Europe Data Center Connection

Insights on the European data center, where virtualization and energy efficiency are opportunities for future efforts ...

... "By 2010, the cost of electrical power could overtake server costs. This is particularly a concern for the largest organizations, which often manage data centers of thousands of servers. " ...

Via Internet Evolution: Euro Data Centers

Sentilla energy management software tracks data center equipment

Sentilla energy manager software targets power tracking of metered and unmetered data center equipment. ...

... "Sentilla Energy Manager is a non-invasive, software-only solution that provides a comprehensive view of energy use of the entire data center, from the switchgear down to each asset-such as servers, storage and networking devices. Sentilla's solution bridges the IT and facilities gap, providing the world's first consolidated view of where, when and why energy is used.

By using Version 3.0 of this innovative software, which scales to support the largest data center environments in real-time, Sentilla's customers can now track, predict and manage energy use of every single piece of equipment in the data center, including those that are unmetered. As a result of having greater planning and management of energy consumption, data center managers can not only improve performance and efficiency, but also reduce downtime and better plan for expansion or consolidation.

By leveraging energy management as a key component of IT software portfolios-treating energy as an IT asset-data centers can deliver exceptional performance at minimal cost and without disruption. " ...

http://bit.ly/cqwtI6

2010 Data Center Growth Forecast

Data center growth is forecast by recent survey by Digital Realty Trust. ...

... "In the survey, they found 83 percent of respondents are planning datacenter expansions in the next 12 to 24 months, 36 percent have definite plans to make those expansions this year ... " ...

Via Datamation: Datacenter Expansion

Intel Israel Data Center

Print Scan Copy Fax Standards Drive Energy Savings at Volkswagen

Volkswagen IT Group implements office equipment standards that achieve significant energy efficiencies for the enterprise. ...

... "Volkswagen has made progress in terms of costs, energy efficiency and the environmental balance sheet by replacing more than 52,000 fax machines, printers, photocopiers and scanners with fewer than 17,500 multifunction devices throughout the Group, and then integrating these new devices into a unified IT infrastructure. Seven energy-efficient standard devices take the place of 832 different models of office equipment. Thus Group IT at Volkswagen reduced the pool of devices by 66 percent and eliminated around 35,000 single machines. Stacked on top of each other, they would form a tower 14 kilometers high. " ...

Via Volkswagen: Energy Efficiency in Offices

UK Green Data Centre Opened by ACS

ACS expands its data center capacity with new green data center that pushes the envelope in energy efficiency: The new £2 million ($3 million USD), 418 sq. m (4,500 square feet facility located in Telford combines best-of-breed technology with the highest calibre green credentials. It is estimated that savings up to 70 percent can be made on energy costs alone which in turn could reduce the carbon footprint by approximately 4,200 metric tonnes annually. http://bit.ly/9MKIwl

NYC Data Center Consolidation Reduces Redundancy and Improves Energy Efficiency

Mayor Bloomberg and New York City CIO plan to consolidate their data centers to drive operational and energy efficiency while boosting service. ...

... "The City’s current IT infrastructure is highly-fragmented, with more than 50 unique data centers now serving nearly four dozen City entities – many of which are located in prime commercial real estate space. The vast majority of these facilities, and the technologies within them, are obsolete, and having dozens of City entities employ the varied capital and skill sets necessary to maintain individual data centers is an inefficient use of resources.

In his State of the City speech, Mayor Bloomberg pledged to achieve cost savings by reducing redundancies within City agencies, including information technology resources. An initial step toward that goal, and consistent with a key recommendation in the 30-Day Report, is the Citywide IT Infrastructure Services program (CITIServ). " ...

Via Mayor Bloomberg: OVERHAUL OF DATA INFRASTRUCTURE AT MORE THAN 40 CITY AGENCIES

Federal Data Center Consolidation Plan to Reduce Footprint and Energy Consumption

Federal data center energy consumption can be addressed through consolidation plan so that unconstrained growth is managed more efficiently and effectively. ...

