Are IT Data Centers Emerging as a 'Killer App' for Green Power? Part 1

Explore Renewable Energy World (May 18 2012) Construction , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Wind , Cloud Computing , Servers

...asily and inexpensively offsetting emissions from data center electricity use. Leading IT companies Intel, Microsoft, Cisco, and Dell are among the top purchasers of RECs. In fact, Intel is top green power purchaser in the U.S., purchasing more than 2.5 million MWh to meet 88 percent o... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

Open Compute builds a business model for the next era of the web

Explore GigaOM (May 4 2012) Servers

...percent of all server shipments. While plenty of companies spend money buying gear from IBM, HP and Dell, others are going direct to the companies that build servers for those giants. For companies such a......gn where vendors can try to create value above and beyond the Open Compute standard, to the AMD and Intel motherboards that were created with the financial services industry, it seems like vendors can work... (Read Full Article)

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Dell Seeks User Input For Future PowerEdge Servers

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (May 3 2012) Construction , Servers

... was made possible by the early and strong customer interaction, Norrod said. Looking forward, Dell next year will outfit the current generation of servers with Intel’s Ivy Bridge chips, and will come out with the thirteenth-generation servers in two years, he sa... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook Introduces Open Rack Standard

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (May 3 2012)

... a similar spec being developed by Chinese search giant Baidu and web portal Tencent, whilst HP and Dell have pledged to create server and storage boxes to fit with the new rack design. Facebook Introduce......omises that are now bearing fruit. Some other major tech vendors have joined the project, including Intel, AMD, Asus and Red Hat. The initiative is currently holding its third conference in San Antonio, Te... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Facebook   Dell

Facebook-Driven Open Compute Project Grows Membership, Technologies

Explore eweek.com (May 2 2012) Construction

...atest to the join the group, which at its conference also is showing off projects from the likes of Dell, Intel and AMD. Print Version Sponsored By The Open Compute Project, started by Facebook a year ago t... (Read Full Article)

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Open Compute one year later. Bigger, badder and less disruptive than we thought.

Explore GigaOM (May 2 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...5os railroad switching equipment into the current era. Outside of Facebook’s contributions, AMD and Intel have contributed motherboard designs aimed specifically at the financial services markets. And thos......hift in power is what led me to wonder if Open Compute might mean the end of decent margins for HP, Dell, IBM and other vendors when Facebook launched the project. But it looks like the ecosystem is adapt... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Intel   Facebook

TurnKey Internet Adds Multimillion Dollar Green Data Center Facility

Explore Web Hosting (Apr 19 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers

...hout the datacenter. TurnKey’s facility also features specialized low-voltage computer servers from Dell and Intel that require less energy to power their cloud-based computing services. “Innovative green technolog... (Read Full Article)

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Web Hosting TurnKey Opens in New York Green Data Center

Explore greatresponder.com (Apr 19 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...web hosting and cloud hosting services, will features specialized low-voltage computer servers from Dell and Intel that require less energy to power their cloud-based computing services. Click here to read the stor... (Read Full Article)

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Web Host TurnKey Internet to Open Green Data Center in New York State

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Apr 18 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...web hosting and cloud hosting services, will features specialized low-voltage computer servers from Dell and Intel that require less energy to power their cloud-based computing services. To celebrate Earth Day and ... (Read Full Article)

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Intel, FieldView Technology to Help Banks Cut Data Center Costs

Explore American Banker (Mar 15 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing , Servers

...ey're making incremental improvements. The latest such effort is a collaboration between chip-maker Intel and power management software company FieldView. The two companies have developed a mechanism to me......er can extract real-time power readings and thermal readings off server platforms from OEMs such as Dell, HP, IBM and Cisco. It provides power capping across groups of servers. It provides serial number d... (Read Full Article)

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With planned SeaMicro buy, AMD to double down on servers

Explore GigaOM (Feb 29 2012) Cloud Computing , Servers

...bscale and cloud computing market, and are fundamentally different machines than those built by HP, Dell and IBM. The promise of the boxes is they cram a lot of compute into a tight space and consume less......to a tight space and consume less power. The demand for this type of product has been so great that Intel actually designed a version of its Atom processor for the SeaMicro machines ... (Read Full Article)

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Dell Launches New Servers, Upgrades Networking

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (Feb 27 2012) Networking , Servers

Dell has announced new PowerEdge servers based on Intel’s shortly-to-be-launched Xeon E5 processor, which are optimised to run at higher temperatures, savi... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   ASHRAE   Brocade

HP Shows Gen8 Servers With ‘Sea Of Sensors’

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (Feb 14 2012) Servers , Storage

