A New Net

Explore Technology Review (Feb 6 2012) Cloud Computing , Networking

...des earlier and was proving unsuited to an era of cyberwarfare.

Casado, then a researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, had been approached by a U.S. intelligence agency with a thorny problem. Computer networking techn......ologies of all time needs to be rethought. Stanford researchers have reshaped computing before—both Google and early work on the Internet itself came out of their labs—but Casado and his PhD supervisor ...

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Will our plugged-in planet have a green or black future?

Explore MiamiHerald.com (Feb 1 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Wind , Cloud Computing

...s City, perhaps as much as anywhere in America, that discussion could become ever more profound. If Google Inc. succeeds with plans to blanket the market in lightning-fast Internet hookups - its service wil......s. "It's like building extra lanes on the freeway," said David Fridley, a staff energy scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. "More people are going to get on the road." That added Internet capacity will put ... (Read Full Article)

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Will our plugged-in planet have a green or black future?

Explore http://www.kansascity.com (Jan 24 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Wind , Cloud Computing

...ow using the Internet will change your wear and tear the planet could become ever more profound. If Google Inc. succeeds with plans to blanket the market in lightning-fast Internet hookups the change could ......2;s like building extra lanes on the freeway,” said David Fridley, a staff energy scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. “More people are going to get on the road.”

That added Internet capacity will put ... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook Expands Green Open Hardware Push

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

... is a way to measure how efficiently a facility uses its energy; the closer to 1.0, the better. The Environmental Protection Agency has a standard PUE rate of 1.5. Facebook expects to get similar results as it builds new data centr......pecifications in April was a significant change for an industry where other businesses, such as Google and Amazon, have closely guarded their data centre specs, using them ... (Read Full Article)

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U.S. Tech Giants Become Alternative Energy's Fairy Godfathers

Explore news.thomasnet.com (Nov 8 2011) Fossil Fuel , Geothermal , Wind

...mpany also made a $38.8 million investment in a wind project located on the plains of North Dakota. Google is currently operating a program its calling “REEPA standards, which the company says has cut operations costs by about 25 percent. Apple, never one to... (Read Full Article)

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Prudential Financial: 1,000 servers moved into a virtual environment

Explore IDG News Service (Oct 24 2011) Solar

...onmental task force. She says company officials are working with environmental leaders, such as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Rainforest Alliance, to learn best practices. Harrington says additional IT efforts to redu......ack record of serving the shareholders while serving the broader community through sustainability." Google+ may be linked to new online music store, report says Canon launches Pixma Pro-1 flagship photo and... (Read Full Article)

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Looking forward: energy efficiency from the computer to the cloud

Explore Scientific American Blog Network (Oct 16 2011) Cloud Computing

...t systems is most of the time), but we didn’t focus on that in the paper. You also mention that the EPA’s Energy Star program has had a substantial impact on electricity consumed by office equipment be......increasingly relying on data centers for many services (Netflix streaming, Apple iCloud, Facebook, Google search, etc.), how important is energy efficiency in a data center, and have there been any major ... (Read Full Article)

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Google keeps its Googlers going via green buildings

Explore siliconrepublic.com (Aug 19 2011) Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Solar

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Is There a Silver Lining for the Environment in Cloud Computing?

Explore Science News, Articles and Information (Aug 10 2011) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers

...ses, this could include websites or networks that are hosted remotely. For individuals, it could be Google documents, digital storage space and so forth. There is no question that computing needs are expand......Dickinson, executive chairman of the Carbon Disclosure Project. A 2007 Energy Star report from U.S. EPA listed increased digital communication, record-keeping and financial transactions as forces pushing... (Read Full Article)

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What does Economic Uncertainty Mean for Hosting?

Explore thehostingnews.com (Aug 5 2011) Cloud Computing

...Stanford professor prepared the data center report specifically for the New York Times. Based on an EPA prediction from 2005, Koomey estimated the power usage using reports from information company IDC. ......me, it’ll be interesting to watch new ways data centers seek to become more efficient, whether it’s Google’s use of cooling from the Baltic Sea or a facility using natural cooling methods by relying on an ... (Read Full Article)

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Report: Data Center Energy Use is Moderating

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 1 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...ements anticipated in the report to Congress,” writes Koomey, whose 2007 report to Congress and the Environmental Protection Agency has framed most subsequent discussions of data center energy usage. Koomey says companies have been......of between 1.83 and 1.92, based on estimates of the average PUE reported in recent samplings by the EPA Energy Star Program and the Uptime Institute. While some cloud computing data centers have PUEs ... (Read Full Article)

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Data Centers’ Power Use Less Than Was Expected

Explore The New York Times (Jul 31 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

... at expected rates. Enlarge This Image Craig Mitchelldyer/Getty Images The study suggests that Google's centers are more efficient than most. The report, by Jonathan G. Koomey, a consulting professor ......rvers to run more programs. The slowing of growth in consumption contradicts a 2007 forecast by the Environmental Protection Agency that the explosive expansion of the Internet and the computerization of society would lead to a d... (Read Full Article)

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Data Centers & IPv6: Why It Matters to You

