data centers

Everyone is talking about greening the data center although few are actually doing so. This article sheds a little light on the companies putting their money where their mouth is.

IBM has unveiled a new supercomputer called Hydro-Cluster that uses water to cool down the device and reduce overall energy consumption.

Utility companies are increasingly concerned about the power crisis facing large organisations and in the US this week they have met to discuss the actions and incetnives needed to get IT organisations to take the issue seriously.

Sun and a consortium of other businesses are going to lower Blackbox self-contained computing facilities into a Japanese coalmine to set up an underground datacentre, using up to 50% less power than a ground-level datacentre.

Steven Sams, IBM Vice President of Global Site & Facilities, is interviewed, in which he describes an energy crunch facing IT data centers and how IBM's Project Big Green initiative aims to solve it.

Yahoo! has announced its going to purchase 250,000 tonnes of carbon offsets, equivalent to its green house gas (GHG) emissions in 2006. Since the bulk of those will probably have come from its data centre operations does this make carbon offsetting a valid strategy for data centre operators in general.

As the focus on climate change continues to grow, IBM is launching a corporate-led initiative in which businesses earncash or credits for reducing their energy consumption. As part of the program, IBM Efficiency Certificates, clients are rewarded for lowering the amount of energy needed to run their data centers.

More than half of data center power in an enterprise actually isn't used by the data center.

Managing information technology sustainably can reduce corporate energy bills and keep toxins out of landfills. Thinking "green" with IT can also help companies manage raw materials more efficiently and increase revenue. CIO Magazine explains how to get started.

STRATO, Europe’s second largest web host, is becoming the first company to power its high performance computer centres entirely with renewable energy. From January 2008 STRATO data centres will be 100% C02 free, enabling STRATO to reduce its CO2 emissions by approximately 15,000 tons per year.

IBM has announced plans to consolidate its data center from 3,900 computer servers onto about 30 System z mainframes. The initiative is part of Project Big Green, a broad commitment that IBM announced in May to sharply reduce data center energy consumption for IBM and its clients. According to IBM, the new server environment will consume approximately 80 percent less energy than the current set up and the company expects
significant savings over five years in energy, software and system support costs.