...ayers in their respective world markets. For decades, HP has had to fight off competition from IBM, Dell and other smaller companies, and now it is facing some serious new competition from Cisco Systems f......nt software continues, Thome said. SmartSocket Another new feature, developed in a partnership with Intel, is called Smart Socket, which eliminates the common problem of damaged pins when inserting a new p... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Cisco   Hewlett Packard

2011 – the year Ireland became ‘home of the cloud’

Explore siliconrepublic.com (Dec 22 2011) Cloud Computing

... and Ireland has been at the cusp of this revolution ever since Apple came to Cork in the 1980s and Intel began making chips to power the PC revolution in the 1990s. In recent weeks, Kinsale-based Avego ma......systec, Marketo, Commence, Pivot, Engine Yard, Pinger, Datapac, Fort and Citrix, to name but a few. Dell expects to recruit 150 people in the next two years with the creation of its ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Europe   Massachusetts Institute of Technology

IT Minds Quest for 'Holy Grail' of Data Center Metrics

Explore Wired News (Dec 9 2011) Servers

...ws. But there’s no shortage of IT minds trying to figure it out. Last month, in partnership with Intel, data-center management software vendor iTRACS took up the challenge of developing a metric — a sin......ackle it,” says John Pflueger, a Green Grid board member and principal environmental strategist for Dell. “And we quickly came to the realization that there were some really good reasons behind that.” ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Gartner   The Green Grid

Facebook Expands Green Open Hardware Push

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Nov 23 2011) Servers

...t point, the company has been using systems from traditional OEMs. Facebook worked with chip makers Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, as well as systems makers Hewlett-Packard and Dell, to create the custom servers. The aim was to build systems that offer the performance needed to ru... (Read Full Article)

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Vendors Are Blocking Data Centres Energy Cuts

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Nov 18 2011) Servers

...as manufacturers specify a conservative operating temperature for the products. Earlier this year, Dell announced that it had increased the upper temperature limits for some its equipment, so data centre......re. Without this, many data centre operators are unwilling to risk equipment failure even though an Intel study conducted in 2008 suggested that the failure rate of a facility running at 35C was 4.5 percen... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   ASHRAE   Facebook

AMD's big new number: 16 cores for your server

Explore Technology News (Nov 14 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...84GB memory per CPU. The new Opterons hit the market with good support from HP, Cray, AMAX, IBM and Dell. ZDNet UK reviewed the Dell server based on the 16-core AMD Opteron. AMD also outlined a new platform, the Opteron 3000 Series,......rs to be aimed at ARM and Atom based servers. Now the big question: Will any of this make a dent in Intel’s server market share? In ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   IBM   ZDNet UK

why Moonshot matters - by peter judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Nov 6 2011)

...the movement definitely favours that architecture. And for HP to go with ARM, is one in the eye for Intel’s plans for microservers. Dell spoke out for the Intel version at Intel’s IDF show, and HP has taken its custom elsewhere. Intel’s architecture may be less efficient, according to analysts, but the chip giant can get new process... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Amazon.com   Intel

Power Assure and ABB Presenting "Breakthroughs in Data Center Reliability and ...

Explore Home | Benzinga.com (Oct 29 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...udith Capital, and a grant from the Department of Energy. Power Assure partners include ABB, Cisco, Dell, IBM, Intel, Raritan, UL and VMware. Power Assure is a registered trademark of Power Assure, Inc. All product n... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Cisco   Department of Energy

Can Open Hardware Transform the Data Center?

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Oct 28 2011) Cloud Computing

...te Summit in New York featured appearances from executives for some of the sector’s leading names – Intel, Dell, Amazon, Facebook, Red Hat and Goldman Sachs. The audience was filled with data center thought lead... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Intel   Google

Intel, Dell Join Facebook’s Efficiency Project

Explore environmentalleader.com (Oct 28 2011) Servers

Intel, Dell, Mozilla, Rackspace and Netflix have all joined Facebook’s Open Compute Project, which aims to incr... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Cisco   Facebook

Will Your Next Server Be Designed by Facebook?

Explore ReadWriteWeb (Oct 27 2011)

...ent. If you're still doubting how real this is, consider the list of companies that have signed on: Intel, ASUS, Dell, Huawei, Rackspace, Netflix, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs and a little software vendor by the name of R... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Intel   Google

Facebook letting Open Compute Project go. Will it fly?

Explore GigaOM (Oct 27 2011)

...re for Goldman Sachs; Mark Roienigk, the COO of Rackspace; and Jason Waxman, general manager of Intel’s data center group. Frank Frankovsky, Facebook’s director of hardware and supply chain, is executi......erty contributions from Red Hat– which will certify OCP servers. Other contributions came from AMD, Dell, and Cloudera. Arista Networks is also now an official member of OCP, although has no specific cont... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   Intel   Hewlett Packard