Got Cows?
by Tim Moran Would you like to save some big money running your data center? Got Milk? Well, not milk, exactly, but Got Cows? About 10,000 of them? An HP Labs research paper presented at the ASME International Conference on...
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June 9, 2010
Wednesday, June 09, 2010 5:42 PM/EST
September 23, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 10:35 AM/EST
Virtualization as Metaphor
Reading this article about a couple of Nobel laureates rethinking growth and other economic metrics made me think about...virtualization. Not so much virtualization as a technology, important as it is, but virtualization as a metaphor for the sustainable, post-bubble culture...
January 12, 2009
Monday, January 12, 2009 10:34 AM/EST
How Green is Google?
Urs Hölzle, Google's SVP for Operations, responds to a Sunday Times article that cites a Harvard study claiming that two Google searches "can generate about the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle for a cup of tea."...
December 2, 2008
Tuesday, December 02, 2008 8:21 AM/EST
Dell Says You Don't Need a New Data Center
Dell has a plan to extend the life of your data center, and it's got a revamped facility of its own in Round Rock, TX -- along with $29 million in savings -- as proof of concept. Many data centers...
September 9, 2008
Tuesday, September 09, 2008 9:26 AM/EST
Green IT Arrives (Finally)
WSJ reports on the trend toward cost-saving green technology, especially in data centers. How mainstream has Green IT become? Notice the explanation for neophytes in the following quote of that exotic term, "data centers." This is now business news,...
August 11, 2008
Monday, August 11, 2008 10:52 AM/EST
Hype Cycle, Hyped
Gartner's Hype Cycle report lists technologies and trends that are moving through Bunyanesque stages (e.g., "Trough of Disillusionment," "Slope of Enlightenment"). The idea is that we get all excited about new things, talk them up, find out that nothing...
Monday, August 11, 2008 9:06 AM/EST
Reading Forbes So You Don't Have To
You may not have time to wade through the meandering verbiage in this article about data-center costs by Kenneth G. Brill. That's why we're here. The gist: data center costs often are poorly understood and data center assets often...
August 5, 2008
Tuesday, August 05, 2008 12:07 PM/EST
Technology Constrains Mileage Plan
Economist Duncan Black, who blogs under the name Atrios, sharply dismisses the Washington Post's mention of a mileage tax to replace the gasoline tax. I'm not an economist, and I agree with some of Black's logic about both Big...
August 4, 2008
Monday, August 04, 2008 2:29 PM/EST
It's a Floor Wax and a Dessert Topping
It's two trends in one! IBM announces a new data center in North Carolina's Research Triangle, touting both its cloud cred and green sheen. I kid because I love. IBM's cloud strategy and its green initiative both bear watching,...
July 8, 2008
Tuesday, July 08, 2008 4:20 PM/EST
Momentum Builds for Green IT
Research from Cutter Consortium's Benchmark Review shows that momentum is growing for Green IT at firms that don't yet have Green policies in place, with European firms ahead of their US counterparts in terms of plans to reduce "environmental...
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