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  • Open sourcing data centre design

    It will publish real-world data about the cost of implementing projects, such as a fresh-air cooling system, so that customers have "more transparency" when making decisions.Manos is helping to assemble a team of advisers, mostly from the end-user…
    08 March 2010
    Tags: Questions • Pool • Innovation • Engineering • Data Center • Cooling

  • Microsoft touts ultra-modular data centres

    The servers will be stacked in rows, sandwiched between air intake and output vents.For cooling, ambient air can be sucked in one side, run through the servers and exhausted out the other, with some of the air recirculated to even the overall…
    04 March 2010

  • HP tailors green services for smaller data centres

    Historically what we've seen is that smaller data centres tend to run a lot closer to the edge in terms of capacity," said Bill Kosik, principal of green data center technology for HP.Additionally, whereas large data centres tend to be located in…
    25 February 2010
    Tags: Operators • Efficiency • Data Centres • Data Center • Analysis

  • Climate change iPhone app launched

    It then logs the event to build a socio-geographic map of sceptic hotspots.For instance to the argument "It's just a natural cycle", the app displays the response "the 1500 year cycles, known as Dansgaard-Oeschger events, are localized to the…
    19 February 2010
    Tags: Scientist • Science • Response • Iphone • Climate • App

  • Data centre host moves to Iceland

    A data center co-location company called Verne Global decided that Iceland would be the perfect place for its first facility because of the country's climate, natural resources and network connectivity to the United States and Europe.The Icelandic…
    15 February 2010
    Tags: United States • Facility • Europe • Data Center • Cooling • Air

  • NASA astronauts fix plumbing

    On Earth, distilling is a simple process of simply boiling water and cooling the steam back into pure water. NASA astronauts onboard the International Space Station installed a rebuilt clogged water system and are now readying for their first…
    12 February 2010
    Tags: Water • Station • Module • International • Filters • Air

Latest Features

  • Low power Ethernet boosts green networks

    It's nice to have a lot of server cores available to tackle a big problem when you need them, but it costs a lot of money for power and cooling to keep those servers running constantly.Clearly there are efficiencies to be gained by being able to…
    04 March 2010

  • Four tips to avoid server failure in virtualisation projects

    Indeed, overestimating physical-to-virtual ratios can result in the need for more server hardware, rack space, cooling capacity and power consumption - all of which cost money. As virtualisation stretches deeper into the enterprise to include…
    15 February 2010
    Tags: Workloads • Workload • Ratio • Demands • Deeper • Consolidation

  • Inside HP's first wind-powered data centre

    We're moving large volumes of air at a low speed.Installing chillers in addition to building the natural air cooling added about 6 percent to the cost of building the data centre, Julian said. A facility's efficiency is measured in PUE, or Power…
    10 February 2010
    Tags: North • Installing • Facility • Facilities • Data Centres • Air

  • Processor forecast 2010

    This design change reduces the overall chip count from three to two, which lowers design and manufacturing costs as well as power and cooling requirements.The Atom D410 has 512KB of L2 cache and the D510 has 1MB of L2 cache.
    21 January 2010
    Tags: Cores • Hdmi • Movies • Bulk • Arm • Master

  • Would you like a data centre with that server?

    In some cases, those systems might include power delivery and cooling as well.When combined with virtualisation, converged systems can form the foundation of a private cloud-computing resource.Bonecutter says the approach addresses real pain…
    20 January 2010
    Tags: Provisioning • Data Centre • Differentiate • Compute • Matrix • Orchestration

  • Hot topics and dead ends for 2010

    Designers are applying green principles to their architectures because they can generate considerable savings.Hurdles facing adoption of green principles include the difficulty of measuring their effectiveness and clear road maps from equipment…
    05 January 2010
    Tags: Facing • Isps • Data Centres • Instant Messaging • Agents • Purchasing

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How-Tos

  • How to solve the data challenge, with environmental efficiency

    And, with compliance reporting pressures increasing, it is unlikely that sources will be confined to traditional data storage devices alone.The bottom line is that for BI to work, users must be able to pull data from multiple sources to get…
    15 June 2009
    Tags: Amounts • Demands • Analytics • Carbon • Consumption • Realtime

  • Testing Wi-Fi's Power Save Mode

    While infrastructure plays a critical role in the implementation of the protocol-related elements of WLAN power management, it also makes sense to examine the power, and thus the cooling and cost, impacts of all WLAN infrastructure-side equipment…
    13 May 2008
    Tags: Adapter • Adapters • Elements • Notebooks • Ap • Network World

  • Case Study: Water-cooled servers gaining steam

    Water cooling is inherently more efficient than air conditioning, Pennington says. Big Blue abandoned water cooling after shipping its last bipolar mainframe with CMOS (complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor) technology, according to Ed Seminaro…
    09 May 2008
    Tags: Cores • Density • Heat • Decade • Architect • Campus

  • Six techniques to encourage green habits

    Yet without being encouraged to hunt down and reveal that kind of waste, he or she might not think to offer up that information - or might not feel comfortable doing so.Similarly, someone in the facilities department could have insight as to where…
    24 April 2008
    Tags: Behaviour • Print • Encourage • Actions • Shift • Recognition