... "INITIAL DATA CENTER CONSOLIDATION PLAN: Agencies will develop an initial data center consolidation plan by June 30, 2010. This plan will identify potential areas for consolidation, areas where optimization through server virtualization or cloud computing alternatives may be used, and a high-level roadmap for transitioning to the consolidated end-state architecture. 3. FINAL ASSET INVENTORY BASELINE: Agencies will collect the final asset inventory baseline containing more detailed information by July 30, 2010. This will serve as the foundation for developing the final data center consolidation plans." ...

Via Office of Management and Budget: Data Center Consolidation (PDF)

Data center power through Bloom Server

The Bloom Energy Server could play a role in powering the data center. Build your data center next to a landfill and feed your fuel cell with landfill gas. ...

... "It has an efficiency factor in excess of 50%, far better than solar, and unlike solar, it can generate electricity on demand. On the negative side, the server is not carbon neutral unless it's fed with biogas. " ...

Via EnterpriseITplanet: Bloom Box data center power

Intel Facility Efficiency

Walmart Sustainabiliity Objective

targets the supply chain reaching back to suppliers and forward into customers value chains to drive GHG reductions. ...

... "Reducing carbon in the life cycle of our products will often mean reducing energy use. That will mean greater efficiency and, with the rising cost of energy, lower costs, making our business stronger and more competitive. And, as we help our suppliers reduce their energy use, costs and carbon footprint, we’ll be helping our customers do the same thing. " ...

Via Walmart Stores: Goal to Eliminate 20 Million Metric Tons of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Global Supply Chain

Google Sustainability Visibility

Google's Bill Weihl shares his perspective on sustainable computing. ...

... "That is in fact one of the big levers for getting people to reduce how much they use, is to find ways to make it more visible. " ...

Via iStockAnalyst: Google green energy czar

Apple Datacenter View

Facebook Mechanical Chiller Avoidance

Facebook responds to Greenpeace regarding carbon footprint of its Oregon data center. ...

... "Said differently, if we located the data center most other places, we would need mechanical chillers, use more energy, and be responsible for more overall carbon ... " ...

Via Data Center Knowledge: Facebook

Schneider Data Center Software Focuses on Power Utilization

IBM Power7 Energy Efficiency Improvements

IBM POWER7 Systems have been optimized for workloads and improved energy efficiencies. ...

... "IBM Power 770, a modular enterprise system with up to 64 POWER7 cores, featuring higher performance per core than POWER6 processors (2) and using up to 70 percent less energy for the same number of cores as the IBM Power 570. IBM Power 755, a high-performance computing cluster node with 32 POWER7 cores, Energy Star qualified for energy efficiency, and optimized for the most challenging analytic workloads. " ...

Via IBM: http://bit.ly/aU5qo6

DataCenter UPS EnergyStar Ratings

EPA Energy Star Label targeted for UPS Equipment ...

... "EPA has concluded that purchasers in all UPS markets will benefit from access to standardized UPS energy performance data made available through the ENERGY STAR program. " ...

http://bit.ly/c4Jztk

State Role in Data Center Success

Oregon works hard to put together the right package of incentives to land Facebook's energy effcient data center in the state. ...

... "Governor Kulongoski said the state has been working with Facebook’s representatives for a number of months to help bring together the land, utilities and incentives to make the project a success. " ...

Via Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski: Data Center in Prineville

Cisco Top of Rack 10GbE

NVIDIA Optimus Powers Notebook Computers More Efficiently

NVIDIA Optimus for notebook PCs optimizes the graphics processing workload to improve performance and lower energy consumption. ...

... "Notebooks equipped with Optimus Technology can last up to 2 times longer on a battery charge than notebooks with standard discrete graphics without Optimus technology. " ...

