Google, HP Raise Data-Center PUE Bar

Explore Network Computing (Apr 6 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing , Servers

...age , networking equipment, lights, cooling equipment, air circulation systems, Google, HP, Amazon, Microsoft, Intel, AMD Channel: Servers & Storage, Networking & Mgmt, Data Center, Green Computing Running ro......ing consumed by overhead. Ideally, the PUE should be as close to 1.0 as possible. According to the Uptime Institute, which tracks these statistics, the average PUE for data centers surveyed in 2011 was 1.83, which m... (Read Full Article)

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eBay Containers Push Frontiers of Efficiency

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 27 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers

...ves with The Green Grid’s DCMM from the beginning.” Large users such as Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Microsoft have reported industry-leading ratings in the 1.07 to 1.2 range. These numbers demonstrate the po......plications and workloads. The average PUE for data center facilities is about 1.8, according to the Uptime Institute. Another criticism was that PUE reports sometimes were reported using different methodology, result... (Read Full Article)

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Report: Data Center Energy Use is Moderating

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

...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 in the 1.1 to 1.3 range, Koomey noted that less ......n the  Koomey tracks a time of dynamic growth for the data center industry, in which Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook and Apple all built enormous cloud data centers, while service ... (Read Full Article)

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Uptime Institute: The Average PUE is 1.8

Explore Data Center Knowledge (May 10 2011)

...ating for data centers is 1.8, according to a survey of more than 500 data centers conducted by The Uptime Institute. PUE has become the leading metric for tracking the energy efficiency of data centers. The ave......ng how much is lost in distribution and conversion. Large users such as Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Microsoft have reported industry-leading ratings in the 1.07 to 1.2 range. These numbers ... (Read Full Article)

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How Big is the Data Center Construction Market?

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 16 2011) Cloud Computing

...t for data center construction? How much is it going to grow? Industry veteran Christian Belady of Microsoft has done an analysis, and projects that annual global spending on data center construction will inc......jections on data from Jonathan Koomey of Stanford, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and The Uptime Institute. Koomey has done landmark research on energy use by data centers, while Uptime has developed mod... (Read Full Article)

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Microsoft Citizenship Report: Data Centers consume 50% Less Energy

Explore environmentalleader.com (Oct 22 2010) Emissions

...stry average is currently 2; optimal energy use is 1) by 2012. In May, the software company won the Uptime Institute’s Audacious Idea Award for its data center efficiency strategy. The report covers Microsoft’s performance over FY2010 (July 2009-June 2010) with an outlook for fiscal year 2011. Here are the ... (Read Full Article)

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Moving Beyond ‘Babysitting Servers’

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jun 7 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

Are servers spoiled? Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer thinks so. “There shouldn’t be people babysitting all these machines,” Ballmer sa......customer uneasiness limit the impact of this trend? These were hot topics of discussion at both the Uptime Institute Symposium 2010 and the Tier 1 Datacenter Transformation Summit. As mounting power bills push energy... (Read Full Article)

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Green IT policies are increasing datacentre power ...

Explore Business Technology Leadership (May 25 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

...k. And when the hardware is upgraded, the CPU utilisation rate goes down even further. Bernard said Microsoft, like many large organisations, has "hundreds and hundreds of small applications that aren't missio......ved to be minimal. John Stanley, an analyst at the research firm The 451 Group, which purchased the Uptime Institute last year, surveyed power usage across industry members of Uptime. In a panel discussion, he previe... (Read Full Article)

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Mike Manos Reflects on Uptime Symposium 2008 - 2010

Explore greenm3.com (May 24 2010) Cloud Computing

... when Mike gave his first keynote at Uptime in 2008. Here is my post from 2 years ago. Apr 27, 2008 Microsoft's Mike Manos Opening Keynote Uptime Institute, Green Enterprise Computing The opening of the Uptime Institute Symposium started with Pitt Turner, saying "what are we doing here?" Green Enterprise Computing is ... (Read Full Article)

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Green IT policies fail to curb data centre power use

Explore computerworlduk.com (May 24 2010)

