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    1. Bank Shows How Green IT is Won One Watt at a Time

      Explore EnterpriseITplanet.com / Green (Jan 13 2011) Emissions , Servers

      Bank Shows How Green IT is Won One Watt at a Time Very few data center operators have the budget to build an entirely new data center every few years. In fact, the vast majority of data centers are several years old and were therefore built at a time when few people cared about green IT, carbon emissions, PUE, or energy conservation at all. Now that green IT is much more important, legacy data center operators may wonder whether there is any room for them at the table. The answer, of course, is a resounding "Yes," and a recent highlight of one bank's Green IT efforts, BNY Mellon, is a great example. BNY Mellon's predecessor, Bank of New York, only started tracking energy efficiency in 2005. In 2007, the bank decided that it would only spend money on energy savings projects that paid off within 3 years. Since then, the bank has spent $8.2 million in capital spending on ... (Read Full Article)

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    2. Carbon Regulations in 2011: How Bad Will it Get?

      Explore EnterpriseITplanet.com / Green (Jan 6 2011) Emissions , Fossil Fuel

      Carbon Regulations in 2011: How Bad Will it Get? 2010 was supposed to be the year that the U.S. got serious about carbon emissions and the global warming it supposedly causes. A serious attack on carbon emissions, plus a carbon cap-and-trade scheme, would have created a limit on carbon from all industrial sectors while allowing some industries to continue emitting through the purchase of carbon allowances, and other industries to profit by selling those allowances. All this was supposed to set up the grand debut of Green IT was a key player in making those reductions possible. After all, IT emits as much carbon as the aviation sector, and that number is expected to grow as more data center come online to serve an increasingly connected and online global population. Well, it didn't quite work out that way. Raging battles over other legislative priorities and dithering by China and India, as well as public embarrassments such as ... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

    3. A Very Green (But Not the Greenest) Data Center Opens in Europe

      Explore EnterpriseITplanet.com / Green (Sep 7 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

      A Very Green (But Not the Greenest) Data Center Opens in Europe After three years of planning and construction, and at a cost of over 17 Million Euros, a new green data center opened last week in Strassbourg, Germany. Operated by PlusServer, the "datadock" data center is located right along the French/German border and utilizes the myriad of fiber running through the area to ensure high bandwidth and low latency to Europe and the rest of the world. More importantly, the area is also home to naturally cold groundwater. The water runs at a constant 12 degrees Celsius, and is part of the geothermal cooling system used in the datadock. The water is pumped out out of the well, filtered, and then brought inside the datadock to heat exchangers that run the air conditioning systems. The cold air is piped down cold aisles through perforated floors in the data center, cooling the server front sides. Heated air from the server back ... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Europe

    4. Why the Bidding War for 3Par is Great News for Green IT

      Explore EnterpriseITplanet.com / Green (Aug 24 2010) Cloud Computing , Storage

      Why the Bidding War for 3Par is Great News for Green IT Wall Street is buzzing this week over the bidding war that has erupted between Dell and HP for 3Par. A brief recap: 3Par has been on the market for a couple of months with an auction. Both Dell and HP submitted sealed bids, and 3Par went with Dell which offered a higher bid than HP. Dell and 3Par then entered into a period of exclusive negotiations which resulted in Dell's agreement to buy 3Par for $18 a share, or about $1.15 billion, about 5.6 times greater than 3Par's annual sales, which are only $204 million (3Par has never been profitable). For Dell, acquiring 3Par would allow it to enter the enterprise data center storage market by itself, rather than reselling EMC products which it now does. Dell says it would continue offering to sell EMC products alongside 3Par even if the acquisition goes through. (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Oracle   Dell

    5. Facebook Announces Doubling of Data Center and Runs into Buzzsaw of Criticism

      Explore EnterpriseITplanet.com / Green (Aug 15 2010) Carbon Footprint , Emissions

      Facebook Announces Doubling of Data Center and Runs into Buzzsaw of Criticism As many of you know, social media giant Facebook is building a new green data center in Prineville, Oregon. The data center isn't completed yet, but before the first server is turned on the company has already announced plans to exercise a built-in option to expand Phase II of the project, essentially doubling its initial size. The expansion comes as a result of the company's incredible growth, with over 500 million registered users. Facebook stores 50 billion photos, requiring between 500 and 800 TB of storage space. Its servers support 100 billion hits per day and generate 130 TB of logs every day with 2 trillion objects being cached. All this computing power means giant data farms are a critical part of Facebook's future, such as the one being built in Oregon. Almost as soon as the company announced its plan to build the Prineville data center ... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Greenpeace   Google

