December 20, 2008
December 04, 2008
Microsoft Plug and Play Green Datacenter
As Microsoft shifts its strategy to the cloud, its requirements for computing have focused the company on green data center design. ...
... "The company envisions a set of prefabricated containers the size of a semi-trailer filled with as many as 2,000 preconfigured servers. " ...Via Network World: Microsoft data-center design concept
November 30, 2008
Monitor Data Center to Optimize Green Performance
Sustaining the green computing initiative requires monitoring of performance and adapting to conditions as they occur. ...
... "To do that you must become acutely aware of how resource consumption within the data center affects things like electricity usage and carbon emissions. Then you must transform the way you operate to make your data center more environmentally friendly. " ...Via Enterprise Management Quarterly: Green data centers
November 05, 2008
Server Power Management
HP introduces software that monitors power usage and uses limits to reduce server overprovisioning. ...
... "Dynamic Power Capping allows you to reclaim trapped power and cooling capacity by safely limiting server power consumption. " ...Via HP: Power Management
October 29, 2008
Sensors Optimize Data Center Energy Use
Microsoft Research is exploring the use of sensors to map energy usage and leverage the information to improve the efficiency of the data center. ...
... "Microsoft is deploying tiny sensors throughout its datacenters to capture data that will allow it to better regulate energy consumption and reduce their carbon footprint. Sensors can also be deployed in the wild to help scientists monitor and track environmental changes. " ...Via Microsoft Research: Technology Breakthroughs Demonstrations at PDC2008
October 23, 2008
Skanska Energy Efficient Data Center Construction
Skanska will provide construction management services for new 19,000-square-meter data center project in the western U.S. The customer is a large Internet trading company. And, construction is in-progress with completion scheduled for Spring of 2010. ...
... "Energy efficient solutions that reduce the emission of greenhouse gases were decisive in selecting Skanska for implementing the project. Skanska has developed a total solution that reduces energy costs for operation and cooling of the facility by up to 60 percent compared with traditional technology. " ...Via Skanska: Energy efficient data center in U.S.
October 13, 2008
IBM and AISO.net -- World's 1st 100 % Solar Powered Web Hosting
" ... world's first and only 100 percent solar-powered Web hosting company, has completed a massive data center consolidation initiative using IBM technology, resulting in a 60 percent reduction in overall power and cooling costs associated with the company's IT operations.
" ... AISO.Net worked ... to overhaul its data center and implement ... IBM's Cool Blue ... to increase their energy efficiency in the data center.
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"For the past decade, AISO.Net has used solar power to power our data center and network, ... As a result of the tremendous growth in Web hosting ... were faced with the dilemma of how to remain true to our commitment to the environment and continue to see rapid, top-line growth. ... Data center consolidation through virtualization eased the strain on AISO.Net's solar panel system and helped ensure the company's 100 percent commitment to solar power. ... "
Via: IBM Link
October 03, 2008
Recycling Waste Heat
Waste heat recovery is the process of taking the heat from a heat emitting piece of equipment, like a computer, and using it for heating something else - rather than just dissipating it to the environment ... and potentially saving the cost of air conditioning.
"... waste heat recovery, an energy efficiency technique that languishes in obscurity despite its potentially huge environmental benefits. ... in a move that will save money and cut carbon emissions, the University of Notre Dame in Indiana has begun housing some of its computer servers in the nearby “Arizona Desert Dome,” a conservatory for cacti and other desert plants.
"Computer servers create a lot of waste heat ... keeping them cool is a major cost ... for data centers. ... Housing servers in the desert dome, where air currents can carry away their waste heat, is expected to save the university about $100,000 in cooling costs. Meanwhile, the city will save some of the $70,000 it spends each year to keep the conservatory warm. ..."
"Recycled waste heat presents one of the biggest, cheapest opportunities for slashing our carbon budget. ..."
Via: TerraPass Link
October 02, 2008
Retire Servers in a Sustainable Way
Google shares their experience and perspective on green data centers and sustainable practices. As servers reach their end of life, the company retires the equipment and recycles the materials. ...
... "We believe that reuse is an important part of the solution, and we're proud to say that 68% of our retired server material is re-purposed. Redeploying existing machines saves raw materials, energy, and carbon dioxide emissions by avoiding the manufacture and distribution of new equipment. " ...Via Google: Sustainable Server Retirement
September 28, 2008
Dell on EU Green IT Strategy
Michael Dell compliments the EU on their leadership in Green IT and their strategies that they have set forth, such as sustainability, green procurement, and energy efficiency in information technology. Dell also referenced study that shows European IT leaders as embracing a green IT strategic plan. ...
... "Joined by officials of the European Commission focused on environment and information society policy, Mr. Dell discussed the power of Green IT in mitigating environmental and climate change problems across the economy. He said Green IT tools can drive efficiency and productivity in all sectors of the economy, enabling improvements in the use of energy resources. " ...Via Dell: Michael Dell European Union Green Leadership
September 08, 2008
Emerson Data Center Consolidation to Showcase Energy Efficient Designs Meeting LEED Silver
Emerson plans to showcase its energy efficient capabilities as it builds a new green data center on its St. Louis campus to support a consolidation of its global data centers. ...
