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Server power consumption is certainly a big part of the problem of data center energy drain, but it only tells part of the story -- there are many other pieces of the puzzle that IT managers have to address in order to save on energy bills and improve their environmental performance.
by Vikram Mehta
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Hard drives are an often-overlooked culprit in data centers' high energy usage. No matter what kind of drives your company is using, there are a range of solutions either already on the market or in development.
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With a looming data center energy crisis on the horizon, IT managers can today take proactive steps to meet tomorrow's data center challenges.
by Bruce Naegel
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The Green500 list recognizes the world's most energy-efficient supercomputers, instead of the traditional recognition of the fastest (and often most power-consuming) machines.
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High-tech companies like web hosting provider Rackspace face a dual challenge in the green business world: greening their operations and helping their clients get green at the same time. The company's CTO, John Engates, explains how greening their data centers has caused ripples throughout their company and the industry.
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If you are hoping to optimize the efficiency of your data center and cut power and cooling costs, don't remodel your data center or build a whole new one just yet. This step-by-step guide to assessing and analyzing data center costs can help IT managers strategize to maximize efficiency in their current data centers.
by Joe Bottazzi
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The Business Performance Management Forum and BlueArc Corp. partnered this week to launch a thought leadership program geared toward energy efficiencies in the IT sector.
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There is no shortage of ideas for how to reduce the energy used by data centers, but software solutions -- used in tandem with other strategies or as stand-alone fixes -- are often overlooked by companies feeling the pinch of power and storage demands.
by Bruce Naegel
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One of the lowest cost options for significantly cutting the cooling bill for your data center is an airside economizer, which in many cases can reduce annual cooling energy consumption by more than 60 percent.
by Peter Rumsey
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The data centers, in Santa Clara; Blackwater, U.K.; and Bangalore, India use the latest energy-efficient technologies and will reduce the company's total carbon emissions by more than 1 percent. With the Eco Innovation Initiative, Sun aims to share its experience helping clients to build the greenest data centers possible.
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The United Kingdom's Environmental IT Leadership Team met for the first time in London this month in an effort to help IT managers reduce their departments' carbon footprint and establish sustainable best practices.
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Big Blue's announcement last week of a billion-dollar-per-year effort to green its operations is a hugely impressive project, but it highlights the bigger threat posed to IT from the sheer explosion of data.
by James Murray
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From large-scale data centers to every desktop it owns, here's how the search giant's quest for energy efficiency gets results.