February 24, 2010 12:23 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Data Center,
Uninterruptible Power SupplyThe federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is developing an Energy Star specification for uninterruptible power supplies (UPSes), which are widely used in data centers.
The EPA has reached its...
November 3, 2009 5:26 PM
Posted by: Matt Stansberry
DataCenter,
physical securityBy John Parkinson, Contributor
According to one data center pro, the FBI’s InfraGard program is key to his data center's physical security. The FBI InfraGard program was initially started to share information between government and private...
October 19, 2009 10:01 PM
Posted by: Matt Stansberry
DataCenter,
Green data center,
IT energy efficiencyNorthern California utility Pacific Gas and Electric Co. made headlines by finding novel ways to offer rebates for energy efficiency in the data center. The company's programs have become a model for other utilities in the state and around the world. Mark Bramfitt had headed up
August 24, 2009 4:15 PM
Posted by: Matt Stansberry
DataCenter,
energy efficiency,
hosting,
PG&E,
PUEHosting and wholesale data center provider Fortune Data Centers walked away with a $900,000 check from Northern California energy utility Pacific Gas & Electric for making energy efficiency investments in its new San Jose data center.
Fortune opened the new data center for business in...
August 6, 2009 8:28 PM
Posted by: Matt Stansberry
cfd,
data center cooling,
DataCenterLondon-based Future Facilities released Version 5 of its data center computational fluid dynamics software, 6SigmaDC. Large data centers and facility design consultants...
July 27, 2009 4:53 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Data center power,
Uninterruptible Power SupplyLast week, Eaton Corp. announced a new uninterruptible power supply (UPS) with a 400V/230V power distribution that's uncommon in U.S. data centers.
In most data centers, power comes from the utility at...
July 15, 2009 12:51 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Uninterruptible Power SupplyIn a new whitepaper, flywheel uninterruptible power supply (UPS) company Active Power makes the case for,...
July 6, 2009 4:28 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
data center coolingJack Pouchet, the director of energy initiatives for Emerson Network Power, is calling for a new metric measuring a data center's water use as compared to its productivity (measured in Emerson's own Compute Units per Second).
In a
