How Experian is retro-fitting its datacentre to boost efficiency

Explore ComputerWeekly.com (Nov 25 2011) Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Servers

...tool, which manages other tools. Green datacentre initiative Experian’s credit bureau runs on a new IBM z10 mainframe. The site also runs 3,100 servers, which increasingly are being migrated to virtual s......e above the servers. It wants to increase this temperature to 27 degrees Celsius, as recommended by Ashrae, the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers. Currently, the aver... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook Open Compute and the PUE Trifecta

Explore | CTO Edge (Apr 18 2011) Power and Cooling , Servers

... techniques (unconventional only at the moment), it does not need to follow or comply with the 2008 ASHRAE TC9.9  recommended environmental envelope. But even as I write this blog, ASHRAE is in the process of broadening TC9.9’s allowable environmental envelope, which will be released la....... However, if this proves successful for HP, how long will it be before other major vendors such as IBM and Dell offer ... (Read Full Article)

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6 Steps To Better Data Centers

Explore csemag.com (Apr 12 2011) Servers

...y be restricted by the greater building’s infrastructure and the room’s location. Recent changes to ASHRAE 90.1 now include minimum requirements for efficiency of all computer room air conditioning units, p......, M., A. Galea., M. Schaefer, and M.T.D. Khiem. 2008. The green data center: Steps for the Journey. IBM Redpaper. Emerson Network Power. 2009. Energy Logic: Reducing data center energy consumption by cre... (Read Full Article)

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Energy Efficiency Guide: Data Center Temperature

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 10 2011) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers

...pward temperatures. The American Society for Heating, Refrigerating and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) expanded its recommendations for ambient data center temperatures, raising its recommended upper l......Berkeley National Laboratory. Some are deliberately pushing cooling water temperature even further. IBM deployed a supercomputer cooled by hot water for the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (... (Read Full Article)

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Data Center Cooling: Are We Innovating Yet?

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Nov 16 2010) Power and Cooling , Servers

...ommended upper temperature limit to 80.6 ºF (27 ºC) for one reason–improved energy efficiency. What ASHRAE clearly understands is that ... Mark Germagian, President and Founder of Opengate Data Systems, has......atent rights and his invention never made it to commercial production. Is water cooling innovative? IBM mainframes were water-cooled years ago. Because water is 832 times denser than air, it can remove m... (Read Full Article)

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The Advantages of Liquid Cooling

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jul 2 2010) Power and Cooling , Servers

... May 2009, Data Center Energy Savings – by the Numbers. 5. Schmidt, R., and lyengar, M., July 2009, IBM’s Rear Door Heat Exchanger and the New ASHRAE Recommended Environmental Guidelines, Proceedings of IPACK 2009 and ASME InterPACK 2009. 6. Sun Mic... (Read Full Article)

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US, Europe, Japan agree on data center efficiency ...

Explore NetworkWorld.com (Apr 2 2010) Servers

...e us a common measuring stick for all data centers regardless of their location," said Tom Brey, an IBM employee who is secretary of The Green Grid, in a statement. "With that type of consistency, we can......rom the EPA met with several data center industry groups from the U.S., including 7x24 Exchange and ASHRAE (The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers). The EPA then took ... (Read Full Article)

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Next-Generation Data Centers

Explore Forbes.com (Mar 15 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

... is different? Forbes sat down with Steve Sams, vice president of site and facilities services at ( IBM - news - people ), to find out. Forbes: What's happening inside data centers these days? Steve Sams......e. The amount of power and cooling required if the rack is fully loaded has been climbing steadily. ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers) estimates that over the... (Read Full Article)

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Cool Sensor Technology For Hot IBM Data Center

Explore Relocate (Feb 9 2010) Cloud Computing

...ation and Air Conditioning Engineers). Now with the advances in technology the new limit defined by ASHRAE has been raised by a few degrees putting it at 80.6 degrees. IBM has planned to implement this recommendation in one of their latest data centers built at North Car... (Read Full Article)

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Reportlinker Adds Green Telecom Networks

Explore Yahoo! Finance (Nov 23 2009) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Wind , Networking

...y Solutions (ATIS) * 4.3 American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) * 4.4 Energy Consumption Rating Initiative (ECR) * 4.5 European Code of Conduct on Data Centre Ene......wei * 5.10.1 Green Telecom Initiatives * 5.10.2 Metrics * 5.10.3 Market Activity and Outlook * 5.11 IBM * 5.11.1 Green Telecom Initiatives * 5.11.2 Metrics * 5.11.3 Market Activity and Outlook ... (Read Full Article)

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A Standard for Data Center Containers?

