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What can be done to improve efficiency in “green” datacenters?

Apatheticnow — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:56:36 +0000

Any tips of tweaks for how to maximize the savings offered by going green with our hosting? Thanks!

Looking for People working with Green IT

Joemur — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:00:26 +0000

Are you working with green computers, green data centers, slim clients, cloud computing? Looking to find out more about Green IT. How it works? Is it cracked up to be everything that it is supposed to be?

What can System Center do to help deliver more Green IT?

ITKE — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:17:27 +0000

I am hearing more and more about Green technology. What can System Center do to help deliver more Green IT?

This question was asked during the Microsoft System Center live chat on IT Knowledge Exchange in January 2010.

Going green: Are you feeling the pressure?

JennyMack — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:05:50 +0000

Are you feeling the pressure to “go green” in your IT department or data center? Where is the pressure coming from, and what measures have you taken thus far?

Free Chapter – What defines a next-generation and virtual data center?

BrentSheets — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:38:20 +0000

Another free chapter download is available on the IT Bookworm Blog.

Written by: Greg Schulz
Book: The Green and Virtual Data Center

Overview: “This book provides strategies and blueprints for enabling and deploying environmentally friendly next-generation data centers. Addressing multiple technology domains and disciplines, it looks at design and implementation tradeoffs using various best practices and technologies to sustain application and business growth while maximizing resources, such as power, cooling, floor space, storage, server performance, and network capacity. The book shows how to make server and storage virtualization energy efficient and still be able to support a diversity of high-performance applications. It also explores performance and capacity planning in a virtual environment that supports resource-demanding applications, such as OLTP and streaming media.”

Chapter 4: What defines a next-generation and virtual data center?

Are CIOs going green?

BKraemer — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:55:32 +0000

There has been a lot of words printed and spoken about Green IT: There are power and cooling savings that can be realized. It can be used as an entree to virtualization — if your shop isn’t already there. But are the proposed benefits of Green IT lip service? Are there actual ROI benefits of ‘going green’? What have you, with your feet on the ground, actually seen?