Academia, industry team up for better green data centers - By Doug Mohney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Nov 9 2011)

...presenting the entire supply chain for data centers" have signed up as members including Microsoft, IBM, Facebook, Commscope, Bloomberg, General Electric, Corning Inc., Endicott Interconnect Technologies... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Greenpeace   National Science Foundation   General Electric

greenpeace shifts its sights to apple - by Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Apr 25 2011)

...ative, a great industry-leading, information-sharing initiative which was summed up on this blob by Doug Mohney: “Wow!”  That campaign tipped over into parody, when Greenpeace, which regularly puts Facebook d......the data centers of ten companies altogether - the full roster is Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter, IBM, Microsoft, HP, Akamai and Amazon. I think there are three interesting side issues thrown up by t... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

Overall Data Center Growth to Kill Any Green Savings - By Doug Mohney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jan 21 2011)

... care.  And that's before we start factoring in the growth of server farms in emerging markets.  IBM and France Telecom are putting big bucks into Africa and other markets as "greenfield" opportunitie... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Doug Mohney   IBM

Modularity Brings New Green Challenges By Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Nov 5 2010)

...rs may need to be close to users to make sure that the communications is available.   Recently Doug Mohney drew my attention to the way IBM is planning to grow in Africa. That is a region which needs to see some economic growth - it’s lagg... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Doug Mohney   IBM   Peter Judge

Green servers in growing markets will lead to more power consumption - by Doug Mohney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Sep 30 2010)

...ervices for an upgraded cell phone network across 16 nations in Africa.   Over the last five years, IBM has invested $300 million in the region to build data centers, add country offices, and promote tec... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   New York Times   Google   Yahoo

The instant new-build data center - by Doug Mohney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jul 15 2010)

...enters across Europe. Many companies are already on the data center container bandwagon, including IBM, HP, Google, and Microsoft; the U.S. military and certain government agencies love the concept sinc... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   Hewlett Packard   Doug Mohney

Cooling - Less has to be more - By Doug Mohney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (May 28 2010)

...or most of the time, less has to be more. I don't mean to pick on Alcatel-Lucent; let's throw in IBM and all the other cooling rack retro-fit solutions that replace a cabinet door with fans and a cool... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Doug Mohney   IBM

Greenpeace's latest data center drive-by shooting - by doug mohney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Apr 7 2010)

Comment "Nice post Doug. I still think there's a place for Greenpeace's whistleblowing, and as an SEO-chasing journalist, I have some ..." - judgecorp

...current usage in 2020.  It goes on to suggest that Fortune 500 companies like Microsoft, Google and IBM go influence policies to "decouple" economic growth from rising greenhouse gas emissions, and once ... (Read Full Article)

1 Comment Mentions:   Greenpeace   Google   Facebook

The curious link between the smart grid and green data centers - by Doug Mohney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Feb 10 2010)

...owever, turning into a job for the (I assume) green data center. Take the examples of Google, IBM, and Verizon. Google's embrace of smart grids is fairly obviously. It is a Silicon Valley company,... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Google   Doug Mohney

little bits of greener chips - by Doug Mohney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jan 15 2010)

... with existing – it's too soon to call them legacy – data center monitoring sensors.  For instance, IBM has just announced it will support Arch Rock's (www.archrock.com) PhyNet IP-based wireless sensor n... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Doug Mohney   IBM

Do SuperComputers Turn a Green Data Center Gray? By Doug Maloney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Dec 11 2009) Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Supercomputer

...somewhere to go, which requires cooling and more dollars to the power bill. Exhibit A for this is IBM's Blue Waters supercomputer being built at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus, as r... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Doug Mohney   Oak Ridge National Laboratory   IBM

Easier to be Green outside of North American and Europe by Doug Mohney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Nov 10 2009) Power and Cooling

With a trio of announcements, IBM finds an embrace of Green IT data center practices outside of North America and Europe. EWeek.com ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Doug Mohney   IBM

Cooling Down By All Means by Doug Mohney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jun 16 2009) Power and Cooling , Servers

...ere. Reducing or even dumping the big blowers is becoming a major factor in data center design. IBM is working with Syracuse University and the State of New York to build a new computer data center f... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Syracuse University   Doug Mohney

Demo versus Retro by Doug Mohney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jun 15 2009) Carbon Footprint , Servers

...ng a green data center.    The UMass/MIT-EMC/Cisco project looks like a "me too" showcase like the IBM, Syracuse University and New York state partnership a couple of weeks ago.  The new $12.4 million d... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Cisco   Syracuse University   Doug Mohney