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GE, Trane Team Up to Manage Data Center Energy Use

Explore GreenBiz.com (Dec 13 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

Trane and GE have teamed up on a new solution that's designed to help data center operators knock down costs for their biggest spend: energy. Ingersoll Rand's Trane brand and GE launched the Tracer XT on Monday and showed it off at the DatacenterDynamics trade show in Toronto. The product is the first to emerge from an agreement between GE and Ingersoll Rand to develop solutions that improve ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   Gartner Inc.

Consolidation, compliance pushing demand for a green data center

Explore searchcio.techtarget.com (Dec 1 2010) Servers

John Phelps was not surprised when the Gartner Data Center Conference roundtable he's hosting -- its subject is the green data center -- was the first to fill up with reservations. He's been speaking about green IT for a few years now, and says the topic has just "gelled" for CIOs this year. In the past, conference audiences were a mix of a few IT managers looking at the green ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Interactive Data Corporation   Gartner Inc.   LEED

The scary side of virtualization

Explore Business Technology Leadership (Nov 8 2010) Cloud Computing

At the Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leaders conference in March, one CIO stood up to express his unease about the security of a virtual infrastructure that has subsumed more than half of his company's production servers. Two other IT executives chimed in with their own nagging worries. None of the executives in that room wanted to admit on the record that they feel vulnerable, but Jai Chanani, senior director ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Intel   EMC Corp.

HP launches comprehensive networking portfolio

Explore Techie.com.ph (Sep 28 2010) Cloud Computing , Networking

AASIA PACIFIC - HP today introduced a comprehensive edge-to-core networking portfolio that delivers a superior alternative to the marketplace in terms of technology, energy efficiency and total cost of ownership. The new HP Networking portfolio combines the best of HP ProCurve and 3Com to provide an advanced network fabric that is up to twice as fast with half the energy use, and at a 65 percent lower total cost of ownership ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Gartner Inc.

Coming down from the cloud

Explore sustainableindustries.com (May 31 2010) Emissions , Cloud Computing , Servers

All businesses—from self-employed contractors to global corporations—rely on information technology (IT) and telecommunications to survive in the global market. While necessary, all that computing results in 2 percent of the world’s carbon emissions, according to a 2007 study by research firm Gartner Inc. While that might not sound like much—especially compared to the building industry’s 8 percent and the transportation sector’s 13 percent, according ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   Yahoo   Department of Energy

Networks go green and save you money

Explore IDG News Service (Apr 19 2010) Networking , Servers

Servers get most of the glory when it comes to energy management, but networking gear is about to catch up. Over the past year, network equipment vendors have began to emphasize energy efficiency features, something that was never a top priority before, says Dale Cosgro, a product manager in Hewlett-Packard Co.'s ProCurve network products organization. Networking infrastructure isn't in the same class as servers or storage in terms ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Cisco   Accenture   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Orange you glad you learned about this security system? By Paula Bernier

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Mar 26 2010)

If the virtualization space followed the Department of Homeland Security’s color-coded scheme, it would probably be within the yellow range at best. Maybe even in the orange. Yellow stands for “elevated”. Orange is “high”. So this is not good news. But that’s not to say virtualization itself leads to security problems. "Virtualization is not inherently insecure," says Neil MacDonald, vice president and a fellow with research and consulting ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Gartner   Department of Homeland Security   Gartner Inc.

Forecast 2010: Servers get a makeover in 2010

Explore PC World (Dec 29 2009) Cloud Computing , Servers

Comment Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   Intel   Qualcomm

Gartner: Cloud computing, analytics top 2010 strategic tech list

Explore ZDNet Technology News (Oct 20 2009) Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint

artner unveiled its top 10 strategic technology list for 2010. Unified communications, servers and specialized systems are out. Client computing, data center do-overs, flash memory and mobile applications are in. The items that were bumped from the top 10 list (statement) aren’t necessarily less important, but are moving slowly. Unified communications is strategic, but not critical. Specialized systems and servers are notable for converged systems, but they aren’t ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Gartner   IBM   Gartner Inc.