Cloud's dirty laundry to be aired by Greenpeace

Explore crn.com.au (Apr 18 2012) Construction , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell

... service providers fare The report looks at Amazon Web Services, Apple, Dell, Facebook, Google, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Rackspace, Salesforce, Akamai, Twitter and Yahoo. Google ranked high in Greenpe......hich will each be the largest of their kind in the country,” Apple said in a statement published by Data Center Knowledge. (Read Full Article)

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Industry Perspectives: IBM, Weaver, Apprenda

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 15 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

The Industry Perspectives channel at Data Center Knowledge highlights thought leadership in the data center arena, providing industry professionals with the o...... the Data Center – It’s time to put the business ahead of technology again, writes Douglas Balog of IBM. It’s time for systems that are built with industry expertise, ready for the cloud and designed for... (Read Full Article)

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Data Center

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 13 2012) Cloud Computing

...s now setting access and usage policy. Douglas Balog is Vice President and Business Line Executive, IBM Storage Systems, responsible for the overall IBM storage business, including business strategy and product plans for the company’s complete family o...... In other words, it’s time to put technology to work. Industry Perspectives is a content channel at Data Center Knowledge highlighting thought leadership in the data center arena. See our ... (Read Full Article)

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Industry Perspectives: IBM, iTRACS, Plixer

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 8 2012) Networking

The Industry Perspectives channel at Data Center Knowledge highlights thought leadership in the data center arena, providing industry professionals with the o......st – Measuring PUE assists data centre managers understand efficiency, writes Derick van Heerden of IBM. It does not measure data centre performance or power consumption and should not be expected to do ... (Read Full Article)

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PUE is about Efficiency, Not Performance or Cost

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 6 2012) Construction , Servers

... data centre efficiency, capacity and resiliency as well as facility management. DERICK VAN HEERDEN IBM Management of a data centre’s Power Usage Effectiveness, known as PUE, is not a strategy for improv......r which no satisfactory metric has yet been proposed. Industry Perspectives is a content channel at Data Center Knowledge highlighting thought leadership in the data center arena. See our guidelines and submission proces... (Read Full Article)

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Cisco Reaches 10,000 UCS Customers

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jan 18 2012) Cloud Computing , Servers

...hare gains in the x86 server market, where it has built the third-largest market share after HP and IBM.e Data Center Knowledge’s John Rath contributed to this story. (Read Full Article)

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The Battle for the Converged Data Center Network

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 18 2011) Cloud Computing , Networking , Storage

...ustry experts thought it was a bold move fraught with risk because it could alienate companies like IBM and HP that had been partners of Cisco’s for years. Now, Cisco seems to be making headway with its ...... (courtesy of IPR International). IPR ZoneIT Network Diagram Lisa Huff is a contributing editor for Data Center Knowledge. (Read Full Article)

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5 Questions About Data Center Safety

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jul 12 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...0% of total workplace injuries requiring time away from work In one case, a federal contractor sued IBM for $1.4 million when a server was damaged after falling off a forklift while being moved. An impor......data center assets – both the team and the equipment. Industry Perspectives is a content channel at Data Center Knowledge highlighting thought leadership in the data center arena. See our guidelines and submission proces... (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

...gle and Microsoft operate facilities without chillers, using fresh air cooling. Guest columnists at Data Center Knowledge have weighed in on the appropriate management of temperature in the data center. Jason Friedler of ......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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Best Container/modular Data Center approach 2010? SGI's Ice Cube is one choice

Explore greenm3.com (Dec 13 2010) Construction , Container

... confusing as many companies have added container/modular data center capabilities - HP, SGI, Dell, IBM, Sun, Lee Technologies, Digital Realty Trust, IO DataCenters. Which company do you pick? Who has th...... DataCenterKnowledge has a post on SGI's latest ICE Cube modular data center at Gartner DC LV 2010. Data Center Knowledge recently got a detailed video tour of the retooled SGI ICE Cube modular data center, which features... (Read Full Article)

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Nov. 19: What We're Reading About the Cloud

Explore GigaOM (Nov 19 2010) Servers

...e real shifts in architectures, even for relatively cutting-edge technologies. Today, for instance, IBM Research announced a Hadoop Distributed File System alternative, ZT has an ARM-based server on the ...... architectures and workloads, but also many differences. New ARM-Based Server From ZT Systems (From Data Center Knowledge) This looks to be the first ARM-based server to market, despite all the hype around Calxeda (nee Sm... (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

...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......as we start looking more closely at the IT operation. Industry Perspectives is a content channel at Data Center Knowledge highlighting thought leadership in the data center arena. See our guidelines and submission process... (Read Full Article)

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Big Data Is Big Business

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Oct 19 2010) Cloud Computing

...s about the era of big data and recent acquisitions in the analytics and data warehousing industry. Data Center Knowledge reported on IBM’s acquisition of Netezza for $1.7 billion in cash, just after Oracle announced a cloud-based Exadat... (Read Full Article)

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How Virtualization Can Change Your Network

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Sep 7 2010) Cloud Computing , Networking

...ty, WAN optimization, and load balancing from vendors such as Vyatta, Checkpoint, Riverbed, Citrix, IBM and F5. If you noted that a couple of major networking vendors aren’t included in that list, don’t ......llion-dollar industry – and a refreshing one at that. Industry Perspectives is a content channel at Data Center Knowledge highlighting thought leadership in the data center arena. See our guidelines and submission process... (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 ....../downloads/EPA_Datacenter_Report_Congress_Final1.pdf. Industry Perspectives is a content channel at Data Center Knowledge highlighting thought leadership in the data center arena. See our guidelines and submission process... (Read Full Article)

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Blue Waters: Awesome Power, Awesome Efficiency

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jun 24 2010) Construction

...ce of 10 petaflops. Being no stranger to the frontier of computing firsts the NCSA teamed up with IBM and the Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation to not only raise the HPC (High Performanc...... included a thermal storage tank, which has already delivered a significant cost savings.  See this Data Center Knowledge article about other data centers utilizing this technology. The in-cabinet Water Conditioning Units... (Read Full Article)

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The Data Center Temperature Debate

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jun 7 2010) Emissions , Servers

...grees Fahrenheit (22 degrees Celsius) yet both data center providers and manufacturers (such as HP, IBM and Sun Microsystems) all state that server equipment will function perfectly at 80 degrees, if not......rms around the globe would be a great place to start. Industry Perspectives is a content channel at Data Center Knowledge highlighting thought leadership in the data center arena. See our guidelines and submission process... (Read Full Article)

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Is Sandia National Lab's Red Sky Really Able to Deliver a PUE of 1.035?

Explore Perspectives (Nov 22 2009) Supercomputer

...below also reports Red Sky at a 1.035 PUE. in response to the claimed PUE of 1.035, Rich Miller of Data Center Knowledge astutely asked “How’s this possible?” (see Red Sky: Supercomputing and Efficiency Meet).   ......ly, Red Sky brings the water to the server racks using Sun Cooling Door Systems (similar to the IBM iDataPlex Rear Door Cooling system).   The Sun Cooling Door System is a nice ... (Read Full Article)

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