Articles from IDG News Service

1. The Time is Ripe for Green IT

   Explore Article IDG News Service (May 12 2010) Construction , Emissions

   If former US vice presidential candidate and Nobel peace prize laureate Al Gore's pressing documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" is to be believed, then the Earth is slowly heading to an ecological nosedive, based largely on rising man-made carbon dioxide emissions around the globe.s-- (Read Full Article)
   

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2. Data centre electrical costs are skyrocketing: Raritan

   Explore Article IDG News Service (Apr 22 2010) Servers

   It is an open secret that electrical costs of data centres are skyrocketing, says power management firm Raritan, which recommends better measurement strategies as the first step to better cost containment. Latest news from Environment The green IT stars of 2010 (22.04.2010 kl 10:13) Data centre electrical costs are skyrocketing: Raritan (21.04.2010 kl 18:40) Create a more energy-efficient network infrastructure (19.04.2010 kl 21:37) Networks go green and save you money (19.04.2010 kl 21:37) Twitter's ad scheme, Kin phone, ACTA unveiled (16.04.2010 kl 21:06) EPA, industry to meet on greener storage (14.04.2010 kl 19:03) It is an open secret that electrical ... (Read Full Article)
   

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3. Is Google the new Rome?

   Explore Article IDG News Service (Apr 22 2010) Cloud Computing

   based data center. It is making an exception for government customers, such as the City of Los Angeles, which, as part ... The green IT stars of 2010 InfoWorld's 2010 Green 15 Awards: Green-tech projects coupled with innovation and collaboration ... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Europe   Google   InfoWorld

4. Networks go green and save you money

   Explore Article IDG News Service (Apr 19 2010) Networking , Servers

   Servers get most of the glory when it comes to energy management, but networking gear is about to catch up. Over the past year, network equipment vendors have began to emphasize energy efficiency features, something that was never a top priority before, says Dale Cosgro, a product manager in Hewlett-Packard Co.'s ProCurve network products organization. Networking infrastructure isn't in the same class as servers or storage in terms of overall power consumption -- there are far more servers than switches -- but networking can account for up to 15% of the total power budget. And unlike servers, which have sophisticated ... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Cisco   Hewlett-Packard Co.   Gartner Inc.

5. 10 Hot Tools For The Next-Generation Data Center

   Explore Article IDG News Service (Mar 22 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

   Enterprise data centers are notoriously complex, costly and energy inefficient, which leaves plenty of opportunity for innovative vendors to introduce products to make life easier for data center managers. Best of Tests 2010 Here are 10 that are worth a look. 1. Cloudkick SaaS application Vendor: Cloudkick Price: From $99 to $599 monthly, depending on the number of servers. Customized packages are available. What it does: Manages and monitors multiple cloud services from a single dashboard. Why it's interesting: The beauty of cloud computing services lies in simplicity, in easing IT constraints in the data center with on-demand compute or ... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Amazon.com   The Green Grid   Intel

6. Going green? Check out available tax credits

   Explore Article IDG News Service (Feb 22 2010) Solar

   As if significant savings on electricity bills weren't enough, IT managers have another reason to embrace environmentally friendly IT practices: a bevy of federal, state and local tax incentives that could tip the scales to make green IT projects financially attractive. As if significant savings on electricity bills weren't enough, IT managers have another reason to embrace environmentally friendly IT practices: a bevy of federal, state and local tax incentives that could tip the scales to make green IT projects financially attractive. (Read Full Article)
   

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7. APC plans new push into containerized data centers

   Explore Article IDG News Service (Feb 12 2010) Cloud Computing

   Power and cooling company APC by Schneider Electric will make a new push this year into the market for containerized data centers, this time including portable infrastructure gear such as generators and chillers. Latest news from Environment APC plans new push into containerized data centers (12.02.2010 kl 22:06) 5 reasons Silicon Valley might stumble coming out of recession (12.02.2010 kl 15:40) HP opens first ever wind-cooled data center (12.02.2010 kl 10:10) IBM explores cheaper solar cells (10.02.2010 kl 20:52) HP opens first ever wind-cooled data center (10.02.2010 kl 14:24) US gov't to offer to climate change data (09.02.2010 kl 15:48) ... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   IBM   Interactive Data Corporation   Sun Microsystems

8. DHS to review report on vulnerability in West Coast power grid

   Explore Article IDG News Service (Sep 15 2009) Networking

   The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is looking at a report by a research scientist in China that shows how a well-placed attack against a small power subnetwork could trigger a cascading failure of the entire West Coast power grid. Latest news from Government DHS to review report on vulnerability in West Coast power grid (14.09.2009 kl 20:44) Heartland CEO: Credit card encryption needed (14.09.2009 kl 18:23) Lenovo founder shares slogans, tells tales of 1980s China (14.09.2009 kl 14:36) Microsoft Betrayed i4i, Say Court Documents (14.09.2009 kl 10:05) Jobs appears, Moto's Cliq, Microsoft opens up (11.09.2009 kl 22:29) Gonzalez pleads ... (Read Full Article)
   

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9. With recent outages, big data service providers take hits

   Explore Article IDG News Service (Aug 18 2009) Cloud Computing

   A variety of Internet-based service providers have seen outages in recent months, raising questions about whether recession-induced cutbacks are killing reliability. Or is the increasing use of external cloud providers, coupled with near-instantaneous Twitter reports of outages, just making what's normal seem worse? When eBay Inc.'s PayPal unit suffered an outage Aug. 3, one of the companies affected was Sailrite Enterprises Inc., a sailing supply company in Churubusco, Ind. Sailrite lost its customer payment services for six hours. The next day, PayPal's services failed again -- (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Cisco   Ken Brill   Uptime Institute

10. Data centers go underground (and comparison chart)

    Explore Article IDG News Service (Jul 28 2009) Power and Cooling

    For Continental and Marriott, abandoned mines and military bunkers offer a subterranean safe haven from hurricanes and other threats. But will more enterprises follow? As Hurricane Ike bore down on Houston one Friday last September, the Continental Airlines' flight operations center, located on the 14th floor of a glass-sided downtown high rise, suddenly went dark. For the airline's pilots and flight crews, however, business proceeded as usual. (Read Full Article)
    

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