June 11, 2009 1:40 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Data center power,
Energy Star,
Green data centerThe federal Environmental Protection Agency has now started down the road to developing an Energy Star spec for storage equipment. Late last month, the EPA released the first version of its
June 8, 2009 8:46 PM
Posted by: Jbeltran
Data center power,
Energy Star,
Green data centerThis blog post was written by SearchDataCenter.com contributer Julius Neudorfer.
It’s out! After several years, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released the first version of...
June 1, 2009 6:03 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Data center power management,
Green data centerData center power management software and cloud computing company Cassatt Corp. has a great survey out now on users' perceptions of data center efficiency. What makes the survey especially powerful is it's in its second year, so it can be compared to last year.
Jay Fry from Cassatt has a couple...
April 21, 2009 2:58 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Green data centerIt is all well and good to talk about building green data centers here in the United States, but what is happening overseas?
Though some of the video teleconference at The Uptime Institute's show last week was dull, there were some interesting insights into how different parts of the world run...
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...
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 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...