Via NVidia: Optimus Technology for Notebook Computers

Wan Optimization Appliance Enables Data Center Replication

Riverbed Technology integrates high bandwidth, TCP session scalability, solid-state drives, and 10 Gig-E capabilities in its Steelhead 7050 model WAN optimization appliance for enterprise class data centers. ...

... "This powerful new appliance efficiently scales to meet the performance, reliability and flexibility requirements of large enterprises and allows them to more cost-effectively manage large-scale data center-to-data center replication, accelerate applications among many locations and users in an enterprise, and build large private cloud infrastructures. " ...

Via Riverbed: Steelhead Appliance

Sensors Enable Data Center Efficiency

IBM will boost data center temperature and leverage sensors to navigate optimized energy efficiency. ...

... "It includes thousands of sensors that dynamically monitor temperature, humidity, air flow and circuits all of which is integrated into the building's management and IT systems. " ...

Via Computerworld: IBM new data center

HP Container Data Center

NC Cloud Data Center Delivers Energy Efficiency

IBM brings data center compute capacity on-stream in North Carolina. The facility will enable cloud computing and delivers an energy efficient platform for customers. ...

... "This new facility not only sets new standards for energy efficiency, but provides the flexible capacity that allows IBM to deliver services that enable clients to reduce costs, improve productivity, and gain competitive advantage in their markets. " ...

Via IBM: IBM Cloud Computing Data Center in North Carolina

HP POD Energy Efficient

HP container data center delivers marked improvement in power consumption with fast deployment. ...

... "HP estimates that the new POD (2,000 square feet data center capability) can improve energy efficiency by almost 50 percent ... " ...

Via ZDNet: HP green data center offering

AMD Processor Energy Efficiency

AMD gains market share at Intel's expense, building on a foundation of energy efficient processors. ..

... "The processors were part of platforms that delivered improved graphics capabilities and energy efficiency. " ...

Via PCWorld: AMD Market Share

Service Catalog for the Data Center

Newscale puts data center services into the perspective of a catalog.

Sabey LEED Gold Data Center Design

Sabey Data Center Properties has achieved gold and platinum LEED certified data center that will support multiple tenants. ...

... "Sabey has obtained a Gold LEED certification for the shell and core for Building B, a 188,000 square foot/22 Megawatt facility. VMware, a major tenant in Building B, has recently received a Platinum LEED certification for the tenant improvements supporting the critical infrastructure within the data center. Sabey Construction was the general contractor for both VMware’s tenant improvements and for the core and shell. " ...

Via Sabey Corp: Green Facilities

Green Data Center Core Switch

Miercom certifies the green performance of 3Com's H3C S12508 data center core switch and its H3C S5820X top-of-rack switch. ...

... "The Miercom testing confirmed that the H3C switches are designed to provide enterprise customers superior performance, scale and resiliency while using up to 50 percent less energy than competitive solutions, helping to dramatically lower the cost of data center operations." ...

Via 3Com Corp: Certified Green Data Center Switches

Nike Integrated Sustainability Performance

Nike integrates sustainability throughout its business processes from the factory floor to the design of its products. ...

... "Sustainability is key to Nike’s growth and innovation, said Mark Parker, NIKE, Inc’s, President and CEO. Making our business more sustainable benefits our consumers who expect products and experiences with low environmental impact, contract factory workers who will gain from more sustainable manufacturing and our employees and shareholders who will be rewarded by a company that is prepared for the future. " ...

Via Nike: Sustainable Business

Facebook Custom Data Center

Facebook breaks ground on its custom data center that will support scalable growth for the company. Efficiency features include evaporative cooling, airside economizer, server heat exchange, and a proprietary uninterruptible power supply. ...

... "We are designing a facility that will be highly efficient and cost-effective for our operations today and into the future. When Facebook first began with a small group of people using it and no photos or videos to display, the entire service could run on a single server. ... " ...

Via Facebook: Our First Custom Data Center