... "These technologies and the overall design of the facility will help Emerson use 17.5 percent less energy per year than the traditional data center, according to Fox Architects, the lead designers in the project. In addition, Emerson anticipates receiving LEED Silver Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. The energy-saving features include a solar array on the building’s roof that will be used as a source of power, daylighting features, and a reduced building footprint. As IT equipment is installed, Emerson will implement strategies recommended in Emerson Network Power’s Energy Logic plan to yield additional energy savings, putting into practice what Emerson advises its customers to do every day. " ...Via Emerson: State-of-the-Art Global Data Center
September 06, 2008
Raleigh NC Green Data Center
IBM discusses green data center in North Carolina ...
August 20, 2008
Cisco embraces Green Technologies and Ideas
Cisco embraces Green Technologies and Ideas.
Check out this 13 minute videa where Cisco shows ..." video-conferencing system, energy-efficient data centers, and a new office environment that encourages employees to work from unassigned spaces."
Via: Techrepublic Link
July 22, 2008
June 26, 2008
Western Digital Energy Efficient Disk Drives
Western Digital, a maker of disk drives for computers, has designed new products that are more environmental friendly.
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" ... offer products that consume less electricity. ... WD has designed eco-friendly hard drives with GreenPower™ Technology...Green drives from WD yield average drive power savings of 4-5 watts over competitors' drives ..."
" ... savings equates to reducing CO2 emission by up to 60 kilograms per drive per year - the equivalent of taking your car off the road for 14 days each year. ..."
Via: Western Digital Link
June 18, 2008
Greenest Data Center
IBM opens its greenest green data center in Boulder, Colorado, where the 115,000 square-foot facility leverages leading-edge energy efficiency techniques. In addition, the site was constructed using green building practices, such as building retrofit and material recycling. ...
... "The new data center features numerous leading-edge technologies and services, including high density computing systems utilizing virtualization technology, along with energy efficient power and cooling technologies. These, in conjunction with the center's energy efficient design and construction, will allow IBM to reduce its overall carbon footprint compared to standard data centers. " ...Via IBM: Greenest Data Center in North America Opened
June 16, 2008
Green Data Centers
Wyoming's first wind powered data center uses 100% renewable energy and was built built with efficiency in mind a
Green Datas House' data center " ... is 60% more energy efficient than the average."
"100% Renewable Energy ... powered by wind ... will own several wind turbines to the north of its facility and purchase the excess energy needs from the local power company's wind farm or through grid tied green-e tags"
" ... the largest wind powered public data center in the nation with over 10,000 square feet of high-density computing facilities. "
"Energy Efficiency Built In ...Water-Side Economizers: Free cooling from Cheyenne's average annual temperatures of 45.6 degrees. ...Ground Source Heat Pumps - provide up to 25% more energy efficient cooling than traditional HVAC cooling equipment.(Phase 2)."
Via: Green House Data Link
May 20, 2008
Energy Management Software Provides Enterprise View of Consumption
IBM introduces new software that will enable customers to maximize energy efficiency and reduce costs associated with power and cooling of data centers. The new version of IBM Tivoli Monitoring software provides consolidated views of energy management information that supports enterprise optimization, energy alerts, and preventive actions. ...
... "IBM is combining the new energy management software with partner solutions to provide customers with a comprehensive view of energy consumption across the enterprise -- not just in data centers but also in non-IT assets such as air conditioning equipment, power distribution units, lighting, and security systems. " ...Via IBM: New Data Center Energy Management Software
May 07, 2008
Hospital Green DataCenter
IBM and Siemens team to offer hospitals and integrated technology solution that increases efficiency and improves energy efficiency. ...
... "As an additional benefit to the community, the highly reliable IBM BladeCenter Servers offer a proven open, easy and green technology that demands less energy and is easier and less costly to cool than other alternatives. " ...Via IBM: Solutions Help Community Hospitals Reduce Operating Costs
May 03, 2008
Excess Data Center Heat Heats Pool
One of the initatives of IBM's Project Big Green is to look for ways to resuce its' own energy needs and those of its clients.
"GIB-Services today announced a new energy efficient "green" data center ... will offer a first-of-its-kind energy model where a direct heat exchange will take place between the data center and a public swimming pool in the town."
"Located in Uitikon, Switzerland, ... is expected to create 2,800 MWh of wasted heat per year ... at full capacity -- the same amount of energy needed to supply up to 80 houses with heating and warm water for one year...."
"... Through reclaiming the heat, approximately 130 tons of carbon emissions can be saved. This corresponds to the carbon dioxide discharge of mid-size cars driving 500,000 miles."
