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Tolly Group Highlights Force10 Product's Low Power Consumption

Explore Smart Data Centers Micro (Sep 10 2010) Carbon Footprint

...niper Networks to calculate energy requirements for their comparable data center core switches. By Paula Bernier, Executive Editor, IP Communications Magazines It’s no secret that data centers are huge power cons... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Cisco   Paula Bernier

google offers tips on lowering your pue - by Paula Bernier

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (May 4 2010)

Comment "Google presentation did not mention any new modes of design or operation. These topics are yesterday's news. However, GE Digital ..." - szalkus

Google is obviously a major data center operator, so when the company talks, people listen. Well, Bill Weihl, green energy czar at Google, was talking recently about the company’s green data center initiatives early this week at Green: Net 2010 in San Francisco. Of course, he mentioned how and why the search giant requested permission from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to buy and sell power. (It got the ... (Read Full Article)

1 Comment Mentions:   Google   Federal Energy Regulatory Commission   Bill Weihl

Earth day, education, and the rise of the green super hero - by Paula Bernier

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Apr 22 2010)

Happy Earth Day! This year marks the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. And, as Vice President Joe Biden writes, this “may be the first one when we are truly able to say that we have started down the road to a real clean energy economy….” To help kick this off, the Obama administration announced $452 million in Recovery Act “Retrofit Ramp-Up” awards, which are aimed at helping make energy efficiency ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Forrester Research   Verne Global   Paula Bernier

Keeping Things in Perspective - Normalizing Iceland by Paula Bernier

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Apr 21 2010)

The recent volcanic activity in Iceland that has put a halt to air traffic to and from many European countries has also elicited communication from communications industry types, who are discussing the issues with locating data centers in the vicinity. When a news-grabbing event like this occurs, we tend to focus on it to the exclusion of all else, and make quick conclusions about what it means, as opposed to ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Paula Bernier

in the great greenpeace versus mohney debate, i am switerland - by Paula Bernier

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Apr 14 2010) Carbon Footprint

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A recent report from Greenpeace talks about how cloud computing is driving companies like Facebook and Google to make ever-larger investments in data centers, many of which it says are being powered by “dirty coal”. Here’s one excerpt: “For example, in January 2010, Facebook commissioned a new data centre in Oregon and committed to a power service provider agreement with PacificCorp, a utility that gets the majority of its ... (Read Full Article)

1 Comment Mentions:   Greenpeace   Facebook   Doug Mohney

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.

thinking outside the box - by paul bernier

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Mar 17 2010)

My husband and I are often perplexed as we drive around town and see empty strip malls while at the same time developers create new buildings – sometimes right across the street – in the same towns. So when I read recently about Microsoft’s plans to use a container-based approach to housing its data centers, I had to wonder whether it would be more cost-efficient and environmentally friendly instead to retrofit ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   Paula Bernier   Microsoft Corp

How One Major Telco is Leading the Way to More Environmentally-Friendly Networking - By Paula Bernier

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Mar 9 2010)

Verizon took a leadership position in the green data center and general networking sapce when it enacted on Jan. 1, 2009, the requirement that all the products it would buy from then on had to reduce their power needs by 20 percent. As of the end of 2009, that has yielded Verizon nearly $2 million in energy savings, reports Chuck Graff, who is a director in corporate networking technology for ... (Read Full Article)

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The Big Switch- by Paula Bernier

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Mar 1 2010)

Virtualization is great for the savings it can produce in terms of hardware, real estate and power usage. And it delivers a more environmentally friendly solution, as compared with traditional architectures that require a separate server for each application. However, this new virtualization architecture can mean a 1:1 radio between each virtual machine and each virtual switch within a server. And that switching can take up a fair amount ... (Read Full Article)

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Outsourcing to be key trend in data centers going forward - By Paula Bernier

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Feb 24 2010)

The data center space is seeing a lot of consolidation – meaning both the combination of multiple data center locations into mega sites and the aggregation of various applications on single servers. But despite these trends, which point to a move toward more cost-conscious operations, data centers will continue to be a significant area of investment in the near future. "The data center promises to be a major area of investment ... (Read Full Article)

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Virtualization, not bad but could be better - By Paula Bernier

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Feb 16 2010)

In most non-virtualized enterprise data center environments, servers are under-utilized, with most of them operating at 5 to 15 percent of their capacity, Rahul Singh, principal at Pace Harmon, a third-party outsourcing advisory and technology consulting firm, tells me. “This is, in large part, due to applications having dedicated server and storage hardware, thus requiring more power, cooling, network and real estate,” he says. (Read Full Article)

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How Economizers and Related Monitoring Tools Can Save You Money and Increase Reliability - by Paula Bernier

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jan 11 2010) Power and Cooling

People used to think about data centers as locations in need of very tight control over temperature and humidity. While climate control is clearly still key, in the past five years data center operators have broadened the window of what’s acceptable in terms of temperatures and humidity. At the same time, we’ve seen the introduction of new devices to monitor and, in some cases, automatically adjust temperature, humidity ... (Read Full Article)

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Bringing Intelligence, Control to the data center beast - By Paula Bernier

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jan 6 2010) Power and Cooling

Data centers last year consumed something like $23 billion worldwide on electricity. And that’s increasing by about 15 percent each year, according to reports. On the up side, however, power-hungry data centers are slowly becoming more intelligent and controllable beasts. That’s in large part because suppliers of data center solutions are paying more attention to the energy and environmental costs of these animals and providing solutions to tame ... (Read Full Article)

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Wonderful, Wonderful Copenhagen- by Paul Bernier

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Dec 9 2009) Cap and Trade , Carbon Footprint , Carbon Tax , Emissions

President Obama heads to Copenhagen for the United Nations Climate Change Conference. While there, he’s expected to commit to lowering U.S. greenhouse gas emissions 17 percent by 2020. For all the talk about the environment, the United State currently lacks national regulations around greenhouse gases, although 29 states have adopted or are considering such legislation, and the House in June passed a bill addressing this issue, according to ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   John Kerry   Barack Obama   Ed Markey

IDC Index, Study to Offer G20 Environmental ICT Rankings, Recommendations- by Paula Bernier

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Dec 3 2009) Emissions

A new index to be released the week after next by research and consulting firm IDC scores various G20 countries’ abilities to harness IT and communications technologies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, and explains why each ranks as it does. The goal of the ICT Sustainability Index, according to IDC, is both to create new understanding around these issues in general as well as to help these countries prioritize and ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Interactive Data Corporation   Green ICT   Paula Bernier