Data Center

Building an Energy-Efficient Data Center Using Virtualization Technology

Electrical power usage has always been a large and increasing cost of operating a data center. Over the last decade, as applications have grown more sophisticated and ...

November 19, 2009

Modular Liquid-Cooled Server Cuts Cooling Costs 93%

A new computer server from Iceotope has modular liquid-cooled components which the company says can help cut a data center's cooling costs by 93 percent. The ...

November 17, 2009

Around the Web – PG&E, API, FPL, IT, Climate Bill, Russian Nukes

Today’s news from around the web. The New [Package] Deal QSR Magazine Environmentalists push FPL to use ...

November 10, 2009

Spectrum Health, Fortune Data Centers Go for the LEED Gold

Businesses across all sectors including health care, manufacturing and information technology (IT) are seeking the coveted LEED certification to ensure that their new buildings meet the ...

November 9, 2009

IT Bolstered by U.S. Energy-Efficiency Agenda

Information technology departments are focused on greater energy efficiency and using more renewable energy sources now more than ever as the Obama Administration pushes its energy-efficiency ...

November 3, 2009

Data Center Optimization Products Emerge

More service providers are starting to see energy efficiency gold in data centers, as evidenced by recent product offerings. Data centers are projected to account ...

October 28, 2009

CSC Targets 30% Energy Reduction

CSC, a global IT services provider, has taken steps over the past year to ensure a sustainable environment by focusing on programs such as energy reduction, ...

October 19, 2009

Study Finds Servers Waste $25B a Year

One of the biggest causes of energy and information technology (IT) operational waste is millions of servers at the world's largest IT departments that don't do ...

October 19, 2009

Coordinated Sustainability Intelligence Generates Potential Tax Benefits

An evolution in green IT is under way as it rounds the bend from a siloed cost-reduction strategy to an enabler of corporate responsibility ...

October 18, 2009

Stop Cooling the Data Center

Cooling is not going to be a major contributor to data center costs in five years. In fact, in five years, the temperature in ...

October 15, 2009

Thales Cuts Energy Use 10%, CO2 Emissions 4%

By using cleaner energy and employee's efforts to reduce energy consumption, Thales has achieved a ten percent reduction in fossil fuel consumption and a 3.8 ...

October 14, 2009

Toyota USA’s Data Center Efficiencies Reduce Energy Use 10%

Improvements at the data center for Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. should help decrease emissions and energy use, according to a press release. Toyota ...

October 13, 2009

IT Plays a Role in Net-Zero Buildings

Colin G. Harrison, Director of Corporate Strategy for IBM, discusses how information technology ...

October 10, 2009

Green Grid Tools Support Data Center Efficiency

The Green Grid has launched several new tools and reports to help global businesses improve the energy efficiency of their data centers and operations. These ...

October 5, 2009

Data Center Managers Neglect Energy Use Metrics

Data center and IT managers are not paying enough attention to measuring, monitoring and modeling energy use in data centers, according to a recent interactive poll ...

September 30, 2009

What’s so ‘Free’ About Free Cooling?

There is a lot of discussion lately regarding "free cooling." It seems you cannot pick up a trade publication without reading about how company XYZ ...

September 27, 2009

Businesses Find New Ways to Save Energy, Cost in Data Centers

Whether it's a novel technique to cool data centers like the one tested by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, installation of new hardware chosen by Skyservice Airlines, ...

September 24, 2009

Energy-saving Server Virtualization Adoption Reaches 46%

With companies facing depressed bottom lines, IT departments are finding ways to cut power use as a means of improving corporate financial performance. About 35 percent of ...

September 17, 2009

Green IT Efforts Save Symantec $2.1M in Energy Costs

Symantec Corp., an infrastructure software provider, is achieving significant business cost and productivity benefits including a projected energy cost savings of $2.1 million thanks to ...

September 2, 2009

Citing Cost, Firms De-emphasize Energy Efficiency in IT Purchases

Focusing on short-term cost reductions, companies increasingly are overlooking the promise of long-term savings that come with more expensive but more energy efficient computer equipment. Instead, firms ...

September 1, 2009

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