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IT
Cap & Trade – The Dangling Carrot
If you know some of the best practices used to rear children, then you certainly have the experience needed to nurture a practice for greener data centers – the relatively new technology on the IT block. Actually I am referring to the cap and trade policies which are being implemented to...
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Smaller Modular Data Centers to Grow in Future
It has been a normal trend that as technology grows, products get smaller in size. This is quite a happy paradox for a change. Even in the context of computing and IT systems, we have been watching this trend since the days of the old when bulky mainframes collapsed into desktops and laptops having ...
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Top 10 Reasons the Firewall Guy's Hair is on Fire
Firewalls are a mature technology, right? Most companies have at least one, if not several. And since an established knowledge base exists to tap for issues and PCI DSS 1.1 and 1.2 are pretty clear cut, firewall management shouldn't be much of an issue, right? No one is going to suffer the brunt of ...
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Facilities
California Green Building Codes to Affect New Data Center Construction
Establishing and maintaining environmentally friendly operation of data centers can be good both for a company’s image and for the environment. Companies in California are receiving the most government pressure to this end, as the state implements progressively more stringent environmental (&l...
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Water Shortage to Put a Damper on Data Center Cooling?
Recent droughts throughout the United States, along with a growing concern about water shortage (especially in the western US), could also be an increasing threat to data centers. To be sure, water is not the first topic that comes to mind when considering data center design and operation, but it is...
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Real Estate to Cloud Mobile - Mike Manos Shifts Gears
The biggest data center real estate player Digital Reality Trust (DRT) lost one of their key employees when Mike Manos decided to call it quits. He had not even completed one year of service when he was hired as the senior vice president of technical service division of DRT in April 2009. ...
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Design
Educating with a Greener Background – AISD Goes Greener
3PAR is leading provider of virtualized storage solutions for both private and public cloud computing needs. As we know storage is the need of every organization and it tends to grow over a period of time. This requires efficient and green storage solutions which not only help in cost cutting for th...
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Data Center Industry Leaders Reach Agreement on Guiding Principles for Energy Efficiency Metrics
As business demands and energy costs for data centers rise, owners and operators have focused on the energy efficiency of the data center as a whole, frequently using energy efficiency metrics. However, the metrics are not always applied clearly and consistently. To address these inconsistencies, a ...
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Serious (datacenter) Technology in Disney Fun Park
What better place could be there to exhibit technology than the EPCOT Theme Part at Walt Disney World. For years EPCOT has showcased technology and glimpses of technological possibilities. Now, IBM in conjunction with Disney have launched a display showcasing an energy efficient data cente...
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Press Releases
The Green Grid Debuts New Tools for Data Centre Efficiency at Third Annual Global Technical Forum
Industry, Global Alignment and Best Practices for Efficient IT among Topics to be discussed during Annual Gathering of Global Industry LeadersLondon, UK – February 4, 2010 – The Green Grid, the IT industry’s leading voice for advancing energy efficiency in data centres and business...
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70 Percent of Companies Using Cloud-Based Services Plan to Move Additional Applications to the Cloud
Study from Mimecast Finds that Security and Integration Concerns are not Preventing Enterprises’ Cloud Computing AdoptionLondon - February 4, 2010 – Mimecast®, a holistic email management company offering SaaS-based email archiving, continuity, security and policy control, toda...
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Electrorack Introduces HydroCool-IT™ Passive Rear-door Heat Exchanger
Anaheim, CA – February 3rd, 2010 – In its continuing efforts to offer innovative thermal solutions to data center managers, Electrorack has launched HydroCool-IT™, a passive, water-cooled rear-door heat exchanger designed to cool up to 30kW per rack, and the fourth in their line of...
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DataCenter.TV Featured Videos
| Virtualization 101 |
 This video provides an introduction to virtualization. It gives an overview of the technology and some of the reasons people are moving towards virtualization. ... VIEW VIDEO |
| BBC Look East |
 Green Special featuring Elean Data Centre, 28 April 2009. For full details and an FT news video please visit http://www.bnbdevelopments.com/current_cambridge.htm ..... VIEW VIDEO |
| Battery Maintenance and Monitoring |
 Historically, the weakest link for power reliability in the data center has been battery failure. Charles O'Donnell, vice president of Monitoring and Professional Services for the Liebert Services business of Emerson Network Power, discusses the importance of battery maintenance and monitoring to ensure business-critical continuity...VIEW VIDEO |
| Learn more about Data Center Pulse - Introduction (Part 2) |
 This is the first episode of data center pulse (part 2). Hear from Dean Nelson and Mark Thiele the founders of DCP as they introduces the concept, explain why it was started and what they how to accomplish. Data Center Pulse is an exclusive group of datacenter owners and operators. ...VIEW VIDEO |
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