Data Center

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

IT Plays a Role in Net-Zero Buildings

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

White Paper: IT Buyers Need to Look at the Total Cost of Data Centers

In data centers, all costs related to the purchase of electricity and almost all facility costs are directly related to the power use of IT equipment, ...

Dell Cuts Power Use by 48M KWH, Saves $5.8M

Dell expects to save about $5.8 million a year as a result of energy-saving initiatives and building upgrades in its facilities worldwide. The computer maker expects ...

ACT Data Center Passes LEED Platinum Test

If there's one thing the people at ACT know, it's how to take a test. When it came to making the grade for a new data ...

Intel Uses Facebook App to Help Power Climate Research

Facebook users who acquiesce to an Intel application that operates on idle computer power are helping researchers conduct models on climate change and other global problems. The ...