Tag Archive | Energy Monitoring
Prepare for the Zettabyte Data Wave: right sizing and managing your data center
Lately two interesting and complementary reports from Cisco and Oracle came available with figures and trends associated cloud computing and data centers. By the end of 2015 global datacenter IP traffic will reach 4.8 zettabytes (Cisco). By the way a zettabyte is equal to 1 billion terabytes. The Oracle report reveals that many businesses appear [...]
Iceland green data center initiatives
Data center operators want to cut energy usage and energy costs. The Nordic countries, with their cool temperatures, cool water and an electricity generation that is nearly entirely from renewable sources are starting all kinds of initiatives to answer this needs. In an experimental phase we have the tidal power generation at the Orkney Islands, in [...]
Data centers are expected to consume 19% more energy
The world’s data centers are expected to consume 19% more energy in the next 12 months than they have in the past year, according to results of a global industry census conducted by DatacenterDynamics (DCD). An interesting conclusion in the light of the report Jonathan Koomey released (new study) on data center electricity use in 2010. Which [...]
The Greening of IT: Successes, Failures, and the Future?
The Uptime Institute uploaded an interesting discussion. It is the keynote panel discussion from Uptime Institute Symposium 2011, were George Goodman (Climate Savers Computing Initiative), Jon Haas (The Green Grid), KC Mares (Silicon Valley Leadership Group), Bruce Myatt (Critical Facilities Round Table), and Pitt Turner (Uptime Institute) join Andy Lawrence (The 451 Group) to discuss [...]
Will ISO Energy Management Standard ISO 50001 make the difference?
On schedule, the new international ISO standard about energy management, ISO 50001, is now available on the ISO Website www.iso.org. ISO 50001 will establish a framework to manage energy for industrial plants; commercial, institutional, or governmental facilities; or entire organizations. Targeting broad applicability across national economic sectors, according to ISO it is estimated that the standard could [...]
Greener IT Can Form a Solid Base For a Low-Carbon Society
Precisely a year a go we launched the book Greening IT in print and online (free to download). And if I may say so, the book is still worth the effort of reading. The book aims at promoting awareness of the potential of Greening IT, such as Smart Grid, Cloud Computing, Thin Clients and Greening [...]
Aging servers are big energy consumers in the data center
“The most wasteful energy consumers in data centers (especially in low-PUE data centers) are inefficient servers” according to Winston Saunders. He placed a very interesting blog on “The Server Room Blog” of Intel. As showed in the figure this data center case shows that in this particular data center servers older than 2007 consume 60% [...]
Marilyn Monroe inspires data center builders
Never thought that Marilyn Monroe with the iconic image in the film ‘The Seven Year Itch’, where Monroe is standing on a subway grate as her dress is blown above her knees by a passing train, would give inspiration to engineers to design a new type of data center. Last week at the Data Centers [...]
Asian Tigers still have something to learn about Green IT
In Asia, the larger data centres tend to be based in the most expensive cities such as Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore or Shanghai. For almost ten years there is an impressive and continuous growth in data centers in the Asia-Pacific market. According to Chengyu Wu from Frost & Sullivan this growth in Asia-Pac will continue [...]
5th Power & Cooling Conference
Last week I attended (and was chairman of one of the tracks) of the Power & Cooling conference that was held at 7 and 8 october in London and organized by Broadgroup. In its fifth edition this annual global event is for CIOs, IT and Facilities leaders and Infrastructure executives who share the need for [...]
