March 16, 2009 2:41 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Data center designBuilding a data center with one level of redundancy across the facility might seem foolish to some. Do your Web servers need to have the same uptime as your mainframe?
And expensive, too. Peter Gross, the vice president of critical facilities at Hewlett-Packard who was the CEO of EYP Mission...
March 12, 2009 11:43 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
AFCOM,
Data Center,
Data center power management,
Green data centerThere's a good chance that your utility company has an incentive program in place if you boost your data center energy efficiency. But sorting through the programs can be a hassle, and dealing with the back-and-forth with the utility company can as well.
In addition, said Adam Fairbanks, vice...
March 12, 2009 11:32 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
AFCOM,
Data Center airflowComputational fluid dynamics has become a popular way for data centers to analyze the air flow in their facilities and determine if the cold and hot air is going where it should. But for smaller businesses, CFD is simply out of their price range.
There are different tiers of affordability out...
March 12, 2009 11:25 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Data Center airflowFor many years, hot/cold aisle design has been a de facto standard in data center design. But at least one person thinks that was a temporary -- and perhaps sub-premium -- fix to the problem, and that's because of chaos air distribution.
February 24, 2009 4:56 PM
Posted by: Matt Stansberry
Data Center,
Green data centerA new data center user group, built on Linked-In profiles and spearheaded by executives from Sun Microsystems and VMware, held its first in-person gathering last week at Sun's Santa Clara, Calif. headquarters.
Data Center Pulse (DCP) garnered over...
February 23, 2009 8:03 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
data center cooling,
Data center powerOver at CIO, there is an article about a so-called data center power-density paradox. According to Michael Bullock, the CEO of a data center design consultancy called
February 19, 2009 2:07 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Data center power management,
Green data centerThe mayor of Chicopee, Mass., a city of about 60,000 people in the western part of the state, wants to use landfill gases to power a proposed data center in his facility.
According to a story in the Springfield Republican on city Mayor Michael D. Bissonnette being
February 18, 2009 6:18 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Green data centerEdit: Uptime made a mistake in leaving HP off the list. The corrected Uptime Green 100 list includes them. So I guess they're green after all! I'm working on...
February 13, 2009 10:31 PM
Posted by: Matt Stansberry
Data Center,
Green data center,
User GroupsThis column was contributed by Deborah Grove of Grove Associates.
Day one of The Green Grid Technical Forum was largely a brag about how much work was done in 2008, and the...
