Tag Archive | PUE
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 […]
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 […]
Data centers: the men in the basement get noticed
“Data centers are attracting the attention of more CEOs and CFOs, not just for their energy use, but also because of the cost of facilities and the digital infrastructure – the entire system by which companies satisfy their computing needs,” said Martin McCarthy, Executive Chairman of Uptime Institute and CEO of The 451 Group at […]
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 […]
Data Centres Europe 2011 Nice
Last week I attended Datacentres Europe 2011 that was held at 5-6 May 2011 in Acropolis, Nice, France and organized by Broadgroup. In its seventh edition, this European summit is for senior IT executives, analysts and vendors to network, discuss and learn about the latest developments in data centers. A great event, featuring 85 speakers with […]
Greenqloud propose green PUE
Earlier this year I wrote in the blog entry “Yet another data center performance energy metric” about the initiative of the Japan’s Green IT Promotion Council (JGIPC) to improve on PUE with its own metric: the data center performance per energy (DPPE). One of the important things the JGIPC energy metric takes into account in […]
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 […]
How Greener IT Can Form a Solid Base For a Low-Carbon Society
We have a launch off, the book Greening IT is finally published online (free to download), and in print. The book aims at promoting awareness of the potential of Greening IT, such as Smart Grid, Cloud Computing, Thin Clients and Greening Supply Chains. The chapter “Why Green IT is Hard – An Economic Perspective” is […]
Data center doom scenario looming up because of carbon emission?
“There will be a price for carbon,” data center energy expert Jonathan Koomey said last Monday in his keynote at the Uptime Institute Symposium 2010. “We have to start thinking about how that price affects the economics of data centers. Carbon taxes will have an impact on where you locate your data centers.” He also […]
