Archive for January, 2009

Jean Jerome Baudry: Obama’s Plan Kick Starts Green IT (HuffingtonPost)

Virtualization not only cuts down on your energy bill but takes up less space in your datacentre. So as your business and your storage needs grow, your datacenter presence doesn’t.

More: continued here

351 Main, Inc. Green Datacenters (ZDNet)

Miles Kelly, Vice President Strategy and Marketing for 351 Main and I had a wonderful, albeit rambling, conversation about datacenter dynamics, green computing, and orchestrating virtual servers. His company, 351 Main, Inc., creates and maintains datacenters for quite an impressive list of companies. They have datacenters in Newark, NJ; San…

More: continued here

Vying for veggies (The State News)

MSU is turning a darker shade of green. It’s not because of energy-efficient light bulbs shining in the Brody Complex. It’s not because of recycling receptacles that line the sidewalk near Adams Field. And it’s not because of the Smart Car that occasionally rolls down Farm Lane. MSU is getting greener in its diet, thanks to a continuing increase of vegetarians and vegans on campus.

More: continued here

Green IT: Microsoft takes the roof of its datacentre (Computer Weekly)

Arne Josefsberg, general manager of infrastructure services at Global Foundation Services, Microsoft, says it is vital to monitor the average Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) across all the company’s datacentres to understand how well datacentre operations are under control, and to allow the company to make the right business decisions.

More: continued here

Sun Goes Green With Data Center Consolidation (PC Magazine via Yahoo! News)

Sun Microsystems says it will spring into green IT action, responding to market demand for more energy-efficient data management with the largest datacenter consolidation project in the company’s history.

More: continued here