Articles from Computerworld

1. Firm promises new take on containerized data centers

   Explore Article Computerworld (Jul 16 2010) Container

   I/o Data Centers hopes to leapfrog the competition by developing what it claims will be a new, more integrated type of containerized data center, the company said on Friday. I/o is best known for building and managing traditional brick-and-mortar data centers, but the company has been developing a containerized product for the past year and will make a formal announcement in two weeks, said Kindra Martone, i/o senior vice president and general manager, at the Datacenter Dynamics conference in San Francisco on Friday. (Read Full Article)
   

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2. The Grill: Jonathan Koomey

   Explore Article Computerworld (Jul 13 2010) Carbon Tax , Cloud Computing , Servers

   Professor, scientist and energy efficiency expert Jonathan Koomey, who recently finished a term at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, got the full attention of the IT community in 2007 when a research paper he wrote revealed that power consumption by data centers worldwide had doubled in just five years. Here, he discusses how the industry has responded to those runaway costs, why cloud computing is better for the environment, and why you should think twice about where you locate your next data center. Has the growth curve in data center power consumption moderated since your paper came out three years ago? ... (Read Full Article)
   

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3. IT gets greener when CIOs must pay IT's energy bills

   Explore Article Computerworld (Jun 8 2010) Cloud Computing

   Want to really cut energy use in data centers? Give the CIO responsibility for paying IT's power bills. That would create a big incentive to invest in energy efficiency, according to Dean Nelson, senior director of global data center services at eBay Inc. "When the CIO is paying the power bill, [he] really understands the impact of the decisions being made," Nelson told an audience of data center managers at the Uptime Institute Symposium 2010 in New York last month. Most CIOs don't see utility bills, but eBay lumps its power bills in with its IT budget, and as a ... (Read Full Article)
   

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4. IT Jobs: Data Center Hiring Turns a Corner

   Explore Article Computerworld (May 4 2010) Cloud Computing

   IT Jobs: Data Center Hiring Turns a CornerComputerworldIn 2009, experts predicted that candidates with experience in improving IT energy efficiency, or green IT, and in managing virtual servers to do well. ...and more » (Read Full Article)
   

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5. Group seeks advances in data center design

   Explore Article Computerworld (Mar 22 2010) Cloud Computing

   A new industry group plans to apply open-source principles to the design and construction of data centers in order to accelerate the use of new, greener approaches. The Open Source Data Center Initiative, announced this month, will act as a repository and testbed for mechanical and engineering advances in data center design, which it hopes will be submitted by small engineering firms, graduate students doing research with federal grant money and others. (Read Full Article)
   

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6. OnStar Cio's Career Success Is No Accident

   Explore Article Computerworld (Feb 16 2010)

   Jeff Liedel is as much a car guy as he is a computer guy. That much becomes clear when he's discussing his 20-year career track and the businesses he's served: Ford, Covisint, GM and now OnStar, the in-vehicle communications company and GM subsidiary, where he is CIO. Liedel deftly moves the conversation among a range of topics: embedded telematics and mobile application capabilities in a Chevy Volt electric vehicle, the energy efficiency of internal-combustion engines, and how BI tools can help OnStar. He seems to be equally at home in a data center or on the floor of the 2010 ... (Read Full Article)
   

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7. Data center plays supporting role in Avatar

   Explore Article Computerworld (Jan 18 2010) Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing , Servers

   The futuristic world and blue creatures in the hit movie Avatar have their roots in an unusual data center situated in Miramar, a suburb of Wellington, New Zealand. The stunning images in the James Cameron movie were created by Weta Digital Ltd., a visual effects company co-founded by filmmaker Peter Jackson that was also responsible for the computer-rendered scenes in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The company's digital artists transformed the director's vision into screen reality using 3-D imaging software, fine-tuning every frame multiple times. Each minute of Avatar represents 17.28GB of data, according to Weta Digital. (Read Full Article)
   

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8. Intel to unveil energy-efficient, many-core research chip

   Explore Article Computerworld (Nov 16 2009) Servers

   early two years after unveiling its experimental 80-core chip, Intel Corp. is getting ready to show off its next incarnation of a high-powered, energy-efficient many-core research chip. Intel is developing a many-core chip designed to dramatically improve energy efficiency in the data center and for the cloud, according to Justin Rattner, CTO and senior Intel fellow. Intel plans to unveil the research chip before the end of the year, he said. Rattner told Computerworld the company plans to unveil the new chip before the end of the year. The chip, which is experimental and not commercially ready, has a "completely ... (Read Full Article)
   

