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Amazon data center facility engineer touts radical cooling tactics
Amazon Web Services data center facility guru James Hamilton says data center pros need to get out of the dark ages when it comes to cooling servers. Hamilton recommends airflow containment systems and air-side economizers to improve data center cool... Article
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Colo taps cold weather, river for green data center
A Canadian data center colocation company has built a new data center that is energy efficient and uses hydroelectric power, cold-aisle containment, and outside air cooling. Article
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Datacom Contamination: Stopping it Before it Starts
Datacom Contamination: Stopping it Before it Starts Tip
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Indian organizations likely to demand green IT ROI within 12 months
Green IT and cost-effective IT may no longer be exclusive. Rhonda Ascierto, a senior analyst at Datamonitor, shares green IT tips for Indian organizations. Interview
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IT managers offer tips on cutting data center costs
The recession is a good excuse to re-negotiate tech vendor contracts, tighten up energy policy to cut data center costs over 12 to 18 months, according to IT pros. Article
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Data Center Energy Efficiency Handbook
Data center managers used to describe their facilities in terms of square footage. All of this has changed, however, and power consumption is now the reference of choice. Data centers consume more power now than ever before. This e-book chapter giv... E-Handbook
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Microsoft to open two mega data centers: News in brief
Microsoft will open two mega data centers, one in Chicago and one in Dublin, Ireland; Oracle adds new management capabilities to its Oracle Enterprise Manager software; and more. Article
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Dell launches Energy Star PowerEdge servers: News in brief
In today's news in brief, Dell launched its first PowerEdge servers that meet the EPA's Energy Star server specifications, IDC delivers grim server sales prediction and more. Article
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The TPC Energy Specification: Energy consumption vs. performance and costs
Data center energy efficiency has become a key consideration in IT purchasing decisions. The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) will soon release its Energy Specification, a new data center benchmark that compares energy consumption, pr... Tip
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Measuring data center energy consumption in watts per logical image
While power usage effectiveness (PUE) and data center infrastructure efficiency (DCIE) are common ways to measure data center energy efficiency, concerns that these numbers can be manipulated have led one expert to propose a new data center energy co... Tip