Tag Archives: Energy Efficiency

Data Center Monitoring

Raritan recently contracted with the Datacenter Research Group (part of the Datacenter Dynamics organization) to conduct primary research and produce a white paper on monitoring power and environmental conditions in United States data centers. The key findings are that most … Continue reading

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The Power Struggle

In Australia the cost of electricity is rising by 10% year-on-year, an expense that can quickly translate to vast sums for large Australian enterprises. In 2009 Gartner found that energy costs would emerge as a company’s highest operating cost, second … Continue reading

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Power Management challenges in the federal government

The federal government has hundreds of data centers that are full of network equipment, cooling apparatus, servers and storage appliances. These data centers account for approximately 10% of the total electricity used by all data centers in the United States. … Continue reading

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Why CIOs Should See Their Power Bills

Data center infrastructures have grown and evolved in step with technology advancements.  In  amassing  the most-advanced technologies and powerful IT equipment to process the ever-growing data spawned by the Internet era, data centers today are sprawling information fortresses  – reaching … Continue reading

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Say hello to another level of density.

Saw some interesting news today in an article by Katie Fehrenbacher on the earth2tech.com site, “5 Green Data Center Startups You Need To Know“.  What caught my eye was the excerpt on a company by the name of SeaMicro.  They seem … Continue reading

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Carbon Cap and Trade Bill Passes

It was a historic moment when the house passed the carbon cap and trade bill on June 26th. This is confirmation of a major shift in US policy on the topic. The following post explains the certain outcome you need … Continue reading

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