Data Center Efficiency

How to Go Green without Going Crazy

Explore Renewable Energy World (Jan 16 2012) Construction , Solar

...y in reducing energy usage and emissions in their data centers, according to Costello. The report, “Data Center Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, and Carbon Offset Investment Best Practices,” points out that seven of the top t... (Read Full Article)

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Going Beyond PUE for Data Center Efficiency, Part II

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

...olumn is part two of a two-part series on Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE). See Going Beyond PUE for Data Center Efficiency for part one. In today’s data center, what else needs to be measured along with Power Usage Effe...... Management Needed The Power Usage Effectiveness metric provides valuable information for measuring data center energy efficiency. But it represents only one component in a comprehensive energy management program. While data ... (Read Full Article)

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Missed Opportunities in Data Center Energy Efficiency

Explore govwin.com (Sep 23 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...ing best-practices in both data center design and data center operations. Missed Opportunities in Data Center Energy Efficiency Added 09/23/2011 - 15:21 by SherwinGroup Expert So we are approaching the magic singularity of the ... (Read Full Article)

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Power Usage Effectiveness 2 – The Sequel

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jun 1 2011)

...er infrastructure since 1987. He is also the founder of THINK8760.org which is focused on improving data center energy efficiency. With any popular movie, there is usually a sequel. It looks like the rise in popularity of th......ta center metric lately, perhaps in some cases if only as misguided marketing tool. On May 17th the Data Center Efficiency Task Force issued a 14 page document entitled “Recommendations for ... (Read Full Article)

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Harmonizing the PUE Metric

Explore | CTO Edge (Mar 4 2011)

...wo years ago to deal with the apparent lack of harmony. The result, "Harmonizing Global Metrics for Data Center Energy Efficiency," is a 12-page document from The Green Grid that should have the U.S., the European Union and Japan......ifying a method and metric to measure IT productivity. This has long been the “missing link” in the data center efficiency model, since “actual IT work output” is very nebulous ... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook Saves Big By Retooling its Cooling

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Oct 14 2010) Servers

...ate from Silicon Valley Power. The company shared details of its efficiency project today at the Data Center Efficiency Summit 2010 hosted by the Silicon Valley Leadership Group (SVLG) on the Brocade campus in Santa Cla... (Read Full Article)

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Top 10 Things I've Learned About Data Center Energy Efficiency

Explore GreenBiz.com (Sep 13 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

...ommerce. Here are 10 lessons I've learned along the way: Top 10 Things I've Learned About Data Center Energy Efficiency By Larry Vertal Published September 13, 2010 Email | Print | Single Page View Tags: Data Centers, E... (Read Full Article)

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Viridity Software to Discuss The Road to Data Center Energy Efficiency

Explore Digital Journal (Sep 7 2010) Monitoring , Cloud Computing , Servers

Will Detail How To Accurately Measure Energy Consumption, Eliminate/Consolidate Non-Productive IT Equipment, Optimally Plan for New Equipment Placement, Optimize Power and Cooling, and Protect Against Data Center Black-Out. The ability to measure data center energy consumption has become increasingly business critical due to: rising energy costs coupled with increasing data center power and cooling demands as IT infrastructures continue to grow, the need to fully optimize existing data center ... (Read Full Article)

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Ethernet Alliance Elects Aquantias Kamal Dalmia to EEE Marketing Chair

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...ing concern in a report by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to Congress on Server and Data Center Energy Efficiency. Data suggests power consumption doubling in the next 5 years if current trends continue. Major eff... (Read Full Article)

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2010 Power IT Down Day Challenges Government to Save More Kilowatt Hours ...

Explore MarketWatch.com (Jul 28 2010) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers

2010 Power IT Down Day Challenges Government to Save More Kilowatt Hours ...MarketWatch (press release)Individuals can sign up for the event at the new Power IT Down website, poweritdown.org, which also provides green IT resources and information. ...and more » (Read Full Article)

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I.t.'s Environmental Benefits Not a Free Pass To Waste Energy

Explore Home | Switchboard, from NRDC (Jul 20 2010) Servers

...while still using more than 60 to 90 percent of maximum system power (see EPA report to Congress on Data Center Energy Efficiency). ...and more » I.T.'s Environmental Benefits Not a Free Pass To Waste Energy Pierre Delforge Poste... (Read Full Article)

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AppliedMicro Low Power 10GBASE-T PHY Provides Data Centers with Immunity to Electromagnetic Interference

Explore Yahoo! Finance (Jul 12 2010) Cloud Computing

...cations. In 2007,a key U.S. Environmental Protection Agency study, Report to Congress on Server and Data Center Energy Efficiency, identified significant growth in the number of data center servers and predicted that energy use b... (Read Full Article)

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PUE is Still Broken and I still use it

Explore Perspectives (May 25 2010) Servers

...d Total Power Usage Efficiency. However, I still use it because it’s an easy to compute summary of data center efficiency. It can be gamed endlessly but it’s easy to compute and it does provide some value.   ......f PUE. Three were recently summarized in Technical Scribblings  RE Harmonizing Global Metrics for Data Center Energy Efficiency.  In this report from John Stanley, the following were presented: ·         Total energy... (Read Full Article)

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Smart meters should learn from voter apathy - by Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (May 3 2010)

... sit back and be entertained by it.  Now, last week, I was wondering why the EU Code of Conduct on Data Center Efficiency is having such an uphill struggle. Now I know the answer. It's not got enough jokes in it.  More ... (Read Full Article)

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Uncovering the Shortcuts to Data Center Energy Efficiency

Explore GreenBiz.com (Apr 28 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

...Fdata-centers+%28Data+Centers+%7C+GreenerComputing.com%29#ixzz0mPif0C6B Uncovering the Shortcuts to Data Center Energy Efficiency By Matthew Wheeland Published April 28, 2010 * Read * Comments Email | Print | Tags: Data Centers, ... (Read Full Article)

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