Tag Archive | Virtualization
VMworld Europe: Transform Now!
Transform Now! Last week at VMworld Barcelona not only attention was given to products and solutions across the three key layers of Infrastructure, Application Platform and End-user technology but also much attention was given to how to transform the traditional IT department to an IT department that is ready for the Cloud Era. With a […]
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 […]
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 […]
Creating awareness with Infographics: Power impacts and solutions for Data Centers
A lot of people are pleased to use all kind of digital services any place, any where , any time but are not aware that to make this possible we are using vast data centers to provide this services. Creating awareness, sending the message around that we must manage this energy consumption properly is still […]
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 […]
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 […]
Cutting energy bill of data center by millions
Also in the digital economy location matters, but by moving your workload you can save money. The location of your data center can make a difference in energy costs. “So can this be the starting of moving your IT workload, on the virtualized infrastructure, to the place where the energy price is the lowest?” was the […]
The 6th Data Centres Europe conference
Invited speaker and panelist at the 6th Data Centres Europe conference that was held at the 24th and 25th of June in Nice, France. A conference that paid special focus on enterprise customers of data centres and their evolving outsourcing needs as emerging private clouds, new technologies and market shift impact across the sector. This is […]
Data Centres Europe 2010 Nice
Last week I attended (and presented at) Data Centres Europe 2010 that was held at 24-25 June 2010 in the surroundings of the famous scientific/business park Sophia Antipolis near Nice, France and organized by Broadgroup. In its sixth edition, this European summit is for senior IT executives, analysts and vendors to network, discuss and learn […]
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 […]