Via: IBM Link
April 26, 2008
April 01, 2008
Austria Green Data Center
IBM and kika/Leiner collaborate on the construction of a new energy efficient green data center, reducing electric power consumption by nearly 40 percent. kika/Leiner has centralized its computing architecture and serves its international locations from a single data center. ...
... "As kika/Leiner expands throughout central Europe and the Middle East, their need for information technology (IT) services has increased considerably. To meet this demand, the market-leading furniture retailer in Austria turned to IBM to design an energy efficient data center using new green technologies that are part of IBM's Project Big Green. The new data center is planned to begin operation in May. As kika/Leiner expands throughout central Europe and the Middle East, their need for information technology (IT) services has increased considerably. To meet this demand, the market-leading furniture retailer in Austria turned to IBM to design an energy efficient data center using new 'green' technologies that are part of IBM's Project Big Green. The new data center is planned to begin operation in May. " ...Via IBM: Austria's First Green Data Center at kika/Leiner
March 01, 2008
Storage Virtualization Enables Green IT Strategy
Ford Motor discusses its strategy for getting out in front of its data capacity growth with a storage virtualization architecture that supports green IT principles. Just like investment portfolio management, Ford IT leaders recommend a diversified approach to energy efficiency in the information technology space. ...
... "Cue a major storage consolidation and virtualization effort that started back in 2006. " ...Via Byte and Switch: Virtual Roadmap
February 22, 2008
Green House Data - Green Data Center
Green House Data is " ... one of the only 100% Wind powered GREEN data centers in the nation. ... our green data center design is 60% more energy efficient than the average data center in the U.S."
"... perfect combination -- an environmentally responsible data center, lower than average prices, and above average professional service ... first facility will be located in Cheyenne, Wyoming .. Wyoming's first enterprise class computing center."
Via: Green Housde Data Center Link
February 21, 2008
IBM Green IT Leadership
IBM is recognized as the 2008 Green IT Leader by Computerworld, after an analysis of the vendor field. ...
... "Computerworld editors developed a checklist-style survey and weighting scheme. Computerworld then reached out to the IT community through a variety of channels, and 86 complete surveys were received. Computerworld then contacted representatives at the participating companies to verify that the information provided on their company's survey was truthful and accurate. Only those companies that filed verification letters were considered. Based on the weighting scheme developed, the top 12 Green-IT Users and top 12 Green-IT Vendors lists were chosen. " ...Via IBM: Top Green IT Company
February 11, 2008
Green Data Center
IBM collaborates with Kalbe Pharmaceuticals to build energy efficient green data center as part of data center consolidation initiative. ...
... "A leading pharmaceutical and health company in Indonesia, Kalbe is teaming with IBM to deploy data center consolidation with an explicit goal of reducing energy consumption as well as reducing information technology (IT) maintenance and space in its own data center facilities across Jakarta. IBM will help Kalbe to consolidate five data centers from its current 13 existing data centers during the initial phase. In addition, IBM will install a green data center on a site of 5,048 square feet. " ...Via IBM: Green Data Center
December 16, 2007
Server Green Design through Proportional Energy Use Per Google Engineers
Since most servers and server farms are running at less than fifty percent utilization, the energy efficiency of the data center computing assets is low. Google engineers recommend a energy proportional server design to deal with this reality. This is the future efficiency challenge for design engineers. ...
... "They should aim to develop machines that consume energy in proportion to the amount of work performed. Such energy-proportional machines would ideally consume no power when idle (easy with inactive power modes), nearly no power when very little work is performed (harder), and gradually more power as the activity level increases (also harder). " ...Via IEEE Computer: Energy-Proportional Computing
December 11, 2007
IBM Solutions for Media Greens Hollywood
With the digitization of the media industry, computing requirements are growing which increases the industry's data center energy requirements. IBM targets the media and entertainment space with a committment to reduce energy consumption in the datacenter. ...
... "The company detailed its vision to help businesses that operate some of the world's largest, most powerful data centers -- with massive banks of computers that fuel special effects, animation and new, rich media entertainment -- significantly reduce the environmental impact of their IT operations and dramatically improve their bottom line by the end of the decade. " ...Via IBM: Green Hollywood
November 04, 2007
DataCenter Energy Efficiency Certification Program
IBM collaborates with Neuwing Energy Ventures to create energy efficiency certification for data center operations. The initiative allows for benchmarking, sharing, and recognition for the participants. The process requires establishing the baseline, implementing the improvements, and final verification before certification of the achievements. ...
... "The certificates earned -- based on energy use reduction verified by a third-party -- for the first time provide a way for businesses to attain a certified measurement of their energy use reduction, a key, emerging business metric. The certificates can be traded for cash on the growing energy efficiency certificate market or otherwise retained to demonstrate reductions in energy use and associated CO2 emissions. The Efficiency Certificates initiative engages Neuwing Energy Ventures, a leading verifier of energy efficiency projects and marketer of energy efficiency certificates, to document and verify the energy savings a client achieves through implementing energy efficiency projects. " ...
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