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When it comes to going green, IT pros care very little about green procurement issues and getting vendors to create more energy-efficient hardware. That is one of the surprising conclusions in a recent report by Gartner.
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Cooling the data center represents a big IT cost and contributes significantly to carbon emissions. But plans are afoot to cool data centers with cold water from the world's oceans and lakes.
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The Smart Grid will certainly help greeen the planet. But increasingly, IT vendors are looking to it for another kind of green --- cash. Multiple billions of dollars are at stake annually.
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By now, most IT pros are familiar with Green IT technologies such as virtualization, and more efficiently cooling data centers. But consultants say that a new wave of Green IT technologies are on the way --- call it Green IT 2.0.
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The next big corporate C-level job will be the Chief Green Officer (CGO). And if IT staff plays their cards right, they'll walk right into that high-paying, high-visibility, high-payoff job. Here's why.
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Google's efforts to make its data centers as energy efficient as possible have some arguing that Gmail is the greenest of them all.
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Looking to get the most energy savings out of your data center? The newest technique, called 'power-capping,' may be your answer, even though at first blush it sounds like a very scary proposition.
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The U.S. is well behind South Korea in green IT, and could well fall even further behind if action isn't taken soon, warns a new report. Even in areas where the U.S. holds a clear advantage, such as cloud computing, it could give up its lead.
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When you think Cisco, you generally think routers, not power plants. But increasingly, Cisco sees its future in the Smart Grid via a backdoor route -- selling data center hardware to electric utilities. And that's good news for anyone wanting to green their data center.
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There have been increasing concerns that the Smart Grid may be vulnerable to cyber attack. Now Ontario's information and privacy commissioner warns that the grid may represent a significant privacy threat as well.
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There's been plenty of evidence recently that the Smart Grid could become a serious security risk for IT and households. Now comes something potentially just as troubling: A U.S. Congressman warns that the grid can be taken down by an electromagnetic weapon.
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If truly green data centers are ever to become a reality, IT departments will have to feel some pain if they don't reduce their energy use --- and reap the benefits if they do. Today, though, too often, IT departments don't even pay their own energy bills, as a recently released survey found. In order to green IT, that has to change.
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The Smart Grid has gotten plenty of hype and little action, but in the last few days there are serious signs that it may finally be at the tipping point.
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IBM, long known for making many of the fastest supercomputers in the world, has another supercomputer accolade: It dominates the Green500 supercomputer list, with a whopping 18 of the world's greenest 20 supercomputers.
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The agreement just reached by the G8 to reduce greenhouse emissions may not be a particularly strong one, but it will inevitably lead to increased U.S. attempts to halt global warming. And that means that your data center may be in the cross-hairs.
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Recently a Cisco official was quoted as saying that the Smart Grid will be 1,000 times as large as the Internet. That quote, says the Cisco official, was inaccurate -- but she has plenty of good reasons why the Smart Grid will dwarf the Internet.
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More bad news on the security front for the Smart Grid: The Wall Street Journal reports that the electric utility industry is negotiating with a defense contractor to determine whether spies from China and elsewhere have already hacked into the U.S. power grid.
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There's been plenty of hype about the Smart Grid -- some justified and some not. But the gold award for Smart Grid hype has to go to Cisco, whose spokesperson last month said that the grid could end up being up to 1,000 times the size of the Internet.
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The Smart Grid is the hottest thing in Green IT these days, attracting not just lots of press, but attention from heavyweights like Cisco, IBM, Intel, and Google -- but there's some evidence that the Smart Grid may be the next tech bubble to burst.
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Think that solar power can't power data centers? Think again. i/o Data Centers, an IT infrastructure provider in Phoenix is in the process of deploying a massive array of solar panels that will generate up to 4.5 megawatts of electricity to help power its giant data center.
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Think virtualization in a data center, and you most likely think of the latest generation of multi-core chips, such as Intel's recently released Nehalem-EX processor, which comes with eight cores a a whopping 2,300,000,000 transistors. But the future of green data centers may be in the opposite end of the spectrum, with server clusters built using many small, power-efficient processors.
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Greenpeace recently made headlines with its 'CoolIT Challenge' in which it issued a scorecard about the green IT actions of top technology vendors such as IBM, Dell, Sun, Intel, and Cisco. Greenpeace concluded all of them were doing a poor job --- but it's Greenpeace itself, not the tech firms, that missed the boat. The Greenpeace campaign, while well-intentioned, is simplistic and misguided.
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There's good news and bad news about the just-released Energy Star ratings for servers. The good news is that it exists. The bad news is that it doesn't go nearly far enough.
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What's near the top of the list of concerns for IT pros? If a recent survey is to be believed, they worry that the federal government may begin setting regulations for Green IT. But there's plenty of evidence those fears are unfounded. I've got details in my blog.