... be able to keep your data centre cool enough," Rob Bernard, the chief environmental strategist for Microsoft, told attendees at the conference. Power usage is not a new issue, of course. In 2006, the US Depar......0 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh). This prediction seems to be playing out: An ongoing survey from the Uptime Institute found that, from 2005 to 2008, the electricity usage of its members' data centres grew at ... (Read Full Article)

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Size Doesn't Matter in Reducing Environmental Impacts

Explore GreenBiz.com (May 19 2010)

attended a sustainability conference recently in which the main speaker, a seasoned lifecycle assessment engineer, gave an overview of the LCA process, using range of products as examples. During his overview, he pointed out the stark differences between the big-impact elements and the small ones and suggested, in so many words, that an impact really must be big enough to be worth any effort in an LCA-driven impact reduction exercise ... (Read Full Article)

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Cloud Computing as an Energy Saving Tool

Explore Data Center Knowledge (May 17 2010) Carbon Tax , Cloud Computing , Servers

...17th, 2010 : Rich Miller Data center energy expert Jonathan Koomey discusses cloud computing at the Uptime Institute Symposium 2010 Monday in New York. As the data center industry grows increasingly obsessed with ene......try professionals at the New York Hilton. “Enormous Advantages” In a nutshell, cloud companies like Microsoft, Google and Amazon can process the same workload with a lot less power than companies can in their ... (Read Full Article)

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Group seeks advances in data center design

Explore Computerworld (Mar 22 2010) Cloud Computing

...e University of Missouri. A key player in the alliance is adviser Michael Manos, who previously ran Microsoft Corp.'s data center operations and is now building Nokia Corp.'s cloud infrastructure. His support stems......s point," he said. The new group's leaders say they don't aim to compete with The Green Grid forum, Uptime Institute and others but are frustrated with the rate of progress. Enterprise flash ... (Read Full Article)

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Top Data Center Groups Meet, Discuss Efficiency

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 4 2010) Servers

...n Grid. The Jan. 13 meeting involved representatives of The Green Grid, the 7×24 Exchange, The Uptime Institute, the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Environmental Protect......s a dramatic change from a year ago, when the industry was fragmented,” said Christian Belady of Microsoft. “All these organizations are starting to speak the same language and work together effectively. Al... (Read Full Article)

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Greener Computing in the Cloud

Explore Featured « zikkir (Sep 25 2009) Cloud Computing

...practice–offloading computation and storage to remote data centers run by companies such as Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo–could have one clear advantage: far better energy efficiency, thanks to custom data cent......s at around 1.5 percent, is expected to rise further. According to a study published in 2008 by the Uptime Institute, a datacenter consultancy based in Santa Fe, NM, it could quadruple by 2020. Greener Computing in... (Read Full Article)

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Second-Generation Verari Forest Container Solution Chosen by Qualcomm for Data Center Expansion

Explore Yahoo! Finance (Sep 1 2009) Construction , Container , Power and Cooling

...cient Products: Facilities category of the 2009 Green Enterprise IT (GEIT) Awards, presented by the Uptime Institute and co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. “As energy costs continue to increase and capi......t total value of ownership. Organizations such as Virgin America, Morgan Stanley, Wachovia, Akamai, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Johns Hopkins, EMC, CGGVeritas, Petrobras, Harris, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, an... (Read Full Article)

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NY Times Magazine Spotlights Data Centers

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jun 11 2009) Cloud Computing

... to a once rather hidden phenomenon.” The story quotes industry executives including Mike Manos (Microsoft/Digital Realty), Debra Chrapaty (Microsoft), Jonathan Heiliger (Facebook), Chris Crosby (Digital Realty Trust), Ken Brill (Uptime Institute), Bryan Doerr and Varghese Thomas (both of Savvis), Jonathan Koomey (Lawrence Berkeley Labs) and al... (Read Full Article)

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Verari Systems Selected Among Ten Technology Companies to Watch for in 2009 by Bank Technology News

Explore Yahoo! Finance (May 28 2009) Cloud Computing

...cient Products: Facilities category of the 2009 Green Enterprise IT (GEIT) Awards, presented by the Uptime Institute and co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. The FOREST container is available through Verari......energy efficient platforms. Organizations such as Virgin America, Morgan Stanley, Wachovia, Akamai, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Johns Hopkins, EMC, CGGVeritas, Petrobras, Harris, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, an... (Read Full Article)

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