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Nov 18 2009) Construction , Container

...nerized future may not work for everyone. Two other industry heavyweights, Digital Realty Trust and IBM, are also standardizing their designs around modular systems and repeatable designs that can drive ......ep in mind that’s based on Microsoft’s requirements and might not meet yours. Until the Green Grid, ASHRAE, or other such standards body starts looking to drive standards in this space, its probably somethi... (Read Full Article)

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Valet Parking the Data Center Container: Part II

Explore | CTO Edge (Nov 9 2009) Construction , Power and Cooling

...outfitting and operating these new data center innovations. All the major server manufacturers (HP, IBM, Dell and Sun) have announced containerized data centers this year. While each one differs in the d......“cold” aisle is what most data center customers would consider “server-cide” and is well beyond the ASHRAE 9.9 expanded temperature envelope (which tops out at 80°F), HP seems willing to back it up with its... (Read Full Article)

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Mike Manos: A Practical Guide to the Early Days of Data Center Containers

Explore LooseBolts (Oct 30 2009) Construction , Container

...they would ultimately find small differences from the very first special purpose data room built by IBM over 40 years ago. Data Centers themselves have a corollary to the beginning of the industrial revo......p in mind that’s based on Microsoft’s requirements and might not meet yours. Until the Green Grid, ASHRAE, or other such standards body starts looking to drive standards in this space, its probably somethi... (Read Full Article)

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Inflection Point: The Future of the Data Center

Explore itbusinessedge.com (Sep 24 2009) Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing , Servers

...HINK8760.org, which is focused on improving data center and IT energy efficiency and is a member of ASHRAE and IEEE. Topic: Energy Consumption Reducing the power bill has become a consuming issue with IT Bl......Well Beyond Energy Article: Inflection Point: The Future of the Data Center White Paper: Move Up to IBM Systems Energy Efficiency eKit Related Topics Read this product review to learn how you can protect... (Read Full Article)

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Ensure The Quality Of Air In Data Centers

Explore Processor.com (Sep 10 2009)

...rry Potter on the bookshelves, but this new 104-page softcover is the eighth in a series put out by ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers) Technical Committee 9.......dentical servers from our main data center, to the senior engineer who specializes in corrosion for IBM and asked him to do a blind study on the corrosiveness of being exposed to outside air—the dry, the... (Read Full Article)

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Green Telecom Network Report

Explore Pike Research (Sep 2 2009) Networking

... Solutions (ATIS) 4.3 American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) 4.4 Energy Consumption Rating Initiative (ECR) 4.5 European Code of Conduct on Data Centre Energy ......5.10 Huawei 5.10.1 Green Telecom Initiatives 5.10.2 Metrics 5.10.3 Market Activity and Outlook 5.11 IBM 5.11.1 Green Telecom Initiatives 5.11.2 Metrics 5.11.3 Market Activity and ... (Read Full Article)

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Your Data Center is Much too Cold

Explore Reuters.com (Sep 2 2009) Cloud Computing , Servers

...er Larson as well as the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), is a balmy 80 degrees. Most data center managers keep their facilities much too cold -- as much ...... In the figure below, which is drawn from a report (PDF available here) jointly developed by Intel, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Liebert Precision Cooling and the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, only 3 percent ... (Read Full Article)

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Q&A: The man who helped raise server operating temperatures

Explore NetworkWorld.com (Jul 6 2009) Servers

...ary of a guideline by the American Society of Heating Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) that recommend increasing (PDF document) the temperature of air entering servers and other data ce...... vendors. The person who led the society's IT team on Technical Committee 9.9 was Roger Schmidt, an IBM fellow and its chief engineer for data center energy efficiency. It's unknown how many data cent... (Read Full Article)

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Data Center Efficiencies Coming Full Circle to DC, Liquid Cooling

Explore environmentalleader.com (Jun 8 2009) Servers

...ave a decidedly retro look, said Roger Schmidt, Chief Engineer for Data Center Energy Efficiency at IBM. Additionally, data centers will incorporate higher voltages and more renewable energy sources, ......rtment of Energy and the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). Reaching the 20 percent renewable energy source (RES) target in 2020 is expected ... click to vie... (Read Full Article)

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