    6. Green Data Center Market Poised to Grow to 28% of Total Market

      Explore EnterpriseITplanet.com / Green (Aug 10 2010) Emissions , Cloud Computing , Servers

      Green Data Center Market Poised to Grow to 28% of Total Market Relatively speaking, the green data center market still accounts for a relatively small slice of the data center pie. Many existing data centers were established or planned for at a time when carbon caused climate change wasn't part of the public awareness, and electricity was cheap and plentiful (even more than it is today). Certainly, the idea that information technology is responsible for 2% of the world's carbon emissions, equivalent to the aviation industry, wouldn't have been on anyone's minds when today's data centers were planned and built. For technologies ranging from virtualization to cooling to cloud computing, a new generation of data centers have to come online in order for them to reach full potential. That tipping point may be just around the corner, according to new research this week from Pike Research. In a new report, Pike forecasts that investment in green data ... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Pike Research

    7. Google Purchases Carbon Credits from Landfill

      Explore EnterpriseITplanet.com / Green (Jun 2 2010) Monitoring , Cap and Trade , Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Fossil Fuel

      Google Purchases Carbon Credits from Landfill In the Green IT space, Google features prominently with a stated goal of becoming carbon neutral. Of course, Google's actual carbon footprint is a closely-guarded secret since the company doesn't break out the location or even number of its data centers. The company is absolutely serious about reducing its carbon footprint, however, with a multiple-prong strategy including data center efficiency, investing in renewable energy sources, and providing venture capital to promising new technologies. (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Google

    8. It's Time to File for a Patent on that Green It ...

      Explore EnterpriseITplanet.com / Green (May 28 2010) Cloud Computing

      It's Time to File for a Patent on that Green It ... If you or your company has developed a new technology for your data center that is new and nonobvious, and has not been used by anyone else before, it's time to consider filing a patent application for that technology. That technology, by the way, doesn't have to be an invention -- it could be a process or improvement to existing processes. Regardless of what that technology is, it typically takes years (and lots of billable hours to expensive patent lawyers) for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) to review and decide whether or not to grant patents. (Read Full Article)

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    9. Google Invests in Wind Farms

      Explore EnterpriseITplanet.com / Green (May 4 2010) Wind

      Google Invests in Wind Farms The investment also carries some very attractive side benefits. I don't believe, like others do, that Google is about to start building data centers in North Dakota. From what we know about Google, the company isn't following the same data center location strategy that companies like Yahoo are pursuing in building in geographically Green IT-friendly spots. Instead, I think this was a purely financial play. Google made the investment by buying about 20% of the shares offered in the wind farm project. That makes Google a minority investor without any clout or say in how the project operates. What that 20% stake gives Google, however, is 20% of the tax credits available to the project. (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Google   Yahoo

    10. Federal Government Ready to Take Steps to Enter Cloud ...

      Explore EnterpriseITplanet.com / Green (Apr 15 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

      ... can come from cloud computing, moving applications to the data center and allowing customers to move to much smaller and less power-intensive clients. In the near term, the federal government is already tackling Green IT , but there is still a ... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Google   Brookings Institution   IRS

    11. Should Your Data Center Install Solar Arrays?

      Explore EnterpriseITplanet.com / Green (Jan 5 2010) Emissions , Solar , Cloud Computing , Servers

      Whether you're planning on building a new data center or renovating an existing one, there's no doubt that going with Green IT technology makes sense from both cost and environmental impact perspectives. There are many ways to make a data center ... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Google

    12. Monday News Roundup (OK it's Tuesday this week)

      Explore EnterpriseITplanet.com / Green (Apr 28 2009) Carbon Footprint , Emissions

      One-fifth of CIO's polled by NetworkWorld plan to spend on Green IT in 2009 despite the recession. The Environmental Defense Fund recognized Google, Cisco, HP, GridPoint, and IBM for their Green IT efforts. Logicalis, a technology solutions provider, ... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Google   IBM