IT News
Government GoogledRakesh Dogra | COMMENTS Google Inc, a behemoth in the world of cloud computing, has recently made the U.S. government one of its clients for its cloud-computing services. The Google Apps for Government announcement came at a press event at Google headquarters after the ... Read more |
Makes Sense To Go The Synapsense WayRakesh Dogra | COMMENTS SynapSense Corporation was founded in 2006 in Folsom, California. It offers wireless instrumentation and energy-efficiency solutions. This smart-grid developer focuses heavily on the environment, and its solutions promise decreased carbon emissions and higher power efficiency. It assures data center operators ... Read more |
The CMDB as the Brain of ITGerry Roy | COMMENTS The human brain is amazingly complex. It gathers and stores information, processes information into knowledge, and then orchestrates action on the basis of that knowledge. Over the years, computers have often been compared to the human brain. In fact, some ... Read more |
Design News
Modular Electrical Design in Data CentersA business planning construction of a new data center has numerous critical decisions that it must make throughout the process. One of the first decisions it must make is how “big” a data center to build. Not only must the ... Read more |
Shifting Cloud PatternsThe cloud is promising to get thicker, more nebulous, and more complex. More and more companies are hitching their wagon to the cloud in an attempt to cut costs and increase operational efficiency. The cloud (or cloud computing) is being ... Read more |
The Star of the ShowThe US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) introduced Energy Star, a joint program with the Department of Energy, with a view to enabling people to make energy-efficient choices. The Energy Star certification helps ensure that consumers and businesses are choosing products ... Read more |
Facilities News
Google Looking to the Wind for PowerThe power consumption of data centers is growing steadily. In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that data centers consume 1.5% of the nation’s total power usage—and this figure is projected to grow in coming years. Contrasting ... Read more |
New Recommendations for Measuring Data Center PUEPower Usage Effectiveness (PUE) is a common metric for determining and publishing the energy efficiency of a data center. Like most such metrics, however, companies that are unscrupulous or that are not careful in how they measure PUE can produce ... Read more |
Apple's Billion-Dollar Data CenterApple has taken a big bite out of Maiden, North Carolina—500,000 square feet on 225 acres, to be precise. The company’s data center has a budget of $1 billion and is said to be almost five times the size of ... Read more |
Press Releases
Cloud computing delivering on its promise but doubMimecast, a leading supplier of cloud-based email security, continuity, policy control and archiving, today announced the results of the second annual Mimecast Cloud Adoption Survey, an annual research report examining attitudes to cloud computing services among IT decision-makers in UK ... Read more |
Eaton 9395 is First UPS to Achieve SMaRT Gold CertFacilities Press Releases | COMMENTS Diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton Corporation today announced the Eaton 9395 uninterruptible power system (UPS) is the first power quality product to receive a Sustainable Materials Rating Technology (SMaRT) Gold certification. This makes the 9395 the first UPS certified to contribute ... Read more |
Purdue University Increases Research CapabilitiesFacilities Press Releases | COMMENTS HP today announced that Purdue University is using the container-based HP Performance-optimized Data Center (POD) to expand and speed its ability to deliver research projects.Known for its world-leading research in nanotechnology, structural biology and atmospheric chemistry, Purdue is committed in ... Read more |








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