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9. CitiGroup Leeds by example

   Explore Article Computerworld (Oct 19 2009) Carbon Footprint , Emissions

   Jim Carney, executive vice president of data center planning for Citigroup, likes to describe the company's newest compute facilities as "24/7 by forever." Inside a green data center In data center life, that "forever" translates to a good 20 to 30 years -- at least for this New York-based global financial giant. "We've succeeded in developing a very flexible platform that can adapt easily and seamlessly to changes in customer technologies and allow for differences in heat densities, power consumption and physical layout without causing severe interruptions to their service requirements," Carney says. (Read Full Article)
   

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10. Emerson examines everything

    Explore Article Computerworld (Oct 19 2009) Construction

    Steve Hassell, CIO at global technology and engineering giant Emerson, is only half joking when he suggests that before his career is over the data center will comprise one rack sitting in the middle of a white room. The new green: Data centers go au naturale Who knows what the future will bring for the data center, given how amazingly fast the speeds and feeds are changing, he says. As an example, Hassell points to Emerson's experience planning, building and populating the 35,000-square-foot data center the company opened two months ago on its St. Louis headquarters campus. This facility, which ... (Read Full Article)
    

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11. PwC packs a punch

    Explore Article Computerworld (Oct 19 2009) Construction , Power and Cooling

    When PricewaterhouseCoopers U.S. CIO Stuart Fulton walks through the company's spankin' new data center, opened this month, he finds "cool things around just about every corner." "Particularly when compared to the existing data center, the contrast is quite amazing," Fulton says. One immediately noticeable feature is the white thermoplastic olefin (TPO) roof topping the building and reducing heat entering the facility, he says. Made of ethylene propylene rubber, TPO single-ply roof "membranes" combine the durability of rubber with the proven performance of hot-air weldable seams. Also visually impressive -- not to mention efficiency smart -- are six fan wall units, ... (Read Full Article)
    

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12. SNW: How green IT saves Citizens Bank $500000 a year

    Explore Article Computerworld (Oct 14 2009) Servers

    If you think of "green IT" as nothing more than a vendor-generated buzzword, you might want to take a look at Citizens Bank. The financial institution reports $500,000 in annual savings from a project to optimize its power and cooling practices, and its IT executives believe they have just scratched the surface of potential savings. (Chill out: Five ways to cut back on data-center power consumption) "We did absolutely save a half a million dollars last year and there is far more to save," Lars Linden, senior vice president and director of data center services and operations at Citizens Bank, ... (Read Full Article)
    

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13. New Green: Data centers go au naturale

    Explore Article Computerworld (Aug 3 2009) Construction , Solar

    Most data centers have the ambience of bomb shelters, but not one built by retailer L.L. Bean. The Freeport, Maine-based company made sure its new 18,000 square-foot data center had plenty of natural light and views of trees. It wanted something comfortable, conducive to work and environmentally sensitive. Natural light accomplishes all that. "You don't mind being cooped up in a three-hour planning meeting; when your mind wanders you can look outside and see the clouds flow by," said Rocko Graziano, who managers the retailer's infrastructure operations and services. (Read Full Article)
    

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14. Microsoft opening mall-size data center near Chicago

    Explore Article Computerworld (Jul 13 2009) Construction

    Microsoft Corp. next week plans to flip the switch to open a 700,000-square-foot data center in Northlake, Ill., less than three weeks after opening a 300,000-square-foot facility in Dublin. Together, the data centers will house hundreds of thousands of servers that will help support the company's new Bing search engine and other online services, Microsoft said. The data center in Northlake, which is a suburb of Chicago, is slated to open on July 20. It will house containers that can hold 1,800 to 2,500 servers each, said Arne Josefsberg, Microsoft's general manager of infrastructure services, in a blog post. The ... (Read Full Article)
    

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15. Energy-efficient servers earn a star -- but so what?

    Explore Article Computerworld (Jun 26 2009) Servers

    Computerworld - Servers can now earn the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star label in recognition of their green qualities, but most observers aren't expecting this program to cause substantial changes in how enterprises buy servers anytime soon. The Energy Star server certification went into effect on May 15 and has earned the EPA kudos from manufacturers and users for promoting energy efficiency in an area that's notorious for its high electricity needs. "This is a great first step. It's been important for some time, given the power issues of the data center, to give transparency on the energy use ... (Read Full Article)
    

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