, you’ve got to find its energy output. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   The Green Grid   ASHRAE   Department of Energy

    3. Cloud Seen As Way To Simplify IT Management

      Explore Information Management (Jul 7 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

      Cloud Seen As Way To Simplify IT ManagementInformation ManagementThe survey found that public clouds are generally being built on simpler server hardware, with a focus on energy efficiency, density, and cost control. Reliability, availability, and serviceability for public clouds tend to be built into the software ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Interactive Data Corporation

    4. GE Invests $520M In Green Data Center Technology

      Explore Information Management (Jan 18 2011) Cloud Computing

      GE Invests $520M In Green Data Center Technology GE Invests $520M In Green Data Center TechnologyInformation ManagementGE announced this week that it has struck an agreement to acquire Lineage Power Holdings from The Gores Group, providing the company with a foothold in the ...and more » (Read Full Article)

    5. Data Center Spend Shrinks as Cloud Grows

      Explore Information Management (Dec 8 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

      Data Center Spend Shrinks as Cloud Grows Pike Research’s analysis indicates that cloud computing data centers achieve industry-leading rates of efficiency in greenhouse gas emissions and sustainability. Pike finds clouds to be better utilized and less expensive than traditional data centers. As part of its cloud computing adoption scenario, Pike Research forecasts that data centers will consume 139.8 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity in 2020, a reduction of 31 percent from 201.8 TWh in 2010. The reduction will drive a 28 percent reduction in GHG emissions from 2010 levels. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Pike Research

    6. Nationwide Takes Multi-Prong Strategy to Greener Operations

      Explore Information Management (Jun 15 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

      Nationwide Takes Multi-Prong Strategy to Greener OperationsInformation ManagementThere is no one way to pursue green technology and operations—such an effort calls for an integrated approaches that encompass hardware, software and ...and more » (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   IBM

    7. IDC: European Cloud Providers Expanding

      Explore Information Management (Jun 7 2010) Cloud Computing

      IDC's European Cloud Provider's Technology Investment Survey indicates eighty-five percent of the organizations surveyed expect their business to expand. IDC's research shows a difference in approach to technology between the smaller European cloud providers and the large global providers. Open source has much higher use in European cloud providers than traditional enterprises. Reliability is highly prized in systems supporting public clouds, followed by price, supplier service capability and energy efficiency. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Interactive Data Corporation

    8. Infrastructure Monitoring and Management Tops List of Data Center User Issues

      Explore Information Management (Jun 2 2010) Data Center Outages , Monitoring , Cloud Computing

      Infrastructure Monitoring and Management Tops List of Data Center User Issues The biannual Data Center Users Group (DCUG) survey results showed adequate monitoring and management capabilities as respondents’ primary facility/network concern. Heat density and availability were second and third in the list of top concerns, followed by energy efficiency and power density. The main data center issue experienced in the past 12 months was hot spots, with 40 percent of respondents reporting it. Twenty-three percent of respondents also experienced at least one power outage in the last 12 months. Reasons cited for the outages included weather, human error and equipment failure, while costs were as high as $2 million. (Read Full Article)

    9. Green Design Boosts Insurers' Bottom Lines

      Explore Information Management (May 17 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers , Storage

      Green Design Boosts Insurers' Bottom Lines Some of the Nation's largest insurers, including Aflac, Allstate and Nationwide, are adopting the latest technologies to build and maintain smaller, more efficient data centers capable of managing greater workloads-and producing big savings. Insurers' data storage requirements grow incessantly, spurred by an avalanche of customer data, product information, stored documents, PDFs, video files, e-mail and transaction records. All of this information must be stored for years at a time, resulting in huge loads on data centers. The historic solution has been to throw more hardware at the problem, and even build new facilities to accommodate new hardware, driving up costs and resulting in energy-hungry facilities gobbling up increasing levels of real estate. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Greenpeace

    10. Green IT’s Increasing Importance to Business Leadership

      Explore Information Management (May 13 2010) Monitoring , Cloud Computing , Servers

      Green IT’s Increasing Importance to Business Leadership Nintendo of America opened the new headquarters of its North American operations in Redmond Thursday — a gleaming, modern facility with all kinds of environmentally friendly touches throughout. The 300,000-square-foot-building, which houses about 650 employees — roughly half the company's Washington staff — is a low-slung, four-story structure that replaces one of the company's other three buildings constructed in the early 1980s. It's on a 10-acre site on the Nintendo campus, just west of State Route 520. (Read Full Article)

    11. Governments May Mandate Green Energy

      Explore Information Management (Jul 8 2009) Construction , Emissions

      Governments May Mandate Green Energy The need to formulate green policies for business and possibly compliance purposes, is starting to sink in among executives. A survey last month of senior data center executives from across Europe conducted by Campos Research for Digital Reality Trust, a wholesale database provider, found that nearly 70 percent were "extremely" or "very concerned" with the potential impact of green regulations on data centers, 60 percent now have green datacenter strategies in place and 55 percent would reject a provider with no green strategy. Rodney Nelsestuen, senior research director at TowerGroup, and Inci Kaya, an analyst, concur that formalized green policies are coming at companies, and they will soon shape request for proposals (RFP) when companies vet potential outsourcers and other suppliers such as data center providers. "Eventually sustainability policies will be published and audited just like the financials," says Kaya. Steve Haas, principal for financial services at the Everest Group ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Europe