The popular social network site is cooling its enormous data center with outside
air and evaporative cooling.
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Facebook, data center management, green IT, power and cooling, green data center
This week in green data center management news: NEC strengthens its lineup of energy-conserving data center servers.
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data center management, green IT, green computing
This week in green data center management news: Canadian researchers hope to perfect a way to host the Internet's content purely on green power.
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IT, data center, data center management, green IT, green data center
This week in green data center management news GE is in investing in SynapSense - a startup that uses software and wireless sensors to reduce energy usage in data centers.
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data center, data center management, green IT, green technology
A new Forrester Research study indicates that nearly 40 percent of businesses now have a plan for implementing an enterprise-wide carbon and energy management system.
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data center, data center management, green IT
According to industry stats there are 4.75 million servers worldwide being managed and upgraded without being actively used on a daily basis.
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data center management, energy efficiency, green IT, energy management
This week in data center management news China is developing the Tianjin Eco-City concept that will include green data centers for banking and manufacturing software systems.
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data center, data center management, green power, green IT, green technology
This week in data center management news: a web design firm in Canada uses web servers powered by wind energy to help grow green business.
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data center management, green IT
This week in data center management news IBM announces it has entered into an agreement to acquire BigFix and ADC will feature comprehensive data center solutions at Cisco Live 2010.
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data center management, green IT
Data center managers can lower power consumption while boosting server and network efficiencies.
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data center management, green, green IT, green technology
Besides generating a chuckle or two, a manure-powered data center may be the
ultimate in sustainable energy for both developed and developing countries. HP
Labs presented the concept at the ASME International Conference on Sustainability
last week.
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data center, green IT, green technology, green computing
As Energy Star certification for data centers moves closer to becoming a reality, the EPA has also begun crafting specification for certifying data center storage devices.
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green IT, green storage, Energy Star, EPA, storage device
For many data centers, going green meant going virtual -- that is, the vast majority of power savings over the past two or three years has been the by-product of server consolidation.
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virtualization, server virtualization, green IT, server consolidation
Last week, week both Yahoo and Intel unveiled green infrastructure projects that just might change how the data centers everywhere operate.
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Intel, Yahoo, green IT, environment, power and cooling
Among the big news this week in green data center management: Singapore pledges to cut carbon emissions by 16 percent by 2020, and for the second year in a row, data security is the primary concern and driver of IT asset disposition compliance efforts.
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data center management, green power, green, green IT
The environmental activist group is sounding an alarm about the carbon footprint created in the transition to cloud computing. It urges IT firms to opt for renewables when they open new data centers.
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cloud computing, Google, carbon footprint, green IT, energy
Among the big news this week in green data center management: a new industry
group is trying to apply open-source principles to the design and build of data centers using new technologies such as green IT, and Viridity Software unveils its EnergyCenter data center.
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data center management, green IT, power and cooling
The company's new data center management software offers energy monitoring and measurement.
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data center, data center management, green IT, cooling, energy
Among the big news this week in green data center management: Horizon Data Center Solutions announces a partnership with Power Loft, Cisco, GDSYS, and Incheon Metropolitan City partner to build a next-generation green data center, and Vycon Energy demonstrates how its flywheel backup power systems can be used for health-care data system power backup.
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green, green IT
AFCOM's Data Center World 2010 looks at data center management and the trends we'll see this year.
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data center management, green IT, energy management
Sentilla has launched the newest version of its data center management energy technology solution.
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software, data center management, Enterprise, green IT, energy consumption
Hard-Core Hardware: The age of solar power is fast arriving, and it may be keeping the lights on in a data center near you. The former downsides, chiefly cost constraints, no longer apply.
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data center, hardware, green, green IT, solar power
Virtually Speaking: Green IT is gaining ground, and virtualization is a popular way for enterprises to get there.
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virtualization, HP, Symantec, green, green IT
The Energy Star program has been greening PCs and monitors for years, now servers are entering the pasture.
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green, green IT, Energy Star, EPA, energy