  • Case Study: A pair of green-IT users

    He says the company is now evaluating new high-efficiency cooling technology from IBM for several data centres. Austin Energy and WellPoint show how to grow your green credentials Austin Energy is no Johnny-come-lately to energy efficiency among US…
    26 February 2008
    Tags: Savings • Credentials • Utilities • Electricity • Cio • Carbon

  • Check-list for the economic green datacentre

    How can you deliver economic benefits in an environmentally sound manner, while addressing power and cooling issues in the datacentre? The Uptime Institute estimates the current three-year cost of powering and cooling servers is approximately…
    19 February 2008
    Tags: Electricity • Datacentres • Cooling • Institute • Confusion • Economic

Reviews

  • Buffalo DriveStation HD-UX3 review

    Like previous DriveStations, the Buffalo DriveStation HD-UX3 takes a 7200rpm 3.5in hard disk in a black plastic case, and includes a tiny rear-vented fan for cooling. After a long wait, we're now starting to see real USB 3.0 products in the wild…
    20 February 2010
    Tags: Wait • Transfer • Hd • Hard Drive • Fill • Capacities

  • MSI P55-GD80 review

    The thermals are well taken care of, with a heatsink for the southbridge and heatpipe cooling around the processor socket.LED activity indicators are present all over, including even a small LED display to show error number or processor…
    18 February 2010
    Tags: Slots • Panel • Motherboard • Clock • Chipset • Board

  • G-Technology G-Drive 2TB review

    Like the Macs it blends itself with, this is form-follows-function styling for essential ventilation and cooling; but the G-Drive goes a step further in a bid to forsake extra cooling fans.The hard disk inside is securely clamped to a sub-assembly…
    12 February 2010
    Tags: Metal • Hard Drive • Firewire • Cooling • Chassis • Bus

  • Cyberoam CR50ia UTM appliance

    On this model, there is no PSU or cooling redundancy beyond there being two fans rather than one.The ICSA certified firewall on the 50ia is rated at a meaty 750Mbit/s throughput, or 125Mbit/s in UTM mode; thats 120Mbit/s anti-virus throughput by…
    23 November 2009
    Tags: Modules • Events • Prevention • Intrusion • Gigabit Ethernet • Creation

  • Citrix XenApp 5 review

    This is accomplished with basic Wake-on-LAN signaling, but can help curb power and cooling costs, as only a certain subset of XenApp farm servers must be powered on at any time.Implementing installationMake no mistake: Implementing Citrix…
    23 September 2009
    Tags: Active Directory • Flagship • Playback • Terminal • Installations • Balancing

  • Mesh Elite Ice 7 review

    Six RAM slots are populated by three 1GB cards, making future upgrades straightforward.Other expansion possibilities include space for two more hard disks and three optical drives.Aside from the two cooling fans built into the HEC 550W power…
    22 July 2009
    Tags: Upgrades • Fans • Motherboard • Elite • Gaming • Graphics Card

White Papers

  • Data centre workhorses

    In enterprise IT environments, success often depends not only on maximising performance, but also on controlling costs by reducing power consumption, cooling requirements, and administrative complexity.To help meet these needs, the new…
    07 January 2010
    Tags: Environments • Efficiency • Blade Servers • Ground • Dell

  • Advancements in Power Efficiency

    Skyrocketing energy costs, as well as the rapidly rising amount of computational capacity per physical space within data centers, have brought power and cooling requirements into the forefront of challenges facing data center architects.
    11 September 2009
    Tags: Facing • Efficiency • Energy • Data Center • Cooling • Centers

  • Five steps to successful data centre consolidation

    The floor space occupied and the rising cost of heating and cooling vast expanses of server racks represent a significant amount of your IT budget. Using the five step process outlined in this white paper, we were able to eliminate more than 2,000…
    23 June 2009
    Tags: Savings • Consolidation • Data Centre • Budget • Bmc • Commitment

  • The Real Story about the IBM Mainframe Makeover

    We expect IBM to portray the mainframe as new and improved with better power & cooling, and even try to show how it has superior TCO. We expect IBM to portray the mainframe as new and improved with better power cooling, and even try to show how it…
    03 November 2008
    Tags: Premium • Mainframe • Stock • Cooling • Tco • Portray

  • The Power and Cooling Benefits of Running on Open Systems

    The Power and Cooling Benefits of Running on Open Systems Robert Frances Group Breaking the Power Deadlock whitepaper Not only do IT and facilities management need to work more closely together for power planning, but IT executives must shift their…
    21 October 2008
    Tags: Criteria • Efficiency • Data Center • Shift • Greatest • Priorities

  • Why Enterprises Should Choose HP-UX 11i v3 for their Datacentre Migration Plans

    Third, concerns about power and cooling costs and general environmental inefficiency are leading to maximizing the efficiency of every system. Many IT executives today are looking at consolidating IT operations for several reasons.
    21 October 2008
    Tags: Consolidation • Distributed • Processes • Cooling • Acquisitions • Consolidating

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