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jun 28 2011) Networking

...a center industry has further benefited from more transparency provided by data center experts like Google, Yahoo, eBay, Amazon and now Facebook. These forward thinking companies have opened their “kimonos”...... reporting, maintenance, and even availability are affected by the newer IPv6. (1) According to the Environmental Protection Agency, in 2006 U.S. data centers had, on average, a PUE of 2.0 or higher, a number the agency expects to ... (Read Full Article)

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Uptime Institute: The Average PUE is 1.8

Explore Data Center Knowledge (May 10 2011)

...rs, has previously said that the average PUE was around 2.5. Others cite an average of 2.0, and the EPA’s Energy Star program reported a 1.91 average PUE in 2009 data it collected more than 100 data cent......by the IT equipment, revealing how much is lost in distribution and conversion. Large users such as Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Microsoft have reported industry-leading ratings in the ... (Read Full Article)

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Facts and Figures Behind Greenpeace’s Green Data Center Report

Explore GigaOM (Apr 26 2011) Monitoring

...eek? While much of the coverage of the report focused on the A-to-F grades ranking Apple, Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, IBM and others, the report also laid out some broad categories where IT giants c...... Paradox in action. But the only solid evidence the report cites in that section comes from a 2007 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency report (PDF) that finds increasing IT efficiency will flatten or reduce total ... (Read Full Article)

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What is a green data center?

Explore Environmental Information, Green News (Mar 22 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...raphs onto Flickr, streaming an old episode of “The Office” on Hulu and researching a term paper on Google sucks up more electricity than you can imagine. The growing power demands of the digital age are sp......orage and processing – use an estimated 100 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. That $7.4 billion annual light bill represents nearly 2 percent of the total ... (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

...ing the praises of savings through higher baseline temperature settings in the data center includes Google, Intel, Sun and HP. But nudging the thermostat higher may also allow less time to recover from a co......ngs compared to the test results,” said the report on the Clustered Systems technology, prepared by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Some are deliberately pushing cooling water temperature even further. IBM deployed a supercomputer... (Read Full Article)

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Sensing the Future of Greener Data Centers

Explore Scientific Computing (Jan 10 2011) Monitoring , Carbon Footprint , Servers

...at play, says Kathy Yelick, associate laboratory director for the computing sciences directorate at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Performance is suffering, too. “The heat, even at the chip level, is limiting proce......nitoring system a good investment. Googling efficiency Of course, NERSC is not alone. For instance, Google also looks for ways to cut the costs of running its data centers. “Reducing the environmental footp... (Read Full Article)

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Inside the Race to Green Data Centers

Explore The New York Times (Dec 1 2010) Servers

...this or other posts. More News From VentureBeat * Could Mickey Mouse Be the Next Video Game Star? * Google-Backed Satellite Provider O3b Raises $1.2B to Bring the World Online * Microsoft Says 2.5M Kinect M......ergy use could nearly double by 2011, costing $7.4 billion a year. It’s enough of an issue that the EPA’s Energy Star program has launched a program to certify data center ... (Read Full Article)

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Web Host Codero Extends Green Power Commitment

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Nov 30 2010) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Servers

..., also powered by 100 percent renewable energy. With the purchase of 10,260MWh of green power, the Environmental Protection Agency estimates 16 million pounds of carbon dioxide emissions will be saved - the equivalent to the annua......ivalent to the annual greenhouse gas emissions from 1,409 passenger vehicles. Codero is a member of EPA's Green Power Leadership Club as a Green Power Partner. Web Host Codero Extends Green Power ... (Read Full Article)

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Yahoo keeps data center efficiency secrets to itself

Explore infoworld.com (Sep 24 2010) Power and Cooling

...N.Y., with a jaw-dropping PUE of 1.08. In comparison, the industry average is 1.92 according to the EPA; the lowest reported PUE on record that I've seen, prior to Yahoo's announcement, is 1.11 from Google, but its average among all its datacenter is 1.23 Search giant boasts extraordinarily low 1.08 PUE ... (Read Full Article)

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Yahoo’s New Facility Shows Trend, Growing Importance of Green Data Centers

Explore The New York Times (Sep 20 2010) Wind , Cloud Computing , Servers , Storage

...iciency measures. Tags: data storage center, energy efficiency Companies: accenture, Amazon, DOE, EPA, Facebook, Google, Greenpeace, Microsoft, nokia, Power Assure, Yahoo Yahoo’s New Facility Shows Trend, Growing Import... (Read Full Article)

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How A Good PUE Can Save 10 Megawatts

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Sep 13 2010)

...end to improve as a data center nears full utilization, which is one reason why large users such as Google report industry-leading ratings in the 1.1 to 1.2 range. At a time when the industry is debating th......oup of enterprise data centers, says the average PUE is 2.5. Others cite an average of 2.0, and the EPA’s Energy Star program reported a 1.91 ... (Read Full Article)

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The Grill: Jonathan Koomey

Explore Computerworld (Jul 13 2010) Carbon Tax , Cloud Computing , Servers

Professor, scientist and energy efficiency expert Jonathan Koomey, who recently finished a term at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, got the full attention of the IT community in 2007 when a research paper he wrote revealed that po......sts and energy use. If you did that internally, you wouldn't have quite the diversity of users that Google has, but you would have those other effects, the economies of scale and ... (Read Full Article)

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