Tag Archive | IT Modernization
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 [...]
Data Centers and Mount Sustainability
This year Ray Anderson, often called the “greenest CEO in America” has passed away. Mr. Anderson was the founder of Interface, one of the world’s largest producer of commercial carpet tiles. After 20 years, running his business in compliance with government regulations, he read in 1994 Paul Hawken’s book “The Ecology of Commerce,” which gave [...]
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 [...]
Cure against Data Center sprawl: consolidation and cloud computing.
Last year Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra said at a policy forum that in the past decade, the number of data centers operated by the U.S. government has skyrocketed from 432 to more than 1,200. Kundra stated that “Now, when you think about these data centers, one of the most troubling aspects about the data [...]
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 [...]
Cloud computing; freedom of choice?
Guest blog on Cloud Computing Economics: “Cloud computing; freedom of choice” http://bit.ly/kgv6dM “The three cloud computing service models, as defined by NIST, (Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)); offers the promise of massive cost savings combined with increased IT agility based on the assumption of improved [...]
Cloud Computing – a disruptive new business model
Guest blog on Cloud Computing Economics: “Cloud Computing – a disruptive new business model”, call for writers: http://bit.ly/frBAL0 “Cloud computing isn’t just a discussion about technology, capex and opex it is about economics. Cloud computing is a disruptive new business model with large consequences for the demand AND the supply side, with interesting micro-economical aspects [...]
Cloud Computing Economics
Guest blog on Cloud Computing Economics: “Cloud Computing and the Art of Sourcing”, call for writers: http://bit.ly/gslw38 “Information and Information processing has become a remarkable asset for organizations, one with some particular properties. It has made the evolution from a tangible to an intangible asset where the marginal costs has become almost zero. Because of [...]
Datacenters, big is ugly?
In the book “The Big Switch” Nicholas Carr makes a historical analysis to build the idea that the data centers/ Internet is following the same developmental path as electric power did 100 years ago. At that time companies stopped generating their own power and plugged into the newly built electric grid that was fed with [...]
Energy Elasticity: The Adaptive Data Center
Data centers are significant consumers of energy and it is also increasingly clear that there is much room for improved energy usage. However, there does seem to be a preference for focusing on energy efficiency rather than energy elasticity. Energy elasticity is the degree in which energy consumption is changing when the workload to be [...]
