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PDUs: Power monitoring and environmental monitoring to improve uptime and capacity planning

Corporations now depend on computing resources to handle everything from mission-critical financial transactions to storing vast amounts of patient information. Data center facilities are under pressure to flawlessly add significant, reliable computing power.

While blades have addressed some of these challenges, IT administrators are wondering, “Am I getting enough power to the blades?” “Do I have excess capacity?” and “Am I getting enough cooling to those racks?”

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Green IT

  • IBM Delves Into Lithium-Air Batteries, Water-Cooled Supercomputers

    The computing giant is researching lithium-air batteries, a technology with much promise but many challenges for commercial applications. Also in the works is a supercomputer cooled with water at the chip level – something IBM says could apply to broader data center cooling.

    Green IT

    Jeff St. John June 23, 2009
  • Intel Shows Off Power-Saving IT

    Intel's new Moorestown platform aims to reduce idle power use by mobile internet devices fifty-fold compared to previous platforms. It's also working on "sleep-state networking" for PCs and laptops and other power-saving advances.

    Green IT

    Jeff St. John June 18, 2009
  • Greener IT: Save Money and the Environment

    Ken Gonzalez, group product manager, Symantec Global Services, lays out the case for green IT.  

    Green IT

    Ken Gonzalez June 17, 2009
  • Energy Bill Could Boost Storage Technologies

    Energy storage: It's the most popular concept right now with energy VCs. And some in Washington want to goose the market with incentives.

    Grid Storage

    Fredrik Wass June 3, 2009
  • The Race for the Data Center’s Brain

    The wireless sensor startup says it can collect energy usage data from its own sensors and any others that use SNMP and present it in one interface. Can one screen rule them all?

    Green IT

    Jeff St. John June 1, 2009
  • Energy Management Startup Hara Nabs Coke as Client, $6M From Kleiner

    Hara, which makes software for tracking natural resources, is only about 18 months old, but Coke is rolling out the software around the world. Smells like an acquisition candidate to me.

    Green IT

    Michael Kanellos May 31, 2009
  • Greenpeace Launches Green IT Scoreboard

    The environmental group issues a report card that says IT companies such as IBM, Intel and Sony aren't doing enough to fight climate change and cut the world's 2020 emissions by 15 percent, a goal that is achievable if IT companies just put more efforts into it. 

    Enterprise

    Ucilia Wang May 27, 2009
  • Symantec Report: Green IT Now ‘Essential Item’

    A survey of more than 1,000 high-level IT leaders from companies in North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America shows that nearly three-quarters are increasing budgets to make IT less power-hungry.

    Enterprise

    Jeff St. John May 27, 2009
  • Will Energy Accelerate the Computer Refresh Cycle?

    Server makers have struggled for years to get IT managers to upgrade their hardware faster. Energy prices might do the trick.

    Enterprise

    Michael Kanellos May 26, 2009
  • A Dimmer Switch for Fluorescents

    Fluorescent bulbs aren't going anywhere soon, so to cut power consumption, Lumenergi is touting a dimmer switch

    Enterprise

    Michael Kanellos May 22, 2009
  • The $45 Desktop

    Utility rebates, along with dropping component prices, are allowing thin client companies to deliver desktops that cost less than a deluxe wireless mouse.

    Enterprise

    Michael Kanellos May 19, 2009
  • Energy Star for Servers Arrives – And It’s a Bit Short

    The power consumption label looks at what servers do when in idle. Still, having the rating could mean rebates. Also, do thin clients really cut power consumption?

    Enterprise

    Michael Kanellos May 16, 2009
  • Carbon Consolidation Begins With SAP’s Latest Buy

    High-tech giants like Cisco, Intel and SAP have made several pronouncements about getting into green technology. By buying carbon management company Clear Standards, you can say the shopping spree has begun.

    Enterprise

    Michael Kanellos May 11, 2009
  • Top Ten Enterprise Customers

    The list ranks who we think will be the most important and influential buyers in greentech. Some will buy for their operations while others will mostly have influence on their own suppliers.

    Enterprise

    Michael Kanellos April 30, 2009
  • Concrete Floors Equal Data Center Power Savings

    Fortune Data Centers says it has found energy efficiency gold in using concrete slab floors and industrial water-cooling systems in its newly opened San Jose data center.

    Enterprise

    Jeff St. John April 29, 2009
  • Government, IT Biggest Buyers of Green Power

    Food and Bev, retail and financial services top the EPA's list of 50 green power buyers, but the biggest buyers are Intels of the world and government agencies.

    Enterprise

    Michael Kanellos April 28, 2009
  • Green IT Starts With the Basics, Says U.K.‘s CIO

    Cutting IT energy use starts with simple steps like switching from PCs to thin clients, using virtualization to increase server utilitization and using fewer printers per employee, according to the U.K.'s CIO.

    Enterprise

    Jeff St. John April 24, 2009
  • Recession Pushes IT Power Software

    More companies are looking into power management software when cutting costs. And the recession is only increasing the need, says a new Forrester study.

    Enterprise

    Fredrik Wass April 16, 2009
  • Green Grid: Free Cooling for Data Centers

    The data center industry group has released online tools and maps to help data center operators learn if using outside air for cooling is right for them. Using outside air to replace power-hungry chillers is gaining more widespread acceptance.

    Enterprise

    Jeff St. John April 9, 2009
  • IBM to Focus Supply Chain Heft on Green

    Supply-chain logistics is a lot like playing The Sims. IBM will use its know-how to whittle carbon out of its products.

    Enterprise

    Michael Kanellos April 8, 2009
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