Container Data Center Buyers Guide coming soon

Explore greenm3.com (Aug 25 2010) Construction , Container , Cloud Computing

... number of container-based offerings. Industry consultant Mark Bramfitt says he is working with the General Services Administration (GSA) and the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) to develop a guide to evaluating container data centers and next-generation modular designs ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   General Services Administration

US government commissions datacentre guidebook

Explore ZDNet UK (Aug 25 2010) Construction

The General Services Administration (GSA) and the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) are working with industry consultant Mark Bramfitt on developing the guide, Bramfitt said in... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   Vivek Kundra   General Services Administration

Extreme makeover: Cutting data centers down to size

Explore Federal Computer Week (Feb 18 2010) Cloud Computing

...ses 10 to 100 times more energy than a typical office space of the same size uses, according to the General Services Administration. Approximately one-half of a data center’s energy use is for the IT equipment, while the other ha....... Governmentwide, federal servers now cost about $500 million annually to operate, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. And if no action is taken to reduce their usage, data center ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Gartner   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   Vivek Kundra