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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Everyone loves OLEDs, but no one knows how to make big ones. Kateeva says it can help.
Energy efficiency drives the economy, but it also drives energy demand, says Mark Mills, founding partner of Digital Power Capital, who walked us through some fun facts about the scary world of power consumption.
The guys who bring down power in data centers got $7 million more today. Some of the new money comes from the VC arm of the German industrialist. Expect more deals like this.
Arch Rock says it can run ZigBee over regular networks, and hopes to bring this to data centers and home area networks
Data center efficiency research could get a $50 million boost from the stimulus package signed into law by President Obama this week.
The organization dedicated to energy efficiency in data centers wants to assemble new metrics to make it easy to get an approximate answer to how bad your data centers really are.
General Electric has redesigned its Cincinnati, Ohio data center using its in-house water, power and automation technology to cut down on its power bills. The engineering giant could help other companies do the same thing – if that leads to more equipment sales.
The networking giant is launching EnergyWise – software that will run on top of its network to help businesses cut down on the electricity going to phones, computers, building HVAC and lighting systems and a whole array of devices.
Sun Microsystems unveils another internal data center efficiency upgrade, and says it is expanding its data center efficiency consulting services to include construction and retrofitting.
The San Francisco startup says the data center it's building in the Sacramento area will have a power use effectiveness, or PUE, ratio of 1.1 – a measure of data center building energy efficiency that analysts say will be hard to reach.
The company has software and sensors for monitoring the power in your data center and cranking it down. It's a growing market, but one that's getting crowded too.
Got some old PCs or printers sitting around? HP will give you cash for them. It's the latest step in the growing market for e-waste.
Imagine you are a CEO with a million square feet of real estate at your command. Now imagine having no idea how much power that consumes.
The country, which is already the global leader in greentech, is making a concerted push into green IT and electronics.
The maker of flywheel systems for energy storage says it will use the capital to expand manufacturing and continue development of its first energy storage project in New England.
In a blog post, Dell's executive picks on Apple's latest ad touting its MacBook as the greenest laptop in the world.
Power Assure, a data center management startup, has been attracting customers and awards with an application that puts servers into a deep sleep to keep power bills down.
The new products could cut data storage power needs, and overall costs, by 75 percent for an industry struggling with increasing electricity demands, the company says.
How can you keep datacenters cool? Move them to Iceland.
Michael Kanellos, senior analyst at Greentech Media, calculates how much electricity it takes to power all the world's PCs.
Memory chipmaker Spansion, along with startup Virident, have developed a set of hardware and software that could replace DRAM in data center servers and make them run more efficiently.