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    1. 8 Data Center Lessons From Facebook

      Explore pcworld.com (May 3 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing , Servers

      8 Data Center Lessons From Facebook

      Facebook has opened the vault to its data center efficiency secrets like no organization before it via its open source Open Compute Project. The OCP provides detailed specs and guidelines for high-efficiency server components -- from motherboards to chassis -- as well as facilities hardware, including electrical and cooling. All the systems are implemented in Facebook's state-of-the-art data center in Prineville, Ore. Any organization looking to build a more efficient new data center or to cut costs in an existing facility should take a closer look at secrets shared by Facebook and OCP contributors.

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      Mentions:   Facebook

    2. Large Data Center Coming to India, as Regional Demand Booms

      Explore pcworld.com (Feb 7 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

      Large Data Center Coming to India, as Regional Demand Booms

      Tulip Data Center Services is setting up a 900,000 square foot (83,612.7 square meters) data center in Bangalore, the largest in India, to benefit from scale and target growing demand for collocation, cloud, and managed services in India and neighboring countries. Some 75,000 square feet of "raised floor space" that could be occupied by IT systems and networking racks is already available, and top multinational companies including IBM and Hewlett-Packard have signed up as customers, said H.S. Bedi, chairman and managing director of Tulip Telecom, the parent company, in a phone interview on Tuesday.

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      Mentions:   Gartner   Hewlett Packard   Facebook

    3. Green Grid Creates Metrics for Carbon and Water

      Explore pcworld.com (Dec 2 2010) Monitoring , Carbon Tax , Emissions , Cloud Computing , Servers

      Green Grid Creates Metrics for Carbon and Water The Green Grid consortium, which developed the widely-used PUE metric for measuring energy efficiency in data centers, is developing two more metrics to address carbon emissions and water usage, it said Thursday. A paper describing the new CUE, or Carbon Usage Effectiveness, metric was due to be posted on The Green Grid's Web site Thursday morning, the group said. Materials describing the WUE, or Water Usage Effectiveness, metric will be posted by March next year, it said. PUE, or Power Usage Effectiveness, has been adopted widely in the past few years. Google and Microsoft often boast about their PUE numbers, and more enterprises are starting to calculate their PUE as a starting point for energy efficiency projects. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Greenpeace   Europe   The Green Grid

    4. Businesses Don't Know Environmental Effect of Data Centers

      Explore pcworld.com (Nov 24 2010) Monitoring , Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Cloud Computing

      Businesses Don't Know Environmental Effect of Data Centers A survey of 100 CIOs and data centre managers in the UK has shown that 53 percent of respondents do not know the environmental impact of their own data centres. The survey was conducted by researchers Vanson Bourne on behalf of data centre infrastructure management solutions provider nlyte Software. "They're not aware that the data centre is a hungry user [of energy] because they don't measure and monitor their business, so they're unable to identify it," said Rob Neave, co-founder and VP of IT and sustainability at nlyte Software. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   CRC   Emea

    5. Top 12 Green IT Vendors 2010

      Explore pcworld.com (Oct 25 2010) Emissions , Servers

      Top 12 Green IT Vendors 2010 Technology vendors and data center suppliers were also invited to participate in Computerworld's search for the Top Green-IT Organizations. These companies completed the same survey as the end-user organizations and were judged on the same criteria -- most notably, on their IT departments' efforts to reduce energy consumption in their IT equipment, and to use technology to conserve energy and lower carbon emissions. Here are the top 12, in ranked order: 1. Fujitsu America Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif. 2. Dell Inc., Round Rock, Texas 3. NetApp Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif. 4. Verizon Wireless, Basking Ridge, N.J. 5. Intel Corp., Santa Clara, Calif. 6. Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, Calif. 7. Qualcomm Inc., San Diego (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Facebook

    6. Microsoft App Cuts PC Energy Use

      Explore pcworld.com (Jun 13 2010) Cloud Computing

      Microsoft App Cuts PC Energy Use Microsoft researchers have slashed desktop energy use with a sleep proxy system that maintains a PC's network presence even when it is turned off or put into standby mode. 10 Microsoft research projects Graphic: Chip TaylorMicrosoft has deployed the sleep proxy system to more than 50 active users in the Building 99 research facility in Redmond, Wash., according to the Microsoft Research Web site and a paper that will be presented at the Usenix technical conference in Boston later this month. (See also "6 Green Tech Products to Watch.") "A number of studies have noted that most office machines are left on irrespective of user activity," Microsoft researchers write in a paper titled "Sleepless in Seattle no longer." "At Microsoft Research, we find hundreds of desktop machines awake, day or night – a significant waste of both energy and money. Indeed, potential savings can amount to millions of dollars per ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Microsoft Research   Microsoft Corp

    7. IT Should Pay the Power Bill, Reasons EBay Exec

      Explore pcworld.com (May 18 2010) Servers

      IT Should Pay the Power Bill, Reasons EBay Exec While not a common practice in most organizations, having IT departments pay their power bills would lead to far more efficient data centers, argued Dean Nelson, senior director of global data center services for eBay. Why? The potential money saved from upgrading to more energy-efficient equipment would all but ensure that the chief information officer or the IT executive in charge design the most energy-efficient data centers possible, Nelson reasoned. "When the CIO is paying the power bill, [he or she] really understands the impact of the decisions being made," he told an audience of data center managers at the Uptime Institute Symposium 2010, being held this week in New York. "You're self-funding the activities [you wish to pursue] by becoming more and more efficient," he said. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Facebook   eBay

    8. Novel Way to Cool Data Centers Passes First Test

      Explore pcworld.com (Sep 10 2009) Cloud Computing , Servers

      Novel Way to Cool Data Centers Passes First Test A team of engineers led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has successfully tested a novel system that they say could greatly improve the efficiency of data center cooling. It's an important area for data center operators, who are struggling with the escalating costs of cooling increasingly powerful server equipment. Some facilities have been unable to add new equipment because they have reached the limit of their power and cooling capacity. By some estimates, the energy used to cool IT systems accounts for nearly half the cost of running a data center. The amount of energy consumed by data centers in the U.S. doubled between 2000 and 2006, and could double again by 2011 if practices aren't improved, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Intel   Hewlett Packard   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

    9. Bull Launches 'green' Supercomputer

      Explore pcworld.com (Jun 16 2009) Cloud Computing , Servers

      Bull launched a supercomputer that uses water cooling for energy efficiency. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Intel